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Society

A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations...

- all-human

Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

society

Society

, which exists on our planet from the beginnings of humanity in the form of many local societies and communities, national state

State (polity)

A state is an organized political community, living under a government. States may be sovereign and may enjoy a monopoly on the legal initiation of force and are not dependent on, or subject to any other power or state. Many states are federated states which participate in a federal union...

s etc., in another words - in the form of different groups of people.

The concept of global society becomes very actual in our times because with this concept most of today world social processes can be described and explained in very simple words.

History of the idea

Very similar concepts were known from ancient times. For example, idea of cosmopolitan (citizen of the world, that is of cosmopolia - global society, society of the world in the ancient Greek).

See also Globalization

Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...

http://www.allwords.com/word-global+society.html
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13600826.asp
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713423373
Global Society: Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois

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