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Definition: Social Contract |
Social ContractNoun1. An implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Because social contract theory assumes the existence of a contract binding upon individuals who have not explicitly accepted it, the theory has been found flawed by some philosophers. However, the usual response to this objection is that many contracts and acceptances of same in a modern economy also tend to be implicit, e.g. copyright which exists in a work regardless how marked, entry into private spaces where rules of access and exclusion are posted (but not explicitly accepted other than by actually entering premises), and software and web site licenses. In the same way that implicit contracts in these circumstances standardize interactions to make them simpler and cheaper to support, enhancing the value of capital, social contract can likewise increase the social capital (a formal term for trust), and what's more this is measurable.
In the informal sense of the term, social contracts are informal and many are not well understood. In very dynamic or mobile societies the local consensus is often rapidly shifting as people move in and out of groups. Conflict often arises out different understandings of the local aggregate expectations as well as disagreement regarding appropriate rules of behavior and interaction. This can be very stressful for group members until new informal agreements have been informally negotiated between interacting members of the group, community, or society.
See also social contract theories, social capital, contract
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Social contract."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Marriage has, as you say, no natural relation to love. Marriage belongs to society; it is a social contract. |
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| Language | Translations for "social contract"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Kontrakt for forbedring af arbejdsforholdene (Social Contract for Progress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Sociaal Contract voor de Vooruitgang (Social Contract for Progress), sociaal contract (tripartite social contract). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Contrat social de progrès (Social Contract for Progress), contrat social (tripartite social contract). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Sozialvertrag (tripartite social contract), Fortschrittsorientierter Sozialvertrag (Social Contract for Progress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Contratto sociale di progresso (Social Contract for Progress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocialsay ontractcay Contrato Social de progresso (Social Contract for Progress). (various references) contrato social. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: coarctations. | |
-3 letters: coarctation. | |
-4 letters: acrostical, cartoonist, castration, catatonics, contraltos, iconoclast, lactations, occasional, rotational, tractional. | |
-5 letters: antarctic, antisolar, atonalist, cantorial, catatonic, cilantros, coactions, coattails, colorants, consortia, constrict, contracts, contrails, contralto, lactation, locations, narcotics, raincoats, rationals, rotations, saltation, stational, tailcoats, tonsorial, torsional, tractions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 63 69 61 6C 43 6F 6E 74 72 61 63 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o c i a l   C o n t r a c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C 0043 006F 006E 0074 0072 0061 0063 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53816975677823781808684676986 |
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