A Unit Concept for Sociology
| Autor: | Franz Adler |
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| Rok vydání: | 1960 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Sociology. 65:356-364 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5390 0002-9602 |
| Popis: | The basic unit suggested here for the social sciences is the behavior item, that is, any smallest observable meaningful manifestation of a living organism. Behavior items occur in behavior clusters which have meanings of their own in addition to and other than those of the behavior items compsing them. The clusters alson contain behavior particles, elements of behavior that are, in the given population, distinguishable from others and which, though meaningless in themselves, may in given contexts signal differences of meaning between otherwise identical behavior clusters. The specific unit of sociology is the item of social behavior, that is, behavior the meaning of which consists wholly or partially in the probability that somebody else's behavior preceded, accompanies, or will follow it. A sociological concept must be definable in terms of social behavior or the probability of social behavior. Personality, group, society, and te like can be defined as various totalities of behavior. Such totalities impl... |
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