Social Contract

A social contract is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits. For example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Social contract describes a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people maintain social order. The way social contract works is that a person gives up some of his rights in order to receive a level of social order through the law. Social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th century under the therios of THomas Hobbes and John Locke. In my life contracts such as the relationship between my parents and myself is a realistic idea. Also a bigger in one would be the relationship to my school, which is my higher authority, and myself would be a good example of how social contracts work out.