Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication.
Milton.
4. (Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many
individual plants of the same species.
5. (Zoöl.) (a) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and
neuters, as do ants and most bees. (b) Forming compound groups or
colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social
ascidians.
Social science, the science of all that relates to the social
condition, the relations and institutions which are involved in man's
existence and his well-being as a member of an organized community;
sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health,
education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and
the like. -- Social whale (Zoöl.), the blackfish. -- The social evil,
prostitution.
Syn. -- Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly; familiar;
communicative; convival; festive.
So"cial*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. socialisme.] A theory or system of social
reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a
more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular
usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless,
revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-
Simonianism, forms of socialism.
[Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social
reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and
Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of
meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general
tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by
society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which
disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency
of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the
most advanced democracy.
Encyc. Brit.
We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a
history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social
existence for the mass of the workers.
F. Harrison.
So"cial*ist, n. [Cf. F. socialiste.] One who advocates or practices the
doctrines of socialism.
{ So"cial*ist, So`cial*is"tic, } a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of,
socialism.
So`ci*al"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. socialisté, L. socialitas.] The quality
of being social; socialness.
So"cial*ize (?), v. t. 1. To render social.