Subclass of:

• crm:E89 Propositional Object

Scope note:

This class models time-related phenomena like an election or a marriage that happen in collective intentionality and effect changes in the social connotation of actors or things. These phenomena are only perceived in specific social contexts, i.e. persons sharing the same point of view or conceptualization. Intentional situations only exist if they sdh:P33 satisfy specific social representations, i.e. the conditions that make them 'happen' in the minds of the members of a given society.

Therefore, intentional situations do not happen in the physical but in the social space, they are social events. They result from interpretation by a social collective, or by individuals belonging to a social collective, of one or more facts of spatio-temporal nature, and therefore with a geographical projection. They produce changes in the social space, i.e. in the representations of humans. Social events, conceived as intentional situations, are carved out in a set of spatio-temporal events according to a given description, i.e. a corresponding social representation, and therefore limited to a given moment in time. The physical events provide the setting for the social event. E.g. the wedding celebration (the event) is the setting of the marriage (the social event) conceived as the transition from being (considered by a community as) single to being (considered as) married.

Examples:

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947, i.e. the social fact they got married, and the involved legal change in their status, not the spatio-temporal event (crm:E5 Event or sdhss:C33 Unitary Event class) of their wedding ceremony.

In First Order Logic:

• C2(x) ⊃ E89(x)

Outgoing properties:

• sdh:P33 satisfies (is satisfied by) → sdh:C26 Representations
• sdh:P41 has intentional situation type (is type of) → sdh:C31 Intentional Situation Type