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  2. Origins of society - Wikipedia

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    Everybody has a social life. All living creatures reproduce and reproduction is a social event, since at its bare minimum it involves the genetic and material construction of one individual by another. In turn, differences between individuals in the number of their surviving offspring (natural selection) is the driving force behind organic ...

  3. Social studies - Wikipedia

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    In many countries' curricula, social studies is the combined study of humanities, the arts, and social sciences, mainly including history, economics, and civics.The term was first coined by American educators around the turn of the twentieth century as a catch-all for these subjects, as well as others which did not fit into the models of lower education in the United States such as philosophy ...

  4. Socialization - Wikipedia

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    The social pre-wiring hypothesis was proved correct, "The central advance of this study is the demonstration that 'social actions' are already performed in the second trimester of gestation. Starting from the 14th week of gestation twin foetuses plan and execute movements specifically aimed at the co-twin.

  5. Community - Wikipedia

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    A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country , village , town , or neighborhood ) or in virtual space through ...

  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    A film essay (also essay film or cinematic essay) consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film literally being a cinematic accompaniment to a narrator reading an essay. [26]

  7. Social structure - Wikipedia

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    In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. [1] Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally related groups or sets of roles , with different functions, meanings, or purposes.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Life, Abbreviated 2013 Patrick Cagey’s final photograph, taken five days before he overdosed. 2010 Patrick at Winter Commencement at the University of Kentucky, where he majored in sociology and minored in psychology.

  9. On Social Freedom - Wikipedia

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    On Social Freedom: or the Necessary Limits of Individual Freedom Arising Out of the Conditions of Our Social Life is an essay regarding individual and societal freedom initially thought to have been written by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill, [1] but later found to have been falsely attributed to him. [2]