Category: Rights
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Employers Rights
Resources See Also Rights Legal Rights Fundamental Rights Civil Rights
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Rights of Special Groups
Resources See Also Rights Legal Rights Fundamental Rights Civil Rights
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Rights of Special Groups
Resources See Also Rights Legal Rights Fundamental Rights Civil Rights
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Worker
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Moral Values
Moral Values Moral Values Definition Moral Values may be defined as beliefs about right and wrong, which have an imput in legal rules. Meanings For information on: basic rules of right and wrong, based on human nature, see Natural Law principles and standards of conduct, including both Christian and secular philosophical views, see Ethics central…
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History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century
History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century Women’s in the 20th-Century Developments Socialists Movements and Communism Governments After wars and revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949), new Communist governments discouraged the patriarchal family system and supported sexual equality, including birth control. In the Soviet Union, however, the majority of working women held low-paid…
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History of Women’s Rights
History of Women’s Rights until the 20th Century Traditional Status Some scholars argue that the discovery throughout the European continent and the Near East of thousands of stone figures of female goddesses dating from the Paleolithic period and on indicates that early societies were originally goddess-worshiping, matrifocal civilizations. Male dominance, however, was preeminent from the…
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Integration
Integration Integration Definition Integration may be defined as the incorporation of disparate ethnic or religious elements of the population into a unified society, providing equality of opportunity for all members of that society. Opportunities In such a society, an individual’s attainment of an education, access to any public or private facility, opportunity for employment, and…
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History of Sociology
History of the Sociology As a discipline, or body of systematized knowledge, sociology is of relatively recent origin. The concept of civil society as a realm distinct from the state was expressed in the writings of the 17th century English philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and of the later thinkers of the French and…
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Social Hierarchy
Social Hierarchy Social Hierarchy Definition Social Hierarchy may be defined as a network of relationships establishing powers and duties of different members of society. Meanings For information on: * rigid social hierarchy under Hinduism, see Caste; Brahman (class) and Hinduism * survival of the fittest as the principle of social organization, see Social Darwinism *…
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History of Social Darwinism
History of Social Darwinism Origins Social Darwinism originated in Britain during the second half of the 19th century. Darwin did not address human evolution in his most famous study, On the Origin of Species (1859), which focused on the evolution of plants and animals. He applied his theories of natural selection specifically to people in…
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Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism Social Darwinism Definition Social Darwinism, term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in “survival of the fittest.” Introduction Social Darwinists base their beliefs on theories of evolution developed by British naturalist Charles…
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Norm
Norm Norm Definition Norm may be defined as informal guideline about what is, or is not, considered normal social behavior (as opposed to rules and laws, which are formal guidelines). In Spanish, “norma”may have a meaning similar to “law”. Taboos, Trivial Customs and Traditions Such shared values and expectations may be measured by statistical sampling…
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Mores
Mores Mores Definition Mores may be defined as social rules prescribing behavior of individuals in a society, which, if violated, result in strong disapproval or punishment. Sanctions Mores are considered to be part of the folkways of a people-that is, the shared behavior common to all. Violations of mores have led to the imposition of…
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy Aristocracy (Greek aristos,”best”; kratos,”power”), form of government in which the sovereign power is vested in a small number of citizens who are theoretically the best qualified to rule, as opposed to monarchy, in which the supreme authority is vested in one person, and to democracy, in which the ultimate authority is exercised by the…