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