{
  "id": "custom.social",
  "term": "custom",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a usual pattern in a social group",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "groups.collection",
      "social.relational",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a regular pattern is shared among members of a group, it becomes a custom.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared behavioral expectation",
      "socially reinforced repetition",
      "collective normativity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Every U.S. presidential inauguration since 1789 has included a public oath-taking ceremony.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Japanese tea ceremonies follow prescribed movements and utensils, practiced identically in schools like Urasenke for centuries.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel releases follow a two- to three-month cycle, with version numbers incremented predictably since 2005.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "groups.collection",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "custom",
    "customs"
  ],
  "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": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'social.relational' and 'usual.common' to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-custom.social"
}