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  2. Social order - Wikipedia

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    Social theorists (such as Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Jürgen Habermas) have proposed different explanations for what a social order consists of, and what its real basis is. For Marx, it is the relations of production or economic structure which is the basis of social order. For Durkheim, it is a set of shared social norms.

  3. Social control - Wikipedia

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    The term "social control" was first introduced to sociology by Albion Woodbury Small and George Edgar Vincent in 1894. However, at the time, sociologists only showed sporadic interest in the subject. [10] While the concept of social control has been around since the formation of organized sociology, the meaning has been altered over time.

  4. Ethnomethodology - Wikipedia

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    This does not mean that ethnomethodology does not use traditional sociological forms as a sounding board for its own programmatic development, or to establish benchmarks for the differences between traditional sociological forms of study and ethnomethodology as it only means that ethnomethodology was not established in order to: repair ...

  5. Limitarianism (ethical) - Wikipedia

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    Limitarianism refers to several different types of ethical theories.Though limitarianism applies differently to varied fields of study, what is always common is an examination of when it is proper, moral or ethical to interfere and intervene in the lives and freedoms of individuals, in order to benefit society as a whole.

  6. Social structure - Wikipedia

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    Others follow Lévi-Strauss in seeking logical order in cultural structures. Still others, notably Peter Blau , follow Simmel in attempting to base a formal theory of social structure on numerical patterns in relationships—analyzing, for example, the ways in which factors like group size shape intergroup relations.

  7. Social conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Such limits the exposure to information, at least the perspective on information. The limited exposure to the perspectives of information results in increase of particular social conditioning. Through repetition of a particular perspective of an ideal, the view is reinforced into the audience and results in a formed social norm.

  8. Negotiated order - Wikipedia

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    Negotiated order is an approach in sociology that is interested in how meaning is created and maintained in organizations. It has a particular focus on human interactions. It has a particular focus on human interactions.

  9. Set-theoretic limit - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the limit of a sequence of sets,, … (subsets of a common set ) is a set whose elements are determined by the sequence in either of two equivalent ways: (1) by upper and lower bounds on the sequence that converge monotonically to the same set (analogous to convergence of real-valued sequences) and (2) by convergence of a sequence of indicator functions which are themselves ...