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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 ...

1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... to 1944 he was a lecturer in the sociology of education, and from 1944 to ...

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

significant research in the sociology of education which strongly impacted ... research in the area of the sociology of education, especially on equal ...

theory and field studies, and a co-founder of the German Society of Sociology ... Tönnies' concept of Gemeinschaft sees social structures such ...

sociologist, famous for his development of Process Sociology, or Figurational ... For Elias, society consists of individuals who are in relationship ...

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 ...

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

1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the founders of the Chicago ... Minnesota, where he grew up. He was the son of Hiram Asa Park and Theodosia ...

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 ...

who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare. Younger sister ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...

publications became classics in American sociology. In their work the Lynds ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...

[[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...

history, psychology, and sociology of education. with their profession. The sociology of education prepares future teachers ...

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 ...

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

His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World ... whole that must be understood in the context of history and the nature of the ...

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

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 ...

was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... 1919, after the war, the Marxist governments of Bavaria and Saxony employed ...

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

Category:Sociology charm, a "magnetic" quality of personality and/or appearance ...

was very concerned with American higher education, and was known for his ... Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ...

theory, and their applications to education. method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ...

known in United States as the "mother of social work." Co-founder ... woman suffrage and was an outspoken advocate of internationalism. She participated ...

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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 ...

Category:Education about educating gifted students, see Gifted education. [[Image:Teacher ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

==Sociology of education== Sociology of education The sociology of education is the study of how ...

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

contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some ... used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist ...

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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 ...

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

Category:Sociology Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ...

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

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day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... and Muslim society. During his period of exile in Andalusia, 1364–1365 ...

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

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

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

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

and characters are rivaled only by those of Johnson in their depth, insight ... Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in ...

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Category:Sociology exposure for adultery in Japan from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs ...

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ...

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

Category:Education A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ...

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 ...

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

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

Category:Education [[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading ... can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ...

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Category:Sociology recidivism in criminology and penology|recidivism ... Recidivism is a relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior ...

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 ...

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by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...

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

Category:Education [[Image:Playground.jpg|thumb|250 px|A children& ... for children to play freely, usually part of a school or public park. Playgrounds ...

Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences ... Sexual harassment is the unwelcome attention of a sexual nature. It ...

but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...

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States, England and Wales, or other parts of the world, a brief is a road ... The brief was probably so called from its at first being only a copy ...

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 ...

in awarding to him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1958. Through the organizations ... An enthusiastic supporter of internationalism, he founded the Peace ...

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

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

Category:Sociology Category:Economics Collective bargaining is the process of negotiation between a group ...

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ...

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

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

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

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

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

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for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...

Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras ... Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

or unfavorable attitude toward a group of people. Prejudicial beliefs ... Colonialism was based, in part, on a lack of tolerance of cultures different ...

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name=The University of Chicago |motto=Crescat scientia; vita excolatur ...

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 ...

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

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972), born in Chicago ... that it was meant to ensure the promises of life, liberty, and the pursuit ...

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

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

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

Category:Sociology Category:Psychology [[Image:Bullying Irfe.jpg|thumb ... to Japan),] British Journal of Sociology of Education 24(3) (2003): 315 ...

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

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

Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ...

a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...

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

Category:Sociology The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in ...

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

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ...

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

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

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

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Category:Education right|250px| A child learning the countries of Asia by experience rather than ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name = University of Pennsylvania |image = [[Image:Collegegreen ...

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

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

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

The TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama ... It was promoted as an example of local democracy, cheap power, environmental ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

:This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...

potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... campuses are in New York City and in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is ...

Category:Sociology Category:Law event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California ...

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 ...

educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... === Childhood and education === Rudolf Steiner was born on February ...

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

up to World War I. The society laid many of the foundations of the Labour ... The Fabian Society represented the more evolutionist element of socialism ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapy used to treat depression ... The history of behavior therapy progressed during the same time that ...

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

race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

[[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 ...

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

Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... by his experiences. He married at the age of thirteen and had two children ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

#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 ...

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and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... === Early life and education === Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854 ...

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

| birth_place = Dobzau, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria ... | education = University of Vienna (MD, 1922) | known_for ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

and repetitive or restricted patterns of behaviors, interests, or activities ... unpreventable condition, many forms of therapy, such as speech and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 [[File:Picard.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Spanish Inquisition ... on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Category:Sociology or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ...

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

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 ...

2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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