social contract
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so·cial con·tract
(also social compact)
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an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.
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Anti-social contracts: the contractual governance of virtual worlds.
Magazine article from: McGill Law Journal; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Virtual Worlds III. Contracts and the Common...Restoring the Social Contract A. The Advantages...Proper Role of Contracts in Online Communities...Introduction Can the social contract of a virtual world...of private law contracts? This article...three-dimensional social ...
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Social contracts and university public service; the case of agriculture and schooling.
Magazine article from: Journal of Higher Education; 11/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...increasingly destabilized social and political contracts between research universities...university to renew its social contract by replicating within the...universities negotiate social and political contracts with their publics. Clearly...
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Quello levels charges over social contracts. (FCC Commissioner James Quello)
Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable; 10/2/1995; ; 700+ words
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Shaky Social Contracts.
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; ...conditions. It is this implied social contract that is now endangered...the nature of the implied social contract. Political systems...the nature of the implied social contract. Broadly speaking, the weakest contracts are those that allow wealth...
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Building social contracts: with 51% of the British population believing they can make a difference to how responsibly a company behaves, Linda Bishop urges brand managers to set higher ethical standards. (Brand Papers).(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Brand Strategy; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
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; ...will speak on "Exclusion from the Social Contract" from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Friday...Refreshments will be served. A social contract creates society's basic...Weirich said. Contractarians view a social contract as a type of bargain struck...
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Classification, social contracts, obligations, civil rights, and the Supreme Court: Sutton v. United Air Lines.
Magazine article from: Remedial and Special Education; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...question, raising concerns regarding the nature of the social contract and requiring us to revisit Rousseau and other Enlightenment...Again, another old question, subsumed under the social contract theory but sharpened by the technologies that progressively...
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The Japan that can say "Yes": a changing Japanese society is less interested in social contracts. (Letter from Japan).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Electronic Business Asia; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...are also the result of changing social expectations, which make a return...society suddenly jettisoned these social contracts; they have just gradually unravelled...corporations will be under less social pressure to avoid layoffs the next...
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Drexel University to Celebrate Constitution Day by Offering Educational Podcast on Social Contracts.
Business Wire; 9/16/2005; 587 words
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The violent and the weak: when dictators care about social contracts.
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
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Social Contract
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...ruler rather than contracts that actually...central elements of social contract theory. The...On the social contract), accepted...of authentic social contracts. Yet the most...the idea of the social contract are those that...
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social contract
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
social contract agreement or covenant by...essential part of the social contract, and that "consent of...J. W. Gough, The Social Contract (2d ed. 1957...Crocker, Rousseau's Social Contract (1968); P...
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Social Contract, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Social Contract, The, the English title of Du Contrat Social , by J. J. Rousseau .
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Social Cohesion and Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...enforcement of social contracts prevents economic development. The social contract. The concept of a social contract is broader...opinion, the social contract of racial tolerance...environment in which contracts are not enforceable...likely to adhere to ...
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Social Theory
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...recognition and status regulates social order. For Rousseau, justice can...Justice depends in turn on the social contract , wherein each person must totally...lawgiver. ” Moreover, the social bond, to last, should be held...
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