Dear All,
Here my attempt for the first kind of "state". Please comment!
SOxxx Formal Social Binding
Subclass of: E2 Temporal Entity
Scope note:This class comprises phenomena of formally defined and
socially respected bindings between different instances of E39 Actors or
between multiple actors and instances of E70 Thing. Instances of SOxxx
Formal Social Binding come into being and end with an explicit act of
declaration or indirectly through other publicly acknowledged events,
such as via heritage at birth or death. Depending on their type, they
are associated with characteristic rights and obligations, which are
subject to the formal legal system of the respecting society, regardless
whether this is based on written laws or oral tradition.
Formal Social Bindings are not observable as such, even though the
behavior of involved actors may suggest their existence, such as being
married. They are exclusively a consequence of the establishing event,
which should be kept as social memory in a persistent documented form or
as oral tradition, and the continued respect of this /kind /of binding
by a target community. For instance, a community may declare a certain
kind of marriage as invalid from some date on, and later redeclare it as
valid. Their existence does not depend on the existence of social
memory. Documents may be lost or involved actors may not have been aware
of the respective establishing events, but later evidence of the
establishing events may be found. In these cases, the society may not
act according to the respective rights and obligations as long as the
fact remains unknown, but is obliged to when the necessary evidence has
been provided. Involved actors may have difficulties proving the
existence of the binding to authorities when respective documents are
lost, but that does not affect their actual existence. However, certain
legal systems may require in certain kinds of cases the provision of
evidence itself as part of the establishing event.
In some contexts, Formal Social Bindings are also called /social
institutions/. Examples include memberships, employments, ownerships,
rights of use, marriage, parenthood and others. In documentation
practice, instances of Formal Social Bindings may by shortcut by simple
binary relations, such as “is married to”.
Properties:
SPxx1 binds (is bound by): E39 Actor
I believe we need a “social binding type” which “is respected by” a Group.
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