Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A list of social theorists includes classical as well as modern thinkers in social theory that were notable for the impact of their published works on the general discipline of sociology. Jane Addams; Theodor Adorno; Muhammad Asad; Roland Barthes; Peter L. Berger; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002; Auguste Comte ...
Social psychology utilizes a wide range of specific theories for various kinds of social and cognitive phenomena. Here is a sampling of some of the more influential theories that can be found in this branch of psychology. Attribution theory – is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behaviour of others. The theory ...
Circulus (theory) Class reductionism; Classical Marxism; Cognitive miser; Collectivist anarchism; College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory; Communicative action; Compliance problem; Consensus theory; Conservatism; Consumer culture theory; Contractualism; Conversion theory of minority influence; Cultural pluralism; Cumulative inequality ...
This category contains various sociological and sometimes interdisciplinary theories and paradigms. For the different variants of theories or paradigms, please see its individual sub-category. For philosophical theories about society see Category:Social theories
Human development theory is a theory which uses ideas from different origins, such as ecology, sustainable development, feminism and welfare economics. It wants to avoid normative politics and is focused on how social capital and instructional capital can be deployed to optimize the overall value of human capital in an economy.
A theory provides an explanatory framework for some observation, and from the assumptions of the explanation follows a number of possible hypotheses that can be tested in order to provide support for, or challenge, the theory.
Shattered assumptions theory; Simulation theory of empathy; Social cognitive theory of morality; Social dominance theory; Social identity theory; Social investment theory; Sociocultural perspective; Socioemotional adaptation theory; Somatotype and constitutional psychology; Spatial intelligence (psychology) Spoon theory; Staircase model; Stare ...
Critical social work is the application to social work of a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individualized issues. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from various forms of oppression and injustice in globalized capitalist societies and forms of ...