Some German and Austrian scolars have increased cultural anthropology as both legal anthropology reagarding " other " societies and anthropology of Western civilization.

Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.

Some notable pre-colonial states and societies in Africa include the Nok culture, Mali Empire, Ashanti Empire, Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Kingdom of Sine, Kingdom of Saloum, Kingdom of Baol, Kingdom of Zimbabwe, Kingdom of Kongo, Ancient Carthage, Numidia, Mauretania, the Aksumite Empire, the Ajuuraan State and the Adal Sultanate.

Some societies have forced marriage, where consent may not be required.

Some ancient societies and most modern states employ partible inheritance, under which every child inherits ( usually equally ).

Some of the teachings of Schwenckfeld included opposition to war, secret societies, and oath-taking, that the government had no right to command one's conscience, that regeneration is by grace through inner work of the Spirit, that believers feed on Christ spiritually, and that believers must give evidence of regeneration.

Some societies thought it was a demon swallowing the moon, and that they could chase it away by throwing stones and curses at it.

Some Islamic societies have religious police, who enforce the application of Islamic Sharia law.

Some believe that big societies actually need to canalize communication.

Some civilization critics point out that modern societies rely on technology to invent and promote new technology, often resulting in a degree of pro-technology propaganda, and this backpropagation would mean that mankind hands over control to a living machine.

Some political scientists thus prefer to speak of policy networks and decentralized governance in modern societies rather than of state bureaucracies and direct state control over policy.

Some consider industrial and post-industrial societies to be qualitatively different from traditional agricultural societies.

Some societies bestow status on an individual or group of people when that individual or group performs an admired or desired action.

Some academic, professional, and scientific associations describe themselves as societies ( for example, the American Mathematical Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, or the Royal Society ).

Some traditional societies sequester females in residences, " menstrual huts ", that are reserved for that exclusive purpose until the end of their menstrual period.

Some societies have more than five genders, and some non-Western societies have three genders – man, woman and third gender.

Some evidence suggests that hunters contribute less than half the total food budget of most hunter-gatherer societies, and often much less than half, so that foraging grandmothers can contribute substantially to the survival of grandchildren at times when mothers and fathers are unable to gather enough food for all of their children.

Some Anarcho-primitivists like Ted Kaczynski argue that conditions such as anomie are directly caused by complex societies, particularly industrial and post-industrial societies due to their deprivation of individual self-determination and a relatively small reference group to relate to, such as the band, clan, or tribe.

Some societies are dedicated solely to music, some to religion, some to languages, and so on.

Some, moving north-east, ' behind ' the Nguni societies ( Xhosa and Zulu ), established the first independent republic, Natalia.

Some of them set up Vietnamese independence societies in Japan, which many viewed as a model society ( i. e. an Asian nation that had modernized, but retained its own culture and institutions ).

Some weapons systems have become obsolescent while still in production, and some while still under development.

( Some suspensions break up before they are near to the direction of shear, and some become asymptotic to it without breakup.

Some members of the bee family have become idlers, social parasites that live at the expense of their hardworking relatives.

Some antigens start out as exogenous antigens, and later become endogenous ( for example, intracellular viruses ).

Some trophozoites enlage and become macrogamete while others divide repeatedly to form microgametes.

Some bridges attract people attempting suicide, and become known as suicide bridges.

Some place names have become synonymous with the battles that took place there, such as the Passchendaele, Pearl Harbor, the Alamo, Thermopylae, or Waterloo.

Some believe that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cultures of smallpox have become available in other countries.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

Some enthusiasts become generalists and accumulate a few examples from a broad variety of historical or geographically significant coins.

Some scholars argue that conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, contributing to conspiracism emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the possible replacement of democracy by conspiracy as the dominant paradigm of political action in the public mind.

" Some historians have put forward the idea that more recently the United States has become the home of conspiracy theories because so many high-level prominent conspiracies have been undertaken and uncovered since the 1960s.

Some substitutions have become relatively widespread in England in their contracted form.

Some predominantly coastal areas have become major tourist centres, such as parts of Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, the South Shore of Nova Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy coasts of New Brunswick.

Some Christians believe that the Law was " completed " by Jesus and has become irrelevant to " faith life ", for details see Biblical law in Christianity.

Some cacti may become tree-sized but without branches, such as larger specimens of Echinocactus platyacanthus.

Some dairy products such as blue cheese may become contaminated with the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus during ripening, which can trigger asthma and other respiratory problems in susceptible individuals.

Some unskilled workers were rejected because they were considered " likely to become a public charge ".

Some of the sports have existed for decades and their proponents span generations, some going on to become well known personalities.

Some survivors of the Rising went on to become leaders of the independent Irish state and those who died were venerated by many as martyrs.

Some of the well known individuals who have become involved include former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former presidents of Chile Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, actress Susan Sarandon, actors Jeremy Irons and Raul Bova, singers Céline Dion and Anggun, authors Isabelle Allende and Andrea Camilleri, musician Chucho Valdés and Olympic track-and-field legend Carl Lewis.

Some writers use furigana to represent slang pronunciations, particularly those that would become hard to understand without the kanji to provide their meaning.

Some models in econophysics have shown that when agents are allowed to interact locally in a free market ( i. e. their decisions depend not only on utility and purchasing power, but also on their peers ' decisions ), prices can become unstable and diverge from the equilibrium, often in an abrupt manner.

Some follow directly from the theory's axioms, whereas others have become clear only in the course of the ninety years of research that followed Einstein's initial publication.

Some 4, 000 years ago the sea receded and shoals in the gulf have become its islands.