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Social indicators and social structure

Journal of Community Psychology, 1983
The findings from seven factor analytic studies of social indicators at the subnational level constitute the starting point for this review of the relationship of social indicators, defined as measures of individual and family welfare, and social structure. This definition acknowledges the normative element in social indicators, but it does not specify
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Biology and social structure

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1983
SummaryAt military recruitment centres in France, data were collected from some 40,000 subjects on their social environment, the amount of education received and occupation, and measurements were taken on height, weight, and performance in tests of mental and physical ability.The secular increase in mean stature is continuing.
G, Olivier, G, Devigne
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COMPETITION IN A SOCIAL STRUCTURE

International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2009
Complex adaptive agents develop strategies in the presence of competition. In modern human societies, there is an inherent sense of locality when describing inter-agent dynamics because of its network structure. One then wonders whether the traditional advertising schemes that are globally publicized and target random individuals are as effective in ...
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Models of social structure

The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 1968
The mathematical treatment of three models of possible development of a society with a dominance relationship is discussed. The conclusion is reached that social factors as well as inherent characteristics need to be introduced to account for near-hierarchical structures.
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SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1954
In a previous report the authors and their co-workers found treated prevalence of schizophrenia in the lowest social class 11 times more frequent than in the upper class. The present paper analyzes this striking distribution. From our data it may be concluded that the difference is not due to downward social mobility.
A B, HOLLINGSHEAD, F C, REDLICH
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Social Structure and Language Structure

Journal of Anthropological Research, 1964
T HE SEARCH FOR VALID ANALOGIES between the structure of language and the structure of other aspects of culture is an important part of modern anthropological thought. Recent students of this problem seem to fall into two general groups: (1) those followers of Whorf who, in a variety of ways, are seeking congruencies between the language and the ...
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Structured Social Agents

1991
Five essential capabilities of intelligent social agents are analysed. It is stipulated, that these abilities are crucial for the cooperativity of an agent society and it is argued that a maximum of cooperativity can be reached in the society in case all five features exist at the same time.
Jürgen Müller 0008, Jörg H. Siekmann
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The Social Structure of the Army

American Journal of Sociology, 1946
The bases of the Army's socia structure are held to be (1) the modern American democratic tradition; (2) the medieval feudal tradition; and (3) the formal, written rules, regulations, and directives. An examination of situations where these three come into conflict with one another shows that the feudal tradition is still the strongest of the three ...
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The social structure of trust

Social Networks, 1998
Abstract This paper addresses the way in which the level of trust in cooperative relations depends on network structures. The study is an elaboration of models developed in earlier papers using iterated games [Weesie, J., Buskens, V., Raub, W., 1998. The management of trust relations via institutional and structural embeddedness.
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Representing Social Structures in UML

Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents, 2001
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (00) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and their own goals. Engineering such systems is most naturally approached as an extensions of object-oriented systems engineering.
H. Van Dyke Parunak, James Odell
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