LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this chapter, we will discuss the following important topics.
- Social structure
- Culture
- Network
- Status and role
- Identity
- Community
- Dispora
- Values, norms and rules
- Personhood, habitus and agency
- Bureaucracy, power and authority
INTRODUCTION
A concept is an abstract symbol that represents an object, a property of an object, or a certain phenomenon. Concepts are symbols that we associate with bundles of meaning that we hold. Concepts are essential in every science because accuracy is achieved through them. Each scientific discipline is continually developing a refined set of concepts, to those share same discipline, will ...
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