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A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence.
It is not uncommon for a club to be known in common usage by a name other than its official name, or the name on the badge. Other clubs are more usually known by nicknames or contractions of their full names, for instance, Vasco da Gama is usually called simply Vasco, F.C. Internazionale Milan is contracted to Inter or Inter Milan, Sporting Clube de Portugal is often called Sporting or ...
The "traditional club" referred to is the elitist gentlemen's club, a fixture of British upper-class male society. This is not to be confused with the modern use of the phrase, which is now a euphemism for a strip club .
Society, a group of Christians similar to a church (congregation) Society ball, a type of formal dance party; Society Islands, a group of islands in French Polynesia; Society of apostolic life, a group within the Catholic Church; Student society, a student club; The Vegan Society, a charity dedicated to veganism
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A sport club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, showing various paved and painted surfaces for futsal, handball, basketball and volleyball, with two swimming pools in the foreground. A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
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An information society is a society where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity. [57] Proponents of the idea that modern-day global society is an information society posit that information technologies are impacting most important forms of social organization, including ...