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:''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 society in common [[culture]] tends towards the second.  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.

 

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.

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