presocial
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˌpriːˈsoʊʃəl/
- Specialized
- According to Rousseau, Hobbes was right in seeking to discover the roots of justice in man's natural presocial condition, but he did not go far enough back.
Examples
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The presocial stages of animal development reveal how species interact before forming complex social structures.
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The presocial individual in all his splendid isolation was not so much a "noble savage" as neither outstandingly good nor bad.
Academic text (2000) -
In the presocial natural state, he thought, we would not need to conceal anything from one another, having nothing to desire, nothing to hide.
Academic text (1998) -
Like the talismanic word, it does not belong to the referential system of the living, but to something presocial.
Academic text (1996) -
To answer that question, we need to reflect further on the work that the notion of the child in a presocial state of equality and freedom does for us theoretically: how and why do we need it and deploy it?
Academic text (2004) -
More vexing for gender research in general, I would argue, is how to address the continued prevalence of precultural and presocial physiological and psychological understandings.
Academic text (2005) -
In a similar fashion, "reading to" is prioritized over "internalizing," and any deferred imitation, based on child culture's individualistic and presocial condition, is largely subsumed.
Academic text (2001) -
Whereas the infant simply coexists with her mother in an unreal, presocial relation, the father is usually perceived as a separate being from the beginning (Chodorow 79-80).
Fiction book (1996) -
Just as the mouth provides a location for judgment in motion, an encounter with a picture book happens between child, book, and adult, between the cultures of adulthood and childhood, between the socially defined and the presocial, and between fully lateralized and partially lateralized brains.
Academic text (2001) -
It forms the basis of an equally presocial individualism that members of child culture exhibit, but is likewise affected by the ongoing socializing responses of the model makers (i.e., adults).
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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7.3
Not living in groups or colonies
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word presocial is made of pre- ('before') and social ('living together'). So, presocial describes animals or life stages that come 'before' social living and therefore do not form organized groups.