{
  "id": "community.social",
  "term": "community",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "community",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of people that interact together",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "people.social",
      "interaction.process",
      "interacting.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "people within the set interact with each other through mutual touch, forming a shared social grouping.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared social identity",
      "reciprocal influence",
      "enduring relationships"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel community maintains code through thousands of open-source contributions since 1991.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Residents of the Kibbutz Degania in Israel collectively manage agriculture and housing since 1909.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Burning Man participants co-create Black Rock City annually in Nevada's desert.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "council.governance",
    "social.relational",
    "town.settlement"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "communities",
    "community"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "The missing concept 'interacting.social' was added because the definition relies on the idea of mutual, touch-based interaction to form a social group. This concept is constitutive and existed at L4. "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-community.social"
}