Social order
1Social order — is a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences. It refers to a set of linked social structures, social institutions and social practices which conserve, maintain and enforce normal ways of relating and behaving. A social order… …
2social order — social orders N VAR The social order in a place is the way that society is organized there. ...the threat to social order posed by right wing extremists …
3social order — Explanations of social order, of how and why societies cohere, are the central concern of sociology . The ‘Hobbesian problem of order’, for example, preoccupied those classical sociologists faced directly with the apparent consequences of… …
4social order — proper arrangement within a society …
5social order — noun : the totality of structured human interrelationships in a society or a part of it …
6political and social order — internal repression The Brazilian version of familiar autocratic language: The Department of Political and Social order, a bland title for the administration of terror and thumbscrews. (Simon, 1979) …
7social science — social scientist. 1. the study of society and social behavior. 2. a science or field of study, as history, economics, etc., dealing with an aspect of society or forms of social activity. [1775 85] * * * Any discipline or branch of science that… …
8Social rule system theory — is an attempt to formally approach different kinds of social rule systems in a unified manner. Social rules systems include institutions such as norms, laws, regulations, taboos, customs, and a variety of related concepts and are important in the …
9Social simulation — is the modeling or simulation, normally performed using a computer, of social phenomena (e.g., cooperation, competition, markets, social networks dynamics, etc.). A subset within social simulations are Agent Based Social Simulations (ABSS) which… …
10Social constructionism — and social constructivism are sociological and psychological theories of knowledge that consider how social phenomena develop in particular social contexts. Within constructionist thought, a social construction (social construct) is a concept or… …
