Health Information Systems Project in Andhra Pradesh-Experiences from phcs in Kuppam

What is society?

• A society is any group of people living together in a group and constituting a single related, interdependent community. This word is frequently taken to include entire national communities; for instance, comment upon some aspect of U.S. or Indian society.
• Society can also be used to refer to smaller groups of people, as when we refer to "rural societies" or "academic society," etc.
• Society is distinguished from culture in that society generally refers to the community of people while culture generally refers to the systems of meaning -- what Geertz calls "webs of significance" which govern the conduct and understanding of people's lives. (*no clear diff between culture and society)