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  2. Uses and gratifications theory - Wikipedia

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    Overall, users have the following motivations: social and affection, need to vent negative feelings, recognition, entertainment, cognitive needs. Users who share news are motivated by the uses and gratifications of socializing and status seeking, especially if they have had prior experience with social media. [ 39 ]

  3. Product (business) - Wikipedia

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    Products on shelves at a Fred Meyer hypermarket superstore Skin care cosmetics for sale as products at a pharmacy in Brazil. In marketing, a product is an object, or system, or service made available for consumer use as of the consumer demand; it is anything that can be offered to a domestic or an international market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer. [1]

  4. Production for use - Wikipedia

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    Alternative conceptions of socialism that do not use the profit system such as the Lange model, use instead a price system and monetary calculation. [ 3 ] The main socialist critique of the capitalist profit is that the accumulation of capital ("making money") becomes increasingly detached from the process of producing economic value , leading ...

  5. Social system - Wikipedia

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    Parsons organized social systems in terms of action units, where one action executed by an individual is one unit. He defines a social system as a network of interactions between actors. [4] According to Parsons, social systems rely on a system of language, and culture must exist in a society in order for it to qualify as a social system. [4]

  6. Sociological theory of diffusion - Wikipedia

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    The effects of networks and institutional environment on adoption of innovations can be explained using a social network theory model. In such a model, nodes represent agents (e.g. companies or organizations) and ties represent a connection between two entities (e.g. a company-client relationship or competitive relationship). Diffusion occurs ...

  7. AGIL paradigm - Wikipedia

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    AGIL represents the functional scheme for the whole general action system (including the human condition paradigm), so that AGIL also defines the cultural system, the personality system etc. The social system represent the integral part of the action system and is in this way only a subsystem within the greater whole of systems.

  8. Socialist mode of production - Wikipedia

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    The socialist mode of production, also known as socialism or communism, [a] is a specific historical phase of economic development and its corresponding set of social relations that emerge from capitalism in the schema of historical materialism within Marxist theory.

  9. Rhetoric of social intervention model - Wikipedia

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    Brown names his model "social intervention" to emphasize his conclusion that any attempt to encourage or discourage social system change is an intervention, not control or manipulation. [1] He argues that the interconnected nature of the subsystems and the communication actions of multiple interveners mean that the outcome of any attempted ...