social organizations
1Social organisation — Social organization or social institution, refers to a group of social positions, connected by social relations, performing a social role. It can also be defined in a narrower sense as any institution in a society that works to socialize the… …
2Social development — is a process which results in the transformation of social structures in a manner which improves the capacity of the society to fulfill its aspirations. Society develops by consciousness and social consciousness develops by organization. The… …
3Student social organizations at the College of Wooster — The College of Wooster, an Ohio school, has 4 active, chartered fraternities, known at Wooster as Sections, and 5 active, chartered sororities, known as Clubs, as of Summer 2006. Wooster also had 6 national fraternities and 4 national sororities …
4Social development theory — In sociology, social development theory attempts to explain qualitative changes in the structure and framework of society, that help the society to better realize its aims and objectives. Development can be broadly defined in a manner applicable… …
5social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, esp. of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts. [1905 10] * * * Branch of psychology concerned with the personality, attitudes, motivations, and… …
6Social behaviour in animals — Introduction actions of animals living in communities. Such behaviour may include the feeding of the young, the building of shelters, or the guarding of territory. General characteristics Social behaviour (Social behaviour in animals) …
7social change — ▪ sociology Introduction in sociology, the alteration of mechanisms within the social structure, characterized by changes in cultural symbols, rules of behaviour, social organizations, or value systems. Throughout the historical… …
8Social and psychological value of money — Money as we know it today is a symbol of value created by the human imagination with no intrinsic value of its own. A coin or paper currency note has value because people accept it as a symbolic medium of exchange. The economic value of money as… …
9Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Austria — / Sozialdemokratische Arbeiter Partei (SDAP) The long standing voice of Marxism in Austrian politics, the party returned to its original name in 1991, though with a different acronym. Founded in 1888–1889, the SDAP lost its legal… …
10social fact — A complex notion, with attributes of externality, constraint, and ineluctability. It is to be understood within the context of Émile Durkheim s conception of collective conscience and collective representations . Social facts are ways of acting… …
