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Social Theory and Concepts

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General Reference

Society and Culture Atlas. "Social Theory and Concepts." Accessed September 4, 2026. https://dev-society.interactiveatlas.org/sections/theories-concepts.

APA Style

Society and Culture Atlas. (n.d.). Social Theory and Concepts. Retrieved September 4, 2026, from https://dev-society.interactiveatlas.org/sections/theories-concepts

BibTeX

@misc{societyandcultureatlas-social-theory-and-concepts,
  author = {Society and Culture Atlas},
  title = {Social Theory and Concepts},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-society.interactiveatlas.org/sections/theories-concepts},
  note = {Accessed September 4, 2026}
}

The named frameworks sociology and anthropology use to explain how societies work: structural-functionalist theory, conflict and critical theory, symbolic interactionism and microsociology, sociological method and epistemology, structuralism and poststructuralism, and interpretive and ritual theory in anthropology. This band groups the atlas's theory entities, with contested debates such as structure versus agency and cultural relativism's own limits named honestly as debated rather than settled.

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