Each candidate for Fellowship or Foreign Membership must be nominated by two Fellows of the Royal Society, who sign a certificate of proposal.
The certificate includes a statement of the principal grounds on which the proposal is being made and is available for inspection by other Fellows..
Requirements for society
The people have a significant set of shared values and interests.
The members of society need to feel some sense of unity and solidarity, starting with mutual protection and aid, as well as the multitude of similarities between individuals and groups..
The Society's fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity..
Without workers in education, valuable knowledge would not be transmitted fairly and uniformly.
Without construction workers, cities would not develop as quickly.
Without workers in the public service, there would be no social programs, for example..
Work, from a sociological perspective, is anything that a person undertakes with a goal of being productive in a way that meets human needs.
Work includes mental and/or physical exertion but does not always have to include an exchange of money..
Form of society
