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- However, one can choose to make good use of one's inheritance or squander ... # Something that one came into possession of. # Something that is received ...3 KB (403 words) - 15:38, 2 August 2022
- – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century ... Almost one-third of Grocheio's treatise is devoted to liturgical ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the founders of the Chicago ... Traits Transplanted: The Early Sociology of Culture. Ayer Co Publishers ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 05:02, 15 December 2022
- noted for his pioneering work on the sociology of human migration with ... He co-operated with Florian Znaniecki on the formulation of what became ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- American sociologist who established the sociology department at Harvard University ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and its follow-up ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- work on this tribe, and her studies of West Indian and African American ... 27, 1875, in New York City, as the eldest of three children of Henry Clews ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago ... truth but rather as a necessary component of culture and human life, which ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... philosophy, and Mauss entered the University of Bordeaux where Durkheim was ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- 1858 - November 15, 1917) is known as one of the originators of modern sociology ... foundation for research on the structure of human society. ...22 KB (3,327 words) - 18:01, 13 February 2024
- was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American studies. He ... in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- anthropologist. He is famous for his study of primitive mentality and his ... suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: “mystical thinking” ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- occur when different individuals or groups of people meet and exchange aspects ... Probably one of the first academic accounts of the process of acculturation ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- Category:Sociology characterized by an absence or diminution of norms (standards) or values—a ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 10:44, 30 October 2021
- employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- a French thinker known as the "father of sociology." He developed ... in his later work, he embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- Category:Sociology |American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social movements ...19 KB (2,677 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- Collins, 1981. US edition, The Sociology of Culture, New York, Schocken, 1982. ... and Windus, 1983. US edition, The Sociology of Culture, with a Preface to ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- Category:Sociology eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ...25 KB (3,567 words) - 00:17, 8 January 2024
- ) designates a cluster of concepts such as assumptions, values, practices ... Kuhn initially used the term "paradigm" in the contexts ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right ... A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- Category:Sociology Category:Law - Plate 1 - The Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects.jpg ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2020
- Category:Sociology In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... and Muslim society. During his period of exile in Andalusia, 1364–1365 ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Category:Sociology danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- especially well-known for his study of Maori culture. He was a pioneer ... Firth connected to the heart of the people whose culture he studied ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- Category:Sociology 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- the evolutionary approach to the study of economic institutions. His ... 30, 1857 in Cato, Wisconsin, into a family of Norwegian immigrants. His nephew ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 23:02, 30 April 2023
- article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- Category:Sociology [[Image:Pyramid of Capitalist System.png|thumb|right|250px|An Industrial ...31 KB (4,685 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- originated among entertainers and members of the Chinese court during the ... When a girl was between the ages of three and eight years old, the ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 06:18, 1 April 2024
- in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to ... Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- and sociologist, famous for his theory of matriarchy and his work on ... the need to bring out the feminine aspect of God and human beings was real. ...10 KB (1,351 words) - 14:47, 1 August 2022
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...43 KB (6,163 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... spiritual benefits, there is a great deal of scientific evidence proving ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Extended middle-class Midwestern U.S. family of Danish/German extraction]] ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- Category:Sociology Category:Law Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ...34 KB (4,876 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... moved to Worcester when she was two years of age. Perkins' father opened ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 19:01, 13 February 2024
- Category:Sociology [[File:Гумплович.jpg|thumb|225px|Polish ... at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents ... Although the twentieth century saw the decline in strength and numbers ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers ... on humans. Aging represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over ...31 KB (4,318 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and ... had a significant impact on the efficiency of astronomical research since ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination and his lifelong ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- Fate or Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events, which ... The very notions of fate and destiny imply a limitation of human freedom ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For Religion and Culture") ... |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of three men ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- ) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which ... The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural ...28 KB (4,018 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- or unfavorable attitude toward a group of people. Prejudicial beliefs ... the most infamous example in Western culture is the Holocaust. Colonialism ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:21, 30 November 2022
- Category:Sociology A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 08:52, 23 October 2022
- Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head of the household staff of the ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- Category:Sociology Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- and folklorist, recognized as the founder of the field of folklore in France ... Van Gennep's work showed that the formation of social groups ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Category:Sociology derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- Category:Sociology Category:Military A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the twentieth century on the ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- Category: Sociology Category: Submitted [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 18:44, 25 October 2022
- 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand serving three terms ... refused to take part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq without an explicit United ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
