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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: The authors examine the discourses underlying this view and find that education within capitalism too often reproduces social and economic inequalities, and that schools are depicted as failing and teachers are blamed, and conclude that "teachers are often blamed".
Abstract: Education within capitalism too often reproduces social and economic inequalities. Schools are depicted as failing and teachers are blamed. In this paper, I examine the discourses underlying this s...
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TL;DR: In this article, the cross-fertilization potential between stakeholder theory and Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory is explored, and the authors explore the cross fertilisation potential between Stakeholder Theory and Social Systems Theory.
Abstract: We explore the cross-fertilization potential between stakeholder theory and Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. Social systems, such as corporations or nonprofits, are defined by complexity red...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems, and pointed out that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process which fails to deliver transformative forms of community resilience.
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TL;DR: It is argued that the non-breeding period is key to understand raven social life and, to a larger extent, avian social life in general and the combination of the large-scale perspective and the individual- scale perspective allows to better capture the complete set of social challenges experienced by individuals throughout their life, ultimately resulting on a more comprehensive understanding of species’ social complexity.
Abstract: In the last decades, the assumption that complex social life is cognitively challenging, and thus can drive mental evolution, has received much support from empirical studies in nonhuman primates. While extending the scope to other mammals and birds, different views have been adopted on what constitutes social complexity and which specific cognitive skills are selected for. Notably, many avian species form “open” groups as non-breeders (i.e., seasonally and before sexual maturity) that have been largely ignored as potential sources of social complexity. Reviewing 30 years of research on ravens, we illustrate the socio-ecological conditions faced by these birds as non-breeders and discuss how these relate to their socio-cognitive skills. We argue that the non-breeding period is key to understand raven social life and, to a larger extent, avian social life in general. We furthermore emphasize how the combination of the large-scale perspective (defining social system components: e.g., social organization, mating system) and the individual-scale perspective on social systems allows to better capture the complete set of social challenges experienced by individuals throughout their life, ultimately resulting on a more comprehensive understanding of species’ social complexity.
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