It is a far cry from the country envisaged by Nelson Mandela when he gave his first speech to Parliament at the birth of South Africa's democracy in 1994, when he said: "We must construct that people-centred society of freedom in such a manner that it guarantees the political and the human rights of all our citizens".
It doesn't show a progressive society, centred around a fear of people who are being persecuted.
On the east Mediterranean island of Crete, a hierarchical society centred on large palatial complexes emerges during the Bronze Age.
It is grounded in the British experience, which has progressively evolved since the 1960s and is centred on civil society activism and public debates after The Satanic Verses Affair to include Muslims in British public life (Stokke & Lybaek, 2016).
There are also plenty of critics of the concept, who largely think it's a narcissistic mess and the true embodiment of everything wrong with a society centred around self-importance and personal fulfilment.
Various themes, such as a social science programme and a child-centred society, were vetoed by Herbert Morrison, soon to become deputy prime minister.
It is this move to a radically more unequal, uncaring, competitive and market-centred society that lies at the heart of the coalition programme.
Those societies were centred in the kivas, subterranean ceremonial chambers that also functioned as private clubs and lounging rooms for men.
Samoa's deeply conservative and devoutly Christian society centres around the extended family, which is headed by an elected chief who directs the family's social, economic and political affairs, and the church, which is a focus of recreational and social life.
This work is essentially a detailed study of prosperous middle-class society and is centred upon the family of the title.
