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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 idea of social evolution is one of the master ideas of modem social science as discussed by the authors and it has served as benchmarks for measuring the progress of Western science for two hundred years the various phases of its development have been charted by the twists and turns that have marked the history of social evolutionary theory.
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TL;DR: This paper put forward Archer's theory of cultural morphogenesis as an analogous model of social ecological change that focuses attention on cultural systems, cultural elaboration, and collective action within an adaptive cycle of resilience.
Abstract: Impacts from post-Fordist and poststaples economic transition in the Canadian natural resource sector have resulted in dramatic challenges to the livelihoods of many rural residents and the viability of many rural communities. This study seeks to understand community response to economic transition through a lens of social ecological resilience. This article puts forward Archer's theory of cultural morphogenesis as an analogous model of social ecological change that focuses attention on cultural systems, cultural elaboration, and collective action within an adaptive cycle of resilience. With case material from focused ethnographies of two forest-dependent communities, we identify distinctive interactions between culture and agency over time that condition community response to change, and we make an analytical distinction between the social system and cultural system. These insights point to catalysts for collective action and adaptation within a resilient cultural realm that extend beyond institutional factors such as economic dependency or political opportunity. By integrating culture, we also deepen the social theory contribution to social-ecological resilience.
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01 Dec 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a history of what the social landscape and the organizational scenery of the world and everyday life in the context of social systems, structures, and landscapes.
Abstract: Part 1 Social systems, structures, landscapes: the world and everyday life the world of the new theoretical movement system and lifeworld system, structure and structuration a new grand theory? the history of what the social landscape. Part 2 The organizational scenery: paradigms lost what is organized? and what is not organized? how is it organized? types of organizations individuals, organizations and social landscapes the organizational scenery and the social world. Part 3 The individual domain: organizations in everyday life movements among multiple realities the seriality of everyday life getting off the track. Part 4 Between organizations: individuals and organizations in the environment the terrain interaction within and across organizational sectors the nation-state as an organization of compromises the organizational limits of the welfare state the movements and adaptions of capitalist enterprises the linking of affiliations in everyday life. Part 5 A summary - organized actors, unorganized organizations: individuals and organizations unorganized organizations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify adaptation and replacement as two major mechanisms of inequality legitimization and examine their influence in the unique setting of a natural experiment, the reunification of socialist East Germany and capitalist West Germany.
Abstract: To explain the legitimation of inequality among the members of a social system, we blend system justification theory and the theory of social judgment. We identify adaptation and replacement as two major mechanisms of inequality legitimation and examine their influence in the unique setting of a natural experiment, the reunification of socialist East Germany and capitalist West Germany. We show that the new members of a society in which inequality is broadly endorsed and perceived as enduring will adapt to this perception and come to view inequality as acceptable. This process of adaptation reflects the subtle but powerful influence of collective legitimacy on an individual's tacit approval of inequality. Inequality also becomes legitimate as older cohorts are replaced by younger cohorts; however, this effect is weaker than the effect of adaptation. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating that developing and testing a theory of how inequality becomes legitimized can provide new insights into the ideational antecedents of inequality.
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TL;DR: In this article, the diffusion of stereotypes or racial prejudice in a social system based on assumptions about how people process outgroup information and the likelihood of intergroup interaction is modeled, and a structural theory of action that explains how neural and social networks change reciprocally.
Abstract: dynamic networks in conjunction with other forms of non-relational data. From this per spective, psychologists and sociologists both can model, for example, the diffusion of stereotypes or racial prejudice in a social system based on assumptions about how people process outgroup information and the likelihood of intergroup interaction. Together, these independent streams of research can jointly develop a structural the ory of action that explains how neural and social networks change reciprocally. It is here that the future (understanding) of inequality lies. R6F6R6NC6S
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