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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 ...

– ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century ... Almost one-third of Grocheio's treatise is devoted to liturgical ...

22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...

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 ...

gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...

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 ...

1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the founders of the Chicago ... Traits Transplanted: The Early Sociology of Culture. Ayer Co Publishers ...

noted for his pioneering work on the sociology of human migration with ... He co-operated with Florian Znaniecki on the formulation of what became ...

American sociologist who established the sociology department at Harvard University ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...

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 ...

Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...

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 ...

Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society ...

French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...

and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...

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 ...

in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... philosophy, and Mauss entered the University of Bordeaux where Durkheim was ...

1858 - November 15, 1917) is known as one of the originators of modern sociology ... foundation for research on the structure of human society. ...

was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American studies. He ... in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta ...

anthropologist. He is famous for his study of primitive mentality and his ... suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: “mystical thinking” ...

and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...

and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...

and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...

occur when different individuals or groups of people meet and exchange aspects ... Probably one of the first academic accounts of the process of acculturation ...

Category:Sociology characterized by an absence or diminution of norms (standards) or values—a ...

employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...

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 ...

Category:Sociology |American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social movements ...

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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) designates a cluster of concepts such as assumptions, values, practices ... Kuhn initially used the term "paradigm" in the contexts ...

Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...

Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ...

Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...

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 In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...

A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...

American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...

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 ...

total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...

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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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 ...

developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...

in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...

during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...

this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...

interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...

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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the evolutionary approach to the study of economic institutions. His ... 30, 1857 in Cato, Wisconsin, into a family of Norwegian immigrants. His nephew ...

article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...

Category:Sociology [[Image:Pyramid of Capitalist System.png|thumb|right|250px|An Industrial ...

philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...

method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...

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 ...

in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to ... Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments ...

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. ...

as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...

tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...

A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... spiritual benefits, there is a great deal of scientific evidence proving ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Extended middle-class Midwestern U.S. family of Danish/German extraction]] ...

Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...

The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...

Category:Sociology Category:Law Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ...

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 ...

Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...

Category:Sociology [[File:Гумплович.jpg|thumb|225px|Polish ... at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ...

The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents ... Although the twentieth century saw the decline in strength and numbers ...

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 ...

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 ...

physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...

distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...

he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination and his lifelong ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...

Fate or Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events, which ... The very notions of fate and destiny imply a limitation of human freedom ...

best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...

is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...

et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For Religion and Culture") ... |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ...

Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of three men ...

activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...

anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...

) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which ... The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural ...

Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...

or unfavorable attitude toward a group of people. Prejudicial beliefs ... the most infamous example in Western culture is the Holocaust. Colonialism ...

Category:Sociology A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, ...

Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...

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 ...

Category:Sociology Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs ...

and folklorist, recognized as the founder of the field of folklore in France ... Van Gennep's work showed that the formation of social groups ...

[[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...

Category:Sociology derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] ...

He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...

Category:Sociology Category:Military A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ...

politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...

He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the twentieth century on the ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...

Category: Sociology Category: Submitted [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ...

Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...

Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ...

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 ...

Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ... work is less concerned with the importance of technological change and development ...

Category:Sociology which male members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy ...

that are felt by people due to a combination of factors. For example, a black ... gender and class are the major determinants of identity, and that minorities ...

Winnipeg is both the largest city and capital city of the province ... Prairies, on a flood plain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers ...

military clan-uniform. In many parts of the West, wearing a skirt may ... A gender role is a set of behavioral norms associated particularly ...

31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...

, marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...

American cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... and an emphasis on the importance of early childhood development ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Virgins remained celibate for 30 years on penalty of death]] ...

Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive ... impact not only on the academic worlds of psychology, sociology, and ...

in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. As a ... Du Bois is viewed by many as the father of modern black scholarship ...

for children to play freely, usually part of a school or public park. Playgrounds ... recognized that play is an essential aspect of child development. In 1989 ...

Category:Sociology [[Image:Fountain of Wealth.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A fountain of wealth]] ...

society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member of a Hungarian ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ...

healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, ... Health care is a vital aspect of human society. Through the health ...

|name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...

Cancel culture (or call-out culture) is a modern form of ostracism ... Cancel culture is a variant on call-out culture and constitutes a ...

|name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ... The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus]] ...

fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...

magic, based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Sunil Parameswaran ... screened using a satellite feed instead of conventional prints; ...

Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis ... The Wallis Archipelago is the most populated of the island group and ...

The Igbo, sometimes referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ... from Nigeria and form the independent Republic of Biafra. ...

young, Vygotsky is known as the "Mozart of psychology." Vygotsky ... In the latter part of the twentieth century, his theories became widely ...

Known as a craftsman who "changed the world with a pair of scissors ... women to be free from the lengthy process of curling and teasing, and the ...

A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...

incest prohibition varies according to the culture. Generally, however, close ... Many reasons underlie the incest taboo: Biological explanations of ...

arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...

at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...

in 1755, the university has grown to be one of the largest institutions in ... whose name was later added to the name of the institution in his honor ...

economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...

feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotions ... attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James ...

and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...

Chief Dan George, (July 24, 1899–September 23, 1981) was a chief ... One of twelve children of the tribal chief, Dan George served as chief ...

[[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation ... quot; or "person") is the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...

poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her ...

The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the ... " emphasizing the participatory aspect of the web as opposed to the web ...

can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ... Literacy rates are a crucial measure of a region's human capital ...

11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...

Prize for non-fiction in 1974, for his The Denial of Death. The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...

the traditional, more highly technical forms of dance such as ballet. Modern ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...

Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... Chinese dominate almost all the economies of Southeast Asia, and have sometimes ...

applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics and ethics. He coined ... Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820, the ...

Most broadly, mind is the organized totality of the mental processes of an ... Aspects of mind are also attributed to complex animals, which are ...

The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...

:This article is concerned with the methodology of iconography, principally ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...

The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...

speakers (not necessarily native speakers) of the Arabic language. It does ... Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ...

historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...

Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is regarded ... position. Ljubljana lies at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic ...

The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated ... Aztec and Mesoamerican roots. The Day of the Dead is widely observed ...

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Category:Sociology [[Image:Hyundai car assembly line.jpg|thumb|250 ... Division of Labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific ...

Category:Sociology to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ...

a Theological Tightrope:Controversies of Sampradaya in Eighteenth Century ... The presence of different sampradaya within Hinduism, rather than ...

In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... However, such societies generally occur in times of societal stress ...

or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms in response ... The primary focus of this article is human behavior, which includes ...

release with Full Tilt Boogie Band. On each of her recordings, Joplin is listed ... in 1953. The family belonged to the Churches of Christ denomination. ...

or 1837Sharon Halevi and Fruma Zachs, Gendering Culture in Greater ... Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed ...

Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Rex theatre.jpg|right|thumb ... Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ...

Category:Sociology with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.]] ...

all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...

de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...

was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... D. in 1949. While there, primarily because of his editorship of the Harvard ...

In fiscal year 2007, it reported assets of $13.7 billion and approved ... some for lending its name to the promotion of a variety of political agendas ...

to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ... The charge of scientism often is used as a counter-argument to appeals ...

Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...

Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... Boas was exposed to natural history. Of his work at the gymnasium, ...

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unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...

whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... into a Jewish family. Buber spent much of his childhood in the house ...

[[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...

that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...

Category:Sociology Category:Military A war an armed conflict between ... and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ...

combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... generations as utopian communities, most of today's kibbutzim are ...

Botany is the branch of biology dealing with the scientific study ... generally are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom. ...

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before ... A divorce must be certified by a court of law, as a legal action is ...

A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...

contributions to modern political sociology and the philosophy of history ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...

Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating ... Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse ...

[[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological ... This field examines change across a broad range of topics including: ...

The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...

experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as described ... "On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection ...

historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...

horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism ...

[[Image:Blacktriangle.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artist's depiction of ... an "identified" object. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date ...

A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...

Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ...

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...

Category:Sociology Category:Psychology Category:Anthropology ... Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase ...

250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...

Category:Sociology Category:Psychology Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ...

educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... reached a popular readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular ...

quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...

Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism ... . Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving ...

Georgia. She is generally seen as an example of a style of writing known as ... One of the most notable features of the Southern Gothic is "The ...

"manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...

Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ... The culture of Kalash people is unique and differs drastically from ...

Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...

at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...

and responsibility for our choices. The goal of Humanistic psychology is to ... The following five postulates form the foundation of Humanistic psychology ...

identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...

in Washington, D.C. honoring members of the U.S. armed forces who fought ... The main part of the memorial, which was completed in 1982, is located ...

history. For Freud it began as that part of the mind that contained our ... the collective unconscious, an accumulation of inherited experiences of all ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ...

States to become an outspoken champion of capitalism. She was best known ... Her novels were based upon the projection of the Randian hero, a man ...

In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...

Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...

City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long ... regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors ...

History is a word of multiple meanings, all related to the past. When ... ), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that ...

Category:Sociology Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe the system of prison ...

century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... explored their traditional literature, culture and religion in order to ...

Category:Sociology [[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|200 px|The city of Los ...

American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic ... Mumford regarded human relationships to be the foundation of a thriving ...

cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...

15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...

Category:Sociology [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rape ...

influence the weather or crops, and as part of religious practices like shamanism ... While some deny any form of magic as authentic, those that practice ...

"bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...

Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...

The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...

Nordic countries from about the beginning of the twentieth century up to ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...

The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...

to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...

Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...

its subsequent bursting affected over half of the U.S. states. Housing prices ... financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Financial Crisis ...

public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...

Social work is a discipline involving the application of social theory ... on advocacy and case work became part of social work practice. During ...

|city = USA Borough of Princeton,Princeton Township,and West Windsor ... located in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of eight universities that belong ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent ...

national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...

|free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ... Washington, D.C. in the United States. One of several Historical Black Colleges ...

(January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...

Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[Image:Camuccini Lamentation over the Corpse of Socrates.jpg|thumb ...

Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... Nails, and others often dwell on imagery of violence, death, unrestrained ...

Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences ... urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ...

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...

A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups ... central to human society; a key indicator of a society's well-being ...

Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a leading ... they had been viewed as a single body of work, when in fact Marx had ...

right|250px| A child learning the countries of Asia by experience rather than ... quot;learning by doing") is the process of actively engaging students ...

[[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...

Category:Sociology Category:Public organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally ...

educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...

Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction ... Science fiction is part of, and in organizational or marketing contexts ...

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Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

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courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...

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" a nickname earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent ... The State joined the Confederate States of America during the American ...

who has often been called “the father of existentialism.” Although ... is best known for such notions as his stages of existence, “faith in the ...

The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...

” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...

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philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative ... 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College ...

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a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...

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descriptive sense to the economic effects of nations with large state sectors ... There has developed a diverse array of ideas that have been referred ...

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was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...

Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...

storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...

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|name = Columbia University inthe City of New York light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm 35:10) ...

impressions thereof that are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents ... Seals are typically made of stone, sometimes of wood, bamboo, plastic ...

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The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...

there has come about, in Parade, a kind of super-realism ('sur-réalisme ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...

The State of Illinois is a state of the United States of America, ... About 2,000 Native American hunters and a small number of French villagers ...

thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating the life of a human ... Of related note is the fact that suicide, or attempted suicide, is ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...

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Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...

Violence is defined as "the use of physical force so as to injure ... World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional ...

Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned ... 1921. His strong support for and defense of the New Economic Policy (NEP ...

The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...

Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...

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a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe (roughly the ... According to contemporaneous sources, the population centers of the ...

by many as the greatest American leader of the twentieth century. His ... close to his birthday, King is only one of three Americans to have a national ...

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The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...

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painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now ... Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents ...