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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

My book, “Seattle from the Margins,” retells this early history from the perspective of those pushed to the margins of urban society.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

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

Whether we study rural or urban society, whether we look at the purely economic or at the broader social side of existence, life in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was corporate rather than individual.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

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