SOC

SOC, SoC, Soc, may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Science Operations Centre, a center of the European Space Agency
 * 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
 * Specialized Oceanographic Center, a center of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 * Spectrum Operations Committee, a Stanford University independent research center
 * 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 a chip (SoC), in electronic design
 * System Organ Class, an organizational division in the dictionary MedDRA
 * Substance of Concern

Associations and societies

 * Society (abbr.: "soc.")
 * Scottish Ornithologists' Club
 * Scouts of China
 * Serbian Orthodox Church
 * Société des Ornithologistes du Canada, the French name of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists
 * Society of Cartographers, United Kingdom
 * 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
 * SOC Telemed, a telemedicine company backed by Warburg Pincus
 * SOC LLC, a security company owned by Day & Zimmermann
 * 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
 * Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable), (MEU (SOC)) a former United States Marine Corps term for a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
 * Special Operations Command (disambiguation)

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

 * Google Summer of Code
 * 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
 * State of Cambodia, the official English name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) during the transitional times that led to the restoration of the monarchy (1989–1993)
 * 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