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  2. Social status - Wikipedia

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    Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Such social value includes respect, honor , assumed competence, and deference. [ 3 ] On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members who treat others well and take initiative. [ 4 ]

  3. Social system - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions. [1] It is the formal structure of role and status that can form in a small, stable group. [1]

  4. Category:Sociological terminology - Wikipedia

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    Imaginary (sociology) Imperial boomerang; In-group favoritism; Inclusion (disability rights) Indeterminacy problem; Individual ministerial responsibility; Individualistic culture; Informal organization; Information society; In-group and out-group; Inner city; Institutional racism; Institutional trust (social sciences) Instrumental and intrinsic ...

  5. Outline of society - Wikipedia

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    Social institution – Any persistent structure or mechanism of social order governing the behaviour of a set of individuals within a given community. The term "institution" is commonly applied to customs and behavior patterns important to a society, as well as to particular formal organizations of government and public services.

  6. Organizational ecology - Wikipedia

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    The community level is the functionally integrated system of interacting populations. The population level is the set of organizations engaged in similar activities. The organization level focuses on the individual organizations (some research further divides organizations into individual member and sub-unit levels [2]).

  7. Social organization - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Characteristics of social organization can include qualities such as sexual composition, spatiotemporal cohesion, leadership , structure , division of labor, communication systems, and so on.

  8. Community organizing - Wikipedia

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    Organizing for America sought to advance the president's legislative agenda and played an important role in building grassroots support for The Affordable Health Care Act. [63] After the 2012 election OFA went through another transition and is now called Organizing for Action. This 501c4 organization focuses on training people to be community ...

  9. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of work, or industrial sociology, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations to the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the ...