Social organization and the environment: Aspects of contemporary social ethology

Crook, John Hurrell

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(70)80029-x

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“…Group structures reflect a dynamic equilibrium of both physical and behavioral ecological constraints, canalizing forces that reflect local variability, and diversity in individual social roles and adaptation (Crook 1970). Changes in group organization require renegotiation of the individual's social roles.…”

Section: Conclusion: Sociostructural Constraints On Individual Develomentioning

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Child social ethology and peer relations: a developmental review of methodology and findings

Santos

Winegar

1999

acta ethol

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During the last three decades, developmental research has increasingly emphasized the relevance of peer relations in children's socialization. However, most studies of child development still focus upon individual differences in social status, tacitly neglecting relational constraints inherent in the ecology of the peer group. In contrast, socioethological approaches have stressed that natural groups provide a variety of distinct social roles that may have a differential impact upon individual growth and development. However, ethological analyses have often been limited to aggressive relations and group dominance structures. Comparable studies of affiliative organization have been hampered by the paucity of models for the study of cohesive social structure, only recently having begun to overcome this obstacle. A potential third dimension of preschool peer group ethology, object use, has been relatively neglected in studies of peer relations. However, recent research suggests that object use is a salient and important component of the social world of the young child. This article reviews methodology and recent findings in the area of peer relations and discusses the developmental implications of this work.

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Section: Conclusion: Sociostructural Constraints On Individual Develomentioning

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Child social ethology and peer relations: a developmental review of methodology and findings

Santos

Winegar

1999

acta ethol

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“…Several authors have recently pointed out the need for considering role analysis as a method in the investigation of primate social dynamics (Bernstein & Sharpe, 1966;Crook, 1970;Gartlan, 1968;Rowell, 1966). Such analyses have been undertaken with the group of Ss reported here, as well as with similar groups of M. nemestrina.…”

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Social validation of an objective measure of dominance in captive monkeys

Christopher

1972

Behav. Res. Meth. & Instru.

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“…The role of the dominant female in structuring the network, for example, emerges from the manner in which her behavioural interactions influence the social niche space of other individuals and the manner in which they engage with each other, but there is nothing in this formulation that requires dominant animals to recognize or adopt this role in any formal sense. This allows us to take advantage of the kind of systems perspective used so productively by authors such as Crook [61,62] to understand mammalian, and specifically primate social systems, without requiring the ascription of roles in a manner that cannot be supported in the absence of language. Lastly, our conception of social networks as multidimensional objects allows us to derive hypotheses about the evolution of social network complexity.…”

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Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

Barrett

Henzi

Lusseau

2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

151

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Understanding human cognitive evolution, and that of the other primates, means taking sociality very seriously. For humans, this requires the recognition of the sociocultural and historical means by which human minds and selves are constructed, and how this gives rise to the reflexivity and ability to respond to novelty that characterize our species. For other, non-linguistic, primates we can answer some interesting questions by viewing social life as a feedback process, drawing on cybernetics and systems approaches and using social network neo-theory to test these ideas. Specifically, we show how social networks can be formalized as multi-dimensional objects, and use entropy measures to assess how networks respond to perturbation. We use simulations and natural ‘knock-outs’ in a free-ranging baboon troop to demonstrate that changes in interactions after social perturbations lead to a more certain social network, in which the outcomes of interactions are easier for members to predict. This new formalization of social networks provides a framework within which to predict network dynamics and evolution, helps us highlight how human and non-human social networks differ and has implications for theories of cognitive evolution.

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Social organization and the environment: Aspects of contemporary social ethology

Cited by 162 publications

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Child social ethology and peer relations: a developmental review of methodology and findings

Child social ethology and peer relations: a developmental review of methodology and findings

Social validation of an objective measure of dominance in captive monkeys

Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

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