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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) is an American nonprofit supporting Hispanic students and professionals in STEM, founded in Los Angeles in 1974 by engineer Rodrigo Garcia.
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) is the apex national body representing India's major vehicle and engine manufacturers, headquartered at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
The Society of Jesus, or 耶稣会, is a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534, whose members served the Qing court as scientists.
Society of Jesus in Brazil
The Society of Jesus in Brazil (Companhia de Jesus no Brasil) was the Jesuit branch in Portuguese America, arriving in 1549 under Manuel da Nóbrega and expelled in 1759.
Society of Jesus in Spanish America
The Society of Jesus in Spanish America (Compañía de Jesús) was the Jesuit branch in the Spanish Indies, running colleges and missions until its 1767 expulsion.
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SME, legally the Society of Manufacturing Engineers until 2013, is a North American nonprofit professional association for manufacturing, founded in 1932 in Detroit and now headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.
Society of Mary (Marianists)
The Society of Mary, whose members are called Marianists, is a Catholic religious institute of priests and brothers founded by William Joseph Chaminade in Bordeaux, France, in 1817.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), founded 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, is a nonprofit standards body for film, television, and digital media, with 800+ standards in force including ST 2110, SDI, MXF, IMF, and D-Cinema.
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) is an international professional society serving the maritime and offshore industries, founded in 1893 and based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Society of Petroleum Engineers
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), founded in 1957, is a not-for-profit professional association for oil and gas engineers and scientists, headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
Society of Physics Students
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association for undergraduate physics and astronomy students in the United States, run by the American Institute of Physics since 1968.
Society of Plastics Engineers
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), founded in 1942, is an international professional society for plastics scientists and engineers, publishing four peer-reviewed journals and holding the annual ANTEC conference.
Society of Professional Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), founded 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi at DePauw University, is a US journalism association best known for its voluntary Code of Ethics, its Sigma Delta Chi Awards, and press freedom advocacy.
Society of Saint Pius X
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist Catholic priestly society founded in 1970 by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to celebrate the pre-Vatican II liturgy.
Society of Serbian Letters
The Society of Serbian Letters (Друштво српске словесности) was the first learned society of the Principality of Serbia, founded in Belgrade in 1841 and abolished in 1864.
Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland) is a scholarly association founded in Helsinki in 1885 to preserve Swedish culture in Finland.
Society of the Cincinnati
The Society of the Cincinnati, also the Cincinnati Society, founded May 1783 at Newburgh, New York, is America's oldest patriotic and first hereditary society, for male descendants of Revolutionary War Continental and French officers, with its Eagle insignia and Anderson House headquarters.
Society of the Friends of the Blacks
The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis des Noirs) was France's first anti-slavery organization, founded in Paris in 1788 by Brissot and Clavière.
Society of the Snow
Society of the Snow is a 2023 Spanish-language survival drama directed by J. A. Bayona, telling the story of the 1972 Andes plane crash from the survivors' view.
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), founded 1964, is the world's largest cardiothoracic surgery organization with 8,000+ members in 102 countries, known for the STS National Database, risk-adjusted star ratings, and The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Society of Ukrainian Progressives
The Society of Ukrainian Progressives (Tovarystvo ukrainskykh postupovtsiv, TUP), founded in Kyiv on 8 September 1908, was a clandestine, nonparty Ukrainian civic-political organization in the Russian Empire, active until 1917.
Society of United Slavs
The Society of United Slavs (Общество соединённых славян) was a secret revolutionary society of Russian army officers, founded in 1823 to abolish autocracy and serfdom and unite the Slavic peoples.
Society of Wetland Scientists
Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), international professional society founded 1980 by Richard Macomber; 3,000+ members in 60+ countries; publishes Wetlands journal and Wetland Science & Practice; administers PWS certification.
Society of Women Engineers
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an American nonprofit educational service organization founded in 1950 to support women in engineering through advocacy, scholarships, and professional development.
Socinianism
Socinianism is an early modern anti-Trinitarian Christian movement formed around Faustus Socinus, who settled in Poland in 1579 and led the Polish Brethren, codifying its doctrine in the Racovian Catechism of 1605.
Socio-Economic Panel
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP; German: Sozio-oekonomisches Panel) is a German household survey that has interviewed people annually since 1984, tracking income, employment, education, and health.
Sociobiological theories of rape
Sociobiological theories of rape, chiefly Thornhill and Palmer's A Natural History of Rape (2000), explain rape as an evolved adaptation or by-product; contested by feminist and social science critics.
Sociobiology
Sociobiology, defined by E. O. Wilson in Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), is the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior; it sparked the sociobiology wars and evolved into behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and dual inheritance theory.
Sociocultural evolution
Sociocultural evolution is the change over time of non-biological aspects of human society. Covers 19th-century unilineal evolutionism (Tylor, Morgan), the Boasian critique, modern cultural evolutionary theory, and gene-culture coevolution.
Sociodrama
Sociodrama is a group action method founded by J. L. Moreno in which the group, not an individual, enacts social situations to solve problems and clarify values.