Talk:Social

message: IMHO this a
aron in its current form is too much like a dictionary entry, because it is about a word rather than about a thing.  See Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Chadloder 03:22, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: @Bhny 2601:153:4081:21E0:70E0:4CC1:C7B1:394 (talk) 23:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

message: Does anyone have sources for these additions? —C45207 | Talk 06:39, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  #2 looks like a good start. Do you know how to add this to the article?—C45207 | Talk 06:58, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of Social in Manitoba 

message: Is there an origin where the term 'social' comes from? Like whether its latin, greek, etc?
You may want to link to this article: Dolwick, JS. 2009. The 'Social' and Beyond: Introducing Actor-Network Theory at http://www.springerlink.com/content/0j537m2362328336/ The article examines several theories of the concept 'social' and discusses contemporary meanings. I used it for one of my classes and found it extremely helpful Ralph De (talk) 12:18, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin?

message: In my opinion mergeing "gregarious" into "social" is muddle headed.  I agree that the two concepts overlap considerably but their usage means that their focus is distinct, and from that destinction arises value.  By mergeing (a Wiki obsession it seems to me) this value is lost.  
In my case for instance, I was NOT looking for information about the adjective "Social".  I was researching the classification of species and in particular the use, definition, origin etc of the denotion "gregarious" in this regard. 
Suggesting that "Social" is some sort of overarching superordinate concept under which the concept "Gregarious" can be subsumed is like removing the denotion "Depression" and mergeing it into "Sadness".
Subsuming "Gregarious" into the relatively trivial/quotidial discourse of "Social" simply dumbs down and muddles the information relating to both.  In the end it manifests an ignorance that debases Wikipedia.
LookingGlass (talk) 07:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muddle headed 

message: This idea: "The adjective "social" is also used often in politics, although its meaning in a context depends heavily on who is using it. In left-wing circles it is often used to imply a liberal characteristic, while in right-wing circles it is generally used to imply a conservative characteristic. "
is right in getting at the sheer flexibility of the political use of the word social but it is missing something. In particular, it may have been written from an American point of view in how it uses the word "liberal". In many European and European-influenced Latin or other political systems, "liberal" is still taken to mean classical liberal or neoliberal, and social or social democratic ideas are explicitly contrasted with liberalism. For example, one finds constitutional documents that describe their countries as "democratic and social", by which is implied some kind of commitment to democratic, populist, participatory government and/or maximum franchise, and to stronger responsibility by the political system for social well-being and integration, than was the case in the liberal polities of the early 19c, which could have oligarchic, franchise limiting qualities and limited social spending. That is to say, a leftward tendency in politics explicitly used the word social to describe something more left-wing, more progressive from their point of view and as a contrast to the idea of "liberal".
I submit that to equate social with liberal from a left wing perspective is an insufficiently world wide view and insufficiently historical. One might also consider that even contemporary progressive writing in Europe and the US has at least a generation long tradition of wanting to move beyond the word liberal, so perhaps this historical experience is being replicated.
For consideration by anyone looking to tackle this article. Random noter (talk) 23:12, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Half of this entry does seem to be about specific political usage of the term, and as Random noter points out, also seems to be from a strongly American POV --Pbmax (talk) 13:55, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political use 

message: Poderias caso queira e possa traduzir esta página? att 2804:14C:5BB1:8FDA:25B6:BAA1:366A:639E (talk) 01:15, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
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