scholarly journals About some models of interaction of social groups

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Р.О. Кенетова
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Macroscopic Scale ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Synergetic System ◽  
Crisis Situations

При создании математических моделей социальных процессов возникают такие трудности как отсутствие фундаментальных законов, плохая «измеримость»социальных показателей, сильная разномасштабность – от малых социальных групп до этносов, разнородность и нелинейность изучаемых социальных объектов. Процесс взаимодействия индивидуумов, коллективов и организованных масс есть сложная синергетическая система зависимых переменных и поведение этой системы может резко изменяться при некоторых внешних условиях, приводя к различного рода экстремальным (кризисным) ситуациям, к изменениям в макроскопических масштабах When creating mathematical models of social processes, there are such difficulties as the lack of fundamental laws, poor measurability of social indicators, and a strong diversity of scales – from small social groups to ethnic groups, heterogeneity and non-linearity of the studied social objects. The process of interaction between individuals, collectives and organized masses is a complex synergetic system of dependent variables and the behavior of this system can change dramatically under certain external conditions, leading to various kinds of extreme (crisis) situations, to changes on a macroscopic scale.

SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.N. Kurdyukov ◽  
◽  
A.I. Lebedev ◽  
A. Ademu ◽  
M. Hamdi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Natural Growth ◽  
Governance Mechanisms

The article examined different views on population with a view to identifying major trends. Social processes that impede the transition to sustainable development within existing governance mechanisms have been identified. It is noted that due to the high social dynamics, the exit from the "modernization trap" is to be sought both by territories with high natural growth of the population, and economically attractive regions with indicators of natural decline of the population. At the same time, social dynamics in different territories in modern conditions involve the risk of its use for the benefit of different social groups and can act as a manageable factor. In order to increase the sustainability of development, in resolving the contradictions of the existing socio-economic system, it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of agricultural territories and to develop self-sufficient models of their development.

Rights of Exit

Legal Theory ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Green
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Parochial Schools ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Social Clubs ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Conduct Codes

Social groups claim authority to impose restrictions on their members that the state cannot. Churches, ethnic groups, minority nations, universities, social clubs, and families all regulate belief and behavior in ways that would be obviously unjust in the context of a state and its citizens. All religions impose doctrinal requirements; many also enforce sexist practices and customs. Some universities impose stringent speech and conduct codes on their students and faculty. Parochial schools discriminate in their hiring practices. Those who complain about such internal restrictions on the liberties of members might well be told to “love it or leave it.”

International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Salvatore Caserta
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
International Courts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean

This introductory chapter presents the main theoretical and methodological issues of the book. In terms of theory, the chapter explains that the book relies on the concept of de facto authority, according to which international courts become authoritative and powerful when their rulings are endorsed by relevant audiences in their practices. To complement this approach, the chapter explains that the book proposes five original analytical markers, which are central for analysing and explaining the social processes through which international courts, in general, and regional economic courts, in particular, gain or lose de facto authority. These are: (i) the nature of the political environment surrounding them; (ii) the timing of their institutional founding; (iii) the material and/or abstract interests of the agents interacting with them; (iv) the fundamental support of different social groups relating to them; and (v) the societal embeddedness in their operational context.

The Ultimate Value of Technology

2006 ◽  
pp. 158-179
Author(s):  
Robert A. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Value Of Information ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Group ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Human Attributes

In the previous chapter, we saw how difficult it was to determine the value of information technology, even with a clearly defined point of view from which to assess that value, namely, the interests of the organization utilizing the technology. Over and above the point of view of the organization or even the economy as an aggregate of organizations, there are other perspectives to consider. Is it correct to view technology as another enabling value like health and wealth, an all-purpose means that enables us to achieve any number of our ends?1 Or should technology rather be viewed as an entirely different way of structuring reality? These questions raise broader issues that need to be considered from much wider points of view: What is the value of information technology for humanity as a whole? And finally, what is the value of information technology for being as a whole? In considering these questions, we need also to consider whether the value of information technology is best assessed as a part of technology generally, or whether information technology has its own characteristics relevant for assessing its value. I will examine issues concerning technology as a whole in this chapter, and return to the IT-specific issues in the next chapter. Beyond considering technology and information technology from the point of view of humanity as a whole, it may be necessary to consider technology and information technology from the point of view of being as a whole. One could think of the point of view of being as a whole as God’s point of view, except that many religious conceptions of God assign many different human attributes to God. And so to determine what is valuable from God’s point of view would embroil us in major religious disputes about God’s nature. Trying to take the point of view of being avoids such disputes. Rather, we are asking, what is the value of technology from the point of view of the unfolding or revealing of whatever is, has been, or will come to be?2 Even the point of view of humanity is itself very difficult for many people to embrace. Instead, their highest point of view is that of some limited human group, most typically national or social groups, ethnic groups, or economic groups or organizations. Yet even with these difficulties, it is easier to discuss the value of technology and information technology from the point of view of humanity as a whole than it is to discuss these questions from the point of view of being. So we will start with the point of view of humanity.

The politics of house shape: round vs rectilinear domestic structures in Déla compounds, northern Cameroon

Antiquity ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (268) ◽  
pp. 351-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
Building Shape ◽  
Northern Cameroon ◽  
Floor Plans ◽  
Building Form

Building floor plans are frequently recovered by archaologists. A common first sorting of the shapes of small domestic buildings is between round houses and rectangular houses. What do these differences mean? Why do social groups change their building form from one to the other? An ethnoarchaeological study from northern Cameroon illustrates how four ethnic groups in a single community use building shape to blur or define group boundaries for political self-interests.

scholarly journals Pionirski grad u Zagrebu pedesetih godina 20. veka: laboratorija socijalističkog detinjstva

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Sanja Petrović Todosijević
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Central Object ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Law

This paper attempts to underline the role that the Pioneer Town in Zagreb played in the process of establishing a new educational policy in Yugoslavia proclaimed at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in December 1949. This reform was carried out during the following decade, culminating in the General Law on Education in 1958. The Pioneer Town in Zagreb, with its elementary school as the central object, “simulated” a school of the future which was supposed to become not only a role model for the standard Yugoslav school, but also the initiator of the important social processes with the aim of placing children - one of the most numerous social groups - at the center of political and social attention.

Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Wagoner ◽  
Ignacio Brescó de Luna
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Method ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
The Mind

Psychologists have typically narrated their discipline’s history so as to glorify an experimental method, which analyzes the mind independently of cultural and historical factors. In line with Jahoda’s sociocultural sensitivity to psychology, this article critically interrogates the plausibility for this vision of psychology as cut off from wider social processes, and offers an alternative based on a re-appropriation of concepts and methods from psychology’s past that highlight cultural processes. This approach is illustrated with a study of how people remember history narratives on the basis of cultural resources taken over from social groups they belong to, and which thus embed them within a stream of history. Both psychologists’ narratives of their discipline and people’s everyday memory of history are shown to be motivated toward the justification of particular visions of social reality.

scholarly journals Affective Factors in the Manifestation of Discriminatory Attitudes of the Personality in Behavior

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Marina Vladimirovna Grigoryeva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Discriminatory Behavior ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Handicapped People

The paper presents the results of an empirical study of affective factors in the manifestation of discriminatory attitudes of a person in behavior. The analysis revealed the following facts. As an affective basis for discriminatory behavior, negative emotional reactions towards people with non-traditional sexual behavior and politicians are expressed. Positive and/or altruistic emotions are associated with pensioners, children, adolescents, people with disabilities, handicapped people, representatives of other ethnic groups and religions, victims of crime, members of the opposite sex, physically unattractive people and people with low income. In relation to persons of no fixed abode and people with mental disorders, conflicting affective reactions are manifested: from sympathy and pity to anxiety and disgust. The strength of prejudice has a broad affective determination for the following social groups: migrants, representatives of other ethnic groups, physically unattractive people, representatives of another social community and youth subcultures. However, only in relation to representatives of youth subcultures, broad affective determination is the real basis for the increase in the strength of discriminatory attitudes and the manifestation of discriminatory behavior associated with the restriction of their activity.

Ethnography of Jhapali Rajbanshis

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keshav Kumar Shresta
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Minority Ethnic ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Nepal, despite being small in size, is a country with geographical and cultural diversities. The social system or structure of Nepal is based on the unity in diversity that integrates various caste, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural groups. According to 2001 census, 102 types of caste/indigenous ethnic groups dwell in Nepal and 92 mother languages are spoken (C.B.S, 2002 :28-33). A comprehensive study about all the caste and indigenous ethnic groups dwelling in Nepal has not been conducted yet from the sociological and anthropological perspectives. Even today some minority ethnic groups are about to be extinct. Some even do not have the knowledge of their own cultural history. Such ethnic groups have begun to give up their ancestral cultures/traditions and adopt the customs of other castes/social groups and forget their own cultural history.    DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v11i0.3029 Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.11 2009 38-47

TOLERANCE AND COEXISTENCE OF SOCIAL GROUPS IN THE WORKS OF REINHOLD NIEBUHR

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
Vitalii Brynov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
Religious Conflicts

The article shows the nature of conflicts between social groups in society according to the position of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism. The nature of conflicts between religious groups, ethnic groups and economic classes is described. Religious-authoritarian, religious-tolerant and secular approaches to religious conflicts are considered.

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