{
  "id": "social.relational",
  "term": "social",
  "sense": "relational",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "social",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about people that interact together in a community",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "community.social",
      "interacting.social",
      "interaction.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "people interact within a community through mutual change during touch.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared social patterns",
      "relational identity among members",
      "emergent norms in interaction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The weekly meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous in New York City have sustained peer support since 1935.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel development coordinates thousands of programmers worldwide through public mailing lists and git repositories.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Residents of Barcelona's Sants neighborhood co-organize the annual 'Festa Major' street celebration each August.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    },
    {
      "id": "interacting.social",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "custom.social",
    "playful.behavioral",
    "thank.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "social",
    "socially"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "added missing constitutive components interacting.social and interaction.process to align with definition; definition kept as is but could be tightened if needed."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social.relational"
}