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Socialist Vanguard Group
Socialist Vanguard Group, London section of the German ISK (Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund), an ethical socialist entryist group in the British Labour Party; published Socialist Commentary; later the Socialist Union (1951–59).
Socialist Workers Party (United States)
Socialist Workers Party (SWP), US Trotskyist party founded 1938 from Cannon's 1928 split, largest US Trotskyist organization for decades; fought the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike, suffered 1941 Smith Act convictions, led antiwar work, then declined in the 1980s.
Socialist Youth League (United States)
Socialist Youth League (SYL), US Trotskyist youth group of Max Shachtman's Workers Party, founded 1946; became Young Socialist League after a February 1954 merger with a YPSL faction.
Socialite
Socialite: a wealthy, fashionable person famous for attending elite parties and events rather than for achievement; also called high-society or leisured-class figures; distinguished from celebrities and debutantes by lifestyle-based fame and externally applied labeling.
Sociality
Sociality is the degree to which individuals of a species live in groups and form social bonds, from solitary life to the societies of social insects and humans.
Socialization
Socialization is the lifelong process of social interaction by which people develop a social identity, learn societal norms, and come to participate effectively in society.
Socially assistive robotics
Socially assistive robotics is the branch of robotics that helps people through social interaction rather than physical contact, defined by David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić in 2005.
Sociedad Cultural Casino de Torrevieja
Sociedad Cultural Casino de Torrevieja, also Casino la Numancia, is a Spanish cultural society founded 1 January 1867 in Torrevieja, Alicante, housed in an 1896 modernist building with a Neo-Nasrid Moorish room, hosting exhibitions and cultural events.
Sociedad de Amantes del País
The Sociedad de Amantes del País was an enlightened learned society of the Peruvian colonial elite founded in Lima around 1790, best known for publishing the Mercurio Peruano.
Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País
The Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País is an Enlightenment society founded in Guatemala in 1794, described as the first of its kind in the Americas.
Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales
Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) is Spain's state-owned industrial holding company, created in 1995 to manage the government's shareholdings in companies like Correos, Navantia, and Telefónica.
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), formerly Sociedad de Autores Españoles, is Spain's main copyright collective management society for music, audiovisual, and performing-arts authors. Founded 16 June 1899; CISAC member since 1932, expelled 2019, readmitted 2021; CNMC fines 2019 and 2024; over 120,000 members and 80 million works.
Societal attitudes toward homosexuality
Societal attitudes toward homosexuality, measured by Pew and Gallup acceptance questions since 1994 and 2002, divide sharply by region, wealth, religion, age and ideology, rising globally yet dropping recently among U.S. Republicans.
Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war
Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war: collapse of health care, water, food, education, economy, and civil order after October 7, 2023, with 77-year human development setback, 84% economic contraction, famine, and $71.4 billion reconstruction needs.
Societal collapse
Societal collapse, also called civilizational collapse or collapsology's subject, is a rapid loss of sociopolitical complexity. Key frameworks are Tainter's diminishing-returns complexity theory and Kemp's enduring loss of population and institutions.
Societal collapse models
Societal collapse models formalize the decline or breakdown of societies in mathematical terms, including the HANDY equations published in 2014, agent-based network models, and formalizations of Joseph Tainter's complexity theory.
Societas Europaea
The Societas Europaea, or European Company, is a public limited-liability company formed under an EU framework in force since 2004 and marked by the letters SE.
SOCIETAT DE CAÇADORS
SOCIETAT DE CAÇADORS (Societat de Caçadors) is a place in Masdenverge, Tarragona, Catalonia, mapped on OpenStreetMap node 2625686471 with the tourism=zoo tag, at 40.7605°N, 0.5532°E near Campredó; the name is the generic Catalan term for a local hunters' association.
Societatea Scriitorilor Români
Societatea Scriitorilor Români, the Society of Romanian Writers, was a professional association founded in Bucharest on 28 April 1908 to defend writers' rights, replaced in 1948 by the predecessor of the Writers' Union of Romania.
Société à responsabilité limitée
The société à responsabilité limitée (SARL) is a French limited-liability company with 2 to 100 partners, no minimum share capital, and liability capped at each partner's contribution.
Société Africaine de Culture
The Société Africaine de Culture (SAC, Society of African Culture) is a pan-African cultural association founded in Paris in 1956, later renamed Communauté Africaine de Culture.
Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec
The Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) is a Quebec crown corporation that licenses drivers and vehicles and runs the province's public no-fault auto insurance.
Société des Avions Marcel Bloch
The Société des Avions Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft maker founded by Marcel Bloch in Paris in 1929, nationalized in 1937 and reborn as Dassault.
Société des gens de lettres
The Société des gens de lettres is a French association, founded in Paris in 1838 by writers including Balzac, Hugo, and Dumas, that defends authors' rights.
Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad
Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT) is Chad's state-owned national oil company, created in 2006 to manage the government's oil interests, including a 25% stake in the Doba consortium acquired in 2014.
Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen
Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen (SPSE) is a French pipeline company, founded in 1958, that runs crude oil pipelines from Fos-sur-Mer near Marseille to Karlsruhe in Germany.
Société Générale
Société Générale, also known as SocGen, is a French bank founded in 1864 under Napoleon III, serving around 27 million clients in 58 countries with about 110,000 employees.
Société Géologique de France
The Société Géologique de France (SGF, Geological Society of France) is a French learned society for the earth sciences, founded in Paris in 1830 and recognized as of public utility in 1832.
Société Immobilière du Cameroun
The Société Immobilière du Cameroun (SIC) is Cameroon's state-controlled real-estate and social-housing company, created in 1952, 92% owned by the State, and the country's principal social landlord.
Société nationale d'électricité du Congo
Société nationale d'électricité du Congo, known as SNEL, is the state-owned electricity utility of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 1970 and operating the Inga dams.