Social phenomenon
Encyclopedia
Social phenomena include all behavior
which influences or is influenced by organism
s sufficiently alive to respond to one another.
Behavior
Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...
which influences or is influenced by organism
Organism
In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homoeostasis as a stable whole.An organism may either be unicellular or, as in the case of humans, comprise...
s sufficiently alive to respond to one another.
See also
- Forms of activity and interpersonal relations
- List of sociology topics
- Social factSocial factIn sociology, social facts are the values, cultural norms, and social structures external to the individual and capable of exercising a constraint on that individual....
Further reading
- Floyd Henry AllportFloyd Henry AllportFloyd Henry Allport was professor of social psychology and political psychology at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs from 1924 until 1956, and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley...
. "Floyd H. Allport." In Gardner Lindzey (ed) A History of Psychology in Autobiography 6. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1974): 3- 29. Full text online - Jegede, A. S., The Yoruba Cultural Construction of Health and Illness, Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 11(3) 2002, pp. 322. 335 online