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Society vs government
:''A community, [[nation]], or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests.''<ref>http://m-w.com/dictionary/society</ref>
:''A community, [[nation]], or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests.''<ref>http://m-w.com/dictionary/society</ref>
The general use of the term 'society', in common [[culture]], tends towards the second definition above. Society is often differentiated along geographical/wordview, with terms such as Western society being popular.
The general use of the term 'society', in common [[culture]], tends towards the second definition above. Society is often differentiated along geographical/wordview, with terms such as Western society being popular. ''Society'' is also differentiated against ''government'', which are two entirely different concepts.
The most irreducible, or bio-historically original, meaning of the term 'society' is to that unit of multiple-human relationship without which there could be no other kinds of multiple-human relationship: male and female, one man and one woman, compatible as mates and as companions. The civil institution of [[marriage]] is for the preservation of that unit, within a world in which there exists ontological disharmonies between individuals.
The most irreducible, or bio-historically original, meaning of the term 'society' is to that unit of multiple-human relationship without which there could be no other kinds of multiple-human relationship: male and female, one man and one woman, compatible as mates and as companions. The civil institution of [[marriage]] is for the preservation of that unit, within a world in which there exists ontological disharmonies between individuals.
==References==
==Society vs government==
Society and government are not the same thing. One of the clearest authors to make this point is [[Thomas Paine]], who wrote about this common sense idea in his pamphlet [[Common Sense]]:
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<blockquote>SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.<ref>Common Sense, page 15.</ref></blockquote>
==References==
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[[Category:Sociology]]
[[Category:Sociology]]