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What is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice Open
What responsibility do individuals bear for structural injustice? Iris Marion Young has offered the most fully developed account to date, the Social Connections Model. She argues that we all bear responsibility because we each causally con…
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Untapped Riches of Meso-Level Applications in Multilevel Entrepreneurship Mechanisms Open
Entrepreneurial action is embedded within a variety of complex social structures, not all of which can be as easily defined or measured as macro-institutional or micro-individual characteristics. Nonetheless, these multilayered structures …
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The importance of individual‐to‐society feedbacks in animal ecology and evolution Open
The social decisions that individuals make—who to interact with and how frequently—give rise to social structure. The resulting social structure then determines how individuals interact with their surroundings—resources and risks, pathogen…
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Social Structures, Social Relationships, and Family Firms Open
In this introduction, we observe that the study of social structures and social relationships constitutes a common theme among the articles and commentaries contained within this special issue on Theories of Family Enterprise. Individuals …
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Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (New) materialist insights Open
Though mainstream sociological theory has been founded within dualisms such as structure/agency, nature/culture, and mind/matter, a thread within sociology dating back to Spencer and Tarde favoured a monist ontology that cut across such du…
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Social hierarchies and social networks in humans Open
Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans, where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a variety of forms and need not rest on dominance relation…
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Bias, Structure, and Injustice: A Reply to Haslanger Open
Sally Haslanger has recently argued that philosophical focus on implicit bias is overly individualist, since social inequalities are best explained in terms of social structures rather than the actions and attitudes of individuals. I argue…
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Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health Open
Policy Points The structural determinants of health are 1) the written and unwritten rules that create, maintain, or eliminate durable and hierarchical patterns of advantage among socially constructed groups in the conditions that affect h…
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Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia Open
Responding to a number of longstanding challenges such as poverty, wide-ranging inequalities, environmental problems, and migration, requires new and creative responses that are often not provided by traditional governments. Social innovat…
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Understanding Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Realist Abstraction Open
This article extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our findings demonstrat…
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Material Parts in Social Structures Open
There has been much debate on whether and how groups of human agents can constitute social structures with causal significance. Both sides in this debate, however, implicitly privilege human individuals over non-human material objects and …
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Proximity to humans affects local social structure in a giraffe metapopulation Open
Experimental laboratory evidence suggests that animals with disrupted social systems express weakened relationship strengths and have more exclusive social associations, and that these changes have functional consequences. A key question i…
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A Dependent Structure of Interdependence: Structure and Agency in Relational Perspective Open
In this article I argue for a relational approach to the agency–structure problem. Structure has three dimensions from this perspective but, at its most fundamental, it is a network comprising social actors (human and corporate) and the re…
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Social network architecture and the tempo of cumulative cultural evolution Open
The ability to build upon previous knowledge—cumulative cultural evolution—is a hallmark of human societies. While cumulative cultural evolution depends on the interaction between social systems, cognition and the environment, there is inc…
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Sexual Exploitation and Its Impact on Developing Sexualities and Sexual Relationships: The Need for Contextual Social Work Interventions Open
This article considers how young people’s developing sexualities are influenced by extra-familial social and cultural contexts, particularly in relation to experiences of sexual violence. It draws upon young people’s voices to illustrate t…
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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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Examining family language policy through realist social theory Open
In this article, I argue that one social theory that could help us better understand the interaction between social structure and human agency in the context of family language policy (FLP) research is realist social theory. FLP studies in…
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Žižekian ideas in critical reflection Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how deeper psychosocial structures can be examined utilising a contemporary provocative theory within workplace reflection to generate more radical insights and innovation. Design/methodology…
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Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis Open
Although families are subject to multiple social stratifications and systemic injustices, family science was built upon foundational ideas that theorized a unitary, normative structure of family life. Increasing social and political awaren…
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The Role of Social Network Structure in the Emergence of Linguistic Structure Open
Social network structure has been argued to shape the structure of languages, as well as affect the spread of innovations and the formation of conventions in the community. Specifically, theoretical and computational models of language cha…
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The social structure of armed groups. Reproduction and change during and after conflict Open
Current research on civil wars and conflict increasingly turns to the inner structure and functioning of state and non-state armed groups and their impact on aspects such as violent practice, internal cohesion and the dissolution of these …
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Social Network Theories: An Overview Open
Regarding network theory, John Scott argues: “[...] [T]heoretical work has long been underdeveloped in social network analysis. While the methods themselves do not require or imply any particular sociological theory, they do require theore…
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Structure from interaction events Open
In this contribution to the colloquium, I argue why and how I lost interest in the overall structure of social networks even though Big Data techniques are increasingly simplifying the collection, organisation, and analysis of ever larger …
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On the Interplay between Social and Topical Structure Open
People’s interests and people’s social relationships are intuitively connected, but understanding their interplay and whether they can help predict each other has remained an open question. We examine the interface of two decisive structur…
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Unifying Inference of Meso-Scale Structures in Networks Open
Networks are among the most prevalent formal representations in scientific studies, employed to depict interactions between objects such as molecules, neuronal clusters, or social groups. Studies performed at meso-scale that involve groupi…
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The importance of individual-to-society feedbacks in animal ecology and evolution Open
1.\tThe social decisions that individuals make—who to interact with and how frequently—gives rise to social structure. The resulting social structure then determines how individuals interact with their surroundings—resources and risks, pat…
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A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter–gatherer societies Open
Over the past decade, a major debate has taken place on the underpinnings of cultural changes in human societies. A growing array of evidence in behavioural and evolutionary biology has revealed that social connectivity among populations a…
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Modelling the Evolution of Social Structure Open
Although simple social structures are more common in animal societies, some taxa (mainly mammals) have complex, multi-level social systems, in which the levels reflect differential association. We develop a simulation model to explore the …
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The Social Transformation of Large Housing Estates in Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century Open
Large housing estates make up an essential portion of the housing stock in the urban structure of Polish cities. It was expected that large housing estates in Poland might experience social decline in the 1990s, but several research projec…
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Struktur dan Sistem Sosial pada Aras Wacana dan Praksis Open
The social phenomenon that became the focus of sociology has diversity in the aspects of social life of society both as a real and practical reality as well as abstract and utopian reality. The reality is static and moves dynamically inher…