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SOCIAL TERM: Επίπεδο εμπιστοσύνης / Confidence level
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Θεωρία των συγκρούσεων / Conflict theory
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 2
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): “Conflict theorists, like functionalists, focused their attention on society as a whole, studying its institutions and structural arrangements. Yet the two perspectives have been at odds on a good many matters. Where functionalists depicted society in relatively static terms, conflict theorists emphasized the processes of change that continually transform social life. Where functionalists stressed the order and stability to be found in society, conflict theorists emphasized disorder and instability. Where functionalists saw the common interests shared by the members of a society, conflict theorists focused upon the interests that divide. Where functionalists viewed consensus as the basis of social unity, conflict theorists insisted that social unity is an illusion resting on coercion. Finally, while functionalists often viewed existing social arrangements as necessary and justified by the requirements of group life, conflict theorists saw many of the arrangements as neither necessary nor justified. […] The main source of conflict in human societies is scarcity of social and material resources. Wealth, prestige, and power are always in limited supply, so that gains for one individual or group are usually associated with losses for others. Power -the ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will -determines who will gain and who will lose (Lasswell, 1936). Power also determines which group will be able to translate its preferences for behavior (its values) into the operating rules for others. Conflict theorists asked how it is that some groups acquire power, dominate other groups, and effect their will in human affairs. In so doing, they looked at who benefits and who loses from the way society is organized.” (Hughes and Kroehler 2009: 20).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις
REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.
SOCIAL TERM: Συμμόρφωση / Conformity
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 3
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Δομημένη συγκυρία / Conjuncture
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): By the term "structure of the conjuncture", Sahlins means “the practical realization of the cultural categories in a specific historical context, as expressed in the interested action of the historic agents, including the microsociology of their interaction” (Sahlins, 1985,p. 14).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria
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SOCIAL TERM: Συναίνεση / Consensus
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical

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