A social relationship can be viewed as an opportunity for social interaction, a history of shared experience, and a means of need-satisfaction. ... Nodes (or actors) can represent a wide variety of entities from individual persons, small groups, formal organizations, to systems of organizations and even states, nations. ... Such relational content can be viewed as mutual or have no direction. ... From the perspective of organizations, the presence or lack of ties can indicate connectivity between persons, teams, functional units, levels of hierarchy, etc. ... Liaisons that bridge subgroups p...

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When considering the definition of a "social group,"" we must look closely at the perspective in which a given group views society. ... In her article, "Fashion and Style,"" Jukka Gonrow talks about fashion in regards to the social aspect of life by using two key lenses: Kant's and Simmel's respective understandings of "universal good taste " (90) and style as a kind of "social bridge " (98). ... The framing of the picture, from the illusion of levitation of the four central figures to the parallelism in the choices of dress and style, which Simmel would say the young people are usin...

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Madonna broke out from the disco scene into mainstream pop with "Holiday", written and produced by Jellybean. ... Before the 1980"""'s, those that openly articulated their views about sex were thought of as promiscuous and perverse, unless they were male. ... Her daring exploitation of sex from a feminine point of view was definitely a breakthrough in 1980"""'s American society. ... The Post-Modernist feminist view is almost always discussed in relation to Madonna. ...

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The studies of past cultures is a good place to start to answer questions about societies and cultures today, and to bridge together the gap between the past and present, and maybe even predict where we are headed in the future. ... I value my independence and privacy, something that has stemmed from living in this society. ... Many societies, such as rural China and Taiwana, view their women as inferior, and the men dominate them. ... Viewing women as inferior to men often stems from the idea that a man's work is important and a woman's work, mainly around the house, is unimportant....

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He specifies the interests of communists are not different from the proletariats; they only seek to cultivate a consciousness in the proletariat. ... The only way the proletariat can free itself from bourgeoisie corruption is to abolish capitalism. ... (pg. 487) Marx seems to advocate the destruction of the social order coming from the past. ... These laws allowed the American working class to bridge the gap with the upper-class bourgeoisie running government. ... In this way, I view his whole theory being instituted into society as idealistic, but some of his principles a...

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After reading research from multiple psychologists, it is clear that to fully understand humans and the way they act, one must study both idiographic and nomothetic characteristics. ... "The term 'nomothetic' comes from the Greek word 'nomos' meaning 'law'. ... Equipped with the knowledge of universal and timeless laws of nature, we can not only build bridges on earth, but also send robots to the moon and beyond. From the nomothetic point of view, there is no need to single out any specific individual as a special case; each and every one of us is equall...

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The latter of the two was the collective social struggle for equality that aimed to eliminate forms of oppression based on gender and to free women from male supremacy. ... Secondly, the Civil Rights Movement broadened the concept of informal leadership to include women, even though black women had to deal with sexism from both white men and black men. ... Finally, by eventually excluding women from formal movement leadership, the Civil Rights movement spurred women to organize their own movement in order to fight for their rights. ... Women took inspiration from this in the creation of the ...

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