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Social system
About: Social system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 92395 citations.
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TL;DR: A theoretical framework is developed based on three perspectives including endogenous affect hypothesis, affect transfer hypothesis, and affective intelligence theory based on large-scale longitudinal data with 265 million tweets on five social issues using a time series analytical approach.
Abstract: This study aims to elucidate the intricate interplay between public attention and public emotion toward multiple social issues. A theoretical framework is developed based on three perspectives including endogenous affect hypothesis, affect transfer hypothesis, and affective intelligence theory. Large-scale longitudinal data with 265 million tweets on five social issues are analyzed using a time series analytical approach. Public attention on social issues can influence public emotion on the issue per se. Social issues interact with one another to attract public attention in both cooperative and competitive ways. Instead of a direct transfer from public emotion to public attention, the public emotion toward a social issue moderates the interaction between the issue and other issue(s).
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the social system impacts agents via six distinct though interacting channels: constraining and enabling by purely material forces, constraining/enabling by the interplay of material and ideational forces, learning, artificial selection, constituting/constructing, and anti-socialization.
Abstract: How the social system impacts agents is a central problematique in sociology. I argue that the social system impacts agents via six distinct though interacting channels: constraining and enabling by purely material forces, constraining/enabling by the interplay of material and ideational forces, learning, artificial selection, constituting/constructing, and “anti-socialization”. Explicitly identifying the six channels and underscoring their interactions adds clarity and coherence to our understanding about how the social system shapes agents. The discussion sheds new lights on old and new debates, from the poverty of structural functionalism and the rational choice approach to the promises of figurational/relational sociology. The framework also points to directions for future theoretical and empirical endeavors, from how to link the “macro” with the “micro” and the “(external) society” with the “(internal) individual” to how to synthesize the two theories of identity and how to appreciate the impact upon agents of mega-trends in the social system.
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29 Sep 2016
TL;DR: It is the essence of the network of the Organization as a kind of complex social systems and interaction, in konteskti which develops the network organization.
Abstract: Is represented by the paradigms of conceptualisation of information-communicative society as a kind of complex social systems and interactions. Shows the condition of information-communicative society as a complex social system; It is characteristic of information-communicative society as an example of the analysis of the complex social system which researched T. Parsons; found the criteria for society as a whole system and its characteristics; It is the essence of the network of the Organization as a kind of complex social systems and interaction; revealed the criteria that contribute to the intensification of information production, in konteskti which develops the network organization
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TL;DR: In this article, the evolutionary survival test is replaced with a survival test based on the "survival" test, which Tumin has earlier doubted but not destroyed, and the denial of rationalism in a social decision-making is untenable, since it conspicuously exists as a norm in all contemporary societies.
Abstract: any social system will be able to overlook the consequences of the accident of birth in either the biological or sociological sense, since differential placement will likely take such consequences into account, there surely remains some interstitial area of human effort, or purpose, or conscientiousness that cannot be readily reduced to the influence of human heredity or the social environment. Though it is clearly the business of the sociologist to seek out the social sources and correlates of patterned human behavior, I do not think the evidence warrants the comfortable and individual guilt-absolving or excellence-degrading view that society is all and the complexities of individual motivation a purely dependent variable. Perhaps this difference of view only confirms the notion that assumptions regarding human nature underlie most if not all structural propositions of substantial generality. Tumin and I have both been guilty, in these short statements, of anthropomorphizing "society." Such ellipsis is normally harmless, but I do want to dissent on one point. When Tumin stipulates as a condition for the "functional theory" of social inequality that the society be "rational," I suggest two modifications. The first is the evolutionary, "survival" test which Tumin has earlier doubted but not destroyed. The second point is that the denial of rationalism in a social decision-making is untenable, since it conspicuously exists as a norm in all contemporary societies, and, now and then, as a practice. The protagonists in the current renewal of an enduring controversy are scarcely the designated spokesmen for recognizable clienteles. And lest it be thought that the issues relevant to stratification are all resolved or clarified, it should be noted that the whole concept of "class" as an explanatory variable has been barely touched in this exchange. Tumin in his suggested desiderata for the next steps in analysis of social inequality happily does not use the term "class"-which unfortunately our neighboring social scientists think is one of our most useful analytic tools-and his way of putting the questions does not presuppose that conceptual category. Can we get anyone to join the joyful march to sensible investigation ?
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