Definition of SOCIAL CONTRACT

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Is this a case of a woman being held responsible for the social contracts of a couple? — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, "Carolyn Hax: My wealthy stepmother treats me like a doormat," 27 June 2019 Breaking free of our digital landlords The self-sovereign identity is one the pillars of a new social contract for the digital economy. — Don Tapscott, Quartz, "We’re living in an era of digital feudalism. Here’s how to take your data and identity back," 11 Sep. 2019 All that oversharing and debate was made possible by another element of Google's social contract. — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, "Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech," 13 Aug. 2019 The title calls out to theorist, artist, and rapper Rammellzee’s position that the alphabet is a bet — a social contract that can be rewritten. — BostonGlobe.com, "“A book is a sequence of spaces.," 12 Sep. 2019 Its Instagram and WhatsApp subsidiaries are healthy and growing, but legacy Facebook is showing signs of strain under both its heavy ad load and its implicit social contract to ensure fair and equitable discourse. — Adam Seessel, Fortune, "Valuation: Could WeChat Sink Tencent’s Stock?," 25 July 2019 Congress was considering major upgrades to the New Deal social contract that brought a fair amount of prosperity to the working class in exchange for longstanding labor peace. — Sarah Jaffe, The New Republic, "The Road Not Taken," 24 June 2019 Fresh thinking within the Democratic Party should and will include an overdue debate about the balance of obligations in the social contract. — Mark Schmitt, Vox, "Why did Bernie Sanders’s Stop BEZOS legislation draw so much resistance?," 18 Sep. 2018 And how would a democracy ask its members to commit to a social contract for citizenship without making a military career one option of public service? — Jeff Rice, Twin Cities, "Jeff Rice: I damaged the ROTC offices at Northwestern University. Here’s how — and why — I atone," 24 June 2019

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