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2 unusual facts about Social structure


Social structure

Other recent work by Margaret Archer (morphogenesis theory), Tom R. Burns and collaborators (actor-system dynamics theory and social rule system theory), and Immanuel Wallerstein (World Systems Theory) provided elaborations and applications of the sociological classics in structural sociology.

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.



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Aaron Isaac

It was the age of the Enlightenment, led by philosophers whose works revolutionized the social structure of Europe.

Chinese social structure

The social structure of China has an extensive history which stems from the feudal society of Imperial China to the contemporary era.

David K. Jordan

Jordan has published on language, social structure, folk religion, and sectarianism in Taiwan and China and has written in and about Esperanto and the social movements associated with it and the associated area of interlinguistics.

Muckleshoot people

A complex social structure also emerged, consisting of a nobility, middle class, and slaves, which were generally captured members of other tribes.

Multiple discovery

Robert K. Merton, On Social Structure and Science, edited and with an introduction by Piotr Sztompka, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems

If the book combines complexity theory following lines of thought at the Santa Fe Institute with a contribution to understanding of Middle Eastern social structure, it is through combining network visualization and analysis with the study of the dynamics of marriage choices.

Network science

This network representation of social structure was found so intriguing that it was printed in The New York Times (April 3, 1933, page 17).

Rukai people

The traditional dress of Rukai people shares many similarities with the one of Paiwan tribe, which is probably because of the similarity of their geographical distribution and their hereditary aristocracy social structure.

Sau turaga

The clan is the second most important in the traditional Fijian hierarchical social structure.

Taiping Rebellion

Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China; Militarization and Social Structure, 1796–1864 (Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1970).