Social Structures

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Social Intelligence - Additional Views
... Social intelligence is closely related to cognition and emotional intelligence ... Research psychologists studying social cognition and social neuroscience have discovered many principles which human social intelligence operates ... kinds of concepts people use to make sense of their social relations (e.g ...
The Structural Anthropology of Lévi-Strauss
... from structural linguistics (Ferdinand de Saussure--who saw in the structure of language a series of oppositions or opposites—and Roman Jakobson) as well as from Émile ... applied this distinction in his search for the mental structures that underlie all acts of human behavior Just as we are unaware of the grammar of our language while we speak, he ... The structures that form the "deep grammar" of society originate in the mind and operate in us unconsciously (albeit not in a Freudian sense) ...
Structure And Agency - Structure, Socialisation and Autonomy
... The debate over the primacy of structure or agency relates to an issue at the heart of both classical and contemporary sociological theory the question of social ontology "What is the ... Theorists such as Karl Marx, by contrast, emphasise that the social structure can act to the detriment of the majority of individuals in a society ... In both these instances "structure" may refer to something both material (or "economic") and cultural (e.g ...

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