Author Archives: Brian Hopkins

The disposition of adaptation to the demands of social life . See Inclusive fitness

The social aspects of the environment, both current and historical, which includes social relationships, social institutions and political aspects . See Social context

Uniformities or rules that coordinate interactions within social systems . See Social order, Rule

A vast area that covers many topics such as how the ability to communicate both verbally and non-verbally is acquired, the roles of family dynamics in child development and the establishment of attachments.  At the risk of oversimplifying things, a major and persistent concern in studying social development concerns the formation of friendships and relationships …

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The social aspects of the current environment, which includes social relationships, social institutions and political aspects.  See Literacy, Social ecology

Limitations or restrictions on an individual’s or group’s opportunities for action that are linked to social variables, including social norms, social roles, and socioeconomic status.  See Constraint, Life course analysis

clearly oriented preferences for interactions involving particular individuals as a function of earlier experience . See Attachment, Attachment theory

The ability to get along with others and form personal relationships . See Social psychology, Socialization

Also called visceral muscle in vertebrates and almost always under the control of the autonomic nervous system, it is contractile tissue lacking transverse striations of skeletal muscle and any other obvious ultrastructure.  Having slow, rhythmical contractions, it functions to produce peristaltic movement of food along the gut, and blood along contractile vessels as well as …

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predicates open up slots for arguments, which then fill these slots . See Arguments