Indeed, "society" is an abstract, theoretical term, and such society as humans know in their own experience is made up of face-groups.

Most of what people believe they know about 'society' is propaganda or wishful thinking, and generally uninformed. Few people realize that, if they are 75 years old, there are - in the 21st Century - some 3 times more human beings in the world than seconds in their lives, namely 2,365,200,000 at age 75.

Also, it is noteworthy that there is little human awareness about their own mammalian and apish nature, although there is both amusing and bitter evidence about this gathered by e.g. Stanley Milgram and Desmond Morris. Some relevant points are

• Most persons follow and defer to leaders
• Most persons are conformists and role-players
• Most persons follow fashions
• Most persons are ordinary men and think in terms of Us and Them
• Most persons are and feel mostly totalitarian ("my country, right or wrong") about many things
• The main sources of ideas for most persons are authorities, the media, and those they consider their likes (see: Prejudice)