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| | Social structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Social structure deals rather with the very structure of their relations—how are they organized in a patterns of relationships. | | | Social structure does not concern itself with people - individuals forming the society or their social organisations, neither does it study who are the people/organisation forming it, or what is the ultimate goal of their relations. | | | Social structure (also referred to as a social system) is a system of social relations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure
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| | Social Structure |
| | Most etiological studies of the social structural theories of criminal behavior are unidirectional in structure. | | | Social structural theories involve factors that can affect the individual but are beyond the control of the individual to change. | | | Social structural theories do not simply try to locate individuals above or below one another in the social structure; they try to locate individuals in terms of their relationship to one another within the structure. |
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http://tkdtutor.com/06Theory/Psychology/SocialStructural.htm
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| | Róbinson Rojas.- SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CHANGE: RRojas Databank: Analysis and Information on economics, development, ... |
| | The notion of social structure implies, in other words, that human beings are not completely free and autonomous in choosing their activities, but rather they are constrained by the social world they live in and the social relations they form with one another. | | | Both aspects of the social structure, the normative and the distributive aspect, are strongly interconnected, as may be inferred from the observation that members of different classes often have different and even conflicting norms and values. | | | The concept of structure in the study called structuralism, as in structural functionalism and the class and power theories, is theoretical and explanatory. |
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http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/ebstruct.htm
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| | Social structure of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Furthermore, a person's social class may change throughout his or her life. | | | Social class, in the sense discussed in this article, essentially consists of three factors: wealth, power and prestige. | | | Moreover, it is not very easy to determine when cultural inflation is a real structural problem, and when it is merely psychological (in that people feel poorer on account of others' comparative material success). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United_States#The_Upper_Middle_Class
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| | Preliminary course outline - 11.531 Social Networks |
| | Social networks is the description of a diverse body of research and theory based upon the premise that relationships, in contrast to individual characteristics, are useful for understanding social structure and social behavior. | | | Network analysts study the structure of these relations, how the pattern of social interactions allocate resources, constrain behavior, and channel social change. | | | Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance. |
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http://web.mit.edu/knh/www/11531.html
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| | SOCIAL STRUCTURE, Russ Long's Lecture Notes |
| | Structural contradictions refer to those aspects of a social structure that are mutually incompatible with one another and therefore results in structural instability. | | | There are micro aspects of social structure such as statuses and roles. | | | Associated with each role (or social position) are many expectations concerning how a person should behave. |
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http://www.delmar.edu/socsci/rlong/intro/roles.htm
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| | Frankfurt School: Character and Social Process. Erich Fromm 1942 |
| | In this sense, we believe that individual psychology is fundamentally social psychology or, in Sullivan’s terms, the psychology of interpersonal relationships; the key problem of psychology is that of the particular kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world, not that of satisfaction or frustration of single instinctual desires. | | | The social character comprises only a selection of traits, the essential nucleus of the character structure of most members of a group which has developed as the result of the basic experiences and mode of life common to that group. | | | The emphasis of socialism on individual independence versus authority, on solidarity versus individualistic seclusion, was not what many of these workers really wanted on the basis of their personality structure. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1942/character.htm
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| | The Structure of Social Action |
| | With many other social thinkers he believed that man stood near the culminating point of a long linear process extending back unbroken, without essential changes of direction, to the dawn of primitive man. Spencer, moreover, believed that this culminating point was being approached in the industrial society of modern Western Europe. | | | In one of its main aspects the present study may be regarded as an attempt to verify empirically this view of the nature of science and its development in the social field. | | | The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/parsons.htm
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| | Discussion of Levi-Strauss's "Social Structure" |
| | With respect to social organization or social structure, we must always consider a structure moving through time, and our attention should be focused on a dynamic moving and changing equilibrium. | | | I think structure in anatomy is a very different thing from structure in social systems, because the structure gets back to different ways of defining structure. | | | But I do not think it is possible to understand social structure without taking into account the fact that there are structures which, instead of being related to another structure, opening new correlations, are really related to all the structures taken together and help to close the social structure. |
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http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/bib/info/tax00sol53appranth.html
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| | Researching Organizational Systems using Social Network Analysis |
| | Where the social structure reflected conflicted relationships and a strict, centralized hierarchy, CMC was appropriated in a way that reinforced the hierarchy. | | | Social content includes the culture, distribution of power, and the social norms, habits, practices, expectations and preferences held by an organization about its present and past interaction. | | | In the structuration sense, organizational systems both affect the social communication structures and are socially constrained by those structures. |
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http://web.cba.neu.edu/~mzack/articles/socnet/socnet.htm
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| | JoSS: Journal of Social Structure |
| | INSNA was founded on the premise that the behavior and lives of social entities are affected by their position in the overall social structure. | | | By examining the etiology and consequences of structural forms overall, of the location of entities within these structures, and of the formation and dynamics of ties that make up these structures, INSNA hopes to learn about the parts of behavior that are uniquely social. | | | "So you thought you knew who "invented" social network analysis -- Jacob Moreno, right? |
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http://www.cmu.edu/joss
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| | Social Interaction and Social Structure |
| | Structure arises out of the face-to-face interactions of people who are operating from both a shared sense of reality (culture and socialization) as well as a individual and group oriented biography which produces particular definitions and interpretations. | | | The outcome and functioning of institutional structures is not necessarily efficient nor desirable. | | | The way in which society is organized into predictable relationships, patterns of social interaction (the way in which people respond to each other). |
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http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/010/structur.html
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| | Social Structure: |
| | Conceptualization of the concept of social disorganization was imprecise. | | | Crime was caused by a breakdown in individuals socially and morally. | | | Analyzed the relationship between social ecology and delinquency. |
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http://www.csus.edu/soc/bwu/soc155/c6.htm
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| | Social Structure |
| | This may be one reason why serious social conflicts hardly ever occur in Switzerland, and their traditional means of expression (such as strikes) are rarely used. | | | Until the beginning of the twentieth century most Swiss considered social conditions in their country to be more or less unchangeable, and they either adapted to them or, if they considered them intolerable, emigrated. | | | This does not, however, mean that it does not have great social inequalities, although the level of prosperity as a whole is relatively high. |
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http://www.eda.admin.ch/hongkong_cg/e/home/chhk/social.html
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| | Extracts from Robert King Merton |
| | in functional theory is that of strain, tension, contradiction, or discrepancy between the elements of social and cultural structure. | | | This adaptation leads men outside the environing social structure to envisage and work to bring into being a new, that is to say, a greatly modified social structure. | | | The social structure we have examined produces a strain toward anomie and deviant behaviour. |
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http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/xmer.htm
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| | VOTF Social Structure |
| | Choices made about the social structure of the VOTF may be the key to its success. | | | A social network creates efficiency through norms of cooperation and trust, “do unto others as you would have them do onto you.” Sometimes these norms even extent to outsiders, “Love your enemies.” The capital analogy betokens that value is not absolute even when it has an objective basis. | | | Whatever may be the precise relationship of social and human capital in these patterns, we might well be ready for a revival of American community. |
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http://www.votfcleveland.org/sstructure.htm
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| | JoSS: Journal of Social Structure |
| | In fact, viewers may miss the underlying process while watching the animation, or in fact, viewers may be misled by their perceptions of the change process that they view. | | | One particularly relevant application of social network visualization is the use of social network visualizations to help manage organizations. | | | In this paper, we report of both viewers' accuracy in perceiving change in status from formal to informal relationships and viewers' interpretation of how social structure data informs their perceptions of managing of organizational change. |
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http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume5/McGrathBlythe
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| | Korean History:: A Bibliography :::::: [CHOSON - Social Structure] |
| | "Social Movements and Social Change at the End of the Yi Dynasty: A Sociological Approach." Social Science Journal 6 (1979): 90-106. | | | Kim, Yong-mo. "Social Backgrounds of Successful Candidates for the Kwago Examination during the Yi Dynasty." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 48 (December 1978): 47-102. | | | "An Interpretation of Social Stratification and Social Mobility in the Early Yi Dynasty." Social Science Journal 6 (1979): 126-147. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/choson-socialstructure.htm
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| | Social Networks and Social Networking |
| | This approach shows the persuasive power of mobilizing concepts such as social networks: as people see their social interactions illustrated in these feedback displays, their feelings of social isolation are subtly and gently refuted. | | | Yet, for decades researchers in the behavioral sciences have been systematically studying social networks of all kinds — "offline" interactions (face to face, letters, telephone, and so on) as well as online to determine how social networks are developed and maintained and how socialnetwork connections affect our lives. | | | Sociometric analysts in the US during the 1930s, whose work had roots in Gestalt psychology, aimed to investigate how feelings of well-being are related to the structure of people's social lives. |
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http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/0510&file=w5gei.xml&xsl=article.xsl
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| | Amazon.com: Structural Holes : The Social Structure of Competition: Books: Ronald Burt |
| | Social Capital : A Theory of Social Structure and Action (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) by Nan Lin | | | Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. | | | Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) by Wouter de Nooy |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674843711?v=glance
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| | Social Networking in Academia -- The Collaboration Network of Paul Erdos |
| | Software and Training in social network analysis are available from the author. | | | Some say that a dense, cohesive network brings more social capital, while others argue that a sparse, radial network, one that provides opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurial activity, equates to greater social capital. | | | Erdõs's partnerships exposed the social structure of scientific discovery. |
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http://www.orgnet.com/Erdos.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Social Structure:: Books |
| | The book provides essential reading for undergraduate courses in sociology, social anthropology, and the history and philosophy of social thought, as well as representing an invaluable reference for researchers interested in social structure and surrounding issues. | | | Look for books like Social Structure: by subject: | | | Social Structure is organized around a discussion of 'institutional structure', 'relational structure' and 'embodied structure'. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0335204953
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| | Social Structure |
| | Heavily influenced by techno-economic variables, especially issues involving the division of labor, social structure focuses on the rules and patterns that structure social relations, particularly kinship relations. | | | Seems like a complex class structure would be out. |
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http://academics.hamilton.edu/anthropology/draybeck/cultdyn/current/social
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| | Social structure - Tuvalu - Traditional Social Structure |
| | Half a millennium later, the Japanese social structure was remolded and fastened even tighter to the national (not that there was a nation) consciousness by Shogun... | | | Social structure - Tuvalu - Traditional Social Structure | | | Social Structure Most primates, including humans, spend their lives in large social groups. |
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http://www.moverhome.com/mh/social-structure.html
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| | Primate Behavior: Social Structure |
| | As mentioned earlier, the social ranking of juvenile rhesus macaques precisely corresponds to the ranking of their mothers. | | | This is the social pattern typical of chimpanzees. | | | The most common social group pattern among semi-terrestrial primates is the multimale-multifemale group. |
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http://anthro.palomar.edu/behavior/behave_2.htm
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| | Social Structure |
| | Lastly, the evolution of the family dispersed from economic development and instead become a more social issue. | | | The same person (usually the housewife) does a range of activities which, in the social spheres are carried out by specialists. | | | Though, even with the changing structure of the family the economic labour power has not significantly increased. |
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http://www.onlineessays.com/essays/issues/iss147.php
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| | The Qajar class structure |
| | The condition of princesses was no less precarious: "[T]hey have been forced by destitution to marry persons of very inferior condition; and one lady in particular had taken for her husband a man who had been a cobbler." | | | His residence consisted of several large units in which his seven sons and their families lived, and had an entourage of 100 persons. | | | The third group consisted of mostly pious mojtaheds and middle-rank clerics in the major cities, who were affiliated neither with the court nor with the landowning classes, and whose social and economic bases of support were the urban bazaars. |
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http://www.iranian.com/Dec96/Iranica/Qajar/Qajar.html
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| | NewsForge The social structure of open source development |
| | If there are more positions and roles, there has to be a decision structure defining how people get these positions. | | | There has to be a common interest, like social exchange, or in this case the activity of working. | | | It is a special kind of cooptation which may be found in small work groups or non-voluntary organizations or foundations. |
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http://programming.newsforge.com/programming/05/01/25/1859253.shtml?tid=25&tid=89&tid=91
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| | Research at HP Labs : Information Dynamics Lab : Papers : Valuating Privacy |
| | We present a dynamical theory of opinion formation that takes explicitly into account the structure of the social network in which individuals are embedded. | | | This coexistence of opinions within a social network is in agreement with the often observed locality effect, in which an opinion or a fad is localized to given groups without infecting the whole society. | | | The theory predicts the evolution of a set of opinions through the social network and establishes the existence of a martingale property, i.e. |
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/opinions
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| | Merton, Robert K.: On Social Structure and Science |
| | A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, self-fulfilling prophecies, focused group interviews, middle-range theory, opportunity structure, and analytic paradigms. | | | Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself are all powerfully represented, as are his autobiographical insights in a fascinating coda. | | | Merton, Robert K. On Social Structure and Science. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13087.ctl
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| | South Korea - Traditional Social Structure |
| | During the early Choson Dynasty, commoners did not have family names or class affiliations. | | | This form of social climbing was highly irritating to traditional yangban families of the types mentioned above. | | | Other late Choson Dynasty social changes included the gradual shift of agricultural labor from slave status to contractual arrangements, and the emergence of "entrepreneurial farmers"--commoners who earned small surpluses through innovative agricultural techniques. |
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http://countrystudies.us/south-korea/35.htm
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| | Tuvalu - Traditional Social Structure |
| | This practice finally destroyed much of the wealth of the culture and tradition that were once the social machinery of our ancestors' lives. | | | The following diagram shows the social and political structure of a traditional Tuvaluan society. | | | The Samoan pastors also introduced their own life style and even made codes of laws to replace the traditional ones of our society. |
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http://www.janeresture.com/tu8/social.htm
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| | Debian Social Contract |
| | The concept of stating our "social contract with the free software community" was suggested by Ean Schuessler. | | | Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the Debian Social Contract. | | | This document was drafted by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian developers during a month-long e-mail conference in June 1997, and then accepted as the publicly stated policy of the Debian Project. |
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http://www.debian.org/social_contract
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| | 3b. Egyptian Social Structure [Beyond Books - Ancient Civilizations] |
| | Egyptian Social Structure [Beyond Books - Ancient Civilizations] | | | At the bottom of the social structure were | | | During long periods of peace, soldiers also supervised the peasants, farmers, and slaves who were involved in building such structures as pyramids and palaces. |
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http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/3b.asp
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| | Everquest 2: Database OGaming - Database :: Quests :: Social Structure |
| | She asks you to help her determine the social structure of the Huuptics, who surround her on the beach. | | | You must slay one of each of the four types of Huuptics (Elder, Fetcher, Hunter and Idler) and then return to her. | | | Everquest 2: Database OGaming - Database :: Quests :: Social Structure |
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http://eq2.ogaming.com/db/quests/SocialStructure.php
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