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Differentiation (sociology) In system theory, differentiation is the increase of subsystems in a modern society to increase the complexity of that society. Each subsystem can make different connections with other subsystems, and this leads to more variation within the system in order to respond to variation in the environment.
Intragroup and intergroup differentiation are two basic types of social differentiation. Intragroup differentiation represents a division of the group into subgroups that perform different functions in the group without being superior or inferior to each other.
This theory makes explanations of social differentiation offered by Spencer and Durkheim more precise by borrowing simple assumptions from Carley's constructural model and from the symbolic interactionist perspective.
Social Differentiationexamines the economic, political, and normatively defined relations that underlie the construction of social categories. Social differenti...
In addition to systems theory, a theory of social evolution and a theory of social differentiation play important roles. The present article introduces these three pillars and describes Luhmann’s theory of politics in this context.
Like capitalism, democracy, bureaucracy, and globalization, social differentiation is a redolent idea that captures something distinctive and definitive about the modern social world.
Abstract. At the core of sociology is the study of consequential difference, and the process by which it comes to be: differentiation. However, differentiation is conventionally associated, negatively, with functionalism, thereby delimiting its utility. This essay argues two things.
Rather than a well-integrated set of definitions, propositions, or causal hypotheses, so-called “differentiation theory” was, he argued, a ragtag assortment of metatheoretical assumptions, conceptual schemes, and descriptive generalizations about the directional tendencies of long-term social change (Rueschemeyer 1977). Today, the situation ...
The aim of Blau's theory is to explain observable patterns of social association between people in terms of changing struc-tures of "social positions" (i.e., of locations in that multidimensional space)-working from a series of analytic propositions about quantitative properties of these structures and a few "primitive assumptions" about
Simmel’s work has long been recognized as a major contribution to sociological theory and it has received increasing attention in recent years; yet by comparison with other classical contributions the significance of his work continues to be underestimated.