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

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

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 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...

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

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