THE NATURE AND MEANING OF SOCIETY

A society is not only a group of people living together in a

definite territory but it is a social system of long established
relationships which people in it recognize and follow a certain
way of life. The territory occupied by a society is recognized
and the people have a sense of belonging to it. In composition
human societies are com posed of men, women and children.
Societal groupings are generally large scale, the size being
determined by whether the society is community, state, nation or
international in nature. What is important is that within human
society are different groupings consist ing of small numbers of
people
A society, or a human society, is a group of people involved
with each other through persistent relations, or a large social
grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory,
typically subject to the same political authority and dominant
cultural expectations.