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Research draft

society

vr.tr.society · SOC.ORG

Let an agent handle societies as social groups with institutions, norms and populations, and describe them without stereotypes.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle societies as social groups with institutions, norms and populations, and describe them without stereotypes.

A group of people involved in persistent social interaction, sharing a territory, culture or institutions, from local communities to national and global societies.

What it is for: Organising shared life.

It can be study it, in social sciences; participate in it; govern and change it; describe its institutions.

Distinguishing features

Persistent social interaction

Shared institutions and norms

Scales from local to global

Society as an association (a learned society) is a related sense

What it looks like

Not a single object; seen in communities, institutions and practices.

How it is recognised

Institutions and norms

Communities and associations

Criminal organisations merged in aliases are separate topics

Related models

is made of - members

person

has - structure

government and institutions

is studied by - discipline

social science

is confused with - formal society

association

In practice

Families and kinds

local communities

national societies

traditional and modern societies

associations and learned societies

Standards and regulation

Human rights law

Freedom of association

Failure modes and hazards

Stereotyping societies

Overgeneralising from limited data

Treating criminal groups as representative

Also called

local communitymalike-divanigeospatial societycriminal organizationchild sex ringBlue light banditsNew generation mafiahangureblack societyIrish mobdrug trafficking organizationDutch MobPolish mobsmuggling organizationpatriotic societyGrand Lodgeclosed societySound Material-Cycle Societyintolerant societydigital societypolicy and administration studiesclassification of societiesmodern societyprehistoric societymass media and societymorality and societysports and societyart and societyhigh trust societylow trust societyclass societythrow-away societystateless societypaperless societycompetitive societyachieving societymultiethnic societyMycenaean societyparallel societymulticultural society

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.society

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Scope Which society.

Scale and boundaries matter.

Scale

Local to global.

Scale

Scale.

  1. Which society and scale is meant? definition
  2. How is membership defined? definition

Institutions

Structures.

Institutions

Institutions.

  1. Which institutions structure it? definition
  2. How are they governed? definition
Culture Norms and values.

Culture shapes life.

Norms

Shared rules.

Norms

Norms.

  1. Which norms and values are shared? definition
  2. How do they vary within the society? boundary

Change

Social change.

Change

Social change.

  1. How is the society changing? measurement
  2. According to which evidence? provenance
Data Evidence about society.

Claims need data.

Statistics

Official data.

Statistics

Statistics.

  1. What do official statistics show? provenance
  2. How reliable are they? measurement

Research

Studies.

Research

Research.

  1. What does research say? provenance
  2. Is it contested? boundary
Handling Fair description.

Avoid stereotypes.

Fairness

Balanced.

Fairness

Fair description.

  1. Is the description fair and evidence-based? boundary
  2. Does it avoid stereotypes? boundary

Voices

Self-description.

Voices

Self-description.

  1. How do members describe their society? provenance
  2. Whose voices are missing? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should kinds of society be separate entries?
  • How should associations be split off?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases such as criminal organisation; should they be removed?
Draft as JSON