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Socialist Republic of Serbia

The Socialist Republic of Serbia was one of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, existing from 1963 until September 1990.

Socialist Republic of Slovenia

Socialist Republic of Slovenia (Socialistična republika Slovenija), a constituent republic of socialist Yugoslavia 1945–1990/91; one-party communist rule, 1948 Cominform split, workers' self-management, renamed Republic of Slovenia in 1990 before the 1990 independence plebiscite and 1991 secession.

Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma

The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma was the official name of Burma (now Myanmar) from 1974 to 1988, a one-party socialist state under Ne Win.

Socialist Revolutionary Party (Партия социалистов-революционеров)

Socialist Revolutionary Party (Партия социалистов-революционеров, PSR, esery), Russian agrarian socialist party founded 1901–1902 from neo-Narodnik groups; led by Viktor Chernov, used a Combat Organization for terror, won 40% in the 1917 Constituent Assembly elections, and was suppressed by 1925.

Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia

The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (SSR Abkhazia) was a Soviet republic in Abkhazia, proclaimed on 31 March 1921 and downgraded to an autonomous republic within Georgia in 1931.

Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia

The Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia, known as Litbel, was a short-lived Soviet republic created in February 1919 by merging the Lithuanian and Belorussian SSRs.

Socialist state

Socialist state (Slovak: Socialistický štát): a state with state-owned means of production, central planning, and ruling communist party under Marxism–Leninism; first the 1917 RSFSR/USSR, later China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea.

Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce

The Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce (资本主义工商业社会主义改造) was the Chinese Communist Party policy that converted private capitalist industry and commerce into joint state-private enterprises between 1953 and 1956.

Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED), East German Marxist-Leninist ruling party formed 21–22 April 1946 by the Soviet-pressured merger of KPD and SPD; ruled the GDR 1949–1989, renamed PDS in 1989.

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.