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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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  • 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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  • and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...
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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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  • Category:Sociology 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ...
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  • the evolutionary approach to the study of economic institutions. His ... 30, 1857 in Cato, Wisconsin, into a family of Norwegian immigrants. His nephew ...
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  • article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...
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  • Category:Sociology [[Image:Pyramid of Capitalist System.png|thumb|right|250px|An Industrial ...
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  • philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...
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  • method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to ... Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...
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  • tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...
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  • A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... spiritual benefits, there is a great deal of scientific evidence proving ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Extended middle-class Midwestern U.S. family of Danish/German extraction]] ...
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  • Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...
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  • The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Law Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...
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  • Category:Sociology [[File:Гумплович.jpg|thumb|225px|Polish ... at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ...
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  • The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents ... Although the twentieth century saw the decline in strength and numbers ...
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