patterns. Societies can have many different forms of government, various ways of understanding kinship, and different gender roles. Human behavior varies immensely between different societies; humans shape society, but society in turn shapes human beings.

Etymology and usage

The term "society" commonly refers to a large group of people living in an ordered community within a country or across several similar countries, or to the "state of being with other people," as in the phrase "they lived in medieval society."

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