Main article: Primary socialisationPrimary socialization for a child is very important because it sets the ground work for all future socialization. Primary Socialization occurs when a child learns th ...
Richard Moreland and John Levine (1982) created a model of group socialization based upon the assumption that individuals and groups change their evaluations and commitments to each other over time. S ...
Socialization is the process by which human infants begin to acquire the skills necessary to perform as a functioning member of their society, and is the most influential learning process one can expe ...
Socialization (also spelled socialisation) is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists and educationalists to refer to the lifelong process of inheritin ...
While the structure/agency debate has been a central issue in social theory, and recent theoretical reconciliation attempts have been made, structure/agency theory has tended to develop more in Europe ...
The critical realist structure/agency perspective embodied in the Transformational Model of Social Action (TMSA) has been further advocated and applied in other social science fields by additional aut ...
Georg SimmelGeorg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918, Berlin, Germany) was one of the first generation of German nonpositivist sociologists. His studies pioneered the concepts of social struc ...
The debate over the primacy of structure or agency relates to an issue at the heart of both classical and contemporary sociological theory: the question of social ontology: "What is the social world m ...
In the social sciences there is a standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behavior. Structure is the recurrent patterned arrangements which influence or limit the choi ...
Definitions of community as "organisms inhabiting a common environment and interacting with one another," while scientifically accurate, do not convey the richness, diversity and complexity of human c ...
A number of ways to categorize types of community have been proposed; one such breakdown is:Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or ...
Main article: Community developmentCommunity development, often linked with community work or community planning, is often formally conducted by non-government organisations (NGOs), universities or go ...
SocializationMain article: SocializationLewes Bonfire Night procession commemorating 17 Protestant martyrs burnt at the stake from 1555 to 1557The process of learning to adopt the behavior patterns of ...
Main article: Gemeinschaft and GesellschaftGerman sociologist Ferdinand T?nnies distinguished between two types of human association: Gemeinschaft (usually translated as "community") and Gesellschaft ...
The term community has two distinct meanings: 1) Community can refer to a usually small, social unit of any size that shares common values. The term can also refer to the national community or interna ...
