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

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

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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...

A social behavior theory which proposes that new behaviors can be acquired by observing and imitating others. Albert Bandura is known for studying this...

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

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

Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact on the basis...

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...

Social cognitive theory (SCT), used in psychology, education, and communication, holds that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly...