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Social media

Social media is the medium through which internet users can contact and share information over the internet.

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Heterosociality

Sociology; Social media

Heterosociality describes social relations with persons of the opposite sex or preference for such relations, often excluding relationships of a romantic or sexual nature.

Habitus

Sociology; Social media

Habitus is a structure of the mind characterised by a set of acquired schemata, sensibilities, dispositions and taste. The particular contents of the habitus are the result of the objectification of ...

Nomos

Sociology; Social media

In sociology, a nomos is a socially constructed ordering of experience. The term has become more generally used in sociology to denote the relationship between formal ideology and functional ...

Norm

Sociology; Social media

Social norms are the behaviours and cues within a society or group.

Mass action

Sociology; Social media

Mimetic isomorphism in organisation theory refers to an organisation to adopt another organization's structure by imitating it believing that the structure of the actual organisation is beneficial.

Mass society

Sociology; Social media

Mass society is a description associated with society in the modern, industrial era. This term can be applied to any society that is said to possess a mass culture and large-scale, impersonal, social ...

Normalisation

Sociology; Social media

Normalisation refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as "normal" and become taken-for-granted or 'natural' in everyday life.

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