Search PubMed⌕ Search

SEARCH · Search PubMed

Results for “social theory”

Search indexed PubMed citations on genomics, clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health. Explore titles, authors and supplied subject terms, then open the PubMed record.

Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1979

The theory of social services in disaccumulationist capitalism.

The theory of social services today must be based on a more general theory of the "disaccumulation" of capitalist society. Capitalist society disaccumulates as new productive forces emerge within the framework of the capitalist labor market. These forces are expressed abstractly in new sources of productivity based on information and organization and concretely in a new organization of work. This new organization of work breaks down the old capitalist division between labor and non-labor time and poses instead a more fluid interaction and integration of work and non-work. Capitalist society, however, disaccumulates through social crisis. The reorganization of work is simultaneously expressed as the decay of the labor market. This decay delegitimates social services and creates the present social service crisis. Social services can find their new sources of legitimacy only if social classes can move past the crisis of disaccumulation and find the appropriate new forms of social life based on the emerging non-capitalist organization of work.

Conflict, Psychological↗
PubMed1978

Social-exchange theory: cognitive restructuring in marital therapy.

Problems arise in marital relationships when any of the following conditions are not met: first, that the couple have correspondence of their beliefs, or rules, as to what behaviors constitute "value messages" or "devalue messages"; second, that they depend primarily upon nonpainful channels for sending and receiving value messages; and third, that each partner's required quota of value messages from the other be of a reasonable quantity, not inflated by unrealistic fear of abandonment or devaluation. Problems in any of these areas may present in a variety of seemingly disparate fashions. Each of these problems is amenable to cognitive restructuring strategies. Different demands are placed on the therapeutic alliance and the marital alliance by the elucidation of each of these three types of problems; proper timing of interventions is therefore necessary.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1977

[Social-gerontological theories of the situation in the lives of the aged--a discussion on geroprophylaxis (author's transl)].

The contribution discusses the most important theories which chiefly refer in a mainly sociologically orientated way to the explanation of the various forms of the process of aging: activity- and disengagement-theory. Both theories have had an exceptionally strong influence on scientific soziological research since they had become known and the result of this research has made a modification of the theoretical onset necessary. The conclusions to be drawn under socio-economical points of view under, respect of the theory of socialisation, sociology of knowledge and socioeducational points of view will be explained at the end of the contribution.

Aged↗
PubMed2026

The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality.

The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to reconsider their critique to structural-functionalist theory of stratification, and its neo-classical economic allies, that emphasise efficient sorting of individuals to social positions? Or do their interpretations of genetic correlates of inequality need to include reference to constructivist processes that have defined the genetic mix that has come to be rewarded in a society? I argue that, with the current sociogenomics methods, it is hard to disentangle these theories, which are however fundamentally different regarding the nature and structure of social stratification. Using simulations that distinguish context-dependent from context-independent genetic variability, it is shown that the field always needs to make untestable assumptions about the nature of genetic differences.

Humans↗
PubMed1977

A measure of interpersonal dependency.

Interpersonal dependency refers to a complex of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors revolving around needs to associate closely with valued other people. Its conceptual sources include the psychoanalytic theory of object relations, social learning theories of dependency, and the ethological theory of attachment. A review of existing self-report inventories revealed none that adequately assessed interpersonal dependency. A new 48-item self-report inventory which assesses interpersonal dependency in adults was developed using a sample of 220 normals and 180 psychiatric patients. It was cross-validated on two additional samples. Three components of interpersonal dependency emerged: emotional reliance on another person, lack of social self-confidence, and assertion of autonomy. The relationship of these components with normals and patients was discussed, as well as with the concepts of attachment and dependency.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Contingency learning in chronic schizophrenia and its relevance to social motivation deficit.

The present study investigates the ability of chronic schizophrenic patients to learn to obtain social rewards when the incentive value of the contingent social event is known. From a group of 40 chronic patients tested for responsivity to social rewards, socially responsive and socially unresponsive patients were selected and compared on a learning task. Patients who were highly motivated to obtain social reinforcement did not emit the reinforced response during 300 learning trials any more frequently than did patients who were not motivated by social rewards. It was only when the experimental contingency was specified that responsive and unresponsive patients could be differentiated. The implications of these findings for social motivation theories of schizophrenia are discussed.

Adult↗