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subsociety en · NOUN

Etymology

From sub- + society.

Meanings

1. A society making up part of a larger society.
   • In some circumstances, children of mixed parentage form their own subsociety, as is true in India and adjacent countries where there are fairly large groups of Euro-Asians. 1975, Ruth S. Cavan, Jordan T. Cavan, “Cultural Patterns, Functions, and Dysfunctions of Endogamy and Intermarriage”, in Ruth E. Albrecht, E. Wilbur Bock, compilers, Encounter: Love, Marriage, and Family, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Holbrook Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181:
   • In fact, culture is nothing but the willful acquisition of vulnerability. This is exactly the reason it is derided by the Green Berets and their like in other totalitarian societies or subsocieties. 1982 May 31, Niccolo Tucci, “'THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF COURAGE NEEDS A REDIFINITION'; I was made livid with anger when I read in the newspaper the Green Berets' complaint that their "bad boys" are giving them a "bad image."”, in The New York Times:

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