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Social contract is a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people form states and/or maintain social order.

Social Contract may also refer to:

Policies

• Social Contract (Britain), a policy of the British Labour party in the 1970s
• Social contract (Malaysia), an agreement concerning citizenship rights
• Social Contract (Ontario), a 1993 wage restraint initiative in Ontario

Books

• The Social Contract, a book Jean-Jacques Rousseau published in 1762
• The Social Contract (1970 book), a paleoanthropology book by Robert Ardrey
• A New Social Contract, a 2021 manifesto by Dutch politician Pieter Omtzigt

Other

• "The Social Contract" (House), an episode of House
• The Social Contract Press, a printing company
• Debian Social Contract, which frames the moral agenda of the Debian project
• New Social Contract, a Dutch political party

See also

• Contractualism, ethical theories based on social contract theory

• Disambiguation pages