Social media

Social media

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

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Holism

Culture; Social media

Holism is a theory that identifies the whole of social systems as more than the individuals that participate in them. A war, for example, cannot be understood as a simple sum of individuals' ...

Culture

Culture; Social media

The culture of a society is the totality of its shared beliefs, norms, values, rituals, language, history, knowledge and social character.

Culture of poverty

Culture; Social media

The culture of poverty concept is a social theory explaining the cycle of poverty. Based on the concept that the poor have a unique value system, the culture of poverty theory suggests the poor ...

Accomodation

Culture; Social media

When used to describe relations between discrete populations (defined, for example, by ethnicity or religion) the term suggests groups finding ways of co-existing without losing their defining ...

Action theory

Culture; Social media

A theory that sees sociology as the explanation of social action (hence action theory) and understanding actors' meanings, purposes, beliefs and values as the essential first step in that work.

Affect

Culture; Social media

Affect denotes the emotional or feeling element (as distinct from the purely cognitive element) of mental experience.

Collective behaviour

Culture; Social media

Collective behaviour is a type os social behaviour that occurs in crowds and masses. When news of a natural disaster or a political assassination spreads, for example, or when people celebrate a ...