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  2. Structuration theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory of structuration is a social theory of the creation and reproduction of social systems that is based on the analysis of both structure and agents (see structure and agency), without giving primacy to either. Furthermore, in structuration theory, neither micro- nor macro-focused analysis alone is sufficient

  3. Structural ritualization theory - Wikipedia

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    With the theory, ritualized symbolic practices (RSPs) are socially standardized actions that are schema-driven. The term schema refers to a cognitive structure or framework. According to the theory, ritual actions shape an actor's thoughts. This helps structural reproduction take place in specific domains of interaction.

  4. Structural-demographic theory - Wikipedia

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    This association had been noted by a number of historians, but had not yet been systematically explored in the context of global demography and the history of revolutions and civil war. The structural-demographic theory emerged from his attempts to apply the insights of political demography to the study of revolutions in world history. [9]

  5. Development theory - Wikipedia

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    Human development theory is a theory which uses ideas from different origins, such as ecology, sustainable development, feminism and welfare economics. It wants to avoid normative politics and is focused on how social capital and instructional capital can be deployed to optimize the overall value of human capital in an economy.

  6. Structuralism - Wikipedia

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    Russian functional linguist Roman Jakobson was a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including philosophy, anthropology, and literary theory. Jakobson was a decisive influence on anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss , by whose work the term structuralism first appeared in reference to social ...

  7. Structuralism (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    la plus grand realité du seuil ─ (the philosophy of the doorstep) l'espace corridor ─ (against the spatial corridor between functionalistic blocks) stad als interieur van de gemeenschap ─ (the city as "interior" of the community) identity ─ (architecture and residents) het ogenblik van core ─ (core of the city) hierarchy of human ...

  8. Structural complexity theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory has emerged as a result of (still failing) attempts to resolve the first and still the most important question of this kind, the P = NP problem.Most of the research is done basing on the assumption of P not being equal to NP and on a more far-reaching conjecture that the polynomial time hierarchy of complexity classes is infinite.

  9. Structural theory - Wikipedia

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    According to structural theory, from the structural formula of a molecule it is possible to derive physical and spectroscopic data and to predict chemical reactivity. [ 1 ] Beginning from about 1858, many scientists from several countries took part in the early development of structural theory, including August Kekule , Archibald Scott Couper ...