General sociology

General sociology

General terms relating to the study of society.

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gemeinschaft

Sociology; General sociology

Tonnies used this term. Gemeinschaft refers to world of close, emotional, face to face ties, attachment to place and a homogeneous and regulated community.

gesellschaft

Sociology; General sociology

Concept elaborated by Tonnies, it refers to association,. Term linked with Urbanism, industrial life, heterogeneity and secondary relationships.

generalized others

Sociology; General sociology

When a child sees himself in terms of the collective viewpoint of the others, he sees himself from the perspective of generalized others.

gender

Sociology; General sociology

Ann Oakley introduced this term to sociology. Gender draws attention to the socially constructed difference between the men and women unlike sex which does it on the basis of biological differences.

agnation

Sociology; General sociology

The practice of reckoning descent and kinship exclusively through the male line.

agnosticism

Sociology; General sociology

The point of view that the existence of God cannot be scientifically proved.

A social movement in which the farmers of a country seek not only to recognize the agricultural economy but to change the relative importance of agriculture in the total economy of the country and to ...