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  2. Communication - Wikipedia

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    Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not only transmits meaning but also creates it.

  3. Koentjaraningrat - Wikipedia

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    23 March 1999. ( 1999-03-24) (aged 75) Jakarta, Indonesia. Scientific career. Fields. Anthropology. Kanjeng Pangeran Haryo Prof. Dr. Koentjaraningrat ( [kʊntʃaraˈniŋrat]; 15 June 1923 – 23 March 1999) was an Indonesian anthropologist. He is sometimes referred to as "the father of Indonesian anthropology".

  4. Ministry of Communications and Informatics - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Communications and Informatics ( Indonesian: Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika; abbreviated as Kominfo) is an Indonesian government ministry that is responsible for communications, information affairs and internet censorship. The ministry reports to the president and is currently led by Budi Arie Setiadi, the Minister of ...

  5. Social facilitation - Wikipedia

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    Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. [1] [2] That is, people do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone. Situations that elicit social facilitation include coaction, performing for an audience, and appears ...

  6. Social science - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 18th century.

  7. Social innovation - Wikipedia

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    Social innovations are new social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions, [1] [2] [3] resulting from - for example - working conditions, education, community development or health. These ideas are created with the goal of extending and strengthening civil society.

  8. Symbolic convergence theory - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic convergence theory. Symbolic convergence theory ( SCT) is a communication theory developed by Ernest Bormann proposing that the holding of fantasies in common transforms collections of individuals into cohesive groups. SCT offers an explanation for the appearance of a group's cohesiveness, consisting of shared emotions, motives, and ...

  9. Social cognition - Wikipedia

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    More technically, social cognition refers to how people deal with conspecifics (members of the same species) or even across species (such as pet) information, include four stages: encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing. In the area of social psychology, social cognition refers to a specific approach in which these processes are studied ...