Social in General
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- Published on Monday, 27 May 2013 03:23
The term Social refers to a characteristic of living organisms as applied to populations of humans and other living things. It always refers to the interaction of living things with other living things and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is intentional or unintentional.
In existing society, “Social" often refers to the re-distributive policies of the ruling authority which aim to apply resources in the public interest, for example, social safety security, human rights, common men concerns then include the problems of social segregation, elimination and social structure. Here, "social" contrasts with "private" and to the distinction between the public and the private (or privatized) spheres, where ownership relations define access to resources and attention.
The social domain is often also contrasted with physical nature, but in sociobiology analogies are drawn between humans and other living species in order to explain social behavior in terms of biological factors. Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution etc…
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