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The realm of the social is the realm constituted by such exchange.

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  1. adjective Living together in communities.
  2. adjective Of or relating to communal living.
  3. adjective Of or relating to human society and its modes of organization: social classes; social problems; a social issue.

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  • In fact, comments by Clinton and other recent appointees show a continuation of an antiquated analysis and a lack of understanding of recent Latin American social movements and regional integration.
  • After having displayed the most unbridled opportunism during the municipal elections of 2008, with the sole aim of getting councilors elected, and sometimes accepting agreements with the very worst in French social democracy (the first-round agreement to be on the Guérini lists in Marseilles, for example), the orientation laid down for the European elections consists of affirming a revolutionary Marxist current. —  Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
  • Each year, as folks down pints of green beer on St. Patrick's Day, we're often in too festive a mood to remember that there's much more to Irish culture than intoxication and law enforcement, dramatizes a particularly dark chapter in Irish social history.
  • While the ALP, founded by labor unions, traditionally had been moderately socialist in its policies and approaches to social issues, today it is best described as a social democratic party.
  • We want to know about every imaginable ingredient -- social, aesthetic, psychological, physical -- that was distilled into this artist's passionate but inauspicious devotion to his medium, a devotion so intense that it permanently altered the medium. —  The Nation: Top Stories
 

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  1. Middle English sociale, domestic, from Old French social, from Latin sociālis, of companionship, from socius, companion; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French social = Spanish Portuguese social = Italian sociale = German social, from Latin socialis, of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social, from socius, a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally, as an adjective partaking, sharing, associated, from sequi, follow: see sequent.
 

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/ˈsoʊʃəl/
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