agent

Examples of agent in the following topics:

• Infectious Diseases Today and in the Developing World

  • Infectious diseases result from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism.
  • Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, are clinically evident illnesses resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents.
  • The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

• Gender Messages in the Family

  • Family is the most important agent of socialization because it serves as the center of a child's life.
  • Justify how the family acts as the most important agent of gender socialization for children and adolescents

• Theoretical Understandings of Socialization

  • As a result, everyone becomes both a socializing agent (socializer) and a novice (socializee) in all encounters with others.
  • Socialization could be attributed to this or that but in order to truly understand what is taking place it is necessary to go beyond just pointing to socializing agents and specify what it is about those agents that is doing the socializing.
  • Under this understanding, the principal agents of socialization are certified and practicing members of the group to which novices are being socialized.

• Introduction

  • A social network is a set of actors (or points, or nodes, or agents) that may have relationships (or edges, or ties) with one another.

• Informal Means of Control

  • The family is often the most important agent of socialization because it is the center of the child's life.
  • Agents of socialization can differ in effects.

• Summary

  • Two-mode data (often referred to as "actor-by-event" or "affiliation" in social network analysis) offer some interesting possibilities for gaining insights into macro-micro or agent-structure relations.
  • With two-mode data, we can examine how macro-structures (events) pattern the interactions among agents (or not); we can also examine how the actors define and create macro structures by their patterns of affiliation with them.

• Mass Hysteria

  • ., like a pollutant or infectious agent).

• Sociology Today

  • Conversely, recent decades have seen the rise of new analytically, mathematically, and computationally rigorous techniques such as agent-based modelling and social network analysis.

• Child Socialization

  • Basically, it is the behavioral patterns reinforced by socializing agents of society.

• Beliefs

  • Throughout history, various groups of people have considered themselves as chosen by a deity for a purpose, such as to act as the deity's agent on earth.