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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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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...
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  • distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...
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  • he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination and his lifelong ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...
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  • best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...
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  • Fate or Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events, which ... The very notions of fate and destiny imply a limitation of human freedom ...
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  • is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...
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  • et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For Religion and Culture") ... |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ...
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  • Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of three men ...
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  • activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...
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  • anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...
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  • ) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which ... The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural ...
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  • Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...
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  • or unfavorable attitude toward a group of people. Prejudicial beliefs ... the most infamous example in Western culture is the Holocaust. Colonialism ...
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  • Category:Sociology A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, ...
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  • Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Sociology Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs ...
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  • and folklorist, recognized as the founder of the field of folklore in France ... Van Gennep's work showed that the formation of social groups ...
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  • [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...
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  • Category:Sociology derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] ...
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  • He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Military A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ...
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  • politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...
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  • He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the twentieth century on the ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...
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  • Category: Sociology Category: Submitted [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ...
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  • Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ...
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  • 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 ...
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