Social systems

thumb|Investiture of a knight (miniature from the statutes of the Order of the Knot, founded in 1352 by [[Louis I of Naples)]] thumb|Orava Castle in Slovakia. Medieval castles are a traditional symbol of a feudal society. Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of various customs and systems that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males, and in feminist theory to describe a broader social structure in which men as a group dominate society.

personal value, basis for ethical action

theoretical concept in sociology

means-oriented social benefit

aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society

uneven distribution of resources in a society

state of affairs in which all people in a society have the same status in certain respects

national reputation system being developed by the Chinese government

patterned series of interrelationships existing between individuals, groups, and institutions

sustainability investment criteria

society in which no one is born into a social class

study of human behavior in organizational settings

fall or disintegration of complex human societies, involving causative factors such as natural disasters, environmental change, depletion of resources, unsustainable complexity, decay of social cohesion, rising inequality, and loss of creativity

Sociocracy is a theory of governance that seeks to create psychologically safe environments and productive organizations. It draws on the use of consent, rather than majority voting, in discussion and decision-making by people who have a shared goal or work process.

type of software

analysis of social structures using network and graph theory

thumb|upright=1.3|A sailor keeps watch aboard .|alt= Watchkeeping or watchstanding is the assignment of sailors to specific roles on a ship to operate it continuously. These assignments, also known at sea as watches, are constantly active as they are considered essential to the safe operation of the vessel and also allow the ship to respond to emergencies and other situations quickly. These watches are divided into work periods to ensure that the roles are always occupied at all times, while those members of the crew who are assigned to work during a watch are known as watchkeepers.

form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs

Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. Holacracy has been adopted by for-profit and non-profit organizations in several countries. This can be seen as a greater movement within organisational design to cope with increasingly complex social environments, that promises a greater degree of transparency, effectiveness and agility.

structure of all facilities and opportunities to acquire education within a country or region

In feminist theory, kyriarchy ( ) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission. The word was coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some relationships and privileged in others. It is an intersectional extension of the idea of patriarchy beyond gender. Kyriarchy encompasses forms of dominating hierarchies in which the subordination of one individual or group to anot

type of system that includes social and technological elements, enabling society's complex infrastructures, organizations and interactions

the study of social processes, especially social change

a sufficient participation, in number of persons (or adopters of an innovation in a social system), that triggers a new behaviour, or where the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth

organizational model that seeks to engage stakeholders in self-determined change

socio-technical system

community rating algorithm

term of technology that enabled social interactions

Sociotechnology (short for "social technology") is the study of processes on the intersection of society and technology. Vojinović and Abbott define it as "the study of processes in which the social and the technical are indivisibly combined". Sociotechnology is an important part of socio-technical design, which is defined as "designing things that participate in complex systems that have both social and technical aspects".

group of animals engaged in communal care of offspring

prevention, management, and handling of situations that adversely affect people's well-being

Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline. Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.

graph that represents social relations between entities

strength of social hierarchy

sub-discipline of sociology which deals with organizations

procedure in which two people operate together as a single unit

Social system

set of physical, social and cultural elements that favor the use of bicycles

public institution of social security

political-economic model common across Europe

measure of the natural decay within a social system

Interaction of different elements in culture

form of social welfare