Social Contract (disambiguation)
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The term "social contract" may refer to:
- A concept used in philosophy, political science and sociology to denote an implicit agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens; see social contract (not to be mistaken with juridical contract theory)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" (1762)
- Robert Ardrey's "The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder" (1970)
- One of a number of specific government initiatives in various countries across the world, including:
- The Social Contract Press, an American printing company.
- Contractualism as an ethical theory