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social
1. Relating to human society and how it is organized.
2. Relating to the way in which people in groups behave and interact.
3. Living or preferring to live as part of a community or colony rather than alone; such as, social insects including ants.
4. Allowing people to meet and to interact with others in a friendly way; for example, a social club.
5. Relating to human welfare and the organized welfare services that a community provides in its social services. 6. Relating to or considered appropriate to a rank in society, especially the upper classes.
7. Tending to seek out the company of others.
8. A description of plants that grow in clumps or masses.
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social-, socia-, soci-, socio- +
(Latin: companion, partner, ally, comrade; interpersonal relationships, living with others, allied, associated; characterized by friendliness or geniality)
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social anthropology (s) (noun),social anthropologies (pl)
The study of human groups characteristics that are acquired amd transmitted by learning; such as, social organizations, kinship systems, social rules, tribal organizations, community structures, classes, castes, technologies, languages, customs, traditions, religions, art, etc.: Social anthropologyconcentrates on the analysis and explanations of the whole range of relations with people as parts of a system of community organizations or structures.
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social pediatrics
A whole-family and whole-community approach to child medical problems and prevention.

To focus on an entire neighborhood village at once, new community center facilities were required that allowed for communal meals, play, unstructured time, and other elements of an intentional community.

Doctors and nurses are introduced to children first as playmates, not as supervisors, increasing their trust and likelihood that key information about the sources of their medical issues will be revealed and accurately integrated into their medical needs.

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social security
A system of legislative, or government, provisions aimed at giving assistance to individuals and families when confronted with certain contingencies or needs.

The provisions vary from country to country, but may include unemployment and sickness benefits, family allowances, maternity allowances, retirement income, etc.

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Social Security check
Month-to-month resuscitation.
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social vulnerability (s) (noun), social vulnerabilities (pl)
One dimension of multiple stressors and shocks, including natural hazards: These social vulnerabilities refer to the inability of people, organizations, and societies to withstand adverse impacts from multiple stressors to which they are exposed.

These impacts of social vulnerabilities are caused in part by characteristics inherent in social interactions, institutions, and systems of cultural values.

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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
(terms restricted to the study of social insects; such as, ants and words that apply generally to entomology)
Social Insects, Especially Ants
(insects that live in colonies which, in some ways, resemble human cities are ants, bees, wasps, hornets, and termites)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “social”
group effect, social facilitation
An alteration in behavior or physiology within a species brought about by signals that are directed in neither space nor time.

A simple example is social facilitation, in which an activity increases merely from the sight or sound (or other form of stimulation) coming from other individuals engaged in the same activity.

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inquilinism, permanent social parasitism
The relation in which a socially parasitic species spends the entire life cycle in the nests of its host species.

Workers are either lacking or, if present, scarce and degenerate in behavior. This condition is sometimes referred to loosely as permanent parasitism.

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social anthropology
The anthropological study of human societies, with particular reference to kinship systems, social roles, tribal organization, community structure, classes, and castes, political, economic, and religious institutions, and the like.
social bucket
A reference to the process by which liquid food is carried between the mandibles, thence to be shared with nest mates by mouth-to-mouth contact.
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social homeostasis
The maintenance of steady states at the level of the society either by control of the nest microclimate or by regulation of the population density, behavior, and physiology of the group members as a whole.
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social insect
In the strict sense, a true social insect is one that belongs to a eusocial species; in other words, it is an ant, a termite, or one of the eusocial wssps or bees.

In the broad sense, a social insect is one that belongs to either a pre-social or eusocial species.

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Social Insects, Especially Ants

Primarily dealing with the topic of ants which live in colonies or "cities".

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social parasiism
The co-existence in the same nest of two species of social insects, one of which is parasitically dependent on the other.

The term can also be applied loosely to the relation between symphiles and their social insect hosts.

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social stomach
The first segment of the gastral gut, also called the crop, where liquid food can be stored and from which it can be passed to nest mates by regurgitation.
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socialgenesis, social genesis
The procedures by which individual ants undergo changes in caste, behavior, and physical location incident to colonial development.

The behavior of a colony of ants as a whole can be understood only if the programs and positional effects of the individual members are both specified and explained more deeply at the physiological level; however, such data is still far from being complete.

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temporary social parasitism
Parasitism in which a queen of one species enters an alien nest, usually belonging to another species, kills or renders the resident queen infertile, and takes her place.

The population of the colony then becomes increasingly dominated by the offspring of the parasite queen as the host workers die from natural causes.

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