SOC, soc, Soc, or SoC may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Information security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with computer security issues
  • Selectable output control
  • Separation of concerns, a program design principle in computer science and software engineering
  • Service-oriented communications
  • Service-oriented computing, another term for service-oriented architecture
  • Soil organic carbon, see Soil carbon
  • Solid oxide cell, an electrochemical conversion device operating either in SOFC, SOEC, or rSOC mode
  • Spin–orbit coupling
  • State of charge, for batteries
  • Store-operated calcium channel
  • Super optimal broth with catabolite repression, a bacterial growth medium
  • Superior olivary complex
  • System on chip (SoC), in electronic design
  • System organ class, an organizational division in the MedDRA dictionary

Associations and societies

  • Society (abbr.: "soc.")
  • Scottish Ornithologists' Club
  • Scouts of China
  • Syriac Orthodox Church
  • Serbian Orthodox Church
  • Société des Ornithologistes du Canada, the French name of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists
  • Society of Operating Cameramen, the original name for the Society of Camera Operators
  • Special Olympics Canada
  • Syrian Opposition Coalition, better known as the National Coalition

Businesses

  • SOC Films, a film company founded by Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Sirte Oil Company
  • Social overhead capital
  • South Oil Company
  • System and organization controls, a suite of reports produced during an audit

Military

  • Curtiss SOC Seagull, a US Navy scout observation seaplane produced by Curtiss, first in service in 1935
  • Special operations command, various military and police organizations

Mathematics

  • Second-order condition, a mathematical condition that distinguishes maxima and minima from other stationary points
  • Self-organized criticality, a property of dynamical systems in physics

Transport

  • Adisumarmo International Airport (IATA: SOC), Indonesia
  • Southend Central railway station (National Rail station code: SOC), Essex, England

Other uses

  • School of Communication, a school in American University
  • Security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with security issues
  • The Settlers of Catan, a multiplayer board game
  • Shippers Owned Container, intermodal container owned by the shipper or receiver instead of by the shipping line
  • Soc (subculture), a 1950s precursor to the preppy look
  • Sound of Contact, a British-based rock band
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a video game
  • Standard Occupational Classification System, a system of the United States Department of Labor
  • Standard of care, medical or psychological treatment guideline, and can be general or specific
  • E.g., the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People
  • Statement of claim, a legal document on which one states a cause of action
  • Strategic Organizing Center, a group of United States labor unions
  • Stream of consciousness (disambiguation), a writing or psychological style with disjointed thoughts
  • Swedish Open Championships, an annual table tennis tournament
  • soc.*, one of the Big 8 (Usenet) hierarchies

See also

  • Socs (disambiguation)
  • Sock (disambiguation)
  • SOCOM (disambiguation)