Societies are social groups that differ according to subsistence strategies, the ways that humans use technology to provide needs for themselves.

During the 1960s, the various unaffiliated Mattachine Societies, especially the Mattachine Society in San Francisco and the Mattachine Society of New York, were among the foremost gay rights groups in the United States, but beginning in the middle 1960s and, especially, following the Stonewall riots of 1969, they began increasingly to be seen as too traditional, and not willing enough to be confrontational.

While the modern chorus of hundreds had to await the growth of Choral Societies and his centennial commemoration concert, we find Handel already using a variety of performing forces, from the soloists of the Chandos Anthems to larger groups ( whose proportions are still quite different from modern orchestra choruses ):

In 1798 the society became increasingly split and in 1799 it and several other radical groups were declared illegal under the Corresponding Societies Act.

Artists were selected from the various professional groups around the nation, such as the " Societies of Illustrators " in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

In addition to these political factions, interest groups such as the Federation of Student Islamic Societies and the Union of Jewish Students are deeply involved in the internal democratic processes of NUS.

* A Senior Society at Dartmouth College is named Abaris after this figure ; it is one of eight Senior Societies among Dartmouth College student groups.

Societies aligned with the Sygn reject any transcendental signified and instead focus on the idea that all ordering principles are contextual instead of universal ; the Sygn emblem, the cyhnk, symbolizes this through the fact that cyhnks from different Sygn groups share a similar underlying structure but always differ in detail, with no one version of the cyhnk considered the ideal form.

Currently these positions comprise a President responsible for the overall functioning and external politics of the association ; a Vice President Societies and Activities ( VPSA ) responsible for activities in relation to recognised student groups and representation to the University on non-academic service provision ; a Vice President Academic Affairs ( VPAA ), responsible for representing students to the University and beyond on academic matters ; and a Vice President Services ( VPS ) responsible for the running of the Union buildings, and financial affairs of the Association.

Charity Organization Societies were made up of charitable groups that used scientific philanthropy to help poor, distressed or deviant persons.

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.

Other groups are supported by their Union Societies sabbatical officer or similar.

Cultural organizations: 131 clubs, 10 public libraries ; 5 private libraries ; 12 theater groups ; 6 literary societies ; 7 Woman's Societies ; 13 cinema halls ; and 13 theaters.

Societies developed myths and prejudices in order to pursue their own interests at the expense of other groups.

Furthermore, Joseph Tainter, anthropologist, historian and author of the book " The Collapse of Complex Societies ," has pointed out that each new addition of complexity to technology can only be sustained if there is a good enough return to justify the technology, and that over time, increases in complexity have improved productivity at an ever decreasing rate.

British Building Societies developed into general-purpose savings & banking institutions with " one member, one vote " ownership and can be seen as a form of financial cooperative ( although nine ' de-mutualised ' into conventionally owned banks in the 1980s & 1990s ).

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Societies can also consider descent to be ambilineal ( such as Hawaiian kinship ) where offspring determine their lineage through the matrilineal line or the patrilineal line.

Societies and centers dedicated to Cusanus can be found in Argentina, Japan, Germany, Italy and the United States.

Societies which lack institutional arranged marriages can call on emotional experience in individuals to influence mate-selection.

A milk train can be seen docked in the London Co-operative Societies platform

Societies can be very general in nature, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, specific to a given discipline, such as the Modern Language Association, or specific to a given area of study, such as the Royal Entomological Society.

An example is the subject Societies, which can include chemistry, biology, psychology, etc.

Simlish can also be heard in SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies, but far less frequently.

For instance, in SimCity 4 and SimCity Societies, citizens can be heard conversing if one zooms close enough.

Recent UK legal developments include the Co-operatives and Community Benefit Societies Act 2003, which has introduced the concept of an asset lock, which an industrial and provident society can introduce to prevent specified assets being used for unintended purposes.

In the past 10 years, more and more Chinese immigrants from different provinces can be found in Hong Kong and Western Societies, which seems to be the main concern of Western and Hong Kong agencies to label the Big Circle Boys in a generic manner.

Societies differ markedly on several dimensions in this process: what attributes are used to assign status, the relative importance of ascribed vrs achieved attributes, the overall potential for social mobility, the rates of mobility that actually occurred, and the barriers for particular sub-groups to enjoy upward mobility in that society.

His talents of every kind powerful from Nature, and not meanly cultivated by Letters, his social Virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of Life renderd him the center of a very great and unparalleled Variety of agreeable Societies, which will be dissipated by his Death.

They are operated by a number of major companies ( National Transport Corporation, Mauritius Bus Transport, Rose Hill Transport, Triolet Bus Service, United Bus Service, Luna Transport ) and various individual operators which are organized in regional Bus Owners Co-operative Societies ( BOCS ).

Standard critical editions are those of Souter, Vogels, Bover, Merk, and Nestle-Aland ( the text, though not the full critical apparatus of which is reproduced in the United Bible Societies ' " Greek New Testament ").

The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life ( Congregatio pro Institutis Vitae Consecratae et Societatibus Vitae Apostolicae ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for everything which concerns institutes of consecrated life ( religious institutes and secular institutes ) and societies of apostolic life, both of men and of women, regarding their government, discipline, studies, goods, rights, and privileges.

The British Humanist Association took that name in 1967, but had developed from the Union of Ethical Societies which had been founded by Stanton Coit in 1896.

Also there are literary clubs ( see writing circle and book club ), musical and art clubs, publishing clubs ; and the name of “ club ” has been annexed by a large group of associations which fall between the club proper and mere friendly societies, of a purely periodic and temporary nature, such as slate, goose and Christmas clubs, which do not need to be registered under the Friendly Societies Act.

Organizations such as the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the United Bible Societies, have resulted in availability of the Bible in 2, 100 languages, which has further lent an identification with the phrase among Christians themselves.

* Society Affiliates: Some IEEE Societies also allow a person who is not an IEEE member to become a Society Affiliate of a particular Society within the IEEE, which allows a limited form of participation in the work of a particular IEEE Society.

In America, various Natural History Societies established collections in the early 19th century, which evolved into museums.

Societies in which a couple resides close to the bride's family rather than the bridegroom's family are termed " matrilocal " by anthropologists.

Friendly Societies established forums through which one member, one vote was practiced in organisation decision-making.

Student societies operate under the aegis of the Dublin University Central Societies Committee which is composed of the Treasurers of each of the Societies within the College.

Washington and Hamilton believed the Democratic-Republican Societies, which had been formed throughout the country, were the source of civic unrest.

The Germans ' culture influenced the city, such as their " German Singing Societies ," the first of which began in 1855.

He publicised a pamphlet by his uncle, Mr Haslet, Mayor of Derry, on the estates of the London Societies in Ulster, wrote a leading article entitled " Convicted Criminals ", and contributed half of an article on " Anti-Irish Catholics ", the first part of which was written by Thomas Davis.

Societies believed that although a woman's place was in the home, she should be able to influence laws which impacted upon that home.

Societies dating to the Millingstone Horizon are known which exploited the anadromous fishery of Morro Creek and other Pacific coast estuaries.

Amongst other repressive measures, Pitt's government proposed to introduce the Unlawful Societies Act in 1799, which declared that any body which administered a secret oath was illegal.

The statements of printing which appeared ( under the terms of the Unlawful Societies Act 1799 ) on the verso of the title-leaf and final page of each book printed in Britain in the 19th century are not, strictly speaking, colophons, and are better referred to as " printers ' imprints " or " printer statements ".

Societies ’ cultural, social and economic dimensions are regarded as an integral part of the global ecological hierarchy and landscapes are claimed to be the manifest systems of the ‘ Total Human Ecosystem ’ ( Naveh ) which encompasses both the physical (‘ geospheric ’) and mental (‘ noospheric ’) spheres.

Shortly before or after the Dress Act restricting kilt wearing was repealed in 1782, Highland aristocrats set up Highland Societies in Edinburgh and other centres including London and Aberdeen, landowners ' clubs with aims including " Improvements " ( which others would later call the Highland Clearances ).