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  1. Feb 13, 2024 · The term social stratification refers to how societies categorize people based on factors such as wealth, income, education, family background, and power. Social stratification exists in all societies in some form. However, it is easier to move up socially in some than others.

  2. Apr 15, 2022 · Reflexivity generally refers to the examination of one’s own beliefs, judgments and practices during the research process and how these may have influenced the research. If positionality refers to what we know and believe then reflexivity is about what we do with this knowledge.

  3. Organizational behavior (OB) is a discipline that includes principles from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Its focus is on understanding how people behave in organizational work environments. Broadly speaking, OB covers three main levels of analysis: micro (individuals), meso (groups), and macro (the organization).

  4. Mar 14, 2017 · The concept of individualisation was developed to describe the process where the increasing rapidity of social change and greater uncertainty force individuals to spend more time and effort deciding on what choices to make in their daily lives, and where they have to accept greater individual responsibility for the consequences of those choices.

  5. SOCIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSEPCTIVES ON DECISION PROCESSES. To understand how sociology and psychology offer distinct but complementary views of decision processes, we begin with a brief introduction to the dominant model of human decision-making in the social sciences: rational choice theory.

    • Elizabeth E. Bruch, Fred Feinberg
    • 2017
  6. Sep 23, 2022 · In this article I make a distinction between the concepts of social position and social status. However, it is mainly the definition of the former concept that I consider a problem, and I will define social position as the position according to social power relations and interest relations.

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  8. Jul 27, 2016 · A social position (also referred to as a “social status”) is defined by Merton 1957 as “a position in a social system involving designated rights and obligations” (p. 110, cited under Additional General Terminology).