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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority, such as prisons, the military, mental hospitals, and convents.
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The average number of children born alive to a woman, assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
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A study, generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires, that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
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A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society
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A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle, independent of their class positions.
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The process of change and development in human societies that results from cumulative growth in their stores of cultural information.
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The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
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Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
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A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
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