Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. A tool used by social scientists, social...

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Social learning theory is a theory of social behavior that proposes that new behaviors can be acquired by observing and imitating others. It states that...

Social exchange theory is a sociological and psychological theory that studies the social behavior in the interaction of two parties that implement a...

Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society...

The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining...

formulated by social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and the 1980s, social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity...

In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority...

Social comparison theory, initially proposed by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, centers on the belief that individuals drive to gain accurate...

leading to a catastrophic collapse in prices. In social theory, reflexivity may occur when theories in a discipline should apply equally to the discipline...