Socialists have taken different perspectives on the state and the role it should play in revolutionary struggles, in constructing socialism, and within an established socialist economy.In the 19th cen ...
The Nicaraguan Revolution encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to violently oust the ...
years in office. This particular adaptation of the mixed market economy is characterised by more generous welfare states (relative to other developed countries), which are aimed specifically at enhanc ...
The process of coining new lexical items started as soon as the colonists began borrowing names for unfamiliar flora, fauna, and topography from the Native American languages. Examples of such names a ...
Compared with English as spoken in England, North American English is more homogeneous. Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast (for example, in eastern New England, New York City, Phi ...
Denis McQuail (born 1935) is a communication theorist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, who is considered one of the most influential scholars in the field of mass communication stud ...
In the late 20th Century, mass media could be classified into eight mass media industries: books, newspapers, magazines, recordings, radio, movies, television and the internet. With the explosion of d ...
Various philosophers have presented definitions of punishment. Conditions commonly considered necessary properly to describe an action as punishment are thatit is imposed by an authority,it involves s ...
Main article: Civil law (legal system)Shamash (the Babylonian sun god) hands King Hammurabi a code of lawCivil law is the most widespread system of law around the world. It is also sometimes known as ...
There are multiple components to economic systems. Decision-making structures of an economy determine the use of economic inputs (the factors of production), distribution of output, the level of centr ...
At an early age, the peer group becomes an important part of socialization. A 2002 study titled "Adolescents' Peer Groups and Social Identity" published in the journal Social Development supports this ...
Within the context of law, social purpose is a scheme of statutory construction declaring that a statute should not be construed in a way that would violate normal societal values or good. Example of ...
Marriage and the family - sociology of the familyReligion and religious institutions - see sociology of religion; civil religionEducational institutions - schools (preschool, primary/elementary, secon ...
Feminism: Women from the "Private Sphere" to the "Public Sphere"Main article: FeminismSee also: Women's rightsThroughout the 20th century women in the United States saw a dramatic shift in social and ...
Main article: Social construction of gender differenceSome philosophies claim that gender behavior is mostly due to social conventions, although opposing theories contest this (see Social construction ...
