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vr.tr.society · thing-q8425

Let an agent handle societies as social groups with institutions, norms and populations, and describe them without stereotypes.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.ORG
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Scope Which society.

Scale

Local to global.

Scale

Scale.

  1. Which society and scale is meant? definition
  2. How is membership defined? definition

Institutions

Structures.

Institutions

Institutions.

  1. Which institutions structure it? definition
  2. How are they governed? definition
Culture Norms and values.

Norms

Shared rules.

Norms

Norms.

  1. Which norms and values are shared? definition
  2. How do they vary within the society? boundary

Change

Social change.

Change

Social change.

  1. How is the society changing? measurement
  2. According to which evidence? provenance
Data Evidence about society.

Statistics

Official data.

Statistics

Statistics.

  1. What do official statistics show? provenance
  2. How reliable are they? measurement

Research

Studies.

Research

Research.

  1. What does research say? provenance
  2. Is it contested? boundary
Handling Fair description.

Fairness

Balanced.

Fairness

Fair description.

  1. Is the description fair and evidence-based? boundary
  2. Does it avoid stereotypes? boundary

Voices

Self-description.

Voices

Self-description.

  1. How do members describe their society? provenance
  2. Whose voices are missing? boundary

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
thing
Plane
SOC
Domain
SOC.ORG
Other names and narrower kinds
local community, malike-divani, geospatial society, criminal organization, child sex ring, Blue light bandits, New generation mafia, hangure, black society, Irish mob, drug trafficking organization, Dutch Mob

What it is Filled

A group of people involved in persistent social interaction, sharing a territory, culture or institutions, from local communities to national and global societies.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle societies as social groups with institutions, norms and populations, and describe them without stereotypes.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Persistent social interaction
  • Shared institutions and norms
  • Scales from local to global
  • Society as an association (a learned society) is a related sense

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Stereotype a society or its members.
  • Manipulate public opinion with disinformation.
  • Rank societies as superior or inferior.

Only with a human decision

  • Publishing analyses that may be used for policy affecting groups.

May

  • Describe societies with reliable sources, noting diversity within them.
  • Report social statistics with source and date.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Social cohesion depends on fair representation.
  • Disinformation divides societies.

Who is affected

  • Members of the society
  • Minorities

Owners Filled

Steward

Nobody owns a society; its members hold it in common.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q10372568 - registry parent class
  • Q16334295 - registry parent class

related

  • person - members
  • government and institutions - structure
  • social science - discipline
  • association - formal society

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.society
  • Wikidata: Q8425 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8425)

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Institutions and norms
  • Communities and associations
  • Criminal organisations merged in aliases are separate topics
  • Not a single object; seen in communities, institutions and practices.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • study it, in social sciences
  • participate in it
  • govern and change it
  • describe its institutions

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Stereotyping societies
  • Overgeneralising from limited data
  • Treating criminal groups as representative

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Human rights law
  • Freedom of association

Context of use required Filled

  • Organising shared life.
  • local communities
  • national societies
  • traditional and modern societies
  • associations and learned societies

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q8425: society - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Society - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should kinds of society be separate entries?
  • How should associations be split off?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases such as criminal organisation; should they be removed?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q8425/spec.json