SOCIOLOGY — as a field of intellectual endeavor is much older than sociology as an academic discipline. Modern sociology can be traced to the Scottish moralists such as Adam Ferguson, David Hume, Adam Smith, and possibly to Thomas Hobbes. The word sociology… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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Policy analysis — can be defined as determining which of various alternative policies will most achieve a given set of goals in light of the relations between the policies and the goals [Nagel, Stuart S. (Ed.), 1999, Policy Analysis Methods. New Science Publishers … Wikipedia
Policy studies — could be defined as the combination of policy analysis and program evaluation. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033 3352%28199811%2F12%2958%3A6%3C533%3ABTPSEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2 C size=LARGE origin=JSTOR enlargePage] It involves systematically… … Wikipedia
Sociology of Religion (book) — Sociology of Religion is a 1920 book by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was in German.Max Weber, unlike Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim, studied the effects of religious action and inaction. Instead of viewing… … Wikipedia
Sociology — For the journal, see Sociology (journal). Sociology … Wikipedia
sociology of welfare — welfare, sociology of welfare Welfare is the state or condition of doing or being well. The term is primarily invoked when some action is considered necessary in order to enhance individual or group welfare that is when welfare is in some way in… … Dictionary of sociology
sociology — sociologist, n. /soh see ol euh jee, soh shee /, n. the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc. [1835 45; < F… … Universalium
policy research — Social scientific research which has non university groups as its main intended audience (although the results may in practice also interest academic audiences). For the most part such research attempts to apply social scientific findings to the… … Dictionary of sociology
Sociology of childhood — The Sociology of childhood is a branch of sociology focusing on the ways societies conceptualise and organize childhood. These processes and their consequences affect the whole of society, its conception of social order, its conditions of life of … Wikipedia
