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  2. Social innovation - Wikipedia

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    Social innovation includes the social processes of innovation, such as open source methods and techniques and also the innovations which have a social purpose—like activism, crowdfunding, time-based currency, telehealth, cohousing, coworking, universal basic income, collaborative consumption, social enterprise, participatory budgeting, repair ...

  3. Societal innovation - Wikipedia

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    Societal innovation refers to a systemic change in the interplay of the state and civil society. It is a relative of social innovation , but differs from it by considering the state to be an important co-creator in achieving sustainable systemic change.

  4. Group cohesiveness - Wikipedia

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    Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion, social harmony or social cohesion, is the degree or strength of bonds linking members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole. [1] Although cohesion is a multi-faceted process, it can be broken down into four main components: social relations , task relations, perceived unity ...

  5. Societal psychology - Wikipedia

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    People create social organizations—but it is the social organizations that recast people; Innovation is as much an imperative of the social system of relations to the environment as is conformity; The aim of societal psychology is the development of conceptual frameworks or models rather than the forlorn search for invariant laws

  6. Innovation - Wikipedia

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    Radical innovation: "establishes a new dominant design and, hence, a new set of core design concepts embodied in components that are linked together in a new architecture." (p. 11) [28] Incremental innovation: "refines and extends an established design. Improvement occurs in individual components, but the underlying core design concepts, and ...

  7. Social technology - Wikipedia

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    In 1923, the term social technology was given a wider meaning in the works of Ernest Burgess and Thomas D. Eliot, [8] [9] who expanded the definition of social technology to include the application, particularly in social work, of techniques developed by psychology and other social sciences.

  8. Meaning (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Meaning is an epistemological concept used in multiple disciplines, such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, and sociology, with its definition depending upon the field of study by which it is being used.

  9. Social practice - Wikipedia

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    Within research, social practice aims to integrate the individual with his or her surrounding environment while assessing how context and culture relate to common actions and practices of the individual. Just as social practice is an activity itself, inquiry focuses on how social activity occurs and identifies its main causes and outcomes.