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# Social relations

*Updated 2021 10 11*

This is one of three core sections in this handbook, dealing with the **mobilising** of the commons that are provisioned by meet.coop: what meet.coop **is for**. The other two core sections are:

* [Political economy](/handbook-trial/2-political-economy/political-economy.md) - dealing with the **provisioning** of a stack of digitally-mediated commons, the composition of the commons, and the *contributions* involved across diverse kinds of members in the commons; and
* [Assemblies and deliberations](/handbook-trial/4-assemblies-and-deliberations/assemblies-and-deliberations.md) - dealing with the **stewarding** of the commons: privileges, obligations, sanctions, *protocols*, deliberations, assemblies.

This social relations section has three parts:

* [Intentions, principles](/handbook-trial/3-social-relations/intentions-principles.md) - Briefly summarises the approach to ‘principles’ in this handbook, underlying the Constitution in Section 6. Links also to a *Code of conduct*
* [Actions in three landscapes](/handbook-trial/3-social-relations/three-landscapes-of-practice.md) - Sketches the model of ‘practice’ that underlies the provisioning and mobilising of commons in meet.coop, and the centrality in this of social relations and **altered social relations**.
* [Dimensions of community](/handbook-trial/3-social-relations/dimensions-of-community-sectors-of-practice.md) - the largest part of this section, describes three sectors of activist practice in the membership of meet.coop, and our orientation to these.

This schema below shows the relationships between these areas, which together contain a set of patterns-of-practice (in the sense of Chris Alexander's 'pattern language' - `To be added xxx`) to be expressed as protocols of practice in meet.coop. `To be developed xxx`

![Relationships between families of patterns/protocols, in the Social relations dimension of meet.coop.](/files/2cI65a8nwdAgiit1ig67)


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