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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…

  • MAX WEBER

    MAX WEBER (1864-1920) German political economist and sociologist, originally trained in jurisprudence. Faculty member, for most of his life adjunct, at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1904 editorial director of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik . Author of a prodigious corpus, including the essays The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ,…

  • TABOO

    TABOO Also tabu, tapu, kapu ; a prohibition of acts and/or contacts dangerous to the doer and his or her group. Captain James Cook first heard the word in 1777 at Tonga and found the idea of taboo even more prevalent on the Sandwich Islands. Cook discovered that the term had wide usage among various…

  • 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…

  • STATUS

    STATUS Of considerable significance for social scientific investigations of the origins, development, and decline of a wide variety of religious ideologies, movements, and institutions. Like other concepts that seek to impose sociological rigor on familiar societal terminology, status is subject to a number of distinct (although overlapping) usages that sometimes generate confusion. The Legal Context…

  • SCIENCE AND RELIGION

    SCIENCE AND RELIGION If science is defined as that body of knowledge about man and the universe that is based on observation, experiment, and measurement, while religion embodies teachings that are based on faith, then it follows that these two domains are bound to come into conflict with one another if they are treated as…

  • List of people who disappeared mysteriously

    List of people who disappeared mysteriously This is a list of people who have mysteriously disappeared, relating chronologically cases of disappearance recorded in the course of history that have occurred to notorious people and in unenlightened circumstances. Before 1800 71 BC – although supposedly died in battle, the body of the rebel slave Spartacus was…

  • Correlates of War Project

    Correlates of War Project Data Sets of the System Overview Its data set contains the list of states in the international system as updated and distributed by the Correlates of War Project. These data sets identify states, their standard Correlates of War “country code” or state number (used throughout the Correlates of War project data…

  • 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…

  • Market Failure

    Market Imperfections or Market Failure and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Market Imperfections or Market Failure: Often refers to two sources of departure from perfect competition, i.e., […]

  • Argument

    Clergyman, Discipline, Tribunals, Testimony, Argument From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Clergyman, Discipline, Tribunals, Testimony, Argument (1): What a clergyman says in the administration of the discipline of the church or what is said in tribunals to enforce […]

  • Regression Analysis

    Literature Review on (Research Methods) Regression Analysis In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Jan Wynen offers the following summary about the topic of (Research Methods) Regression Analysis: Regression analysis concerns itself with the application of […]

  • Regression Analysis

    Literature Review on (Research Methods) Regression Analysis In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Jan Wynen offers the following summary about the topic of (Research Methods) Regression Analysis: Regression analysis concerns itself with the application of […]

  • Patent Systems

    Patent Systems Contents of Patent Systems Contents of this subject matter include:The American Patent System – types of applications, publication of applications, the nominated person, claiming priority, American interactions with PCT system The American Patent System – examination of […]

  • Andrew Scobell

    Note: there is more information on the Asian/Chinese legal Encyclopedia. Notion of of Andrew Scobell: Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and former associate professor of international affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government.[1] Resources See Also Foreign […]