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and sociologist, and first president of the American Sociological Association ... Lester Frank Ward was born in Joliet, Illinois, into the family of ...

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

law for sociology, particularly sociology of law (and vice versa) is ... be seen as one of the forefathers of modern sociology of law. ...

Category:Sociology In sociology, conflict theory states that society or an organization ...

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

Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...

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

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

Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ... born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. ...

Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...

He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of ... governi e sul governo parlamentare (Theory of Governments and Parliamentary ...

class life in Victorian London at the end of the nineteenth century. Booth ... His Life and Labour of the People of London provided important insights ...

who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... family. In keeping with the customs of the time, he spent terms at ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

to as the 80-20 principle—that 80 percent of the wealth belongs to 20 percent ... from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin. His thesis was entitled ...

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

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

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

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

economist, sociologist, and historian, one of the pioneers of the school ... Commons' work, improving the life of labor class, formed a substantial ...

Category:Sociology Category:Law [[File:William Hogarth - A Rake's Progress - Plate ...

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

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

1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early member of the Austrian School of economics ... Wieser was born in Vienna, Austria on July 10, 1851. He was the son ...

is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...

Category:Law legal systems in countries using common law. The brief is presented to ...

Category:Sociology Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring ...

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

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

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

work in economics, especially his criticism of the railroad system, helped ... in Medford, Massachusetts, into the family of Nathaniel L. Ripley and Estimate ...

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

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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 ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology [[File:Cure juvenile delinquency in the slums by ...

Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right ... A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Man and woman undergoing public exposure ...

formal training in how to teach the subjects of their expertise. In fact, many ... to qualify a person as a teacher: knowledge of the subject matter to be taught ...

1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...

and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...

and journalist. She was a co-founder of numerous social organizations ... Marlborough, Massachusetts, into the family of Samuel Eastman and Annis Ford ...

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

social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...

The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

on preexisting capital assigned for the cost of labor. A pioneer in using statistical ... beliefs, particularly regarding the issue of immigration. He feared that ...

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

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

teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...

“few,” and arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political ... aristocracies, which were ruled by members of a noble class, or with plutocracies ...

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single ... Cosmopolitanism may entail some sort of world government or it may ...

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

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

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

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

Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... struggle. It follows the Hegelian principle of the philosophy of history, ...

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 derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] ...

Category:Law :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ...

his pamphlet Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, which called for ... The son of a slave father and a free black mother, Walker was born ...

Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family in most societies and is often prohibited by law. Which family members constitute ...

in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century. He made ... he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell, Ludwig ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving birth ...

virtues that maintain harmony and the spirit of sharing among the members of ... During the 1990s, the concept of ubuntu was adapted as an ideology ...

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

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 ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Battle strike 1934.jpg|thumb|right|250px ...

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

Gustav von Schmoller (June 24, 1838 – June 27, 1917) was the leader ... and mathematical approaches to economics of Classical and Neoclassical ...

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

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Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences ...

Category:Sociology 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ...

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

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...

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

meaning "power") is a branch of physics that studies the effects ... quot; thus, thermodynamics is the study of the movement of energy and ...

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The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...

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

|country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See ... university located in Rome, Italy. Heir of the Roman College, the Gregorian ...

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

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

Category:Law Category:Sociology recidivism in criminology and penology|recidivism ...

Category:Sociology Category:Military fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ...

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

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 ...

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

The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, ... to be dated to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from ...

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 ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology Affirmative action refers to steps taken to eliminate ...

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

Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Rex theatre.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Rex Theatre ...

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

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 ...

Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) nephew ... he developed for selfish gain at the expense of others. However, just as Bernays ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...

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

Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application ... Forensic scientists utilize principles and techniques from such fields ...

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

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

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 ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being ...

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German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the ... At Gestalt Therapy's core is the promotion of awareness, the ...

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

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

Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...

Category:Sociology [[image:Kataeb-miliita-crop.jpg|thumb|right|300px ... A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ...

name=Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg| native_name=Albert-Ludwigs ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ...

in psychometrics and an influential theorist of intelligence. He contributed ... The study of intelligence has been fraught with controversy, particularly ...

Canonization is the process of posthumously declaring someone to be ... The practice of Canonization is currently practiced by the Roman Catholic ...

Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...

11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ...

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 ...

political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free ... 1899 in Vienna, Austria to a Catholic family of prominent intellectuals. He ...

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

Category:Sociology [[Image:Jakarta_slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px ... Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived ...

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

to describe the methodology and practice of education for students with ... itself. The struggle to balance the needs of the individual student against ...

Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights laws are most often written. Examples of civil rights and liberties ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family simultaneously. This is the most common form of polygamy. The man may marry ...

Category:Sociology 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ...

Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Antonio Villaraigosa.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Los ...

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

Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...

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

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

Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ...

Category:Sociology Category:Military in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ...

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

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

and Fruma Zachs referred to an obituary of Marrash published in an 1897 ... Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed ...

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

Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Gandhi Salt March.jpg|thumb|400px|right ...

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 ...

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

years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam. Vietnam as such did ... riding on elephants into battle. The stories of the Trưng sisters and of another ...

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 ...

Category:Sociology Category:Psychology [[Image:Bullying Irfe.jpg|thumb ... Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through ...

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 ...

|name = University of Pennsylvania |image = [[Image:Collegegreen ... The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private, ...

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

Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure ... to its history, and may provide comparisons of economies in different countries ...

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

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

American public intellectual, was a scholar of extraordinary range who made ... energy to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism, developing ...

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

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

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

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

Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb ...

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

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes ... transitions from print to electronic formats of publication; publications on ...

Category:Sociology a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ...

Category:Law national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ...

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

The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...

Category:Sociology [[Image:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg|thumb|right ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...

The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the ... 1933 Banking Act describes the entire law, including the legislative ...

Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Millais-Blind Girl.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|"The ...

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

Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...

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

Category:Law Category:Sociology [[File:Picard.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Spanish Inquisition ...

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 ...

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

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 philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... ==Questions Addressed by Philosophy of Science== Philosophy of science ...

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

American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... and for making this stance the centerpiece of 1968 presidential campaign ...

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

The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...

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

Category:Sociology Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] ...

Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners ... Ralph David Abernathy was the tenth child of William and Louivery ...

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

traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among ... rulings against it, is the existence of an "outcaste" group ...

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 ...

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

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

who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Principia Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and ...

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

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 ...

[[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...

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

Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... areas useful to society. Situated in an area of farming, conservation, and ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ...

Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...

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

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

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

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 ...

began to withdraw as the possible collapse of North Korea in the wake news ... country, because the People's Republic of China has refused to grant ...

|name = University of Bridgeport |image = [[File:University of Bridgeport Cortright Hall.jpg|250px]] ...

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 ...

is an ad valorem tax where only the value of land itself is taxed. This ... in their current form, by taxing the value of both land and buildings, penalize ...

Category:Sociology National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Group ...

cummings; Cummings himself did not approve of this rendering.Norman Friedman ... for his poems and their unorthodox usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation ...

generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...

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. ...

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 ...

(NGO). The organization has hundreds of branches internationally and ... The beginnings of Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU ...

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

Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...

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 ...

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

Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...

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

1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ...

Sir Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), cousin ... to lead to an increase in the number of people manifesting the desirable ...

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

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

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

valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...

the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...

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

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

|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 or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ...

#039;s idealism is based upon the notion of Absolute Spirit, his idealism ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...

January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces ... Mannerheim is given much of the credit for successfully steering the ...

Tacitus (c. 56 C.E. – c. 117 C.E.) was one of the important historians of ... has been most influential outside the field of history. While recognizing ...

votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution ... The original mechanics of presidential elections were established ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...

Category:Law Category:Sociology Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe ...

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

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

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

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

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

Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family modern context; for the lifelong abstinence of monastics and priests of certain ...

Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques ... human beings are susceptible to many forms of social influence, they are ...

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

Category:Sociology 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ...

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

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

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

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

The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...

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 ...

The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...

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 ...

and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... Popper was born in Vienna (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to ...

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

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

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

Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Forms of nonviolence draw inspiration from both religious or ethical ...

Category:Sociology [[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...

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

), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...

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 ...

reversals could be caricaturized, the idea of an aggressive woman who also ... Public relations (PR) is the art of managing communication between ...

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

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

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

A personality test aims to assess aspects of a person's character ... A variety of methods have been developed to assess personality differences ...

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

[[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 ...

and Keynesian Theory, is based on the ideas of twentieth-century British economist ... The theories forming the basis of Keynesian economics were first presented ...

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, ...

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

#039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...

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

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

A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... America. The twentieth century saw the rise of fascist and communist dictatorships ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Category:Sociology Category:Military Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ...

The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( ... published in London, the Manifesto is one of the world's most influential ...

A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...

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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...

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 ...

Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology Category:Life sciences ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ...

Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public ... The goal of water fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay (dental caries ...

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

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

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