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• Antisocial behavior
  *1: averse to the [[society]] of others : unsociable *2: hostile or harmful to [[organized]] society; especially : being or marked by [[behavior]] deviating sharply from the so
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• Death
  ...hts and privileges, as by banishment, imprisonment for life, etc. (Usually civil death.)
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• Bureaucracy
  ...it as the key [[process]] in the ongoing rationalization of the Western [[society]].
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• Sanction
  :b : a [[mechanism]] of [[social]] [[control]] for enforcing a [[society]]'s [[standards]] ...or for abusing the [[judicial]] [[process]]. The most severe sanction in a civil lawsuit is the involuntary dismissal, with [[prejudice]], of a complaining
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• 71:3 The Ideals of Statehood
  ...nment]] is of little consequence provided it affords the [[essentials]] of civil [[progress]]—[[liberty]], [[security]], [[education]], and [[social]] [[c 71:3.5 No [[society]] has [[progressed]] very far when it permits idleness or tolerates [[pover
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• Middle Ages
  ...8th and early 9th century, when it succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars combined with external invasions—[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viki ...n return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organised in the High Middle Ages. The [[Crusades]], first preached in
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• Egalitarian
  ...]], [[economic]], social, and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights civil rights] or as a social [[philosophy]] advocating the removal of economic in ...egalitarian. It is considered by some to be the [[natural]] [[state]] of [[society]]. Social inequality has been shown to cause many social problems. A compre
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• Nonviolence
  ...on]] and [[persuasion]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience civil disobedience] and nonviolent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action d ...a.org/wiki/Liberia Liberia] were able to achieve [[peace]] after a 14-year civil war. This story is captured in a 2008 documentary [[film]] [https://en.wiki
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• Rights
  ...They are [[universal]]; they don't depend on the [[laws]] of a specific [[society]]. They exist [[necessarily]] and can't be taken away. For example, it has ...al rights are sometimes called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights civil rights] or statutory rights and are [[culturally]] and [[politically]] [[re
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• Council
  :b : a local chapter of an [[organization]] c : club, [[society]] ...atically]] elected [[form]] of [[government]] for small municipalities or civil parishes. A council may serve as both the [[representative]] and [[executiv
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• Quarantined
  ...ivil rights, especially in cases of long confinement or segregation from [[society]], such as that of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon Mary Mallon] <blockquote>Civil rights activists in some cases have objected to people being rounded up, st
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• Excuse
  ...he [[victim]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law) civil law].
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• Writer
  ...tly contributes to the [[cultural]] [[content]] of a [[society]], and that society may [[value]] its writerly [[corpus]] – or [[literature]] – as an [[art ..." was the lowest grade in the civil services abroad. With [[respect]] to [[society]], little has changed in this regard. The East India Company requirements f
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• 81:5 Cultural Society
  ...no [[art]] of [[civilization]] foreign to the [[progress]] of [[human]] [[society]], but the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._T 81:5.3 But [[cultural]] [[society]] is no great and beneficent club of [[inherited]] [[privilege]] into which
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• War
  ...ley] identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest [[problem]] facing the [[society]] of mankind for the next fifty years. In the 1832 treatise ''[https://en.w ...r is a [[universal]] [[phenomenon]] whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. Another [[argument]] suggests that since there are human soc
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• 70:5 The Beginnings of Government
  ...]] which have come and gone right on down to those forms of [[social]] and civil regulation that characterize the second third of the [https://www.wikipedia ...to learn that neither [[peace]] nor [[war]] can be run by a [[debating]] [[society]]. The primitive "[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palavers pala
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• 99:3 Religion and the Religionist
  ...ki/Early_Christianity Early Christianity] was entirely [[free]] from all [[civil]] [[entanglement]]s, [[social]] commitments, and [[economic]] alliances. On ...ist is not unsympathetic with [[social]] [[suffering]], not unmindful of [[civil]] injustice, not [[insulated]] from [[economic]] [[thinking]], neither inse
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• Jurisdiction
  ...rnment]] to allocate [[resources]] to best serve the needs of its native [[society]]. ...urt can adjudicate the matter. Where a concurrent jurisdiction exists in a civil case, a party may attempt to engage in forum shopping, by bringing the case
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• State
  ...claim the [[authority]] to make the rules that govern the people of the [[society]] in that territory, though its [[status]] as a state often depends in part ...l [[force]] within a given territory," which may include the armed forces, civil service or state bureaucracy, courts, and police.
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• Minority
  ...[[dominant]] voting [[majority]] of the total [[population]] of a given [[society]]. A sociological minority is not [[necessarily]] a numerical minority — The term "minority group" often occurs alongside a [[discourse]] of civil rights and collective rights which gained prominence in the 20th century. M
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• 195:8 Secular Totalitarianism
  ...t need [[God]]. But beware! this [[Atheism|godless philosophy]] of human [[society]] will lead only to unrest, animosity, unhappiness, war, and world-wide dis ...[[peace]] to [[mankind]]. Nothing can take the place of [[God]] in human [[society]]. But mark you well! do not be quick to [[surrender]] the [[beneficent]] g
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• Abolition
  ...Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. ...ia.org/wiki/Secession seceded] from the Union, which led to the American [[Civil War]]. In 1863, Lincoln issued the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipat
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• Marriage
  ...ded full birth-[[status]] [[rights]] common to [[normal]] members of his [[society]] or social stratum" Leach argued that no one definition of marriage applie ...tices]] are very [[diverse]] across [[cultures]], yet almost every known [[society]] has had some form of marriage between a [[man]] and a [[woman]]. In some
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• Degree
  :c : the civil condition or [[status]] of a [[person]] :b : a grade of membership attained in a [[ritual]]istic order or [[society]]
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• Equality
  ...eated as equals and have the same [[political]], [[economic]], social, and civil rights[2] or as a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic ineq ...largely egalitarian. It is considered by some to be the natural state of [[society]].[3][4][5]
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• Custom
  ...an be social norms are the [[behavior]]al expectations and cues within a [[society]] or [[group]]. This sociological term has been defined as "the rules that ...aw or right, esp. the established usage of a particular locality, trade, [[society]], or the like. In French history applied to the special usages of differen
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• 71:2 The Evolution of Representative Government
  71:2.2 [[Public]] [[opinion]], common opinion, has always delayed [[society]]; nevertheless, it is valuable, for, while retarding [[social]] [[evolutio 71:2.3 The [[measure]] of the advance of [[society]] is directly determined by the [[degree]] to which [[public]] [[opinion]]
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• Prejudice
  ...Apartheid is an example of legal discrimination, as are also various post-Civil war laws in the southern United States that legally disadvantaged negros wi ...on are correlated and may be found to varying degrees in individuals and [[society]] at large. Many forms of discrimination based upon prejudice are outwardly
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• 82:2 The Restrictive Taboos
  ...but indifferently leaves the consequential [[problems]] to be solved by [[society]], thus creating an ever-present and major [[problem]] for [[evolutionary]]
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• 55:5 The Acme of Material Development
  ...t]], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry industry] flourish, and [[society]] is a smoothly working [[mechanism]] of high [[material]], [[intellectual] ...s slowly rendering [[laws]] of [[human]] enactment obsolete. The extent of civil [[government]] and statutory regulation, in an [[intermediate]] [[state]] o
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• Strata
  :b : a socioeconomic level of [[society]] comprising persons of the same or similar [[status]] especially with rega When planning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering civil engineering] projects or other large constructions, the ''strata'' of the a
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• Society
  ...tzerland]], or to a broader cultural group, such as a [[Western society]]. Society can also refer to an organized group of people associated together for reli ...cial contract between members of the community. Implicit in the meaning of society is that its members share some mutual concern or interest, a common objecti
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• Oral history
  ...ccounts from various groups, including surviving witnesses of the American Civil War, [[Slavery]], and other major historical events. The [[Library of Con ...Association, and in 1969 British oral historians founded the Oral History Society. There are now numerous national organizations and an International Oral H
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• Patriarchy
  *2 : a [[society]] or [[institution]] organized according to the principles or [[practices]] ...mes]] of [[Christian]] dignitaries were in early days taken sometimes from civil life (episkopos, diakonos), sometimes borrowed from the Jews (presbyteros).
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• Serfdom
  ...est social class of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism feudal] [[society]]. Serfs were also defined as people in whose labour landowners held [[prop ...ipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan Bhutan] is described by Tashi Wangchuk, a Bhutanese civil servant, as abolishing serfdom officially by 1959, but Wangchuk believes le
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• Seekers
  ...mmunity]] able to evangelise in a pluralistic society governed by a purely civil [[state]]. Such a demand was in sharp contrast to the ambitions of the magi
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• 86:7 The Function of Primitive Religion
  86:7.2 [[Modern]] [[society]] is removing the [[business]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance 86:7.5 [[Industry]], [[war]], [[slavery]], and civil [[government]] arose in [[response]] to the [[social]] [[evolution]] of man
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• Enthusiasm
  ...ety bylaws stipulated that any person discussing religion or politics at a Society meeting was to be summarily ejected for being an "enthusiast."[citation nee
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• Pardon
  ...duals]] have [[demonstrated]] that they have [[fulfilled]] their debt to [[society]], or are otherwise deserving (in the opinion of the pardoning official) of ...is crime in order to allow him to testify against the murderer, or after a civil war a mass amnesty may be granted to absolve all participants of [[guilt]]
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• Betrothal
  ...ies is a serious matter and may be referred to as a breach of promise, a [[civil]] transgression subject in some instances to a fine or other [[penalty]] ...se, start a [[business]] or otherwise prove his readiness to enter adult [[society]].
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• Polygamy
  ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICCPR ICCPR] (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), and the United Nations has recommended that the [[pr
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• Retribution
  ...gical]] benefits it can bestow to the aggrieved party, its intimates and [[society]]. ...ans to promote some other [[good]] for the criminal himself or for civil [[society]], but instead it must in all cases be imposed on him only on the ground th
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• Sociology of religion
  ...explain the effects of society on religion and the effects of religion on society; in other words, their dialectical relationship. ...ly 20th century were greatly interested in [[religion]] and its effects on society. These theorists include [[Émile Durkheim]], [[Max Weber]], and [[Karl Mar
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• Reconciliation
  ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa South Africa], the effort to heal the [[society]] after the ills of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid apartheid] gav ...reconciliation as the effect of the healing of relations in the broader [[society]].
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• 82:3 Early Marriage Mores
  ...on]]—self-propagation. [[Mating]] is [[universally]] [[natural]], and as [[society]] evolved from the [[simple]] to the [[complex]], there was a [[correspondi ...[individual]] been rebellious against the [[sex]] regulations imposed by [[society]]; and this is the reason for this agelong [[sex]] [[problem]]: Self-mainte
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• 2010-02-09-Monjoronson Q and A Session 87
  .... This loss of self-preservation is an important part of your [[future]] [[society]]'s [[existence]] and [[development]] and [[maturity]]. It stems from your Monjoronson: Within the [[context]] and confines of your [[society]] and your [[political]] [[system]] and where [[decisions]] are made, perha
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• New Society Publishers
  ...ibute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manne ...y Publishers is committed to building an ecologically sustainable and just society not just through education, but through action. We're walking our talk. We'
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• 83:8 The Idealization of Marriage
  ...ears after [[Eden]], [[mating]] continued as a [[purely]] [[social]] and [[civil]] [[institution]]. ...icted by the [[taboos]], and enforced by the [[laws]] and regulations of [[society]].
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• Empowerment
  ...rnment marginalized cultural minorities, particularly blacks, prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This Act made it illegal to restrict access to schools ...to gain [[power]],[[authority]] and influence over others,institutions or society.
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• Authority
  ...ety wide or inclusive organizations ranging from the most primitive tribal society to the modern nation-state and intermediate organization (political authori ...s and in the long run administration and political apparatus of the entire society.
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