Metrosocial
Metrosocial by YLM47 September 2, 2023
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Metroracial
When a person has stopped using adverbs to describe people, such as white guy, Latino guy, black guy, etc. but refers to all people as I met this person. Not I met this black guy, girl, person.
Metroracial by Winterparkbob October 20, 2016
metrosocialist
Noun. A term created by a weblogger idiotvillager.com that means "a young, urbane person who advocates or practices forms of socialism in vanity". Derived from the word metrosexual.
metrosocialist by Nick April 13, 2004
Microsocial
A person who would likely be considered antisocial in a large social system, but is very social in a small group or social unit.
I thought Kyle was antisocial, but is he the life of the lunch table or what? I guess he is just microsocial.
Microsocial by Brent J. Grim March 31, 2021
Metasocial Sciences
The study of the study of society. It's the academic equivalent of holding a mirror up to a mirror and trying to analyze the reflection. Metasocial sciences don't examine social behavior directly; they examine the theories, methods, and biases of the people who examine social behavior. It's a field where you can get a PhD for writing a paper about why other academics wrote their papers the way they did, and the ultimate goal is to achieve a state of analytical navel-gazing so pure that you forget there are actual people involved.
Example: "Her thesis in metasocial sciences was a meta-analysis of the citation patterns in papers about citation patterns. It was considered a landmark study by the three people in the world who understood it, and utterly meaningless by everyone else."
Metasocial Sciences by Abzugal February 14, 2026
Metasocial Technologies
The tools and platforms designed to analyze, manipulate, or optimize not just social interaction, but the analysis of social interaction itself. This includes sentiment analysis algorithms that track how people feel about how other people feel, social media dashboards that measure the engagement of posts about engagement metrics, and focus groups convened to discuss the results of other focus groups. It's technology that has eaten its own tail and is now trying to figure out what the tail tastes like.
Metasocial Technologies Example: "The marketing team used metasocial technologies to analyze the online discourse about their previous ad campaign, which was itself an analysis of consumer trends. They concluded that the public's perception of their brand's perception-management strategy was 'confused.' They then held a meeting to discuss the implications of this finding."
Metasocial Technologies by Abzugal February 14, 2026
Metasocial Engineering
The practice of attempting to design and shape the underlying frameworks that govern social analysis and discourse. It's not about changing what people think; it's about changing how they think about thinking. This includes designing academic curricula to privilege certain critical theories, creating social media algorithms that reward specific types of meta-commentary, and structuring public debates to ensure that the conversation stays focused on the "real issues" (as defined by the engineer). It's a subtle, often invisible form of power, and its practitioners are usually found in university admin buildings and think tanks.
Example: "By carefully structuring the conference panels to feature only speakers who agreed on the proper methodology for studying online communities, the organizers engaged in a bit of metasocial engineering. They weren't controlling the conversation; they were controlling the definition of what counted as a valid conversation."
Metasocial Engineering by Abzugal February 14, 2026