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	SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
		A rigid social stratification traditionally characterized all major ethnic groups in Senegal except the Diola.
		Despite the eroding effects of urbanization on this organization, it is well to look at the traditional patterns of society in order to better understand the society of today.
		The compound ("carre" or concession) is the smallest unit in the village.
	www.lclark.edu /~nicole/SENEGAL/SOCIAL.HTM (2828 words)

	Crises and Conflicts in Social Movement Organizations
		Social movements rely predominantly on a combination of purposive and solidary incentives, though material ones are not necessarily excluded.
		Organizations attempting a great deal of heterogeneity are pushed in the direction of vague beliefs and remote goals in order not to alienate the potential membership.
		Just as organization is the means by which individual talents and energies are focused toward a common goal, trust is the crucial ingredient which allows some individuals to commit those resources without having to justify in advance even the most minor decisions.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/socialmovements/crisis.htm (6478 words)

	Code of Ethics
		Social workers who are concerned that clients' access to their records could cause serious misunderstanding or harm to the client should provide assistance in interpreting the records and consultation with the client regarding the records.
		If social workers engage in conduct contrary to this prohibition or claim that an exception to this prohibition is warranted because of extraordinary circumstances, it is social workers--not their clients--who assume the full burden of demonstrating that the former client has not been exploited, coerced, or manipulated, intentionally or unintentionally.
		Social workers should be aware of the impact of the political arena on practice and should advocate for changes in policy and legislation to improve social conditions in order to meet basic human needs and promote social justice.
	www.socialworkers.org /pubs/code/code.asp (7596 words)

	Social Development Theory
		Social development is the gradual discovery and unfolding of the potential of a complex, integrated whole, a living organization, a living social organism.
		Social development theory should focus on underlying processes rather than on surface activities and results, since development activities, policies, strategies, programs and results will always be limited to a specific context and circumstance, whereas social development itself encompasses a potentially infinite field in space and time.
		In the course of social development, society is moved by a range of different psychological motives--the quest for survival and self-preservation, the urge to possess land, the seeking for social status and power, and the pursuit of wealth.
	www.icpd.org /development_theory/SocialDevTheory.htm (11562 words)

	the field of community organization
		Community organization is the process of dealing with individuals or groups who are or may become concerned with social welfare services or objectives, for the purpose of influencing the volume of such services, improving their quality or distribution, or furthering the attainment of such objectives.
		In the social welfare field, community organization may be described as the art and process of discovering social welfare needs and of creating, coordinating and systematizing instrumentalities through which group resources and talents may be directed toward the realization of group ideals and the development of the potentialities of group members.
		Community organization is a process and a field of social work which we are inclined to regard as comparable with casework and group work; administration is a function of all social agencies, whether they are concerned primarily with casework, group work, or community organization.
	www.infed.org /archives/e-texts/lane_community_organization.htm (3557 words)

	Social Welfare Organizations
		If the organization engages in an excess benefit transaction with a person having substantial influence over the organization, an excise tax may be imposed on the person and any managers agreeing to the transaction.
		Similarly, an organization formed to represent member-tenants of an apartment complex does not qualify, since its activities benefit the member-tenants and not all tenants in the community, while an organization formed to promote the legal rights of all tenants in a particular community may qualify under section 501(c)(4) as a social welfare organization.
		An organization is not operated primarily for the promotion of social welfare if its primary activity is operating a social club for the benefit, pleasure, or recreation of its members, or is carrying on a business with the general public in a manner similar to organizations operated for profit.
	www.irs.gov /charities/nonprofits/article/0,,id=96178,00.html (446 words)

	SELF AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
		Socialization Each newly born infant, if accepted into the population base of a society, is nourished until old enough to manage the symbolic systems of the society into which it has been accepted.
		Socialization is moving and has been moved from the family and church into the impersonal mass educational complex...a bureaucracy...in which children are trained to be functionaries in other bureaucracies.
		Social status is given and taken away by virtue of the standards imposed by managers who set profit, growth and control of the corporate environment as the standards for judgments of merit, promotion and, mayhap, dismissal.
	uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /RED_FEATHER/dramasociallife/006SELF-SOCORG.htm (6619 words)

	Literacy - Social Organization of Classes and Schools
		Second, the social organization of schools and classrooms is a topic which, on its face, may not seem particularly new or essential to novices.
		This focus on what is visible leaves out important elements--the social norms that provide a context for teaching and learning; the teacher's intellectual work in planning, teaching, and assessing within the social context; and the subtle negotiations within which teacher and students enact and reenact their relationships to one another and to academic content.
		Of particular relevance to the matter of the social organization of schools and classrooms are two chapters in the most recent edition: Frederick Erickson's chapter, "Qualitative Methods in Research on Teaching," and Courtney B. Cazden's chapter on "Classroom Discourse." Erickson's chapter tackles issues of theory, research method, and educational policy and practice.
	ed-web3.educ.msu.edu /literacy/papers/social.htm (7960 words)

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		Human beings are complex creatures with a bewildering variety of social organizations, making it difficult to determine any pattern, structure or controlling mechanism, and particularly to design or consciously evolve more functional or appropriate social systems.
		What we need are values that encourage the kinds of social organization that will incorporate the best features of the coral reef and other highly evolved functional systems, features that have proven themselves over millions of years of successful evolution.
		The need for such a system of social organization is demonstrated by two of the critical challenges facing today's world: the rise of ethnic/cultural/religious violence, and the rapid deterioration of the global environment.
	bahai-library.com /?file=dahl_ecological_models_organization (1821 words)

	Untitled Document
		"Social organization" tends to be all-encompassing and a rather vague concept.
		Primate social groupings are the result of many selective factors that influence the size, composition, and dynamics of the group.
		Therefore, primate social groups have tended to evolve as a means for survival around a variety of reproductive strategies.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/origins/primates/organization.html (1004 words)

	community organization @ the informal education homepage
		those phases of social organization which constitute a conscious effort on the part of a community to control its affairs democratically, and to secure the highest services from its specialists, organizations, agencies, and the institutions by means of recognized interrelations.
		Social action: is employed by groups and organizations which seek to alter institutional policies or to make changes in the distribution of power.
		Social planning: is the method of community organization traditional to health and welfare councils although its scope and arena were enlarged in the 1960s to encompass city planners, urban renewal authorities and the large public bureaucracies.
	www.infed.org /community/b-comorg.htm (3336 words)

	The Process of Social Development -- Growth Online
		Development is the process by which the fabric of the social organization increases in density, quality, complexity, and geographic extension.
		When social acceptance of the activity becomes complete, the activity matures into an institution that no longer requires the support of specialized organizations, policies and laws to promote it.
		The speed of social development increases as awareness of opportunities spreads, aspiration increases, conscious knowledge of organization grows, attitudes become more progressive, and infrastructure is put in place.
	www.gurusoftware.com /GuruNet/Social/Topics/Principles.htm (738 words)

	Wikipedia:Neutral point of view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It should instead present the fact that some people believe it, and what their reasons are, and then as well it should present what the other side says.
		This made it easier to organize and understand the arguments surrounding the topic of abortion, which were then presented sympathetically, each with its strengths and weaknesses.
		There are numerous other success stories of articles that began life as virtual partisan screeds but were nicely cleaned up by people who concerned themselves with representing all views clearly and sympathetically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view (5744 words)

	MSN Encarta - Inuit
		The underlying social law is the obligation to help oneâs kin.
		Community ridicule is the most common means of social control; in extreme cases, after lengthy deliberation, an offender may be socially ostracized or put to death.
		With the absence of any communal legal structure, harming someone from another group jeopardizes oneâs own kinship group (which is held responsible for the offense) and raises the possibility of a blood feud.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561130_2/Inuit.html (1166 words)

	The Powers of Organization in Social, Society's Development, Complexity,Values,Authority, -- Growth Online
		The ability to think of new forms and complexities of organization, such as the Internet and the computer operating system now running your computer, are indicators of the mental stage of social development.
		Each system or other component of the organization becomes more dense in its complexity, leading to a greater degree of quality and dimension to the organization, or whole new organizations are created that have a built in higher density to begin with (the Internet being an obvious example).
		During these stages the structure of organizations were based not on the clearer perceptions of truth and pure thought but on the physical and vital realities, such as the power and desires of the powerful few.
	www.gurusoftware.com /GuruNet/Social/Topics/Organization.htm (875 words)

	Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Association Mission
		The Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Association (SP/SAA), a non-profit organization, was officially organized in 1997 to meet the growing needs of people throughout the world who have social phobia/social anxiety.
		Social phobia, or social anxiety disorder, is a relatively new classification in the DSM, a psychiatric diagnostic statistical manual, appearing for the first time in early 1980's, and then more specifically and definitively in the 1987 version.
		Social anxiety is still nowhere near a "household" word --and it is a "problem area" not taught in most graduate schools of psychology.
	www.socialphobia.org /mission.html (511 words)

	Indian Social Organization - Handbook of American Indians, 1906
		Tribes may be divided broadly into those in which the organization was loose, the subdivisions being families or bands and descent being counted prevailingly in the male line, and those which were divided into clearly defined groups called gentes or clans, which were strictly exogamic.
		The coast people of Oregon and Washington were organized on the basis of village communities similar to those of California, but slavery occupied a more prominent position in the social fabric and its importance increased northward, the institution extending as far, at least, as Copper River, Alaska (see Slavery).
		The most advanced social organization north of the Pueblo country was probably that developed by the Iroquois confederated tribes.
	www.snowwowl.com /swolfAIHsocialorganization.html (3226 words)

	The Social Organization of Migration in Highland Morocco
		The Social Organization of Migration in Highland Morocco
		Household organization rests upon a set of locally understood meanings, for the idea of a household itself and for the culturally legitimated authority of patriarchs and elders that supports a sharply defined sex- and age-based division of labor.
		The atomized, fast-moving economy of the cities has advantages and disadvantages that the migrant (and the social group in which she or he is embedded) must balance against the material limitations and patriarchal, gerontocratic, and cloyingly dense social relations of the village (Lagnaoui 1999).
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /dcrawford/fulbright.html (2919 words)

	WOVAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION (PAPUA NEW GUINEA).
		This study describes in detail the main features of the social organization of the Wovan people who inhabit the Western Schrader ranges on the northern fringe of the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea and explores the utility of a processual approach to the contraction of marriage in such a description.
		Wovan social relations are structured around kinship, locality, and the performance of rituals of initiation.
		The tensions between the two organizational modes, hierarchical and egalitarian, are made manifest in the contraction of marriage.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI8316019 (365 words)

	DLM as a Social Organization
		The actual formal organization of DLM was set up in Britain in 1971 and it was registered as a charity with Mata Ji acting as regent for her son, Maharaj Ji, who was still a minor, and with half English and half Indian premies on the board of directors.
		This paper has attempted to show that the Divine Light Mission as a social organization is a product of various constraints which stem from the degree of competence of the leader, the social composition of the followers, the beliefs and practices of the devotees and the cultural context within which the mission functions.
		This study of DLM as a social organization adds additional weight to the 'intriguing possibility that the cultural appropriateness of a religious movement may have as much to do with its form of organization as with its set of teachings'.
	www.ex-premie.org /papers/dlm_social_org.htm (6873 words)

	Social Organization
		There are levels of social disparity between the rich and the poor including differences in access to resources and facilities as well as differing levels of status.
		Nobility was strictly hereditary, and the nobles had a tightly knit social group established by marriage between nobility and trading.
		The peasants were organized into wards of at least ten families which were ruled by a lord who usually served a higher level of nobility.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/hagarp/States.htm (1104 words)

	Michael Bakunin by James Guillaume
		Each workshop, each factory, will organize itself into an association of workers who will be free to administer production and organize their work as they think best, provided that the rights of each worker are safeguarded and the principles of equality and justice are observed.
		Social organization cannot be restricted to the local commune or the local federation of producers’ groups.
		We will see how social organization is expanded and completed, on the one hand by the establishment of regional corporative federations comprising all the groups of workers in the same industry; and on the other by the establishment of a federation of communes.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/guillaume/works/ideas.htm (7025 words)

	Organization and Environment
		Sundered from the natural environment, the term is attached to organizations (as 'organizational environment') and is abstracted to deal with general and ungrounded properties.
		Exemplary in its combination of theory, classical and empirical social science, the humanities, and the arts, Organization and Environment is armed with a unique repertoire of intellectual weapons to attack the deeply complex phenomenon we call the environment.
		Organizations and organizational scholars need a deep understanding of the environmental impacts of economic activities.
	www.coba.usf.edu /jermier/journal.htm (1450 words)

	Chapter 8: Social Organization and Kinship — Utah State University
		Membership is determined by birth and individuals cannot move from one social stratum to another.
		social positions that one is assumed to occupy by virtue of the group into which one happens to be born--for instance, one's sex or race
		Social organization consists of groups, statuses, and division of labor.
	ocw.usu.edu /Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Chapter_8__Social_Organization_and_Kinship.htm (1112 words)

	Liberalism, Capitalism: The Only Possible System of Social Organization
		Every examination of the different conceivable possibilities of organizing society on the basis of the division of labor must always come to the same result: there is only the choice between communal ownership and private ownership of the means of production.
		If one further realizes that socialism too is unworkable, then one cannot avoid acknowledging that capitalism is the only feasible system of social organization based on the division of labor.
		Science has succeeded in showing that every system of social organization that could be conceived as a substitute for the capitalist system is self-contradictory and unavailing, so that it could not bring about the results aimed at by its proponents.
	www.mises.org /liberal/ch2sec6.asp (1502 words)

	Ancient Civilizations : Social Organization Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Social Organization--One of the most important aspects in any society, basically includes all everyday life activities.
		Hopefully, you'll also realize that modern life is actually not that different from everyday life...we're in fact an extension, and we still live life the same way as our ancestors did, share the same beliefs, experience the same emotions, etc...
		In any civilization, whether ancient or present, one important component of the civilization is its social organization, which comprises of the way the people are grouped according to such as different social classes, and also the way of life of the people such as their means of living, entertainment and so on.
	library.thinkquest.org /C004203/social/main.htm (151 words)

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