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 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 Social Sciences
The recursive discipline of applying social scientific methods to the community of social scientists themselves. It's the study of the academic tribes, their rituals (conferences), their status symbols (citations, tenure), and their origin myths (the "founding fathers"). It examines why certain theories become fashionable and others are forgotten, why some departments are feuding and others are allied, and why the phrase "paradigm shift" is used so often it has lost all meaning. It's sociology for sociologists, and it requires a high tolerance for inside jokes.
Example: "A metasocial social sciences study observed that papers with longer titles and more complex jargon were cited more frequently, regardless of their actual content. This confirmed what every grad student suspected: in academia, sounding smart is often more important than being smart."
Metasocial Social Sciences 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