Society & Culture

Society is an extended group that has got its own distinctive cultural and economic affinity. It refers to a collective entity of the people having identical ethnic background. It refers to be with others having some common ties of bonding. Society can also be seen as the grouping of individuals having common interests and some distinctive features of heritage and culture that separates it from others.

Anthropologically societies can be egalitarian; class based, or ranked societies.

Society involves distinct culture, economy, tradition, custom, and heritage.
Characteristics of society are groups, members, cooperation, common interest, interaction, particular territory, common culture and defined objectives, set ethnicity.

Society could be religious, cultural, ethnic, community based, social, economic, associative, and objective oriented.

Society as a system involves organization, co-operating individuals or groups, organized patterns, common identity, tradition, common culture, specific geographic region, common bond and inter-relationship. Intelligent system is the building block of society.

Legal society involves registration, bye law, membership, regulations, and agenda for implementation.

Adults’ society involves elder persons, group, and common interest.

From communication point of view every society involves an interaction of discourses and dialogues.

Civil Society is central in contemporary thought, philanthropy, and civic activity. Non-profit organizations employ three fundamental civic principles of participatory engagement, constitutional authority, and moral responsibility.

Systems inherent in civil society are collective human experience, economic exchange, political governance, and social relationships.

Principles inherent in civil society formation are legitimate access to use civic space and resources, maintaining fairness, and political and judicial justice and harmony, welfare of the people, and particular concern for the disenfranchised.

Social relationship within civil society is characterized by strong, vibrant, active, diverse community based activities and groups. They would facilitate open, voluntary participation, enable community stakeholders, economic and political actors that are accountable for all the outcomes, policy decisions, context for mutual benefits and exchange, promote common good, and have concern for marginalized people.

Principles inherent in the civil society are participatory engagement, constitutional authority, moral responsibility, all in cultural context.

Participatory agreement in society involves access to governance, use of common resources, free involvement in civic action, social changes and group affiliations on community level.

Common characteristics of civil society are common, office, associations, trusteeship, sovereignty, accountability, equity, justice, and reciprocity.