# social (relational)

about people that interact together in a community

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain:   ·  Arena: social

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [community](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-community.social), [interacting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interacting.social), [interaction](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interaction.process)

**Through:** people interact within a community through mutual change during touch.

**Novel properties:**
- shared social patterns
- relational identity among members
- emergent norms in interaction

## Examples
- The weekly meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous in New York City have sustained peer support since 1935. *(institutions)*
- Linux kernel development coordinates thousands of programmers worldwide through public mailing lists and git repositories. *(computing)*
- Residents of Barcelona's Sants neighborhood co-organize the annual 'Festa Major' street celebration each August. *(everyday life)*

## Used by
- [custom](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-custom.social) (L9)
- [playful](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-playful.behavioral) (L13)
- [thank](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thank.social) (L11)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social.relational*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social.relational.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*