<B>sociable, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>liking company; friendly. <BR> <I>Ex. They are a sociable family and entertain a great deal. Man is said to be a sociable animal (Joseph Addison).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>marked by conversation and companionship. <BR> <I>Ex. We had a sociable afternoon together.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>naturally inclined to be in company with others of the same species; social. <BR> <I>Ex. sociable animals or plants.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an informal social gathering. <BR> <I>Ex. You'll see her settled down one of these days, and teaching Sunday School and helping at sociables (Sinclair Lewis).</I> noun <B>sociableness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sociableweaverbird">
<B>sociable weaverbird</B> or <B>grosbeak,</B> =republican grosbeak.</DL>
<A NAME="sociably">
<B>sociably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a sociable manner; conversably; familiarly. </DL>
<A NAME="social">
<B>social, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>concerned with human beings in their relations to each other. <BR> <I>Ex. social justice. The social state is ... so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man (John Stuart Mill).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or dealing with the living conditions, health, or other aspects of the lives of human beings. <BR> <I>Ex. social problems, social work.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>living or liking to live with others. <BR> <I>Ex. Man is a social being.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>for companionship or friendliness; having to do with companionship or friendliness. <BR> <I>Ex. a social engagement. Ten of us girls have formed a social club.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>liking company. <BR> <I>Ex. a social nature; ... his own friendly and social disposition (Jane Austen).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>connected with fashionable society. <BR> <I>Ex. The mayor's wife is the social leader in our town. Others avoid her company because she has no social grace.</I> <DD><B> 7a. </B>living together in organized communities. Ants and bees are social insects. <DD><B> b. </B>growing in patches or clumps. <BR> <I>Ex. social plants.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B><B>=socialistic.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> a social gathering or party. <BR> <I>Ex. a church social.</I> noun <B>socialness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialaction">
<B>social action,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Sociology.) the behavior of an individual in response to his subjective evaluation of the motives of others and the values and goals of the society in which he lives. <DD><B> 2. </B>organized action taken by a group to improve social conditions. </DL>
<A NAME="socialanthropology">
<B>social anthropology,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of anthropology that deals with the social customs, beliefs, and practices of man, especially in primitive and isolated societies. </DL>
<A NAME="socialaudit">
<B>social audit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a systematic evaluation of the social consequences of a company's business policies and operations. <DD><B> 2. </B>a statement of the findings of such a systematic evaluation. <BR> <I>Ex. The social audit ... in general commends the company, which gives 7.5% of pre-tax profits to charity (Suzanne Alexander).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialclimber">
<B>social climber,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who tries to gain acceptance or improve his standing in fashionable society by associating with people having more wealth or influence than he has. </DL>
<A NAME="socialclimbing">
<B>social climbing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the actions or conduct of a social climber. </DL>
<A NAME="socialcontract">
<B>social contract,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an agreement to regulate the relations of citizens with one another and with government. <DD><B> 2. </B>an understanding between government and labor unions of a country in which the unions agree to limit wage demands in return for legislation and fiscal planning to create conditions favorable to workers. </DL>
<A NAME="socialcontrol">
<B>social control,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>control of individual behavior by society. <DD><B> 2. </B>control of social institutions in the interest of the whole society. </DL>
<A NAME="socialcredit">
<B>social credit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an economic philosophy that believes in industrial cooperatives in which the consumers share the profits of industry as dividends. </DL>
<A NAME="socialcrediter">
<B>Social Crediter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the Social Credit Party, a Canadian political party, founded in the 1930's, advocating social credit; Socred. </DL>
<A NAME="socialdarwinism">
<B>social Darwinism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the application of the Darwinian theory of evolution to the origin, growth, and development of human society. <BR> <I>Ex. Social Darwinism ... held that human races evolve like animal species and that the nonwhite races were at the bottom of the evolutionary scale (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialdemocracy">
<B>social democracy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the principles of any one of various political parties advocating a gradual transition to socialism by democratic processes. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=socialism.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialdemocrat">
<B>social democrat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an advocate of social democracy. </DL>
<A NAME="socialdemocratic">
<B>social democratic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by or founded on the principles of social democracy. </DL>
<A NAME="socialdisease">
<B>social disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=venereal disease.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>any disease that is spread, or is believed to be spread, through direct contact between people, such as infectious mononucleosis. </DL>
<A NAME="socialengineer">
<B>social engineer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a specialist in social engineering. </DL>
<A NAME="socialengineering">
<B>social engineering,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the application of the principles of the social sciences to practical social problems. </DL>
<A NAME="socialevil">
<B>social evil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>anything that is a danger to the welfare of people or opposed to the values of society. <BR> <I>Ex. Rat-infested slums and drunkenness are social evils.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=prostitution.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialgospel">
<B>social gospel</B> or <B>Social Gospel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an American Protestant movement of the early 1900's that sought to apply the Christian gospel to social problems and issues. <BR> <I>Ex. The problem in industrialization, with bitter conflicts between capital and labor ... led the churches into preaching the optimistic "Social Gospel" of the early 1900's (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialgospeler">
<B>social-gospeler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a follower or supporter of the social gospel. </DL>
<A NAME="socialinsurance">
<B>social insurance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> insurance of a person against unemployment or illness, through government action. <BR> <I>Ex. There are several types of social insurance, such as accident insurance or workman's compensation, sickness and old-age insurance, and unemployment insurance (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialism">
<B>socialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a theory or system of social organization by which the major means of production and distribution are owned, managed, or controlled by the government (state socialism), by associations of workers (guild socialism), or by the community as a whole. (SYN) collectivism. <DD><B> 2. </B>a political movement advocating or associated with this system. <DD><B> 3. </B>the practice of such a system. </DL>
<A NAME="socialist">
<B>socialist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who favors or supports socialism. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=socialistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialist">
<B>Socialist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of a Socialist Party. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a Socialist Party. </DL>
<A NAME="socialistic">
<B>socialistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with socialism or socialists. <DD><B> 2. </B>favoring or supporting socialism. adv. <B>socialistically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socialistparty">
<B>Socialist Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a political party that favors and supports socialism. </DL>
<A NAME="socialistrealism">
<B>socialist realism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the official aesthetic doctrine of the former Soviet Union which maintained that art, literature, and music are to foster development of a socialist society. <DD><B> 2. </B>the style of art, literature, and music that followed this doctrine. <BR> <I>Ex. The slender young Soviet poet ... has reportedly emerged as the new leader in innovations that have sprung up outside the persistent dogmatic socialist realism of Stalinist poetry (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialite">
<B>socialite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the fashionable society of a community. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person active in the social life of a community. </DL>
<A NAME="sociality">
<B>sociality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>social activity; social intercourse. <DD><B> 2. </B>social nature or tendencies. <BR> <I>Ex. The congregating of people in cities and towns shows sociality.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="socialization">
<B>socialization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of socializing. <BR> <I>Ex. Socialization is a genuine and wholesome identification of a person with the welfare of other persons, of his own group and of other groups (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being socialized. <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of placing or establishing something on a socialistic basis. </DL>
<A NAME="socialize">
<B>socialize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to be social or sociable; enter social relationships with others. <BR> <I>Ex. He has never learned to socialize with his fellow workers.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to establish or regulate in accordance with socialism. <BR> <I>Ex. to socialize transportation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make social. <BR> <I>Ex. to socialize a discussion.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make fit for living with others; adapt to life as a social animal. <DD><B> 4. </B>to adapt to community needs. noun <B>socializer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="socializedmedicine">
<B>socialized medicine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the providing of medical care and hospital services for all persons, either free or at nominal cost, especially through government subsidy and administration. </DL>
<A NAME="socialladder">
<B>social ladder,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the levels of society, from lowest to highest. <BR> <I>Ex. As an aggressive climber, he rose rapidly on the social ladder.</I> </DL>
