People giving the offender dirty looks or talking about the person. People refusing to play with the person. Informal agreements and jealousies among the hunters, for example. Students could also analyze some of the social organizations they listed and examined in the previous lesson. After students have spent some time thinking about and analyzing a variety of social contracts, ask them to make a generalization about the role of social contract and draw some inferences from their generalizations.
All groups make up some kind of social contract.
People do this because they need some kind of basic order in their lives. Social contracts are often assumed by the members of a group and little time is spent in discussing them. We often agree to social contracts without thinking about them very much. People become very uncomfortable when some important part of the social contract is violated. People feel more comfortable when they believe they know what they can expect in a social situation.