WHAT DO SOCIETIES HAVE IN COMMON? HOW ARE SOCIETIES ORGANIZED? DO SOCIETIES EVOLVE? SOCIAL SCIENCESFIND OUT MOREThroughout time and in every part of the world, people have organized themselves into…
WHAT IS VOLUNTEERING? WHY DO PEOPLE FORM SOCIETIES AND CLUBS? FIND OUT MOREMany people see themselves joined by common interests to a social network that extends beyond their immediate families.…
(Encyclopedia) Fabian Society, British socialist society. An outgrowth of the Fellowship of the New Life (founded 1883 under the influence of Thomas Davidson), the society was developed the following…
(Encyclopedia) Harmony Society, religious society founded by German Separatists under the leadership of George Rapp. The Harmonists (or Rappites) held property in common and subscribed to the austere…
(Encyclopedia) Great Society, in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson. In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of…
(Encyclopedia) affluent society, term coined by John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society (1958) to describe the United States after World War II. An affluent society, as the term was used…
(Encyclopedia) Triad Society, name given to a number of Chinese antidynastic secret societies by 19th-century Western observers. Most of these groups claimed descent from the Heaven and Earth Society…
(Encyclopedia) Society Islands, island group (2002 pop. 214,445), South Pacific, a part of French Polynesia. The group comprises the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands (total land area c.650 sq…
(Encyclopedia) Royal Society, oldest scientific organization in Great Britain and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded in 1660 by a group of learned men in London who met to promote scientific…
(Encyclopedia) secret society, organization of initiated persons whose members, purposes, and rituals are kept secret. Human groups throughout history have maintained secret societies. The ceremonies…
