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An approach that analyzes social phenomena as self-similar patterns that repeat across different levels of social organization. The dynamics of a couple fighting are the same as the dynamics of two rival gangs, which are the same as two feuding nations. An act of microaggression in a classroom is the fractal signature of systemic racism at a national level. Social change, then, requires intervening at all scales simultaneously, as a change in the macro-pattern will eventually ripple down to the micro-level, and vice-versa.
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