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‖ socius|ˈsəʊʃɪəs| [L.] 1. An associate or colleague.
1701in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. VII. 106 We were invited to Mr. Ingram's Defension of his Philosophie, & were presented with his & his Socius' Thesis. 1877J. Morris Troubles Cath. Forefathers 3rd Ser. 116 During this time he was Socius to Father Henry Garnet, Vice-Prefect of the English Mission. 2. A comrade, companion.
1859Sala Gaslight & D. xxv. 294 General friend, socius, and adviser of the artists. 3. Philos. Applied to God, as the ‘Great Companion’ of man.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 316 The impulse to pray is a necessary consequence of the fact that whilst the innermost of the empirical selves of a man is a self of the social sort, it yet can find its only adequate socius in an ideal world. 1917A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God xv. 297 The idea of a divine socius has been one of the most abiding inspirations of religious experience. 4. The individual person, considered as the unit of human society; the social self.
1895J. M. Baldwin Mental Devel. Child & Race xi. 338 Both ego and alter are thus essentially social; each is a socius, and each is an imitative creation. 1898F. H. Giddings Elements of Sociol. 10 What, now, is the unit of investigation in Sociology?... In its simplest form society exists whenever an individual has a companion or associate. The socius, then, is the unit of any social group or society. 1912C. A. Ellwood Sociol. in Psychol. Aspects ii. 21 The socius, or associated individual,..the unit out of which all the simpler social groups are composed. 1963S. Koch Psychol. VI. p.v, (title) Investigations of man as socius: their place in psychology and the social sciences. |