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urban society

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[ur-buhn suh-sahy-i-tee] / ˈɜr bən səˈsaɪ ɪ ti /

noun

  • urban societies
    plural
  1. Sociology. the kind of society that characterizes modern industrialized nations in being largely city-dwelling, individualistic, materialistic, and culturally diverse. Compare folk society.


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"Rapid environmental change fostered inequality, political consolidation, and the ideologies of the world's first urban society."

From Science Daily Oct. 27, 2025

"This was a literate, urban society where people had separate spaces for habitation, burial practices and industrial work," Mr Kumar says, noting it's the first large, well-defined ancient urban settlement found in southern India.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2025

Mr. Powell acknowledged that “the needs and complexities of a vast urban society require types of regulation and control that were quite unnecessary in earlier times.”

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2022

The site thus provides a peek not just into the lives of the elite but also into the blooming global and urban society at the beginning of the Roman Empire.

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2017

The student who looks at urban society on the surface easily becomes pessimistic.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe

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