Sociology & Anthropology

37 primes originate from Sociology & Anthropology. 36 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (37)

Primes whose canonical origin is Sociology & Anthropology.

• Alienation — Disconnection from system.
• Authority — The recognized, legitimate right to issue binding decisions within a defined scope, distinct from raw coercive force or mere persuasive influence.
• Bureaucratic Inertia
• Collective Effervescence — Shared emotional energy.
• Collective Efficacy — Shared belief in capability.
• Collective Memory — Shared narratives.
• Cultural Diffusion — Spread of ideas.
• Cultural Friction — Incompatibilities arise when external artifacts meet cultural norms.
• Cultural Hegemony — Dominant ideology control.
• Culture Lag — Mismatch in cultural change rates.
• Enculturation — Learning cultural norms.
• Ethnocentrism — Cultural bias.
• Habitus — Internalized dispositions.
• Informal Enforcement — Norm compliance sustained by decentralized social sanction rather than formal authority.
• Institution — A durable, self-reproducing complex of rules, roles, and shared expectations.
• Institutional Lag — Formal institutions change slower than underlying conditions.
• Internalization — Adopting external norms as one's own internal standards.
• Liminality — Transitional states.
• Moral Panic — Amplified societal fear.
• Purity and Pollution — Classifying things as clean or contaminating, with contagion and ritual cleansing.
• Reciprocity — Mutual exchange.
• Reputation — An aggregated signal of past behaviour that shapes how others treat an agent.
• Ritual — Symbolic repeated acts.
• Role — A bundle of expected behaviours attached to a social position.
• Role Conflict — Conflicting roles.
• Sacred — Things set apart as inviolable and demanding reverence.
• Scapegoating — Channeling collective blame onto a substitute target.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy — Expectations shape outcomes.
• Social Capital — Value of relationships.
• Social Construction of Reality — Reality shaped socially.
• Social Norms — Expected behaviors.
• Solidarity — Shared commitment and mutual support within a group.
• Structural Violence — Systemic harm.
• Symbolic Boundaries — Group distinctions.
• Taboo — Forbidden elements.
• Trust — Willingly accepting vulnerability to another party's future behavior under incomplete monitoring, based on positive expectations about their competence and intentions.
• Weak Ties — Distant acquaintances that bridge otherwise separate social clusters.

Also draws from Sociology & Anthropology (36)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Sociology & Anthropology among their alternate origin domains.

• Activation Energy — The minimum input that must be supplied to push a thermodynamically favorable but stalled process past a barrier before momentum carries it to completion.
• Aggregation — Deliberately collapsing many items into a single summary, choosing which information to discard to gain tractability.
• Autopoiesis — Self-producing systems.
• Comparative Method — Systematically juxtaposing selected cases so that their similarities and differences do the causal-inference work that controlled experiments cannot.
• Conformity — Aligning one's behaviour or beliefs to a group standard.
• Contagion — Spread of a state from element to element through contact.
• Cooperation — Agents bear individual costs to produce a shared benefit.
• Coordination Problem and Equilibrium Selection — Multiple stable equilibria require alignment on single outcome.
• Critical Mass — The minimum quantity needed to sustain a self-perpetuating process.
• Diversity — Maintaining functionally distinct types within a system so that variation provides resilience and coverage that uniformity cannot.
• Emotional Contagion — Automatic spread of affect from person to person through a group.
• Essentialism — Inherent defining properties.
• Free Riding — The systematic under-provision that results when individuals can enjoy a non-excludable shared good without contributing proportionately to producing it.
• Group Cohesion — The forces that bind members into a unified group.
• Herding Behavior — Mimicking others.
• Hierarchy — Organizes elements into levels or ranks.
• In-Group / Out-Group — Partition of a social field into an identified 'us' and a contrasted 'them'.
• Information Cascade — The sequential dynamic in which actors copy earlier actors' visible choices and suppress their own private signals, driving collective convergence that can be confidently wrong.
• Legitimacy — Accepted authority.
• Moral Relativism — Morality depends on context.
• Network — Models interactions between components.
• Network Effect — Value increases with users.
• Path Dependence — Outcomes are shaped by the specific historical sequence of past choices, which lock in consequences and foreclose alternatives that persist despite present incentives to change.
• Performativity — Utterances and acts that constitute the very reality they name.
• Pragmatic Politeness Strategies — Maintain harmony.
• Propagation — The systematic spreading of a signal, effect, or state from a source through a medium or network, where the medium's structure governs how fast it moves, how it attenuates, and which paths it follows.
• Property Rights — An enforceable bundle of exclusive entitlements over a resource.
• Reflexivity (Self-Reference) — Self-referential systems.
• Risk Pooling — Aggregating many independent or weakly correlated exposures so that the variance of the pooled outcome shrinks below the sum of individual variances, letting participants share a more predictable collective risk.
• Second-Order Cybernetics (Second-Order Observation) — Observer within system.
• Social Identity Theory — Identity via groups.
• Speculative Bubble — Self-reinforcing price rise detached from fundamental value.
• Stratification — Layered separation of a system.
• Tipping Points (or Phase Transitions) — Abrupt state change.
• Tragedy of the Commons — Resource depletion from self-interest.
• Turnover — Continuous replacement of components while the system's structure persists.