Social phenomena include all behavior which influences or is influenced by organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another. Behavior (or behaviour in Commonwealth English) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is a complex adaptive system of organs that influence each other in such a way that they function as a more or less stable whole and have properties of life. ...
Forms of activity and interpersonal relations in sociology can be described as follows: first and most basic are animal-like behaviors, i. ... This is a list of terms in sociology. ...
References
John Markey. "A Redefinition of Social Phenomena: Giving A Basis for Comparative Sociology." American Journal of Sociology Vol. 31 (1925-26): 733-743. Full text online
Further reading
Floyd Henry Allport. "Floyd H. Allport." In Gardner Lindzey (ed) A History of Psychology in Autobiography 6. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1974): 3- 29. Full text online
Jegede, A. S., The Yoruba Cultural Construction of Health and Illness, Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 11(3) 2002, pp. 322. 335 online
The sociality of music generally is conceived in terms of the processes at work in the production and consumption of music within particular social and historical circumstances.
Much work (eg, Walter 1957) thus concentrated on an examination of the social and institutional conditions assumed necessary for this life to reach a level of maturity taken to be comparable to that of other nations.
It has been assumed that the study of music's social qualities is a valid topic in its own right which can cast light on the issue of music as an aesthetic phenomenon.
The article concludes by proposing a memetic theory of social contagion, arguing that social contagion research and memetics are indeed two sides of the same social epidemiological coin, and ends with a call for their synthesis into a comprehensive body of theoretically informed research.
The implications of this social contagion research are radical: The evidence suggests that under certain circumstances, mere `touch' or `'contact' with culture appears to be a sufficient condition for social transmission to occur.
Successful social contagions are those elements of culture that operate as both stimulus and response, and that are adapted to the evolved architecture of the human brain.
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