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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 ...
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  • – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century ... Almost one-third of Grocheio's treatise is devoted to liturgical ...
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  • 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the founders of the Chicago ... Traits Transplanted: The Early Sociology of Culture. Ayer Co Publishers ...
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  • noted for his pioneering work on the sociology of human migration with ... He co-operated with Florian Znaniecki on the formulation of what became ...
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  • American sociologist who established the sociology department at Harvard University ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society ...
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  • French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...
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  • and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... philosophy, and Mauss entered the University of Bordeaux where Durkheim was ...
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  • 1858 - November 15, 1917) is known as one of the originators of modern sociology ... foundation for research on the structure of human society. ...
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  • was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American studies. He ... in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta ...
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  • anthropologist. He is famous for his study of primitive mentality and his ... suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: “mystical thinking” ...
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  • and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...
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  • and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...
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  • and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...
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  • occur when different individuals or groups of people meet and exchange aspects ... Probably one of the first academic accounts of the process of acculturation ...
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  • Category:Sociology characterized by an absence or diminution of norms (standards) or values—a ...
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  • employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Sociology |American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social movements ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Sociology eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ...
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  • ) designates a cluster of concepts such as assumptions, values, practices ... Kuhn initially used the term "paradigm" in the contexts ...
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  • Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right ... A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Law - Plate 1 - The Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects.jpg ...
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  • Category:Sociology In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...
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  • A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...
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  • American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Sociology danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...
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  • in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...
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  • during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...
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  • this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...
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  • interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...
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  • The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...
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