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I still feel like purist "honor societies" are not social. I was/am in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, ODK, and Order of Omega. No social events except for networking stuff at the most.
I do think when honors/professional fraternities are for a single discipline, there's more likelihood there's going to be actual socialization and a real organization beyond just a nice induction ceremony. The history honors fraternity at UT (we didn't have a chapter of it at W&L for whatever reason) is fairly active, but mostly I think because they have to be to earn points to wear cords at graduation. Which I consider lame, but hey, if it's motivational to them, cool.
There seem to be some orgs on some campuses which have really broken out of the honors/professional mold...
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