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Social point is the term used in sociology, anthropology, ethnology, as well as also in animal behaviour studies, zoology and biology to describe a social entity which is part of and participates in a larger social group or society.
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A different ownership of "social unit" is where it may be used to intend a discrete transactable commodity within a society.[]
"A "social unit" has 1 and identity of its own, separate from those of its members, 2 "recurrent and patterned" interactions, 3 members who identify themselves partly in terms of the unit..., 4 goals distinct from those of its members, 5 a division of labour, or differentiated goals attend to the goals. This is a pluralist definition, because autonomous entities that earn properties or variables are simply assumed to exist. "Societies" are even defined as a "very large number" of social units with authority patterns Eckstein and Gurr, 1975, P. 23. The problems of analyzing the relations at the societal level among the state, society, and economy, however conceived, are eliminated at one conceptuial stroke by the way the characteristics of social units are defined.
"A pluralist world picture is therefore embedded in the fundamental impression of the piece of analysis and its properties. The view of bureaucracy emphasizes individual commitment to values and the common goals divided by any members of a hierarchical social unit"
Sociologist Margaret Archer says "...it is perfectly conceivable that all social unit, from a community to a civilization, could be found the principle ideational elements knowledge, belief, norms, language, mythology, etc. of which construct display considerable logical consistency -- that is, the components are consistent non contradictory -- yet the same social unit may be low on causal consensus."2004:4
It is plain that the vaster the social unit, the less possible is true democracy." Lanark, p.289 Alasdair Gray
NGL Hammond: "Epirus was a land of milk and animal products...The social unit was a small tribe, consisting of several nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, and these tribes, of which more than seventy title are known, coalesced into large tribal coalitions, three in number: Thesprotians, Molossians and Chaonians...We know from the discovery of inscriptions that these tribes were speaking the Greek language in a West-Greek dialect." 1994. Philip of Macedon. London, UK: Duckworth.
For Hanifan, social capital intended to: