title: Social Contract (disambiguation)
text: Social contract is a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people form states and/or maintain social order.
  
  Social Contract may also refer to:
  
  Policies
   Social Contract (Britain), a policy of the British Labour party in the 1970s
   Social contract (Malaysia), an agreement concerning citizenship rights
   Social Contract (Ontario), a 1993 wage restraint initiative in Ontario
  
  Books
   The Social Contract, a book Jean-Jacques Rousseau published in 1762
   The Social Contract (1970 book), a paleoanthropology book by Robert Ardrey
   A New Social Contract, a 2021 manifesto by Dutch politician Pieter Omtzigt
  
  Other
   "The Social Contract" (House), an episode of House
   The Social Contract Press, a printing company
   Debian Social Contract, which frames the moral agenda of the Debian project
   New Social Contract, a Dutch political party
  
  See also
   Contractualism, ethical theories based on social contract theory