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    sociology, social complexity is a conceptual framework used in the analysis of society. In the sciences, contemporary definitions of complexity are found...
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  • Complexity characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity...
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  • institutions and that societies collapse when their investments in social complexity and their energy subsidies reach a point of diminishing marginal returns...
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  • The concept of Social Identity Complexity (Roccas and Brewer, 2002) is a theoretical construct that refers to an individual's subjective representation...
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  • Archaeological research has suggested two distinct trajectories to social complexity in the northern Horn of Africa. An early culture in the Eritrean-Sudanese...
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    demonstrated that social contexts had a significant impact on the development of the raven's and crow's personalities. The social complexity hypothesis suggests...
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    The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in...
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    of social network analysis and network science. In relevant literature, computational sociology is often related to the study of social complexity. Social...
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    degree of social inequality determines a person's social stratum. Generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social stratification...
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    Age". Social Movement Studies. 15 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1080/14742837.2015.1055722. S2CID 141985609. Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh. Complexity and Social Movements:...
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    analogy and notions of social evolutionism, in that the basic form of society would increase in complexity and those forms of social organization that promoted...
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  • Wicked problem (redirect from Social mess)
    resistance to resolution. Another definition is "a problem whose social complexity means that it has no determinable stopping point". Because of complex...
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    or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways...
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  • thus improving their social interactions and decision-making capabilities. negative relationship between cognitive complexity and assimilative projection:...
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    focusing on complexity and social dynamics. Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan—Center with research focusing on complexity and social...
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  • theory or assemblage thinking, this philosophical approach frames social complexity through fluidity, exchangeability, and their connectivity. The central...
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    In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively...
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    human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of...
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    network mapping). Complex networks: Most larger social networks display features of social complexity, which involves substantial non-trivial features...
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    Gesellschaft Group dynamics Social complexity Social group Social network Boundless team. "Types of Social Groups." Social Groups and Organization [OER...
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    the area of human social evolution, particularly relating to the neurological aspects. Fuentes believes that increased social complexity was necessary for...
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    Gerontology (/ˌdʒɛrənˈtɒlədʒi/ JERR-ən-TOL-ə-jee) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The...
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  • or complexity science, is often used to describe the loosely organized academic field that has grown up around the study of such systems. Complexity science...
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  • and Social Complexity is a 2006 book by the philosopher Manuel DeLanda. The book is an attempt to loosely define a new ontology for use by social theorists...
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    Chechushkov, I.V.; Epimakhov, A.V. (2018). "Eurasian Steppe Chariots and Social Complexity During the Bronze Age". Journal of World Prehistory. 31 (4): 435–483...
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    In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential. Social structure consists of those...
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    In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions...
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    application of this approach is shown in the social-change theory SEED-SCALE which builds off of the complexity theory subfield of emergence. Daoist: The...
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    In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the...
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  • Manuel (2006). A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 120. ISBN 978-0826491695. Weizman...
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