What's the difference between polity and society?

Polity


Definition:

  • (n.) The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
  • (n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.
  • (n.) Policy; art; management.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The money they spend is obviously welcome, but it seems to me possible that it comes at too high a price to the rest of our polity.
  • (2) The moral cowardice of the Irish polity results in those women, often alone and shivery, whom you see on Ryanair flights.
  • (3) His latest book, The Lure of Technocracy , is published by Polity
  • (4) Taking aim at a "preposterously over-regulated system," Johnson also claims that "bureaucracy and politial correctness is gradually asphyxiating the BBC".
  • (5) Maybe in the end what is so attractive about Germany to Britain’s cultural exports is not just the superior funding but the seriousness with which culture is viewed by politicians, and the quality of conversation and debate in the polity at large.
  • (6) The more hopeful view is that in the Afghan polity central government is weak and needs as many connections to local power centres as it can get.
  • (7) There is still time between now and the invocation of article 50 in March 2017 to galvanise a common effort across all the polities of these islands to look for a third way between hard Brexit and no Brexit.
  • (8) In a polity where too many players really were schoolboys together, there is an obsession with personality in general, and the personality of Boris Johnson in particular.
  • (9) Recent polls showing alarming levels of racism in Israeli public opinion, reflected in the new hard-right alliance between Likud and Yisrael Beitenu , suggest a polity that is not currently minded to dissolve itself under any amount of political pressure.
  • (10) For the therapy the following polity can be proposed: Stage I: chemotherapy - Stage II: chemotherapy, perhaps backed by conservative operative treatment - Stage III: chemotherapy and nephro-ureterektomy.
  • (11) If a Britain survives this moment, it will be a polity transformed by some kind of federalism.
  • (12) Europe’s current difficulties suggest that a global polity remains some way off.
  • (13) They were and are, rather, engaged in the work of citizenship, exposing deep flaws and wrongs in their polity and society.
  • (14) Yet this strategy has inadvertently raised the ire of a battle-weary polity, routinely ignored by government and attuned to the customary trickiness of politics: the plain meaning of recognition could not be further from what is sought.
  • (15) While he may have made his way into the 1%, he's not merely speculating on life's jagged edges; he's lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly.
  • (16) "Remembering how courageously Mr Havel defended human rights at a time when these were systematically denied to the people of your country, and paying tribute to his visionary leadership in forging a new democratic polity after the fall of the previous regime, I give thanks to God for the freedom that the people of the Czech Republic now enjoy," he said.
  • (17) Twenty children, aged between six and seven, are slaughtered in school and the American polity takes five months to decide do nothing.
  • (18) Without Mosul or Raqqa , the group’s claim to have re-established a caliphate, which aims to unite the world’s Muslims within a single polity, will collapse.
  • (19) Just as Guzmán and the new cartels operate within the logic of the “legal” economy, and become major investors in it, so the “legal” economy and polity embrace the cartels.
  • (20) 2.32pm BST Irish budget begins Finance minister Michael Noonan is starting to deliver the Irish budget now, blaming reckless polities from the previous government for causing the 'disaster' in Ireland.

Society


Definition:

  • (n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
  • (n.) Connection; participation; partnership.
  • (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
  • (n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.
  • (n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (2) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (4) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (5) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
  • (6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (7) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (8) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
  • (9) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (10) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (11) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (12) Acts like this have no place in our country and in a civilized society,” Lynch said in Washington.
  • (13) Accidental injury is the leading cause of death in persons between the ages of 1 and 50 years in our Western society.
  • (14) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (15) It is clearly demonstrated that, although it will be very difficult to single out effects of specific safety measures, the combined safety actions taken by a society are very effective in getting the safety factor under control.
  • (16) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
  • (17) By using an interactive computer program to assess knowledge of the American Cancer Society cancer screening guidelines in a group of 306 family physicians, we found that knowledge of this subject continues to leave room for improvement.
  • (18) The risk of postoperative cerebrovascular accident did not correlate with age, sex, history of multiple cerebrovascular accidents, poststroke transient ischemic attacks, American Society for Anesthesia physical status, aspirin use, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, intraoperative blood pressure, time since previous cerebrovascular accident, or cause of previous cerebrovascular accident.
  • (19) There is a clear conflict between the economics, society and the politics, the immediate versus the long term.
  • (20) The ANC has the historical responsibility to lead our nation and help build a united non-racial society."