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 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 Sociology
The specific analysis of group dynamics within the community of people who study group dynamics. It's the study of cliques among sociologists, the unspoken hierarchy between quantitative and qualitative researchers, and the peculiar tribal behavior exhibited at academic conferences when the free coffee runs out. Metasocial sociology notes that the very people who study in-group/out-group dynamics are themselves part of the most exclusionary in-group of all: people with PhDs who study in-group/out-group dynamics.
Metasocial Sociology Example: "At the sociology department holiday party, a metasocial sociologist couldn't help but observe the seating arrangements. The symbolic interactionists were huddled together near the snacks, the Marxists were arguing in a corner about who should pay for the snacks, and the functionalists were explaining why the snacks' placement was essential for the party's overall stability."
Metasocial Sociology by Abzugal February 14, 2026