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  2. Community practice - Wikipedia

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    Community practice also known as macro practice or community work is a branch of social work in the United States that focuses on larger social systems and social change, and is tied to the historical roots of United States social work. [1] The field of community practice social work encompasses community organizing and community organization ...

  3. Macrosociology - Wikipedia

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    Macrosociology is a large-scale approach to sociology, emphasizing the analysis of social systems and populations at the structural level, often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction. [1] [2] Though macrosociology does concern itself with individuals, families, and other constituent aspects of a society, it does so in relation ...

  4. Level of analysis - Wikipedia

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    Level of analysis. Level of analysis is used in the social sciences to point to the location, size, or scale of a research target. It is distinct from unit of observation in that the former refers to a more or less integrated set of relationships while the latter refers to the distinct unit from which data have been or will be gathered.

  5. Social work - Wikipedia

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    Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work.

  6. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology overlaps with a variety of disciplines that study society, in particular social anthropology, political science, economics, social work and social philosophy. Many comparatively new fields such as communication studies, cultural studies, demography and literary theory, draw upon methods that originated in sociology.

  7. Structure and agency - Wikipedia

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    Structure and agency. In the social sciences there is a standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behaviour. Structure is the recurrent patterned arrangements which influence or limit the choices and opportunities available. [1] Agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free ...

  8. Racial formation theory - Wikipedia

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    They refer to it as "racial order" that is able to have meaning and a varying system due to a result of the way that people choose to interact with one another in "micro-level and macro- level of social relations. The "macro-level" social relations refer to the social structures and common ideologies of a society. Relevant social structures ...

  9. Social network - Wikipedia

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    Macro level. Rather than tracing interpersonal interactions, macro-level analyses generally trace the outcomes of interactions, such as economic or other resource transfer interactions over a large population. Diagram: section of a large-scale social network. Large-scale networks: Large-scale network is a term somewhat synonymous with "macro ...