(pathology, sociology, psychology) The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another.

A village in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5717).

Beyond society.

plural of social atom

(politics, derogatory) A political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions. / (politics) The governmental use of imperialism to preserve the domestic social status quo.

A psychotherapeutic diagram presenting individuals as nodes (with the patient at the centre) connected by lines indicating their relationships.

(derogatory) An approach to industrial relations that focuses on making the workers contented and productive.

(history) Libya from the late 1970s to 2011.

Uncommon spelling of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

(sociology) The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.