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Social orientation theory

Deutsch: Sozialorientierungstheorie / Español: Teoría de la orientación social / Português: Teoria da orientação social / Français: Théorie de l'orientation sociale / Italiano: Teoria dell'orientamento sociale /

Social orientation theory refers to an analysis of performance gains in groups suggesting individual differences in social (the tendency to approach social situations apprehensively or with enthusiasm) orientation predict when social facilitation will occur.

Social pathology

Social pathology refers to a concept which compares society to a physical organism and sees criminality as an illness. Moreover, Social pathology refers to a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment and the study of such factors and the social problems they produce.

Social perception

Social perception refers to the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people.

Social perspective taking

Social perspective taking refers to a person's ability to infer others’ thoughts, intentions, motives, and attitudes.

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Social Phobia

Social Phobia refers to a disorder in which the individual has excessive fear of most situations, and will often avoid them; an intense, enduring, Irrational Fear of being observed, evaluated, embarrassed, or humiliated by others in social situations.

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Social play

Social play refers to a kind of play in which children interact with and are influenced by the play of others; children joining with other children in some activity. The types/kinds of Social play includes: Parallel play, Associative play, and Cooperative play.

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Social problems perspective

Social problems perspective refers to
the belief that Crime is a manifestation of underlying social problems, such as poverty, discrimination, pervasive family violence, inadequate sociali

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Social process theories

Social process theories also known as interactionist perspectives, this Theory emphasized the give-and-take which occurs between offender, victim, and society-and specifically between the of

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