Social interactions

Examples of Social interactions in the following topics:

• Understanding Social Interaction

  • In sociology, social interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals or groups.
  • A social interaction is a social exchange between two or more individuals.
  • Social structures and cultures are founded upon social interactions.
  • Through this broad schema of social development, one sees how social interaction lies at its core.
  • One being that they are both created through social interaction.

• Social Context for Learning

  • Some social constructivists discuss two aspects of social context that largely affect the nature and extent of the learning (Gredler, 1997; Wertch, 1991):
  • The nature of the learner's social interaction with knowledgeable members of the society is important.
  • Without the social interaction with more knowledgeable others, it is impossible to acquire social meaning of important symbol systems and learn how to use them.
  • Young children develop their thinking abilities by interacting with adults.

• Social Interaction in Urban Areas

  • Social scientists have focused on social interactions in urban areas because cities bring together many cultural strands.
  • Urban social structure differs in significant ways from rural life, which in turn affects the form of social interactions.
  • Urban social structure differs in significant ways from rural life, which in turn affects the form of social interactions.
  • The first set asks how social interactions are shaped by urban environments and how social interactions in urban environments are distinct from social interactions in other contexts.
  • Clearly, questions about social interactions in urban areas cluster loosely and are quite broad.

• Introduction to Social Psychology and Social Perception

  • Social psychology is the scientific study of how individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others through social interactions.
  • It has also been described as the scientific study of social interactions.
  • We may be watching television, listening to the radio, or just recalling previous interactions. 
  • This includes areas like social perception, social interaction, and social influence (including trust, power, and persuasion).
  • It involves questions about the nature of social behavior: for example, does social behavior ultimately stem from the individual, or is it largely a product of socialization, interaction, and greater social structures?

• Social Constructionism

  • Social constructionism is a school of thought introduced into sociology by Peter L.
  • Berger and Thomas Luckmann with their 1966 book The Social Construction of Reality.
  • Social constructionism focuses on the description of institutions and actions and not on analyzing cause and effect.
  • Berger and Luckmann argue that social construction describes both subjective and objective reality - that is that no reality exists outside what is produced and reproduced in social interactions.
  • A clear example of social constructionist thought is, following Sigmund Freud and Émile Durkheim, religion.

• Deprivation and Development

  • Social deprivation, or prevention from culturally normal interaction with society, affects mental health and impairs child development.
  • Social deprivation theory has had implications for family law.
  • Humans are social beings, and social interaction is essential to normal human development.
  • Social deprivation occurs when an individual is deprived of culturally normal interaction with the rest of society.
  • Feral children are children who grow up without social interaction.

• Intersubjectivity of Social Meanings

  • Communications and interactions entail socially agreed-upon ideas of the world and the social patterns and rules of language use (Ernest, 1999).
  • Construction of social meanings, therefore, involves intersubjectivity among individuals.
  • Knowledge is derived from interactions between people and their environments and resides within cultures (Shunk, 2000; McMahon, 1997).
  • Two people, interacting through communication, help to extend each other's understanding of what makes a rainbow.
  • The flash graphic above illustrating the intersubjectivity of social meanings was created by Nina Augustin and Wan-Ting Huang (2002).

• The Nature of Groups

  • A social group is two or more humans who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
  • In the social sciences, a social group is two or more humans who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and have a collective sense of unity.
  • Society can also be viewed as people who interact with one another, sharing similarities pertaining to culture and territorial boundaries.
  • It is a social unit consisting of a number of individuals interacting with each other with respect to:
  • Contrast the social cohesion-based concept of a social group with the social identity concept

• Assumptions of Social Constructivism

  • For the social constructivist, reality cannot be discovered: it does not exist prior to its social invention.
  • Knowledge: To social constructivists, knowledge is also a human product, and is socially and culturally constructed (Ernest, 1999; Gredler, 1997; Prat & Floden, 1994).
  • Individuals create meaning through their interactions with each other and with the environment they live in.
  • Learning: Social constructivists view learning as a social process.
  • Meaningful learning occurs when individuals are engaged in social activities.

• Interaction Models

  • Most commonly, interactions are considered in the context of regression analyses.
  • If two variables of interest interact, the relationship between each of the interacting variables and a third "dependent variable" depends on the value of the other interacting variable.
  • The notion of "interaction" is closely related to that of "moderation" that is common in social and health science research: the interaction between an explanatory variable and an environmental variable suggests that the effect of the explanatory variable has been moderated or modified by the environmental variable.
  • An interaction variable is a variable constructed from an original set of variables in order to represent either all of the interaction present or some part of it.
  • When there are more than two explanatory variables, several interaction variables are constructed, with pairwise-products representing pairwise-interactions and higher order products representing higher order interactions.