Forum: Sociology
Friday, November 18, 2005
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Comparing Comte and Ibn Khaldun
this comparison havent asked in any CSS papers yet but can be asked !!!
A basic aspect of the methodological approach of Comte and Ibn Khaldun is their discussion of the nature of truth. In...
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Forum: Sociology
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Ibn Khaldun is universally recognized as the founder and father of Sociology and Sciences of History. He is best known for his famous 'Muqaddimah,' (Prolegomena). Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad,...
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Forum: Sociology
Friday, November 18, 2005
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The Real Father of Sociology ....Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun was a renaissance man, the real father of sociology. He defined the foundations of sociology more than 4 centuries before Auguste Comte “discovered” them. Ibn Khaldun lived in an era when...
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Forum: Sociology
Friday, November 18, 2005
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Counterpart of Gemeinschaft
Family life is the general basis of life in the Gemeinschaft. It subsists in village and town life. The village community and the town themselves can be considered as...
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Forum: Sociology
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The People (Volkstum) and the State (Staatstum)
In the same way as the individual natural will evolves into pure thinking and rational will, which tends to dissolve and subjugate its...
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Forum: Sociology
Friday, November 18, 2005
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Sociology of Ferinand Tonnies
On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
The German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies (1855-1936) was a major contributor to theory and field studies in sociology. He is best remembered for his distinction...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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V, W & Z
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VALUES. Culturally defined standards held by human individuals or groups about what is desirable, proper, beautiful, and good or bad that serve as broad guidelines for social life.
VARIABLE....
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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T & U
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TABOO. A socio-cultural prohibition on some act, person, place, animal, or plant.
TECHNOLOGY. The application of logic, reason and knowledge to the problems of exploiting raw materials from...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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S
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SACRED. Something set apart from the everyday world which inspires attitudes of awe or reverence among believers.
SAMPLING. Taking a small representative part of a population for purposes...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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R
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RACE. A socially defined category of people who share genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
RACISM. The attributing of characteristics of inferiority to a particular racial...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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N, O & P
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NATIONALISM. An individual's internalization of the set of beliefs and values expressing love, pride and identification with a given nation state. Ritual and symbols are important tools in...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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MACROSOCIOLOGY. The study of large-scale organizations, socio-cultural systems, or the world system of societies.
MAGIC. Rituals which attempt to influence supernatural beings to help...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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L
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LABELING THEORY. A social theory that holds that society's reaction to certain behaviors is a major factor in defining the self as deviant. People become `deviant' because certain labels like...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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I & K
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IDEAL TYPE. Weber's construct of a 'pure type', constructed by emphasizing logical or consistent traits of a given social item. The traits are defining ones, not necessarily desirable ones....
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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F, G and H
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FAMILY. A group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage or adoption. Members of families form an economic unit, the adult members of which are responsible for the...
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
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D & E
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DEFENSIVE MEDICINE. The use of widespread medical tests on the part of physicians in order to avoid possible malpractice suits.
DEFORESTATION. The removal of all trees from an area.
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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B & C
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BALANCE OF POWER. The theory that military conflict can be avoided if both sides have roughly equivalent military power.
BUREAUCRACY. A formal organization marked by a clear hierarchy of...
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Forum: Sociology
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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Glossary of Sociological Terms
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY. Poverty as defined in terms of the minimal requirements necessary to afford minimal standards of food, clothing, health care and shelter.
ACHIEVED STATUS. A position...
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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His legacy
One universal law that Comte saw at work in all sciences he called the 'law of three phases'. It is by his statement of this law that he is best known in the English-speaking world; namely, that...
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Sociology of Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is best known today as the father of French positivist thought. Positivism may be described as either a philosophical system or as a philosophy of history. As a philosophy...
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Functionalism
We have considered Spencer's...
Functionalism
We have considered Spencer's emphasis that changes in structure cannot occur without changes in functions and that increases in size of social units necessarily bring in their wake...
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Forum: Sociology
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Sociology of Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a theorist whose valuable insights have often been drowned in a sea of irrelevance and specious reasoning. What is relevant in his work will therefore have to be selected in a...
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