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  2. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life. [4]: 15 These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny from others ...

  3. Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia

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    Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, according to Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.

  4. Social anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety is the anxiety and fear specifically linked to being in social settings (i.e., interacting with others). [1] Some categories of disorders associated with social anxiety include anxiety disorders, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. [1]

  5. Social disorder - Wikipedia

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    A social disorder is a type of psychiatric condition that includes social deficits and affects social functioning. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Examples of social disorders include social phobia (social anxiety disorder), autism spectrum disorders , schizophreniform disorders like schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder , and certain other personality ...

  6. Embarrassment - Wikipedia

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    Embarrassment or awkwardness is an emotional state that is associated with mild to severe levels of discomfort, and which is usually experienced when someone commits (or thinks of) a socially unacceptable or frowned-upon act that is witnessed by or revealed to others.

  7. Dyssemia - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety or social phobia are medical classifications that can be used to designate nonverbal communication problems; however, dyssemia is not an anxiety or phobia when it applies to NLD or specific brain damage, for example to the right hemisphere. Chronic dyssemia is a condition that some neurologists term social-emotional processing ...

  8. Social vulnerability - Wikipedia

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    A more expansive definition of social vulnerability from Li et al. [10] highlights multiple scales of vulnerability: Social vulnerability encompasses all social practices, structures, or positions within the sets of relations and hierarchies that render individuals, groups, or societies unable to respond or adapt to harms.

  9. Erich Goode - Wikipedia

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    Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance, written with Nachman Ben-Yehuda, is a book about moral panics, from a sociological perspective. In Paranormal Beliefs: A Sociological Introduction (1999), Goode studies paranormal beliefs such as UFOs, ESP, and creationism using the methods of the sociology of deviance. Consistent in tone with ...