The society had definitely collapsed by 1813, however: in August of that year Samuel Galton, Jr. is recorded as having won a ballot for possession of the scientific books from the society's library.

* New and different political or social systems ( e. g. dystopia, post-scarcity, or a post-apocalyptic situation where organized society has collapsed ).

It introduced the Virus and described the former area of the Third Imperium after interstellar society had completely collapsed.

Arriving moments before Ralph's seemingly impending death, the Royal Navy officer is surprised and disappointed to learn that the boys ' society has collapsed into chaos.

The counterculture collapsed circa 1973, and many have attributed two major reasons: First, the most popular of its political goals — civil rights, civil liberties, gender equality, environmentalism, and the end of the Vietnam War — were accomplished ( to at least a significant degree ), and its most popular social attributes — particularly a " live and let live " mentality in personal lifestyles ( the " sexual revolution ") — were co-opted by mainstream society.

Lapita society, as a distinct culture and extended trade network, collapsed around 2, 000 years ago.

However, the party collapsed after the Registrar of Societies refused to register it as a society without providing an explanation.

The small area of Rockvil that can be survived is a wasteland, and society has collapsed into complete chaos.

Efforts to reform the Canadian constitution in order recognize Quebec's specificity ( or distinct society ) and provide a means to accommodate its need for greater autonomy have resulted in the Meech Lake Accord which collapsed before it came into effect and the Charlottetown Accord which was rejected by a majority of Canadians and also a majority of Quebecers in referendum in 1992.

But, as its title suggested, Dawn was a more optimistic story, wherein society advanced rather than collapsed.

The Muthanna club was established in Baghdad 1935 and was an influential radical pan-Arab and pan-Islamic fascist society which collapsed with the Rashid Ali al-Kaylani rebellion.

A £ 200 million payment was announced to compensate savers in the collapsed savings society Presbyterian Mutual.

The term therefore deals at once with the concrete responsibility of the German state ( West Germany assumed the legal obligations of the Reich ) and of individual Germans for what took place " under Hitler ," and with questions about the roots of legitimacy in a society whose invention of the Enlightenment collapsed in the face of Nazi ideology.

They taught poor women how to survive in a society where the cotton economy had collapsed for poor tenants and laborers, and where a viable new economic structure not yet developed ;

With Suharto's resignation in 1998, " the structure that repressed religion and society collapsed ".

From the time the original urban society collapsed, the great mound became overgrown with trees, the roots of which helped stabilize its steep slopes.

** Easter Island ( a society that collapsed entirely due to environmental damage )

Jared Diamond's thesis that Easter Island society collapsed in isolation entirely due to environmental damage is contested by some ethnographers and archaeologists who argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and slave raiding, which devastated the population in the 19th century, had a much greater social impact than environmental decline and that introduced animals, first rats and then sheep, were greatly responsible for the island's loss of native flora which came closest to deforestation as late as 1930 – 1960.

The civilizations on Earth have collapsed and turned into a barbaric society.

Empey called for the Treasury to compensate investors in the collapsed mutual society Presbyterian Mutual which the Treasury rejected.

These novels create an imaginary England of the future where the modern day world has collapsed and where society has reverted to earlier ways, resembling medieval England.

* Post-capitalistic dystopia, a society where traditional capitalism has collapsed abruptly or just degenerated into dysfunction, but without being superseded properly by any fundamentally different system.

For a while he amassed a minor cult following among the bohemians of the city, including London and Bierce, but his practices apparently were too esoteric to maintain interest for long, and his occult society, the Hermetic Order of the Onyx Dusk, collapsed.

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

Szelényi observes that at the start of the 20th century, Hungary along with other countries in Central Europe resembled a caste society.

Bad harvests ( caused in part by extreme weather from El Niño along with volcanic activity at Laki and Grímsvötn in 1783 – 1784 ), rising food prices, and an inadequate transportation system that hindered the shipment of bulk foods from rural areas to large population centers contributed greatly to the destabilization of French society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.

He had also influenced Charlotte Buhler, who along with Lev Vygotsky and others went on to study language meaning and society.

In modern society, news media have become the chief purveyor of information and opinion about public affairs ; but the role and status of journalism, along with other forms of mass media, are undergoing changes resulting from the Internet.

After settling along the Baltic coast, through contact with other Germans they adopted the cult of the Aesir gods, a shift that represented a cultural change from an agricultural society into a warrior society.

Libertarian socialists believe if freedom is valued, then society must work towards a system in which individuals have the power to decide economic issues along with political issues.

Therefore, language, in the absence of translation, comprises a barrier to a worldwide community of debate and opinion, although it is also true that media within any given society may be split along class, political or regional lines.

He formed a society in Philadelphia and traveled along the coast.

When it comes to transforming these observations into practice, Koolhaas mobilizes what he regards as the omnipotent forces of urbanism into unique design forms and connections organised along the lines of present day society.

In 1784 Herder argued that geography formed the natural economy of a people, and that their customs and society would develop along the lines that their basic environment favored.

The state, along with the concept of property and taxation are concepts exclusive to commercial society ; placing them within the context of a future socialist society amounts to distortion of these concepts.

Standardisation in this sense is often discussed along with ( or synonymously to ) such large-scale social changes as modernization, bureaucratization, homogenization, and centralization of society.

Béla H. Bánáthy, who argued — along with the founders of the systems society — that " the benefit of humankind " is the purpose of science, has made significant and far-reaching contributions to the area of systems theory.

Iraqi society is divided along lines of language, religion and ethnicity ; Saddam's government rested on the support of the 20 % minority of Sunnis.

Steinhaus, Banach and Nikodym, along with several other Kraków mathematicians ( Władysław Ślebodziński, Leon Chwistek, Jan Kroć, and Włodzimierz Stożek ) also established a mathematical society, which eventually became the Polish Mathematical Society.

The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible ( the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties ), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls " subcults ", including what would in 2010 be described as " gangs.

Although the benefit to society from the transportation route may be substantial, without eminent domain, every single property owner along the way must agree for the route to be built.

Government and society in Vanuatu tend to divide along linguistic — French and English — lines.

The NPC gathers each year along with the People's Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ) whose members represent various defined groups of society.

He ruled with a strong hand by imposing strict law upon all classes of Portuguese society from the high nobility to the poorest working class, along with a widespread review of the country's tax system.