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It’s manners and politeness, essentially. ‘Etiquette’ is just a fancy term for ‘rules of behaviour in a polite society’, so social etiquette is the rules of behaviour for social interaction. It can be anything from which knife and fork to use at a restaurant to how to greet an archbishop to generally not talking about politics or religion with people you don’t know well.
