General sociology

General sociology

General terms relating to the study of society.

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mobility

Sociology; General sociology

A change in social status. The process of changing residence.

monism

Sociology; General sociology

The philosophical view that everything is reducible to one principle or substance .The view that all social facts may be explained in terms of one basic principle or kind of cause.

monogamy

Sociology; General sociology

A form of marriage in which there is only one spouse to each sex as distinguished from polygamy in which a person may have two or more spouses of the other sex.

monotheism

Sociology; General sociology

Worship of only one god .Monotheism preludes the existence of any plural number of Gods.

moral restraint

Sociology; General sociology

Pre- marital chastity and the postponement of marriage as a means of keeping at a minimum the number of births in a population.

moiety

Sociology; General sociology

Two or more primary subdivisions in a political or kinship grouping is called moiety. Levi Strauss refers to it as dual organization.

modernization

Sociology; General sociology

According to Gore modernization is not a philosophy or a movement with a clearly articulated value system. It is a process of change. According to Eisenstadt modernization is the most important ...