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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Contents/Society_and_social_sciences/Intro&action=edit">edit</a></span> · <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Contents/Society_and_social_sciences/Intro&action=watch">watch</a></span></div> <div style="float:right;margin-left:1em"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Smooches_(baby_and_child_kiss).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A young girl kisses a baby on the cheek."><img alt="A young girl kisses a baby on the cheek." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Smooches_%28baby_and_child_kiss%29.jpg/150px-Smooches_%28baby_and_child_kiss%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Smooches_%28baby_and_child_kiss%29.jpg/225px-Smooches_%28baby_and_child_kiss%29.jpg 1.5x, 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At its simplest, the term <i>society</i> refers to a large group of people sharing their own <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Institutions" class="mw-redirect" title="Institutions">institutions</a>. A society is a network of relationships between people. The English word <i>society</i> is derived from the French <i><b>société</b></i>, which had its origin in the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <i><b>societas</b></i>, a "friendly association with others," from <i><b>socius</b></i> meaning "companion, associate, comrade or business partner." Thus, the meaning of society is closely related to what is considered to be <a href="/wiki/Social" title="Social">social</a>. Implicit in the meaning of society is that its members may share some mutual concern or interest, a common objective or common characteristics. The <a href="/wiki/Social_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Social sciences">social sciences</a> generally use the term <i>society</i> to mean a group of people who form a semi-closed <a href="/wiki/Social_system" title="Social system">social system</a>, in which most interactions are with other individuals belonging to the group. More <a href="/wiki/Abstraction" title="Abstraction">abstractly</a>, a <i>society</i> is defined as a network of <a href="/wiki/Social_relation" title="Social relation">relationships</a> between <a href="/wiki/Social_entity" class="mw-redirect" title="Social entity">social entities</a>. A <i>society</i> is also sometimes defined as an interdependent <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a>, but the sociologist <a href="/wiki/T%C3%B6nnies" title="Tönnies">Tönnies</a> sought to draw a contrast between society and community. An important feature of society is <i><a href="/wiki/Social_structure" title="Social structure">social structure</a></i>, aspects of which include <a href="/wiki/Role" title="Role">roles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_rank" class="mw-redirect" title="Social rank">social ranking</a>. <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Social_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Social sciences">social sciences</a></b> are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They differ from the <a href="/wiki/Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts">arts</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Humanities" title="Humanities">humanities</a>, in that the social science tend to emphasize the use of the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific method</a> in the study of humanity, including <a href="/wiki/Quantitative_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Quantitative method">quantitative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qualitative_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Qualitative method">qualitative</a> methods. </p> <table class="noprint" width="100%" border="0" style="padding: 0; margin: 0; background-color:transparent"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="text-align:left;"><b><a href="/wiki/Portal:Society" title="Portal:Society">The Society Portal</a></b></div></td> <td> <div style="text-align:right;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">More about Society</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_science" title="Social science">Social science</a>...</b> </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist contentsPage__toc" style="font-weight:bold; text-align:center;"> <dl><dt>Society and social sciences</dt> <dd><a href="#Overviews">Overviews</a></dd> <dd><a href="#Outlines">Outlines</a></dd> <dd><a href="#Lists">Lists</a></dd> <dd><a href="#Portals">Portals</a></dd> <dd><a href="#Glossaries">Glossaries</a></dd> <dd><a href="#Categories">Categories</a></dd> <dd><a href="#Indices">Indices</a></dd></dl> </div> <div class="contentsPage__heading" id="Overview"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_literature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/30px-P_literature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="27" class="mw-file-element" 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class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Contents/Overview/Society_and_social_sciences&action=watch">watch</a></span></div> </div> <div class="contentsPage__section"> <dl><dd><i>Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Social_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Social sciences">Social sciences</a> and <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">Society</a></i> <i>See also <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">Science</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">Scientific method</a></i></dd></dl> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Social_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Social sciences">Social sciences</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">Anthropology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Archaeology" title="Archaeology">Archaeology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cognitive_science" title="Cognitive science">Cognitive science</a> • <a href="/wiki/Communication_studies" title="Communication studies">Communication studies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Critical_theory" title="Critical theory">Critical theory</a> • <a href="/wiki/Cultural_studies" title="Cultural studies">Cultural studies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Development_studies" title="Development studies">Development studies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">Economics</a> (<a href="/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Unsolved problems in economics">Unsolved problems in economics</a>) • <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Education</a> • <a href="/wiki/Geography" title="Geography">Geography</a> • <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a> • <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">Linguistics</a> • <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a> • <a href="/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science">Political science</a> • <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">Psychology</a> • <a href="/wiki/Social_policy" title="Social policy">Social policy</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">Sociology</a> </p><p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">Society</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Commons" title="Commons">Commons</a> • <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic groups</a> • <a href="/wiki/Global_commons" title="Global commons">Global commons</a> • <a href="/wiki/Global_issue" class="mw-redirect" title="Global issue">Global issue</a> • <a href="/wiki/Group_(sociology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group (sociology)">Group</a> • <a href="/wiki/Infrastructure" title="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</a> • <a href="/wiki/People" title="People">People</a> </p> <dl><dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">Community</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Communitarianism" title="Communitarianism">Communitarianism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Community_development" title="Community development">Community development</a> • <a href="/wiki/International_community" title="International community">International community</a> • <a href="/wiki/Local_community" title="Local community">Local community</a> • <a href="/wiki/Sense_of_community" title="Sense of community">Sense of community</a> • <a href="/wiki/Social_capital" title="Social capital">Social capital</a> • <a href="/wiki/Socialization" title="Socialization">Socialization</a> • <a href="/wiki/Structure_and_agency" title="Structure and agency">Structure and agency</a> • <a href="/wiki/World_community" title="World community">World community</a></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Social_development" class="mw-disambig" title="Social development">Social development</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Decadence" title="Decadence">Decadence</a> • <a href="/wiki/Social_progress" class="mw-redirect" title="Social progress">Social progress</a> • <a href="/wiki/Technological_evolution" title="Technological evolution">Technological evolution</a> <dl><dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sociocultural_evolution" title="Sociocultural evolution">Sociocultural evolution</a></b></i>: <a href="/wiki/Accelerating_change" title="Accelerating change">Accelerating change</a> → <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">Hunter-gatherer</a> <a href="/wiki/Band_society" title="Band society">bands</a> → <a href="/wiki/Social_rank" class="mw-redirect" title="Social rank">Social rank</a> → <a href="/wiki/Tribe" title="Tribe">Tribes</a> → <a href="/wiki/Social_stratification" title="Social stratification">Social stratification</a> → <a href="/wiki/Chiefdom" title="Chiefdom">Chiefdoms</a> → <a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution" title="Neolithic Revolution">Neolithic Revolution</a> → <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">Civilization</a> → <a href="/wiki/Agrarian_society" title="Agrarian society">Agrarian society</a> → <a href="/wiki/Pre-industrial_society" title="Pre-industrial society">Pre-industrial society</a> → Agrarian <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">villages</a> → <a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">Towns</a> → <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">Cities</a> → <a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">City-states</a> → <a href="/wiki/Nation-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation-state">Nation-states</a> → <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> → (<a href="/wiki/Modernity" title="Modernity">Modern</a>) <a href="/wiki/Industrial_society" title="Industrial society">Industrial society</a> → (<a href="/wiki/Postmodernity" title="Postmodernity">Postmodern</a>) <a href="/wiki/Post-industrial_society" title="Post-industrial society">Post-industrial society</a> → <a href="/wiki/Informational_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Informational Revolution">Informational Revolution</a> → <a href="/wiki/Information_society" title="Information society">Information society</a> → <a href="/wiki/Digital_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Revolution">Digital Revolution</a> → <a href="/wiki/Global_network" title="Global network">Global network</a> → <a href="/wiki/Globalization" title="Globalization">Globalization</a> → <i><a href="/wiki/World_government" title="World government">World government</a>?</i> → <i><a href="/wiki/Space_colonization" title="Space colonization">Space colonization</a>?</i> → <i><a href="/wiki/Technological_singularity" title="Technological singularity">Technological singularity</a>?</i></dd></dl></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Social_organization" title="Social organization">Social institutions</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">Organization</a> <dl><dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Family" title="Family">Family</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Daughter" title="Daughter">Daughter</a> • <a href="/wiki/Extended_family" title="Extended family">Extended family</a> • <a href="/wiki/Father" title="Father">Father</a> • <a href="/wiki/Grandparent" title="Grandparent">Grandparent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">Home</a> • <a href="/wiki/Human_bonding" title="Human bonding">Human bonding</a> • <a href="/wiki/Mother" title="Mother">Mother</a> • <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_family" title="Nuclear family">Nuclear family</a> • <a href="/wiki/Parent" title="Parent">Parent</a> • <a href="/wiki/Son" title="Son">Son</a></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Portal:Contents/Overviews#Religion_and_belief_systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Contents/Overviews">Religion</a></b></i></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Infrastructure" title="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</a></b></i> <dl><dd><i><b>Public infrastructure</b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Highway" title="Highway">Highways</a> • <a href="/wiki/Street" title="Street">Streets</a> • <a href="/wiki/Road" title="Road">Roads</a> • <a href="/wiki/Bridge" title="Bridge">Bridges</a> • <a href="/wiki/Public_transport" title="Public transport">Mass transit</a> • <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">Airports</a> and Airways • <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport" title="Rail transport">Rail transport</a> • <a href="/wiki/Water_supply" title="Water supply">Water 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title="Management">Management</a> • <a href="/wiki/Marketing" title="Marketing">Marketing</a> • <a href="/wiki/Franchising" title="Franchising">Franchising</a></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Education</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Academia" class="mw-redirect" title="Academia">Academia</a> • <a href="/wiki/Academic_misconduct" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic misconduct">Academic misconduct</a> • <a href="/wiki/Homework" title="Homework">Homework</a> • <a href="/wiki/Learning" title="Learning">Learning</a> • <a href="/wiki/Pedagogy" title="Pedagogy">Pedagogy</a> • <a href="/wiki/School" title="School">School</a> • <a href="/wiki/Student" title="Student">Student</a> • <a href="/wiki/Study_skills" title="Study skills">Study skills</a> • <a href="/wiki/Teacher" title="Teacher">Teacher</a></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Civil_society" title="Civil society">Civil society</a></b></i> </dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a> and <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">Politics</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_present-day_nations_and_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics of present-day nations and states">Politics by country</a> • <a href="/wiki/International_relations" title="International relations">International relations</a> • <a href="/wiki/Public_administration" title="Public administration">Public affairs</a> <dl><dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Criminal_justice" title="Criminal justice">Criminal justice</a> • <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">Law enforcement</a> • <a href="/wiki/Legislation" title="Legislation">Legislation</a> • <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">Prison</a></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><i><b><a href="/wiki/Social_network" title="Social network">Social network</a></b></i> – <a href="/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">Communication</a> • <a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">Journalism</a> • <a href="/wiki/Social_capital" title="Social capital">Social capital</a></dd></dl> </div> <div class="contentsPage__heading" id="Outlines"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_literature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/30px-P_literature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/45px-P_literature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/60px-P_literature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="360"/></a></span> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Outlines" data-mw-thread-id="h-Outlines"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Outlines"></span>Outlines<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Outlines"></span></h2></div> <span class="contentsPage__xlink">(<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines" 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Social science has many branches, each called a "social science". Some of the major social sciences are: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_anthropology" title="Outline of anthropology">Anthropology</a> – study of how humans developed biologically and culturally.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_archaeology" title="Outline of archaeology">Archaeology</a> – study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation, and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_economics" title="Outline of economics">Economics</a> – study of how people satisfy their wants and needs. Economics is also the study of supply and demand.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_futures_studies" title="Outline of futures studies">Futures studies</a> – seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_genocide_studies" title="Outline of genocide studies">Genocide studies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Greek_genocide" title="Outline of the Greek genocide">Greek genocide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_geography" title="Outline of geography">Geography</a> – study of physical environments and how people live in them.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_history" title="Outline of history">History</a> – study of the past.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_law" title="Outline of law">Law</a> – set of rules and principles by which a society is governed. (For branches, see <i>Law</i> under <i>Society</i> below). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_civil_law_(common_law)" title="Outline of civil law (common law)">Civil law</a> – non-criminal law, in common law countries. It pertains to lawsuits, civil liability, etc.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_linguistics" title="Outline of linguistics">Linguistics</a> – study of natural languages. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Esperanto" title="Outline of Esperanto">Esperanto</a> – the international constructed language.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_German_language" title="Outline of German language">German language</a> – the German language.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Korean_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Outline of Korean language">Korean language</a> – the Korean language.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_principles_of_interpretation" title="Outline of principles of interpretation">Principles of interpretation</a> – methods used to understand language and texts, primarily legal documents and sacred texts.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_political_science" title="Outline of political science">Political science</a> – study of different forms of government and the ways citizens relate to them.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_psychology" title="Outline of psychology">Psychology</a> – study of the mind, mental processes and behavior. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_abnormal_psychology" title="Outline of abnormal psychology">Abnormal psychology</a> – is the scientific study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_human_intelligence" title="Outline of human intelligence">Human intelligence</a> – mental capacities of human beings to reason, plan, problem solve, think, comprehend ideas, use languages, and learn.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_human_sexuality" title="Outline of human sexuality">Human sexuality</a> – impacts and is impacted upon by cultural, political, legal, philosophical, moral, ethical, and religious aspects of life. Sexual activity is a vital principle of human living that connects the desires, pleasures, and energy of the body with a knowledge of human intimacy.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_semiotics" title="Outline of semiotics">Semiotics</a> – study of symbols and how they relate to one another.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_sociology" title="Outline of sociology">Sociology</a> – study of the formation of human societies and social organizations, their structure, and the interaction and behavior of people in organized groups.</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_society" title="Outline of society">Society</a></b> – group of people sharing the same geographical or virtual territory and therefore subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Such people share a distinctive culture and institutions, which characterize the patterns of social relations between them. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_community" title="Outline of community">Community</a> – group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_LGBTQ_topics" title="Outline of LGBTQ topics">LGBTQ</a> – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_transgender_topics" title="Outline of transgender topics">Transgender</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_business" title="Outline of business">Business</a></b> – organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers for the purpose of making a profit. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_accounting" title="Outline of accounting">Accounting</a> – measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_actuarial_science" title="Outline of actuarial science">Actuarial science</a> – discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_business_management" title="Outline of business management">Business administration</a> – also called "business management", this comprises planning, organizing, staffing, and directing a company's operations in order to achieve its goals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_finance" title="Outline of finance">Finance</a> – funds management, including raising capital to fund an enterprise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_corporate_finance" title="Outline of corporate finance">Corporate finance</a> – deals with the sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, increasing the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_marketing" title="Outline of marketing">Marketing</a> – process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_production" title="Outline of production">Production</a> – creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need. Any effort directed toward the realization of a desired product or service is a "productive" effort and the performance of such an act is production.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_project_management" title="Outline of project management">Project management</a> – discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria. A project is a temporary endeavor to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations).</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_economics" title="Outline of economics">Economics</a> – analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. It aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_industrial_organization" title="Outline of industrial organization">Industrial organization</a> – studies the structure of and boundaries between firms and markets and the strategic interactions of firms.</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_communication" title="Outline of communication">Communication</a></b> – activity of conveying meaningful information, which requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_journalism" title="Outline of journalism">Journalism</a> – gathering, processing, and dissemination of news and information related to the news to an audience. It includes both the method of inquiring for news and the literary style which is used to disseminate it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_environmental_journalism" title="Outline of environmental journalism">Environmental journalism</a> – collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_public_relations" title="Outline of public relations">Public relations</a> – practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) and the public.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">Music</a> - Musical sound programming, <a href="/wiki/Lyrics" title="Lyrics">Lyrics production</a>, <a href="/wiki/Remixing" class="mw-redirect" title="Remixing">Remixing</a>, Dance Programming or Production.</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_education" title="Outline of education">Education</a></b> – any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another. Education can also be defined as the process of becoming an educated person. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_academia" title="Outline of academia">Academia</a> – nationally and internationally recognized establishment of professional scholars and students, usually centered around colleges and universities, who are engaged in higher education and research. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Harvard_University" title="Outline of Harvard University">Harvard University</a> – private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially <i>The President and Fellows of Harvard College</i>) chartered in that country.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_open_educational_resources" title="Outline of open educational resources">Open educational resources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_second-language_acquisition" title="Outline of second-language acquisition">Second-language acquisition</a> – process by which people learn a second language.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_educational_aims" title="Outline of educational aims">Educational aims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_education_in_China" title="Outline of education in China">Education in China</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_globalization" title="Outline of globalization">Globalization</a></b> – process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="Outline of politics">Politics</a></b> – process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. <ul><li>Political ideologies: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_environmentalism" title="Outline of environmentalism">Environmentalism</a> – broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_green_politics" title="Outline of green politics">Green politics</a> – political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy.</li></ul></li> <li>Government types: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_democracy" title="Outline of democracy">Democracy</a> – form of government in which all the people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.</li></ul></li> <li>International organizations: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_United_Nations" title="Outline of the United Nations">United Nations</a></li></ul></li> <li>Political movements: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_psychiatric_survivors_movement" title="Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement">Psychiatric survivors movement</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_public_affairs" title="Outline of public affairs">Public affairs</a> – public policy and public administration. Public policy is a principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of a state with regard to issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. Public administration is "the management of public programs"; the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day"; and "the study of government decision making, the analysis of the policies themselves, the various inputs that have produced them, and the inputs necessary to produce alternative policies."</li> <li>Politics, by region: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_American_politics" title="Outline of American politics">American politics</a> – politics of the United States.</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_law" title="Outline of law">Law</a></b> – A set of rules and principles by which a society is governed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_commercial_law" title="Outline of commercial law">Commercial law</a> – body of law that governs business and commercial transactions.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_criminal_justice" title="Outline of criminal justice">Criminal justice</a> – system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts. Those accused of crime have protections against abuse of investigatory and prosecution powers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">Crime</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_domestic_violence" title="Outline of domestic violence">Domestic violence</a> – violence between partners in a close relationship (marriage, family, dating and so on). This form of violence can manifest itself in a variety of ways.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_forgery" title="Outline of forgery">Forgery</a> – process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_law_enforcement" title="Outline of law enforcement">Law enforcement</a> – any system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to promote adherence to the law by discovering and punishing persons who violate the rules and norms governing that society. The term usually refers to organizations that engage in patrols or surveillance to dissuade and discover criminal activity, and to those who investigate crimes and apprehend offenders.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_intellectual_property" title="Outline of intellectual property">Intellectual property</a> – distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_patents" title="Outline of patents">Patents</a> – set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a process. Patents are a form of intellectual property.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_tort_law" title="Outline of tort law">Tort law</a> – laws and legal procedures dealing with torts. In common law jurisdictions, a tort is a civil wrong that involves a breach of a civil duty (other than a contractual duty) owed to someone else. A tort is differentiated from a crime, which involves a breach of a duty owed to society in general. Though many acts are both torts and crimes, prosecutions for crime are mostly the responsibility of the state; whereas any party who has been injured may bring a lawsuit for tort.</li> <li>Law of the United States <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_evidence_law_in_the_United_States" title="Outline of evidence law in the United States">Evidence law in the United States</a> –</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_United_States_federal_Indian_law_and_policy" title="Outline of United States federal Indian law and policy">United States federal Indian law and policy</a> –</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_rights" title="Outline of rights">Rights</a> – legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_urban_planning" title="Outline of urban planning">Urban planning</a> – technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_transportation_planning" title="Outline of transportation planning">Transportation planning</a> – process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="contentsPage__heading" id="Lists"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_literature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/30px-P_literature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="27" class="mw-file-element" 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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Contents/Lists/Society_and_social_sciences&action=watch">watch</a></span></div> </div> <div class="contentsPage__section"><i><b>Business:</b></i> <p><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_corporate_assets" title="Lists of corporate assets">Corporate assets</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_strikes" title="List of strikes">Strikes</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_stock_market_indices" title="List of stock market indices">Stock market indices</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_store_brands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of store brands">Store brands</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_traded_commodities" title="List of traded commodities">Traded commodities</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_unemployment_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states by unemployment rate">U.S. states by unemployment rate</a> • <a href="/wiki/European_sovereign-debt_crisis:_List_of_acronyms" class="mw-redirect" title="European sovereign-debt crisis: List of acronyms">European sovereign-debt crisis: List of acronyms</a> </p> <dl><dd><i><b>Businesses, organizations, and companies:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft" title="List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft">Assets owned by Microsoft Corporation</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_The_Coca-Cola_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="List of assets owned by The Coca-Cola Company">Assets owned by The Coca-Cola Company</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_natural_gas_companies" title="List of British natural gas companies">British natural gas companies</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_companies" title="Lists of companies">Companies</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_cooperatives" title="List of cooperatives">Cooperatives</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_banks" class="mw-redirect" title="List of banks">Banks</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_department_stores" class="mw-redirect" title="List of department stores">Department stores</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies" title="List of employee-owned companies">Employee-owned companies</a>• <a href="/wiki/List_of_employer_associations" title="List of employer associations">Employer associations</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges" class="mw-redirect" title="List of stock exchanges">Stock exchanges</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_supermarkets" class="mw-redirect" title="List of supermarkets">Supermarkets</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_think_tanks" title="List of think tanks">Think tanks</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_trade_unions" title="List of trade unions">Trade unions</a></dd></dl> <dl><dd><i><b>Business people:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_business_theorists" title="List of business theorists">Business theorists</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_economists" title="List of economists">Economists</a></dd></dl> <p><i><b>Economics:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_economists" title="List of economists">Economists</a> </p> <dl><dd><i><b>National accounts:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">Countries by nominal GDP</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">Countries by nominal GDP per capita</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">Countries by PPP GDP</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita">Countries by PPP GDP per capita</a></dd></dl> <p><i><b>Education:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_academic_fields" title="List of academic fields">Academic fields</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_fields_of_doctoral_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of fields of doctoral studies">Fields of doctoral studies</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_admissions_tests" class="mw-redirect" title="List of admissions tests">Admissions tests</a> • <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_universities_and_colleges" title="Lists of universities and colleges">Universities and colleges</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="List of schools by country">Schools by country</a> </p><p><i><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_environmental_issues" title="List of environmental issues">Environmental issues</a></b></i> </p><p><i><b>Law:</b></i> <i><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_case_law" title="Lists of case law">Case law</a></i> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_civics_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of civics topics">Civics</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_international_public_law_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of international public law topics">International public law</a> </p><p><i><b>Linguistics:</b></i> <i><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_languages" title="Lists of languages">Languages</a></i> • <i><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_English_words" title="Lists of English words">English words</a></i> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_acronyms" class="mw-redirect" title="List of acronyms">Acronyms</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_consonants" title="List of consonants">Consonants</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_vowels" class="mw-redirect" title="List of vowels">Vowels</a> (<a href="/wiki/Table_of_vowels" title="Table of vowels">table</a>) • <a href="/wiki/List_of_hieroglyphs" class="mw-redirect" title="List of hieroglyphs">Hieroglyphs</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_emoticons" title="List of emoticons">Emoticons</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_French_words_and_phrases_used_by_English_speakers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of French words and phrases used by English speakers">French words and phrases used by English speakers</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_phonetics_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of phonetics topics">Phonetics</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_shibboleths" title="List of shibboleths">Shibboleths</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_symbols" title="List of symbols">Symbols</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_writing_systems" title="List of writing systems">Writing systems</a> </p><p><i><b>Organizations:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_professional_bodies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of British professional bodies">British professional bodies</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_civic,_fraternal,_service,_and_professional_organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations">Civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_employer_associations" title="List of employer associations">Employer associations</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_environmental_organizations" title="List of environmental organizations">Environmental organizations</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_LGBT-related_organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="List of LGBT-related organizations">LGBT-related organizations</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_trade_unions" title="List of trade unions">Trade unions</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Mints" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Mints">United States Mints</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_women%27s_organizations" title="List of women's organizations">Women's organizations</a> </p><p><i><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_politics-related_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of politics-related topics">Politics</a>:</b></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_politics_by_country_articles" class="mw-redirect" title="List of politics by country articles">by country</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_California_suffragists" title="List of California suffragists">List of California suffragists</a> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties" class="mw-redirect" title="List of political parties">Political parties</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_generic_names_of_political_parties" title="List of generic names of political parties">Generic names of political parties</a>) • <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_legislatures" class="mw-redirect" title="List of national legislatures">National legislatures</a> • <a 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