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  2. Mathematical sociology - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical Bridge, or officially Wooden Bridge, is an arch bridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom.The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting.

  3. Social constraints - Wikipedia

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    [1] Social constraints are most commonly defined as negative social interactions which make it difficult for an individual to speak about their traumatic experiences. [2] The term is associated with the social-cognitive processing model, which is a psychological model describing ways in which individuals cope and come to terms with trauma they ...

  4. Social choice theory - Wikipedia

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    Social choice theory is the study of theoretical and practical methods to aggregate or combine individual preferences into a collective social welfare function. The field generally assumes that individuals have preferences , and it follows that they can be modeled using utility functions , by the VNM theorem .

  5. Social fact - Wikipedia

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    [1] Durkheim says that a social fact is a thing that many people do very similarly because the socialized community that they belong to has influenced them to do these things. [2] Durkheim defined the social fact this way: "A social fact is any way of acting, whether fixed or not, capable of exerting over the individual an external constraint; or:

  6. Structure and agency - Wikipedia

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    In his work on false necessity – or anti-necessitarian social theory – Unger recognizes the constraints of structure and its molding influence upon the individual, but at the same time finds the individual able to resist, deny, and transcend their context. The varieties of this resistance are negative capability.

  7. The Rules of Sociological Method - Wikipedia

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    With regards to social facts, Durkheim defined them as follows: A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.

  8. Mathematical model - Wikipedia

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    In a mathematical programming model, if the objective functions and constraints are represented entirely by linear equations, then the model is regarded as a linear model. If one or more of the objective functions or constraints are represented with a nonlinear equation, then the model is known as a nonlinear model.

  9. Sociogram - Wikipedia

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    Under the social discipline model, sociograms are sometimes used to reduce misbehavior in a classroom environment. [4] A sociogram is constructed after students answer a series of questions probing for affiliations with other classmates. The diagram can then be used to identify pathways for social acceptance for misbehaving students.