General sociology

General sociology

General terms relating to the study of society.

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spencer’s stages of society

Sociology; General sociology

Herbert Spencer’s statement that society developed from a society organized primarily for war. A society organized primarily for industry.

status

Sociology; General sociology

The privileges, rights and duties which are associated with the higher or lower social rank in a group or society.

status symbol

Sociology; General sociology

Any object, skill, experience or action on which members of a group or society place a value and which they use as a criterion for determining status.

stationary population

Sociology; General sociology

A population in which the birth and death rates are constant and approximate each other so that the size of the age and sex categories remains relatively constant.

superstitions

Sociology; General sociology

Any unsystematised body of irrational and fearful beliefs in various unreasonable phenomena having a supernatural character.

sociometry

Sociology; General sociology

Term coined by J.L Moreno. A technique to measure the likeness or dislikeness or identifying a group to which one wants to be associated.

According to Durkheim sacred things are those which the religious interdictions protect and isolate profane things, those to which these interdictions are applied and which must remain at a distance ...