social contract

English

WOTD – 18 August 2012

Pronunciation

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Noun

social contract (plural social contracts)

1. (philosophy, politics) An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society governing such matters as submission of individuals to rule of law and acceptable conduct.
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

Translations

agreement or contract

• Armenian: հասարակական պայմանագիր (hy) (hasarakakan paymanagir)
• Catalan: contracte social m
• Finnish: yhteiskuntasopimus (fi)
• French: contrat social (fr) m
• German: Gesellschaftsvertrag (de) m
• Italian: contratto sociale m
• Japanese: 社会契約 (shakai keiyaku)
• Latin: pactum socialis n, contractus socialis m
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• Polish: umowa społeczna f
• Portuguese: contrato social
• Romanian: contract social m
• Russian: обще́ственный догово́р (obščéstvennyj dogovór)
• Spanish: contrato social m
• Turkish: toplumsal sözleşme
• Ukrainian: суспільний договір (suspilʹnyj dohovir), соціальний договір (socialʹnyj dohovir)

See also

• social contract on Wikipedia.Wikipedia