| social relation | a relation between living organisms (especially between people) |
| social dancing | dancing as part of a social occasion |
welfare work
social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
| social activity | activity considered appropriate on social occasions |
social welfare
welfare
public assistance | governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need, she lives on welfare |
| social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
| Social Security | social welfare program in the U.S., includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance |
| social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
| social work | any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children |
| community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
| community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
| social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
community center
civic center | a center where the members of a community can gather for social or cultural activities |
sensation
esthesis
aesthesis
sense experience
sense impression
sense datum | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation, a sensation of touch |
| experience | the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities, a man of experience, experience is the best teacher |
percept
perception perceptual experience | the representation of what is perceived, basic component in the formation of a concept |
| experience | the content of direct observation or participation in an event, he had a religious experience, he recalled the experience vividly |
| social psychology | the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole |
| social science | the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society |
social anthropology
cultural anthropology | the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society |
| social democracy | the belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means |
| Social Security number | the number of a particular individual's Social Security account |
| social policy | a policy of for dealing with social issues |
| social action | a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) |
intercourse
social intercourse | communication between individuals |
| experience | an event as apprehended, a surprising experience, that painful experience certainly got our attention |
| near-death experience | the experience of being close to death but surviving |
| out-of-body experience | the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body |
| social event | an event characteristic of persons forming groups |
affair
occasion social occasion
function
social function | a vaguely specified social event, the party was quite an affair, an occasion arranged to honor the president, a seemingly endless round of social functions |
| community biotic community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other |
| social group | people sharing some social relation |
class stratum
social class
socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
Jemaah Islamiyah
JI
Islamic Group Islamic Community
Malaysian Mujahidin Group
Malaysia Militant Group | a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in and trained by al-Qaeda, supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia |
| community chest | a charity supported by individual subscriptions, defrays the demands on a community for social welfare |
legal profession
bar
legal community | the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction, he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey |
medical profession
medical community | the body of individuals who are qualified to practice medicine |
businessmen
business community | the body of individuals who manage businesses |
| community of scholars | the body of individuals holding advanced academic degrees |
Social Security Administration
SSA | an independent government agency responsible for the Social Security system |
European Union
EU
European Community
EC
European Economic Community
EEC
Common Market
Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |
unit
social unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group, the coach said the offensive unit did a good job, after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit |
| community | a group of people living in a particular local area, the team is drawn from all parts of the community |
| community | a group of nations having common interests, they hoped to join the NATO community |
| speech community | people sharing a given language or dialect |
club
social club
society guild
gild
lodge
order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
social gathering
social affair | a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship |
sociable
social
mixer | a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity |
| Social Democratic Party | a political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late th century, originally Marxist, now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism |