{
  "id": "society.social",
  "term": "society",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "society",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "people together follow shared rules that make their interactions",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "rules.social",
      "interaction.process",
      "follows.sequential",
      "make.verb",
      "share.distribution"
    ],
    "interaction": "people follow rules in sequence, and through mutual change create structured interactions that persist.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared normative order",
      "collective behavioral patterns",
      "sustained mutual expectation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has governed political disputes since 1789 through defined amendments and judicial interpretations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tokyo's 2020 subway system coordinated millions of daily trips using timed transfers and conduct rules.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wikipedia's English edition maintains consensus through edit wars, talk pages, and admin oversight since 2001.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "community.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "political.governance"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "societies",
    "society"
  ],
  "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 that the definition depends on: follows.sequential, make.verb, and share.distribution. Definition remained accurate and concise, so components were updated to fully"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-society.social"
}