Social Foundations

Social foundations includes discussion of social presentation, interaction, control, social group behavior, and group types.

   

Social presentation

Social perception has to do with how people present and perceive other people and themselves. It includes emotional, cognitive, and volitional components, and may include status.

Social interaction

Social interactions include interactions between different classes of people, such as adults and children, males and female, strangers and friends, and so forth. Cooperation and conflict, helping and hurting, and love, indifference, and hatred are some of the chief areas of interest. Persuasion and domination are also included in this category. This also includes roles, which are patterns of behavior and interaction.

Social control

This includes studies of social norms (how people do behave), mores (ought society perceives they ought to behave), and control (how they are influenced to behave).

Group types

This includes classification of groups, and studies of their formation or dissolution. Primary or strong groups, secondary groups, and weak groups can be identified.

Social group behavior

This includes studies of the behavior of social groups in general. It includes such things as the effect of individuals on groups and the effect of groups on individuals, on group norms and mores. This also includes collective behavior, such as the behavior of crowds and mobs. The process of socialization may be included here.


Sciences

Physics and chemistry seem to be at too low a level to be useful to social foundations. Astronomy is only minimally useful. Cosmology and galactic astronomy have little to do with it: Stellar astronomy and solar system astronomy have a little more. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and biohistory is also rather minimally useful to social foundations. Biology is a little more useful. Although molecular biology and cell biology are at too low a level of detail to be directly useful, organism biology including habitat, tissues, organ systems, form, life cycle, and behavior is a little more applicable. Some areas of systematics are useful. Microbes, protists, plants, and fungi are all less important than animals. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, system ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography is fairly useful. Biohistory is not so directly useful to social foundations.

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Social foundations depend quite heavily on personal studies. Studies of the human body are significant. Body systems including structural, vital, reproductive, and control systems are somewhat indirectly useful. Body functions including mobility, vital functions, reproduction, and control functions are vital. These include disease, life cycle, and form and appearance. Psychology, including behavioral elements, consciousness, mind, behavior, mental illness, development, personality, and social psychology are essential. Biography is also significant.

Social foundations are interconnected with the other areas of anthropology, including demography and physical anthropology although these provide more examples than basic principles. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and human effect on the environment is connected. Human geography including Asiatic geography, European Geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanig geography provides illustrations. Particular groups provide examples and illustrations.

Culture influences and shapes social foundations. Material culture such as foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation, communication, industrial artifacts, and other artifacts creates profound influence. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy is also useful. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, performing arts, games, sports, and cultural events is also important.

Institutions

Families and marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are highly important and significant. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, school organization, and particular schools is also important. Economics including activities, organizations, industries, and systems also had some influence. Govenment and law, government activities, government structure, and particular governments also influence social foundations. Religion includinb beliefs, practices, organization, and particular traditions is closely connected to sociology.

Sociology

Social structure and change including social structure and social types have some connection to social foundations. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular changes can be considered.

Particular communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City may be of some use.

Peoples of the world can be connected. Nations including Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, and Ethiopia can be connected.

Western civilization including Russia is important. Anglic peoples including the United States are important. Latin peoples including those of Brazil can be connected.

Asiatic peoples including Bangladesh are important. South Asian peoples including those of India and Pakistan are significant. Oriental peoples including China can be considered. Southeast Asian peoples including those of Indonesia can be considered.

African peoples including those of Nigeria may be useful. American Indian peoples including those found in the United States and Brazil are less directly useful.

History

There is some work in prehistory, antiquity, classical and medieval history to be considered, but much of this study is modern. It has developed in the 16th century and 17th century. Details of the 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be considered.

These may be studied in the 19th century, including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century.

This has been especially studied in the 20th century. This is connected to the early 20th century,

Freud's work is listed here because it is influential, not because it is reliable.

1905 Freud publishes his theories of sexuality and its influence on psychological development.

1913 - 1930 Freud extends his psychoanalytic theories to the study of society.

early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, and late mid 20th century. The late 20th century including the early 1980s, lte 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s can be connected.

It has also been considered in the early 21st century including the early 2000s. The late 2000s including 2006, 2007, and 2008 to the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter with July, August, and September, and fourth quarter with October and November can be considered.

Social foundations are likely to be considered in the future including the near future down to next month, next quarter, and next year, the middle future, and far future.


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