General sociology

General sociology

General terms relating to the study of society.

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witch craft

Sociology; General sociology

The belief that a witch has the inherent power to harm or help a person or his soul by using supernatural techniques.The magical techniques associated with such a belief.

withdrawal

Sociology; General sociology

A psychological reaction or type of defense mechanism in which a person attempts to adjust to a frustrating situation by avoiding it.

word association test

Sociology; General sociology

In psychology a projective technique for studying personality in which the subject is presented with a list of words and asked to respond to each word with the first word that comes to his mind.

work ecology

Sociology; General sociology

The ecological study of the spatial distribution of workers in a factory, business office or the like and the relationship of this distribution to the patterns of work relationships and informal ...

Of late youth in many societies have come to be treated as a special category. Young people between the age of 12 and 20 have acquired a distinctive social identity. Three features distinguished the ...

Z score

Sociology; General sociology

A statistical score expressed in terms of its relative position in the frequency distribution of which it is a part. A score is converted to a z score so that it may be compared with scores from ...

Zipf migration hypothesis

Sociology; General sociology

An hypothesis in ecology proposed by George K Zipf that states that other factors such as income level, unemployment being equal, the number of persons who migrate between two communities (in both ...