Social development theory attempts to explain qualitative changes in the structure and framework of society, that help the society to better realize aims...

Development theory is a collection of theories about how desirable change in society is best achieved. Such theories draw on a variety of social science...

Social development can refer to: Psychosocial development Social change Social development theory Social Development (journal) Social emotional development...

Social learning theory is a psychological theory of social behavior that explains how people acquire new behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions...

Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. A tool used by social scientists, social...

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economic development significantly predicts democratization. The modernization theory of the 1950s and 1960s drew on classical evolutionary theory and a...

govern individual moral conduct. Social cognitive theory adopts an interactionist perspective to the development of moral behavior. Personal factors...

Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development constitute an adaptation of a psychological theory originally conceived by the Swiss psychologist Jean...

Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society...

understanding through experiences and social interaction, integrating new information with their existing knowledge. This theory originates from Swiss developmental...

Social exchange theory is a sociological and psychological theory which studies how people interact by weighing the potential costs and benefits of their...

Social interactionist theory (SIT) is an explanation of language development emphasizing the role of social interaction between the developing child and...

in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s. Social network analysis...

Social cognitive theory (SCT), used in psychology, education, and communication, holds that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly...

The social penetration theory (SPT) proposes that interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more intimate...

In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory, or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority...

leading to a catastrophic collapse in prices. In social theory, reflexivity may occur when theories in a discipline should apply equally to the discipline...

Social comparison theory, initially proposed by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, centers on the belief that individuals drive to gain accurate...

Student development theory refers to a body of scholarship that seeks to understand and explain the developmental processes of how students learn, grow...

stages of social development. The most comprehensive attempt to develop a general theory of social evolution centering on the development of sociocultural...

Piaget's theory of cognitive development, or his genetic epistemology, is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence...

psychologists and psychoanalysts, attachment theory has become a dominant approach to understanding early social development and has generated extensive research...

population and minimize organic human activity. Proponents of the theory believe these social bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms...

formulated by social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and the 1980s, social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity...

inflexible system of social organization, the School's critical-theory research sought alternative paths to social development. What unites the disparate...

communication has been labeled as the "Fifth Theory of the Press", with "social transformation and development", and "the fulfillment of basic needs" as...

Critical theory is a social, historical, and political school of thought and philosophical perspective which centers on analyzing and challenging systemic...

of social change, there are overlaps with international development or community development. However, most of the founders of sociology had theories of...

psychosocial development. Erikson was originally influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages of development. He began by working with Freud's theories specifically...