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Social distance is a measure of social separation between groups caused by perceived or real differences between groups of people as defined by well-known social categories. It manifests across a variety of social categories, including class, race and ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, gender and sexuality, and age, among others.
3 maj 2021 · North American intellectual scene provides a different treatment of the phenomenon of social distance, connected to the need to respond to emerging social problems of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and social exclusion, derived from migration and cultural contact in complex societies.
In sociology, social distance describes the distance between individuals or social groups in society, including dimensions such as social class, race/ethnicity, gender or sexuality. Members of different groups mix less than members of the same group.
Definition. Social distance refers to the extent to which people experience a sense of familiarity (nearness and intimacy) or unfamiliarity (farness and difference) between themselves and people belonging to different social, ethnic, occupational, and religious groups from their own.
29 paź 2020 · We started to hear the term “social distancing” during the current coronavirus pandemic. According to the World Health Organization, to practice distancing means to “[m]aintain at least 1 meter (3 feet) distance between yourself and others.”
In other words, verstehen posits that, in order to truly understand individuals or groups, sociologists must “walk a mile in their shoes.”. The term originates from the German word for “understanding.”. Max Weber (1936) used this term to refer to the attempts of social scientists to understand both the intent and context of human action.
2 maj 2019 · What points of intersection can be found between sociological and psychological theories and practices? When are sociological and psychological conceptions compatible or contentious? What is interdisciplinarity about?
