# member (social)

a person that is a part of a group

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation)

**Through:** when a person is included as a part of a group, the part relation links the person with the collection to produce a member

**Novel properties:**
- social identity
- group affiliation
- collective belonging

## Examples
- Rosa Parks attended meetings as a member of the Montgomery NAACP in 1955. *(institutions)*
- Node 3 of the International Space Station was integrated into the orbiting structure in 2007. *(engineering)*
- Taylor Swift performed as a member of the country music group Little Big Town in 2009. *(everyday life)*

## Used by
- [corporation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-corporation.business) (L11)

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