The Society Glossary is Oppositioner’s dictionary of social and cultural terms. While mainstream outlets celebrate “progress” and “stability,” this glossary reveals contradictions: inequality, manipulation, and cultural control hidden beneath slogans. Each term connects to our oppositional perspective on society.
Why Society Glossary matters
Society is the battlefield where politics, economy, and technology converge. This Society Glossary shows how everyday words like “stability” or “community” are misused by elites. It challenges narratives, asking what these terms truly mean for ordinary people.
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AI in Society — Artificial intelligence reshapes labor and relationships, often deepening inequality.
Authoritarianism — Social order built on fear, disguised as security.
C
Censorship — The quiet removal of voices under the guise of “safety” or “harmony.”
Community — Used by politicians as branding, but often detached from lived reality.
Culture Wars — Manufactured conflicts, designed to divide populations for political gain.
D
Disinformation — Strategic lies that dominate social media and poison discourse.
Diversity — A principle often reduced to corporate PR rather than real equality.
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Erosion of Middle Class — A global social crisis tied to economic stagnation. See economic slowdown analysis
Exploitation — A permanent reality for workers hidden under “flexibility” and “gig economy” labels.
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Family Values — A slogan recycled by political campaigns, masking structural neglect.
Freedom — Invoked in speeches, eroded in practice.
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Global Inequality — Wealth concentrated in fewer hands, celebrated as “efficiency.”
Gig Economy — Precarious labor branded as innovation.
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Housing Crisis — Rising rents and mortgages crushing households, ignored in official “prosperity” data.
Humanitarian Crisis — A sanitized phrase masking starvation, war, or forced migration.
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Identity Politics — Weaponized to fracture society instead of uniting it.
Inequality — The core fact of modern society, papered over with empty “growth” promises.
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Manipulation — Media and elites shaping opinion through subtle, constant pressure.
Migration — Branded as a “threat,” lived as survival.
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Polarization — The systematic splitting of society into camps for political gain.
Propaganda — A daily part of life, not confined to authoritarian states.
S
Social Justice — A real demand, but also co-opted as a slogan.
Stability in Society — Framed as balance, but often stagnation in disguise.
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Technology & Society — Innovations celebrated as progress while eroding privacy and community.
Trust — The most fragile resource in society, consistently undermined by corruption.