role · social
a position within a collective that performs a recurring pattern of behavior
Examples
- The night watch at Masada sounded alarms every two hours until the Roman siege in 73 CE. institutions
- In a beehive, the forager bees return to the same hive daily, transferring nectar to receiver bees. biology
- The Linux kernel's merge window assigns maintainers to review specific subsystem code every release cycle. computing
Emergence
through: the part and the regular pattern together instantiate a stable condition within the collective
- collective function
- persistent behavioral niche
- recurrent relational position
Chain to foundations
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (7)
Relations
| is-a | part.relation | is-a |
| abstracts | goal.purpose | abstracts |