| 社会名流 | shè huì míng liú | celebrity; public figure |
| 社会团体 | shè huì tuán tǐ | social group; community organization |
| 社会工作 | shè huì gōng zuò | social work |
| 社会工作者 | shè huì gōng zuò zhě | caseworker; social worker |
| 社会平等 | shè huì píng děng | social equality |
| 社会性 | shè huì xìng | social |
| 社会服务 | shè huì fú wù | social security (pensions, medical insurance) |
| 社会正义 | shè huì zhèng yì | social justice |
| 社会民主 | shè huì mín zhǔ | social democracy |
| 社会民主党 | shè huì mín zhǔ dǎng | Social Democratic Party |
| 社会环境 | shè huì huán jìng | milieu; social environment |
| 社会等级 | shè huì děng jí | social rank; class; caste |
| 社会经济 | shè huì jīng jì | socio-economic |
| 社会总需求 | shè huì zǒng xū qiú | aggregate social demand; total requirement of society |
| 社会行动 | shè huì xíng dòng | social actions |
| 社会语言学 | shè huì yǔ yán xué | sociolinguistics |
| 社会关怀 | shè huì guān huái | social care |
| 社会阶层 | shè huì jiē céng | social hierarchy; stratum in society; social status |
| 社会党 | shè huì dǎng | socialist party |
| 社民党 | Shè mín dǎng | Social Democratic party |
| 社火 | shè huǒ | festival entertainment (lion dance, dragon lantern etc) |
| 社科 | shè kē | social science (abbr.) |
| 社科院 | Shè kē yuàn | (Chinese) Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) |
| 社群 | shè qún | community; social grouping |
| 社评 | shè píng | editorial (in a newspaper); also written 社论 |
| 社长 | shè zhǎng | president or director (of association etc) |
| 社头 | Shè tóu | Shetou township in Changhua county 彰化县, Taiwan |
| 社头乡 | Shè tóu xiāng | Shetou township in Changhua county 彰化县, Taiwan |
| 社鼠城狐 | shè shǔ chéng hú | lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people |
| 神社 | shén shè | shrine |
| 秘密会社 | mì mì huì shè | a secret society |
| 结社自由 | jié shè zì yóu | (constitutional) freedom of association |
经济社会及文化权
利国际公约 | jīng jì shè huì jí wén huà quán lì guó jì gōng yuē | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) |
| 总社 | zǒng shè | cooperative (organisation); cooperation (eg between companies etc) |
| 美联社 | Měi lián shè | Associated Press (AP) |
| 联合通讯社 | Lián hé tōng xùn shè | Yonghap (South Korean news agency) |
苏维埃社会主义共
和国联盟 | Sū wéi āi shè huì zhǔ yì gòng hé guó lián méng | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991; abbr. 苏联 Soviet Union |
| 苏联之友社 | Sū lián zhī yǒu shè | Soviet Union friendly society |
| 复社 | fù shè | late Ming cultural renewal movement, led by Zhang Pu 张溥 and others |
| 贵族社会 | guì zú shè huì | aristocracy |
| 造福社群 | zào fú shè qún | to benefit the community |
| 靖国神社 | Jìng guó shén shè | Yasukuni Shrine, Shintō shrine in Tōkyō to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals |
| 韩国联合通讯社 | Hán guó lián hé tōng xùn shè | Yonghap (South Korean news agency) |
| 韩联社 | Hán lián shè | Yonhap (South Korean news agency) |
| 黑社会 | hēi shè huì | lit. dark society; criminal underworld; organized crime syndicate |
