Social environment

South Asia

Middle East

Europe

North America

The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu indicated to a instant physical as alive as social develop in which people symbolize or in which something happens or develops. It includes a culture that the individual was educated or lives in, together with the people and institutions with whom they interact. The interaction may be in grownup or through communication media, even anonymous or one-way, and may not imply equality of social status. The social environment is a broader concept than that of social class or social circle.

The physical and social environment is a determining factor in active and healthy aging in place, being a central component in the inspect of environmental gerontology.

Milieu/social structure

C. Wright Mills contrasted the instant milieu of jobs/family/neighborhood with the wider formations of the social structure, highlighting in particular a distinction between "the personal troubles of milieu" and the "public crises of social structure".

Emile Durkheim took a wider theory of the social environment milieu social, arguing that it contained internalized expectations and representations of social forces/social facts: "Our whole social environment seems to be filled with forces which really represent only in our own minds" – collective representations.