Search results for: “social role”
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ROLES
ROLES Comprehensive patterns of behavior and attitudes, constituting a strategy for coping with a recurrent set of situations (Turner 1990). A social role is played by different individuals and supplies a major basis for identifying and placing persons in a group, organization, or society. Roles consist of rights, duties, and expected behavior and give stability…
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SOCIALIZATION
SOCIALIZATION The process by which values, norms, attitudes, and behavior, shared by the subjects who belong to a particular group, are transmitted to a new member. It is the process whereby people learn to conform to social norms, a process that makes possible an enduring society and the transmission of its culture and religion between…
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY A subdiscipline of both sociology and psychology, yet much of the two major disciplines is actually social psychology. If sociology deals with social categories or groups and if psychology deals with individuals, social psychology involves the intersection of the social and the individual where the individual is influenced by the social and, in…
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SOCIAL INTEGRATION
SOCIAL INTEGRATION Referring primarily to how the parts of a society operate as a whole, the notion of integration has a long sociological pedigree, but one fraught with imprecision. Social integration generally refers to the way shared cultural goods receive normative expression, and also to the functional interdependence of the parts of a social system…
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Social Networks
Privacy The buzzing field of social networks analysis attempts to quantify how people know one another. In a recent article, Lior Strahilevitz suggests that social networks analysis can help judges presiding over privacy lawsuits decide what information should be considered private. In the […]
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Social Networks
Privacy The buzzing field of social networks analysis attempts to quantify how people know one another. In a recent article, Lior Strahilevitz suggests that social networks analysis can help judges presiding over privacy lawsuits decide what information should be considered private. In the […]
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Social Contract
Political Theory: The Social Contract Introduction to Social Contract The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes also stressed governmental power. His major work, Leviathan (1651), argued that the sovereign's power should be unlimited, because the state originated in a so-called social contract, […]
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Social Contract
Political Theory: The Social Contract Introduction to Social Contract The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes also stressed governmental power. His major work, Leviathan (1651), argued that the sovereign's power should be unlimited, because the state originated in a so-called social contract, […]
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Youth Social Networking
Digital Youth Culture and Social Networking Overview of Digital Youth Culture and Social Networking in relation to cyber crime: [1]For millions of young people, cyber spaces are becoming more important than physical places that society has traditionally established to accommodate youth […]
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Gender Socialization
Gender Socialization (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Gender Socialization means: process – learning, accepting and behaving accordingly for a woman and a man, the process when from early childhood boys and girls are categorized by different gender roles, taught to accept and […]
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Gender Socialization
Gender Socialization (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Gender Socialization means: process – learning, accepting and behaving accordingly for a woman and a man, the process when from early childhood boys and girls are categorized by different gender roles, taught to accept and […]
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Social Welfare Law
Introduction This entry provides an overview of the legal framework of social welfare law, with a description of the most significant features of social welfare law at international level. Related Work and Conclusions Resources See Also References (Papers) Defend The Rights Of The Poor, […]