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  2. Pure sociology - Wikipedia

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    Pure sociology. Like rational choice theory, conflict theory, or functionalism, pure sociology is a sociological paradigm — a strategy for explaining human behavior. Developed by Donald Black as an alternative to individualistic and social-psychological theories, pure sociology was initially used to explain variation in legal behavior. [1 ...

  3. Pure play - Wikipedia

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    Pure play method [ edit] In finance, the "pure play method" is an approach used to estimate the cost of equity capital of private companies, which involves examining the beta coefficient of other public and single focused companies. [2] See also Hamada's equation . Here, when estimating a private company A's equity beta coefficient, the equity ...

  4. Dramaturgy (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    e. Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective commonly used in micro-sociological accounts of social interaction in everyday life. The term was first adapted into sociology from the theatre by Erving Goffman, who developed most of the related terminology and ideas in his 1956 book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

  5. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of leisure is the study of how humans organize their free time. Leisure includes a broad array of activities, such as sport, tourism, and the playing of games. The sociology of leisure is closely tied to the sociology of work, as each explores a different side of the work–leisure relationship.

  6. Sociological imagination - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, Mills defined sociological imagination as "the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society." [2] In exercising their sociological imagination, one seeks to understand situations in the individual's life by looking at situations in broader society. For example, a single student who fails to keep ...

  7. Parten's stages of play - Wikipedia

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    Stages of play is a theory and classification of children's participation in play developed by Mildred Parten Newhall in her 1929 dissertation. [1] Parten observed American preschool age (ages 2 to 5) children at free play (defined as anything unrelated to survival, production or profit). Unoccupied (play) – when the child is not playing ...

  8. The Social Construction of Reality - Wikipedia

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    The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within in a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...