He earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the social and institutional determinants of education in 1971, and started his career as a scientist in1975 with a work entitled “The Educational System an ...
Gene-environment correlations (or rGE) can arise by both causal and non-causal mechanisms. Of principal interest are those causal mechanisms, which indicate genetic control over environmental exposure ...
To disentangle the effects of genes and environment, behavioral geneticists perform adoption and twin studies. These seek to decompose the variance in a population into genetic and environmental compo ...
The concept of agency has existed since the Enlightenment. René Descartes' phrase Cogito ergo sum stated that anyone who could think is an agent, and any agent capable of knowing that it can think wa ...
Contemporary political sociology involves, but is not limited to, the study of the relations between state, society and citizens. Where a typical research question in political sociology might have be ...
As a decision-making process, consensus decision-making aims to be:Agreement Seeking: A consensus decision making process attempts to help everyone get what they need.Collaborative: Participants contr ...
In his 2003 paper, "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy", A. W. F. Edwards argued that rather than using a locus-by-locus analysis of variation to derive taxonomy, it is possible to construct ...
There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined. Nonetheless, some scholars argue ...
Socialization is the process by which human infants begin to acquire the skills necessary to perform as a functioning member of their society, and is the most influential learning process one can expe ...
Main article: Educational psychologyBehavior analysisMain article: BehaviorismMain article: Applied behavior analysisThe term "behaviorism" was coined by John Watson (1878–1959). Watson believed that ...
A religious community is a community (group of people) who practice the same religion.In the wider sense it may describe members of one religion who live near or intermingled with members of other rel ...
A theoretical (or conceptual) definition gives the meaning of a word in terms of the theories of a specific discipline. This type of definition assumes both knowledge and acceptance of the theories th ...
The use of the term conceptual framework crosses both scale (large and small theories) and contexts (social science, marketing, applied science, art etc.). Its explicit definition and application ca ...
In the United States, in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that American households in the lowest fifth in terms of wealth, gave on average a higher percentage of their incomes to charitable ...
The study of interpersonal relationships involves several branches of the social sciences, including such disciplines as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and social work. Interpersonal skills are ...
