Search results for: “reward”
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Education
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]
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International Trade Law
Outline Following an introductory overview of the principles and structure of international trade law, this entry concentrates on the substantive obligations in the agreements that form part of the World Trade Organization Agreement, including tariff and customs?related matters, […]
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Learning
"Learning is, in truth, a very great and a very considerable quality; and such as despise it sufficiently discover their own want of understanding: but yet I do not prize it at the excessive rate some others do; as Herillus the philosopher for one, who therein places the sovereign good, […]
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Bonus Payment
Hierarchical Display of Bonus payment Employment And Working Conditions > Personnel management and staff remuneration > Remuneration of work Bonus payment Concept of Bonus payment See the dictionary definition of Bonus payment. Characteristics of Bonus payment [rtbs name=”xxx-xxx”] […]
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GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGIONS
GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGIONS The religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Greeks and Romans have not attracted social scientific investigation to the extent accorded either the major world faiths or the religions of band and tribal peoples. Notwithstanding that one would be hard-pressed to find a living devotee of Zeus or Athena, Janus or…
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STRATIFICATION
STRATIFICATION A structure of social inequality in which individuals and groups have an unequal share in the distribution of power, privilege, and prestige in society. Over the years, social scientists have investigated the relationship between religion and social inequality. Researchers have focused on issues such as the impact of inequality on religion, the effect of…
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY A subdiscipline of both sociology and psychology, yet much of the two major disciplines is actually social psychology. If sociology deals with social categories or groups and if psychology deals with individuals, social psychology involves the intersection of the social and the individual where the individual is influenced by the social and, in…
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Jonathan Wild
Jonathan Wild Director of a Corporation of Thieves, and a most famous Receiver. Executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725 Jonathan Wild was born at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire, about the year 1682. At about fifteen years of age Jonathan, having made some progress at school in writing and arithmetic, was bound apprentice to a buckle-…
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Islamic World
Islamic World At the peak of its power (the “peak” of the Islamic empire is usually considered to be during the Abbasid Dynasty , 750 A.D.-1258 A.D.) the Islamic empire represented the greatest military strength, reached a higher level of achievement in the arts and sciences than any other civilization, and was widely thought of…
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Private Ethics
Private Ethics Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation Text of the Chapter XIX, § 1, titled “Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation” in the classical book “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, by Jeremy Bentham: I. So much for the division of offences in general. Now…
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Commission
Real Estate meaning of Commission In the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Commission: Remuneration paid to an agent or broker for his services in conducting a specific duty, such as introducing a purchaser of a property, effecting a sale of a property to a third party, or […]
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Accountability
Literature Review on Accountability In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Jonathan B. Justice offers the following summary about the topic of Accountability: In broad terms, accountability denotes a system of interdependent social relationships, processes, and […]