A society is a people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to liquids political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a particular society may be called the sum total of those relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Insofar as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in options would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or oftentimes found to overlap. A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values inside the dominant, larger society. This is sometimes labeled a subculture, an expression used extensively within criminology...
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