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Inequality, Institutions and Organizations Open
The organizations and institutions with which we interact in our everyday lives are heavily implicated in the rising levels of global inequality. We develop understanding of the ways in which a preference in social structures for the free …
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Social complexity and kinship in animal societies Open
Studies of eusocial invertebrates regard complex societies as those where there is a clear division of labour and extensive cooperation between breeders and helpers. In contrast, studies of social mammals identify complex societies as thos…
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Charting the neglected West: The social system of Guinea baboons Open
Objectives Primate social systems are remarkably diverse, and thus play a central role in understanding social evolution, including the biological origin of human societies. Although baboons have been prominently featured in this context, …
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How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies Open
What drove the transition from small-scale human societies centred on kinship and personal exchange, to large-scale societies comprising cooperation and division of labour among untold numbers of unrelated individuals? We propose that the …
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Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization Open
Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in space more frequently as a result of routine activities…
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Genomic transformation and social organization during the Copper Age–Bronze Age transition in southern Iberia Open
Ancient human DNA from southern Iberia reveals social and genomic changes during the emergence of the Bronze Age in Europe.
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Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution Open
Compared to most other mammals and birds, anthropoid primates have unusually complex societies characterised by bonded social groups. Among primates, this effect is encapsulated in the social brain hypothesis: the robust correlation betwee…
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Individual foraging variation drives social organization in bottlenose dolphins Open
Identifying foraging variation within a population and assessing its relationship with social structure is essential to increase knowledge about the evolution of social systems. Here, we investigated individual foraging variation in bottle…
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Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries Open
We present a high-resolution cross-disciplinary analysis of kinship structure and social institutions in two Late Copper Age Bell Beaker culture cemeteries of South Germany containing 24 and 18 burials, of which 34 provided genetic informa…
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Social organization in ungulates: Revisiting Jarman’s hypotheses Open
Ungulates (antelopes, deer and relatives) have some of the most diverse social systems among mammals. To understand the evolution of ungulate social organization, Jarman (1974) proposed an ecological scenario of how distribution of resourc…
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Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model Open
Many researchers assume that until 10-12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile, relatively egalitarian bands composed mostly of kin. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” informs evolutionary explanations of behavior and our understandin…
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How social networks facilitate collective responses to organizational paradoxes Open
When organizations face paradoxical tensions, such as when they must simultaneously meet scientific and commercial objectives, individuals within the organization also experience tensions. How individuals’ responses to these tensions infor…
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Hierarchical social modularity in gorillas Open
Modern human societies show hierarchical social modularity (HSM) in which lower-order social units like nuclear families are nested inside increasingly larger units. It has been argued that this HSM evolved independently and after the chim…
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A framework for conceptualizing dimensions of social organization in mammals Open
Mammalian societies represent many different types of social systems. While some aspects of social systems have been extensively studied, there is little consensus on how to conceptualize social organization across species. Here, we presen…
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Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs Open
Responsible innovation combines philanthropic and economic aspects and it is common to refer to entrepreneurs who lead it as “social entrepreneurs”. The present study of 100 Mexican small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), provides knowl…
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Kinship influences sperm whale social organization within, but generally not among, social units Open
Sperm whales have a multi-level social structure based upon long-term, cooperative social units. What role kinship plays in structuring this society is poorly understood. We combined extensive association data (518 days, during 2005–2016) …
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The Mechanism of Social Organization Participation in Natural Hazards Emergency Relief: A Case Study Based on the Social Network Analysis Open
The uncertainty and complexity of natural hazards put forward new requirements for emergency management systems. In order to deal with natural hazards effectively, it is important to build a cooperative network between government organizat…
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A multi-level society comprised of one-male and multi-male core units in an African colobine (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) Open
Several mammalian species exhibit complex, nested social organizations, termed multi-level or modular societies. Multi-level societies comprise stable core units that fission and fuse with one another in a hierarchical manner, forming grou…
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How Emergent Social Patterns in Allogrooming Combat Parasitic Infections Open
Members of social groups risk infection through contact with those in their social network. Evidence that social organization may protect populations from pathogens in certain circumstances prompts the question as to how social organizatio…
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Disease implications of animal social network structure: a synthesis across social systems Open
Summary The disease costs of sociality have largely been understood through the link between group size and transmission. However, infectious disease spread is driven primarily by the social organization of interactions in a group and not …
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Disappearing organization? Reshaping the sociology of organizations Open
This monograph showcases some recent developments in the sociology of organizations, mapping out the most productive relationships between current social scientific work on organizations and core theoretical and empirical concerns in the d…
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The Street and Organization Studies Open
Work and organization increasingly happen in transit. People meet in coffee shops and write emails from their phones while waiting for buses or sitting outdoors on benches. Business meetings are held in airports and projects are run from l…
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Race and Ethnicity in Classification Systems: Teaching Knowledge Organization from a Social Justice Perspective Open
Classification and the organization of information are directly connected to issues surrounding social justice, diversity, and inclusion. This paper is written from the standpoint that political and epistemological aspects of knowledge org…
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Groups, organizations, families and movements: The sociology of social systems between interaction and society Open
In enhancing a proposal by Luhmann, this contribution shows that it is possible to locate different types of systems between ‘face‐to‐face‐interaction’ and ‘society’: groups, organizations, families and protest movements. The common ground…
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Cooperation and competition in social anthropology Open
The emergence of cooperation in human societies has received ample academic attention from different disciplines, and is usually considered as an adaptive response to competition over scarce resources. In this article, the authors review t…
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Group Formation and the Evolution of Human Social Organization Open
Humans operate in groups that are oftentimes nested in multilayered collectives such as work units within departments and companies, neighborhoods within cities, and regions within nation states. With psychological science mostly focusing …
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Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea Open
This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a …
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The fractal structure of communities of practice: Implications for business organization Open
Communities of practice (COP) are informal (sometimes formal) groupings of professionals with shared interests that form to facilitate the exchange of expertise and shared learning or to function as professional support networks. We analys…
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The formation of the paradigm of information-communicative society as a kind of complex social systems and interactions Open
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 char…
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Organizational complexity and demographic scale in primary states Open
The relationship between organizational complexity and demographic scale is an enduring research problem at the intersection of the natural and social sciences and has far reaching implications for the study of social evolution, particular…