Defining Social Aspect

Social Aspect
-Social interaction
-Social institutions
-Dutch omgang. Stafleu translates this as 'keeping company', companionship or even just 'meeting people'.
-The human being among others, adapting oneself to those others.
-Classes (of people, as in Marxist ideology)
-Gatherings, packs, as in wolves
-Some central themes

In interpersonal relations:
-Friendship
-Politeness, rudeness, manners
-Respect, mutual respect
-Friends v. strangers
-Agreement, consensus, disagreement, etc.
-Standards (which are agreements about how things should be)
-Respect and associates it with being civilised, with politeness, 'cosiness', conviviality.

In groupings and associations:
-Community
-Clubs, societies, guilds, etc.
-Both voluntary and involuntary association
-Social role, status
-Leadership

In some circles, 'social' is taken to mean 'soft', 'normative', and is opposed to 'hard', 'determinative'. e.g. 'Socio-technical' (Mumford, 1979) means an approach that tries to go beyond a technology-centred view while recognising technological realities. In these circles 'social' has a wider meaning than Dooyeweerd gives it, and includes such things as aesthetic, ethical, lingual. However those circles are starting to differentiate e.g. ethical from other 'social' things; Dooyeweerd's ontology could help them - if only they allowed an ontological approach!
All aspects later than the social (the economic, aesthetic, juridical, ethical and pistic) involve the social. This might mean three things:
-not only that they all normally involve social functioning with a person or people other than the actor,
-not only that the repercussions of our functioning in them impact those other people,
-but also that our functioning in them gives a longer-term impact on society as a whole. For example, one selfish act, especially by a role model, can set an example that other follow and so a selfish tone permeates throughout society.
This, however, is a hypothesis that requires discussion and refinement. If this is so, then it means that repercussions in post-social aspects are likely to be not mainly on the perpertrator, but mainly spread throughout the social group. We can see this in vandalism (which is currently on the up in the UK). Vandalism occurs for various reasons, but one is lack of vision among young people, who hang about, get bored, and start 'enjoying' minor acts of deconstruction, and then major acts of destruction. Lack of vision is a pistic functioning. It can be one person, such as a parent or church or youth worker who can give them vision, and then those who would suffer from the vandalism would not longer do so. This means that the sciences of post-social aspects should seek to find, not direct person to person impacts but social spreading impacts. Also, it implies that the indiviudalistic notion of legal culpability is misconceived (even though it is assumed without question).

::Analogies::
'Companion' is often used metaphorically when we want to speak of some relationship between entities of more-or-less equal status. e.g. 'companion volume'.
etc.

::Antinomies::
'Social construction of reality'. This phrase emphasizes that our corporate view of reality has been worked out not just by reason, nor just by individuals, but by corporate activity among us. However, it tends to go further, and in the extreme to propose that there is no 'real reality' but that all is merely an outcome of the social processes. This leads to various antinomies.