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  2. Social welfare function - Wikipedia

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    A social scoring function maps each candidate to a number representing their quality. For example, the standard social scoring function for first-preference plurality is the total number of voters who rank a candidate first. Every social ordering can be made into a choice function by considering only the highest-ranked outcome.

  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 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:

  5. Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia

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    The manuscript left many significant questions about networks unresolved, and one of these was the number of degrees of separation in actual social networks. Milgram took up the challenge on his return from Paris , leading to the experiments reported in The Small World Problem [ 9 ] in popular science journal Psychology Today , with a more ...

  6. 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.

  7. Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia

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    The question is whether or not, for all problems for which an algorithm can verify a given solution quickly (that is, in polynomial time), an algorithm can also find that solution quickly. Since the former describes the class of problems termed NP, while the latter describes P, the question is equivalent to asking whether all problems in NP are ...

  8. Conversational constraints theory - Wikipedia

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    Conversational Constraints Theory, developed in Min-Sun Kim [clarification needed], attempts to explain how and why certain conversational strategies differ across various cultures and the effects of these differences. It is embedded in the Social Science communication approach which is based upon how culture influences communication.

  9. Mathematics for social justice - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics for social justice is a pedagogical approach to mathematics education that seeks to incorporate lessons from critical mathematics pedagogy and similar educational philosophies into the teaching of mathematics at schools and colleges. The approach tries to empower students on their way to developing a positive mathematics identity ...