SOCIAL DEPRIVATION
1. The lack of opportunity for social experiences. 2. A limited access to a society's resources. See cultural deprivation.
SOCIAL ENGINEER
1. A person who plans social policy and organises community action programs to fix problems. 2. A person attempting to…
SOCIAL INFLUENCE
These are the processes that cause a person to change their thoughts and feelings. See in formational influence; interpersonal influence;…
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
a view that learning is mainly due to our social interactions with others. Behaviour is assumed to be developed and…
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
the set of social relationships that are among members of a group or society that determine the structure of the…
SOCIAL RECOVERY
the recovering of a highly functional mental state by social therapy and improving social skills.
SOCIAL SERVICES
1. Government and non-government agency provided services that improve social welfare for people in need. 2. Government services that will…
SOCIAL TRANSMISSION
the transferring of customs down the generations. See heritage; social heritage.
SOCIALLY SENSITIVE RESEARCH
research that is liable to open debate and emotional responses among members of a community.
SOCIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
An investigation in to the structural properties in a group focusing on the patterns of like and dislike. See sociometry.
SODIUM PUMP
a membrane protein that actively transports sodium ions out of a cell against the common gradient. In each cycle, this…
SOMATOFORM DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
a category of disorders with unexplained physical symptoms that don't fall into a somatoform disorder.
SOUND-LEVEL METER
Sound level meter is a device that measures sound pressure and is expressed in decibels. The sound pressure is transduced…
SPACE FACTOR
hypothesised ability that accounts for some people being better to perceive spatial relations. This factor may relate with the individual…
SPATIAL FREQUENCY
the number of elements that repeat in a pattern over a certain distance. For more understanding, you may study contrast…