What does SOCIETAL mean?

Definitions for SOCIETAL
səˈsaɪ ɪ tlso·ci·etal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. social, societaladjective

    relating to human society and its members

    "social institutions"; "societal evolution"; "societal forces"; "social legislation"

Wiktionary

  1. societaladjective

    Of or pertaining to society or social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.

Wikipedia

  1. societal

    A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same 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 given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members. In the social sciences, a larger society often exhibits stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups. Societies construct patterns of behavior by deeming certain actions or concepts as acceptable or unacceptable. These patterns of behavior within a given society are known as societal norms. Societies, and their norms, undergo gradual and perpetual changes. So far as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would otherwise be difficult on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap. A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society. This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively within criminology, and also applied to distinctive subsections of a larger society. More broadly, and especially within structuralist thought, a society may be illustrated as an economic, social, industrial or cultural infrastructure, made up of, yet distinct from, a varied collection of individuals. In this regard society can mean the objective relationships people have with the material world and with other people, rather than "other people" beyond the individual and their familiar social environment.

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  1. societal

    Societal refers to anything related to society or its organization. It describes aspects that affect a community or group of people living together, including social structures, institutions, relationships, development, behavior, norms, and culture. This term is often used in the context of discussions about societal issues, changes, needs, or values.

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  1. coaliest

  2. cosalite

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SOCIETAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SOCIETAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of SOCIETAL in a Sentence

  1. Steven Driscoll:

    The Hot Yoga Tallahassee attacker was motivated to carry out violence by The Hot Yoga Tallahassee attacker inability to develop or maintain relationships with women, along with The Hot Yoga Tallahassee attacker perception of women's societal power over men.

  2. Gerald Feierstein:

    The risk, if the project fails, is that you will see in Saudi Arabia the same kind of demographic and societal pressures that led to the Arab Spring explosions in 2011, chaos in Saudi Arabia would have obvious implications for regional security and stability as well as for the global economy and access to secure energy markets.

  3. Samuel Scarpino:

    I was joking that you could offer to let the tourists cut the long lobster roll lines in Maine in the summer if they got vaccinated, i think if we take that kind of attitude and get enough vaccines to people, we actually could get to the right level to make this severe disease that has been completely debilitating from a societal and economic perspective, to something that is not eradicated, but that is something more akin to the common cold, which becomes more manageable.

  4. Rebecca Carlin:

    There’s almost always one – and often multiple – risk factors that are really avoidable with additional societal assistance, being a new parent is hard. And it’s hard to talk about these issues without talking about the supports that we give new parents as a society.

  5. Paul Chambers:

    If Yingluck is impeached this could easily spark snowballing sympathy for Yingluck and a resurrection of pro-Thaksin and pro-democracy sentiment that could give way to the potential beginning of demonstrations, military repression of these demonstrations could increase sympathy for them, and the longer the military remains in power, the less likely it can sustain societal approval for doing so.

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