social compact
1social compact — noun : social contract * * * social contract or social compact noun The voluntary agreement between individuals upon which an organized society, its rights, functions, and the relationships within it are founded • • • Main Entry: ↑social * * *… …
2social compact — social contract, or compact In political philosophy, a term applied to the theory of the origin of society associated chiefly with the names of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, though it can be traced back to the Greek Sophists. Rousseau (Contract… …
3Social theory — Social analysis redirects here. For the journal, see Social Analysis (journal). Sociology …
4social contract — (also social compact) ► NOUN ▪ an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for mutual benefit, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection …
5social contract — or social compact n. in the theories of certain political philosophers, as Locke and Rousseau, the agreement among individuals uniting for various reasons, by which organized society was begun and sets of regulations were instituted to govern… …
6social contract — 1. the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to… …
7Social rights — The term social rights is sometimes used to distinguished those rights arising from the social contract, akin to natural rights arising from nature, but before the establishment of legal rights by positive law. For example, James Madison… …
8social contract — noun an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑agreement, ↑accord * * * ˌsocial ˈcontract 7 [social contract] ( …
9social contract — (also social compact) noun an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for mutual social benefit, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection …
10social contract — /soʊʃəl ˈkɒntrækt/ (say sohshuhl kontrakt) noun 1. Also, social compact. an implicit agreement among the members of a society in which individuals cooperate for mutual social benefit, as by sacrificing certain personal liberties in exchange for… …
