Societies are also a meeting point for people with particular interests, such as amateur telescope making.

Societies devoted to the care of cultural heritage have been in existence around the world for many years.

" Societies meet approximately every other Friday for entertainment and fellowship and on almost all Sunday mornings for Sunday School ; societies also hold a weekly prayer meeting.

( Total group assets of building societies ) Source: Building Societies Association updated for subsequent mergers and the administration of Dunfermline Building Society

Forme et raison de l ' échange dans les sociétés archaïques in 1925, this classic text on gift economy appears in the English edition as The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies.

Genêt was welcomed with great enthusiasm and propagandized the case for France in the French war against Great Britain, and for this purpose promoted a network of new Democratic Societies in major cities.

Societies whose legislatures use a single-winner voting system are the most likely to have political parties that gerrymander for advantage.

* ICTVdB website, for virus nomenclature by the International Union of Microbiological Societies

Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).

SimCity Societies, the fifth main release for the franchise, was not produced by Maxis, but by Tilted Mill Entertainment, being described as a ' social engineering simulator ' and criticized for the lack of SimCity's traditional gaming formula.

The manuscript base of the NIV was the Koine Greek language editions of the United Bible Societies and of Nestle-Aland for the New Testament.

In 2004 he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, and in June 2012 was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his services to philosophy and bioethics.

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.

Set up by Pope John Paul II by a motu proprio of 15 January 1993, it is presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State and includes also the Secretary and the Undersecretary for Relations with States, and the Secretaries of the Congregations for the Eastern Churches, for the Clergy, and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Societies for Egyptology include:

Societies include the Emmanuel College Music Society ( ECMS ), the Christian Union, the Mountaineering Club, the Emmanuel Real Ice Cream Society ( ERICS ) and the Politics and Economics Society.

These include Petroleum Geoscience with the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers ( EAGE ), Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis with the Association of Applied Geochemists ( AAG ), Journal of Micropalaeontology for the Micropalaeontological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society for the Yorkshire Geological Society and Scottish Journal of Geology for the Geological Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

These include the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures at Harvard University ( delivered 1976 ); the Stenton Lecture at Reading University ( delivered 1976 ); the Haskell Lectures at the University of Chicago ( delivered 1978 ); the ACLS Lectures in the History of Religion ( delivered 1981-2 ); the Curti Lectures in the University of Wisconsin, Madison ( delivered 1988 ); the Raleigh Lecture in History in the British Academy ( delivered 1992 ); the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge and Yale ( delivered 1993 and 1996 respectively ); the Sigmund H Danziger Jr Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago ( delivered 1997 ); the Menahem Stern Lectures in Jerusalem ( delivered 2000 ); a Presidential Lecture at Stanford University ( delivered 2002 ); the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture (" A Life of Learning ") for the American Council of Learned Societies ( delivered 2003 ); and the Ronald Syme Lecture at Oxford University ( delivered 2006 ).

Societies include Drama, Radio, Soccer, Martial Arts and Computing.

Cultural activities include The ACJC Chinese Orchestra, Choir, Concert Band, Drama and Dance Societies, and the Debate Team.

* Merit CCAs, which typically include the Clubs and Societies, are usually less time-consuming.

Among the scores of such clubs, larger " umbrella " organizations include the Pan Macedonian Association, the Panepirotic Federation, the Pan Cretan Association, the Pan-Icarian Brotherhood, the Pan Pontian Federation of U. S. A-Canada, the Chios Societies of America & Canada, the Cyprus Federation of America, the Pan-Laconian Federation of the USA & Canada, the Pan-Messinian Federation of the USA & Canada, the Pan-Arcadian Federation of America and several associations of refugees from areas in the former Ottoman territories.

Sunstein's books include After the Rights Revolution ( 1990 ), The Partial Constitution ( 1993 ), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech ( 1993 ), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict ( 1996 ), Free Markets and Social Justice ( 1997 ), One Case at a Time ( 1999 ), Risk and Reason ( 2002 ), Why Societies Need Dissent ( 2003 ), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle ( 2005 ), Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America ( 2005 ), Are Judges Political?

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ( IFRC ) lists categories which include different types of natural disasters, technological disasters ( i. e. hazardous material spills, Chernobyl-type of nuclear accidents, chemical explosions ) and long-term man-made disasters related to " civil strife, civil war and international war ".

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

Societies include the Science Club, the History Society, the Geography Society, the Debating Societies in English, Hindi and Telugu, the Quiz Contest Conclave and gyaneshwar the Dramatics Society.

Surviving examples include the Philodemic Society of Georgetown University, the Union-Philanthropic Society of Hampden-Sydney College, the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Demosthenian Literary Society and Phi Kappa Literary Society at the University of Georgia, the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia and the Whig – Cliosophic Society at Princeton University.

Individual chapter organizations are generically referred to as " Ethical Societies ", though their names may include " Ethical Society ," " Ethical Culture Society ," " Society for Ethical Culture ," " Ethical Humanist Society ," or other variations on the theme of " Ethical.

Other boards and committees that Rotman has served on include: Gairdner Foundation International, Global Network of Science Academies and Royal Societies Development Advisory Committee, Ontario Genomics Institute, StemCell Network, and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.

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.

* Tayar al-islah ad-dini wa-masa ' irihi fi-l-mujtama ' at il -' arabiyya ( The Religious Reformist Current and its Future in Arab Societies ) conference papers, co-edited with Salam al-Kawakibi.

Among the cooperative churches, the three Missionary Societies merged into the United Christian Missionary Society in 1920.

Rock Bridge houses around fifty-five clubs and organizations, including, but not limited to, Intramural Table Tennis League, Chess Club, Global Issues Club, Dumbledore's Army, the Zombie Defense League, Guitar Club, Bible Club, National Honors Society, Student Environmental Coalition, MSU-Muslim Students Union, Future Lawyers of America, Astronomy Club, National Art Honors Society, Weight Lifting Club, and the language Honors Societies.

* Sheffield University Ceilidh Society Probably one of the most well established and largest English Ceilidh Societies in England.

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.

" Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies.

“‘ No idle hands are seen ’: The Social Construction of Work in Shaker Society .” Communal Societies.

* 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.

President Harry H. Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. At the first joint board meeting in 1928, the chairman, Clarence Mackay, expressed the opinion that " with the forces of the two Societies now united ... the Philharmonic-Symphony Society could build up the greatest orchestra in this country if not in the world.

Further, all student organizations of TU Delft are associated with The Council of Student Societies Delft VeRa () and The Society for Study and Student Matters Delft VSSD ().

He was granted honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 ; in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1955 ; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 1955 ; the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, in 1962 ; was elected Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1955 ; member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina ( Halle-Saale ) in 1956 ; Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, in 1962 ; Vice-President of the International Union of Physics from 1951 to 1957 ; President and first honorary member of the Polarographic Society, London ; honorary member of the Polarographic Society of Japan ; honorary member of the Chemical Societies of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, England and India.

* International Federation of Hydrographic Societies ( formerly The Hydrographic Society )

The Tammany Society, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was founded in New York on May 12, 1789, originally as a branch of a wider network of Tammany Societies, the first having been formed in Philadelphia in 1772.

Oldham Women's Suffrage Society was established in 1910 with Margery Lees as president and quickly joined the Manchester and District Federation of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

Birds taken mainly from Tasmania and Victoria were introduced into New Zealand by local Acclimatisation Societies of Otago and Canterbury in the 1860s, with the Wellington Acclimatisation Society releasing 260 birds in 1874.

The prayer room has undergone recent refurbishment after half a million pounds was allocated towards its development with joint efforts between Leeds University Union's Islamic Society, John Schless ( former LUU Societies Officer ) and the Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Arthur.

* Frontiers and Boundaries: Australia's Regional Frontiers ; The Arts, Media, Culture and Society ; Ancient Societies ; Language and Cognition ; Believing and Thinking ; Mathematics, Nonlinear and Complex Analysis