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Social relation

Overview

voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between individuals within or between groups; fundamental unit of social science analysis that aggregates into social structures reflecting kinship, class, institution, or gender

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Social relation

• Pierre Bourdieu
• Simone Weil
• Ferdinand Tönnies
• Antonio Gramsci
• Confucius
• Robert Paul Wolff
• Arnold Berleant

Related ideas

• Social action
• Sociology
• Max Weber
• Social science
• Action (philosophy)
• Social research
• Behavior
• Social organization
• Anthropology
• Social philosophy
• Social structure
• Holism in science

Place in the tradition

Part of Evolutionary ethics.

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