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SOCIAL TERM: Κοινωνικός ρόλος / Social role
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Κοινωνικός χρόνος / Social time
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 2
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Βιομηχανία κοινωνικού κινήματος / Social movement industry (SMI)
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Κοινωνική Δομή / Social Structure
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 4
RELATED TERMS: Δομή/Structure
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): “Culture supplies the framework that allows people to interpret events and guide their actions; society consists of the actual web of relationships that people enter into as they go about their daily activities. For the most part, people do not interact in a haphazard or random manner. Rather, their relationships are characterized by social ordering. Sociologists apply the term social structure to this social ordering - the interweaving of people’s interactions and relationships in more or less recurrent and stable patterns. It finds expression in a matrix of social positions and the distribution of people in them. […] Sociologists view social structure as a social fact of the sort described by Émile Durkheim. We experience a social fact as external to ourselves - as an independent reality that forms a part of our objective environment. Consequently, social structures constrain our behavior and channel our actions in certain directions.” (Hughes and Kroehler 2009: 54-55).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις
REFERENCE:
REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.
DEFINITION (2): “Historically, social scientists have paid most attention to political and economic institutions, but military and kinship, religious and educational institutions have also been much studied. Such classification according to the objective functions institutions generally serve is deceptively simple, but still it is handy. If we understand how these institutional orders are related to one another, we understand the social structure of a society. For 'social structure/ as the conception is most commonly used, refers to just that—to the combination of institutions classified according to the functions each performs. As such, it is the most inclusive working unit with which social scientists deal. Their broadest aim, accordingly, is to understand each of the varieties of social structure, in its components and in its totality. The term ‘social structure’ itself is quite variously defined, and other terms are used for the conception, but if the distinction between milieu and structure is kept in mind, along with the notion of institution, no one will fail to recognize the idea of social structure when he comes upon it.” (Mills 1959-2000: 134).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις
REFERENCE: Mills, Charles Wright. 1959-2000. The Sociological Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
SOCIAL TERM: Αγώνας / Struggle
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical

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