I think the linkage between society and nation is completely contrived. It's arbitrary at best, special (read: elite) interest serving at worst.
Communities are organic extensions of humans... we're a social species (a simple and obvious fact that is often misunderstood). Nations don't merit the same benefit as communities of being organic and inevitable (people will just form communities without coercion, but not nations).
Communities can link together to form a larger society, I don't question that. But the level of the nation is an arbitrary cut-off point. This notion of society is only viable if it is considered to be a global phenomenon. This has not always been true historical, but it is so now because of globalization.
That's just my intuitive grasp. Whaddyathink?
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