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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.
An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Industry:Sociology
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.
Industry:Sociology
Employees who work full-time or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals, phone lines, and fax machines.
Industry:Sociology
The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Industry:Sociology
Organizations that seek to improve the material status of their members, all of whom perform a similar job or work for a common employer.
Industry:Sociology
The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Industry:Sociology
The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Industry:Sociology
The average number of children born alive to a woman, assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Industry:Sociology
A study, generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires, that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Industry:Sociology
