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Journal of Anthropological Research, 1981
In evolutionist as well as "developmental" anthropological literature, social atomism has been linked with internal social conflict. Applied in particular to "peasant society," the notion of an "atomistic-type society," in which interpersonal conflict and antagonism are assumed to be a prevailing part of the "normative order," has been widely accepted.
Peter A. Munch, Charles E. Marske
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We Are Not Social Atoms

2021
The lesson to be learned from the previous chapters is that most important social issues cannot be tackled by the “virtual society” approach, as social scale models lack the robust foundations that underlie physics simulations. As explained in the preface, such an approach was enticing for physicists, enthralled by Newton’s success in understanding the
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Hospital Care — The Social Atom

New England Journal of Medicine, 1955
THE demand on the hospital service seems to grow each year. Nearly all hospitals can show a steady rise in their outpatient attendance figures, and, in spite of an increase of about 25,000 hospital...
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Social Atomism, Holism, and Trust

The Sociological Quarterly, 1985
The metatheoretical difference between social atomism and social holism is clarified by analysis of the generic necessity of trust. A theoretical approach to trust can be traced from Durkheim, Simmel, Parsons, and the recent work of Luhmann and Barber.
J. David Lewis, Andrew J. Weigert
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