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53 Social Theories

John Spacey, February 05, 2020 updated on December 23, 2022

Social theories, or sociological theories, are concepts and models that describe complex human systems known as societies. These systems are used to produce goods and quality of life while providing justice, rights, freedoms and managing risk. Societies can also be oppressive, dysfunctional, chaotic, unstable and irrational. The following are useful theories that can be used to model, explain and predict societies.

Agency	Anomie
Broken Window Theory	Chaos Theory
Civic Duty	Civil Society
Civility	Collective Behavior
Collectivism	Conformity
Consumerism	Cultural Capital
Decorum	Emergence
Equality	Ethnocentrism
Free Riding	Freedom
Group Harmony	Herd Behavior
Herd Mentality	Individualism
Justice	Labeling
Last Man	Marxism
Medicalization	Paternalism
Postmodernism	Power Distance
Public Safety	Public Sector
Rational Choice Theory	Relativism
Shared Experiences	Social Capital
Social Change	Social Cohesion
Social Constructionism	Social Constructs
Social Control	Social Issues
Social Mobility	Social Status
Social Structures	Social Values
Spontaneous Order	Symbolic Interactionism
Systems Theory	Tolerance For Disagreement
Uncertainty Avoidance	Unintended Consequences
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