social relation
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relationship between two people or groups in which their thinking, acting or feeling is mutually related
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- social phenomenon
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- has characteristic
- social connectedness
- topic's main category
- Category:Social relation
- Commons category
- Social interaction
- different from
- social interaction
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Encyclopedic overview
A social relation is the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences, and describes any voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between more than 2 conspecifics within and/or between groups. The group can be a language or kinship group, a social institution or organization, an economic class, a nation, or gender. Social relations are derived from human behavioral ecology, and, as an aggregate, form a coherent social structure whose constituent parts are best understood relative to each other and to the social ecosystem as a whole.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “social relation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.