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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Joseph Tainter (section Social complexity)
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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Corvidae (section Social complexity)
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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Sociology (redirect from Sociology versus social theory)
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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Deviance (sociology) (redirect from Social implosion)
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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Societal collapse (redirect from Social disintegration)
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 (redirect from Social gerontology)
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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Complex adaptive system (redirect from Complexity Science)
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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A New Philosophy of Society (redirect from A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (philosophy))
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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Agency (sociology) (redirect from Social actor)
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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