Social Group Measure
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A Social Group Measure is a system measure of social groups.
- Context:
- It can offer insights into human behavior, relationships, and social dynamics.
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- Example(s):
- a Demographic Measure, such as Age Distribution.
- a Community Measure, such as Community Cohesion Measure.
- a Social Progress Measure, such as Human Development Index.
- a Trust Measure, such as a Human-to-Organization Trust Measure.
- a Health Inequality Measure, such as Life Expectancy Gap Between Socioeconomic Groups.
- a Social Engagement Measure, such as participation rates in community activities.
- a Social Power Measure, ...
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Non-Group Dynamics Measure, such as Individual Credit Score, focusing solely on individual financial behavior without considering group or community interactions.
- See: Human Community, Social Science, Social Analysis, Sociology, Demography, Community Studies.
References
1999
- (Murray et al., 1999) ⇒ CJ Murray, EE Gakidou, and J Frenk. (1999). "Health Inequalities and Social Group Differences: What Should We Measure?" In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- QUOTE: “… the measurement of health inequality and social group differences. There is intrinsic interest in both health inequalities and social group … measuring health inequalities and social group …”
- NOTE: It analyzes the importance of health inequalities and social group differences, focusing on the measurement of these aspects.
1997
- (Macgowan, 1997) ⇒ MJ Macgowan. (1997). "A Measure of Engagement for Social Group Work: The Groupwork Engagement Measure (GEM)." In: Journal of Social Service Research. Taylor & Francis.
- QUOTE: “… a measure of engagement for group … the measure’s applicability to later stages of group development. This study represents a rare empirical examination of engagement in social group …”
- NOTE: It introduces a measure for engagement in social group work and evaluates its applicability to different stages of group development.
2006
- (Chebotarev & Shamis, 2006) ⇒ P Chebotarev, and E Shamis. (2006). "The Matrix-Forest Theorem and Measuring Relations in Small Social Groups." In: arXiv preprint math/0602070. arxiv.org
- QUOTE: “… the structure of small social groups on the basis of … social groups are groups where public relations manifest themselves in the form of personal contacts or, simply stated, these groups …”
- NOTE: It explores the structure of small social groups, examining how public relations within the groups are manifested.
2017
- (Iris, 2017) ⇒ MY Iris. (2017). "Equality of Whom? Social Groups and Judgments of Injustice." In: Theories of Justice. Taylor & Francis.
- QUOTE: “… of aggregations of individuals to comparisons of social groups, in this case social classes. The importance of measuring inequality in terms of social groups such as class, gender, race, I …”
- NOTE: It discusses the transition from measuring individual aggregations to comparing social groups, emphasizing the importance of understanding inequality through the lens of social classes, gender, race, etc.