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Social control refers to social mechanisms that regulate individual and group behavior, in terms of greater sanctions and rewards. It may also designate the processes of informal social control such as custom and formal social control such as law of deviant behavior which falls beyond the bounds set by social norms. Social control is present in all societies, if only in the control mechanisms used ...

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Anti-social behaviour is that lacking in judgement and consideration for others, ranging from careless negligence to deliberately damaging activity (e.g. vandalism and graffiti). Someone behaving in an anti-social manner may be a manifestation of an antisocial personality disorder. The term "anti-social" is often mistakenly used to describe someone who is introverted. People who are anti-social can also be introverted, however. Anti-social - Anti-social behaviour in the UK. In 2003, the Briti ...

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• Anti-social - Anti-social behaviour in the UK

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In 2003, the British government proposed legislation to counter anti-social behaviour - the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003. This introduced Anti-social behaviour orders which are civil orders which if broken can result in imprisonment of up to five years. The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 defines anti-social behaviour as behaviour "caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household." The counter part of Anti-Social Behaviour is Pro-Social Behaviour. Pro-Social Behav ...

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Anti-social, Anti-social - Anti-social behaviour in the UK

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Some social change is almost always occurring, but many different theories have been mooted to explain significant social changes in history. These include: the idea of decline or degeneration, or, in religious terms, the fall from an original state of grace, connected with theology; the idea of cyclical change, a pattern of subsequent and recurring phases of growth and decline, and the social cycles; the idea of continuous social progress; Marx's historical materialism Evolutionary theories (how one social form evolves into another), including social darwinis ...

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Social change, Social change - Theories, Social change - Examples, Social change - Measuring social change, Social change - Social change and social order

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The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States of America carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in which hijackers took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City — one into each of the two tallest towers, about 18 minutes apart. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed. The hijackers crashed the third aircraft into the U.S. Department of Defe ...

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• September 11, 2001 attacks - The attacks
• September 11, 2001 attacks - 9/11
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Fatalities
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Responsibility
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Motive
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Aftermath
• September 11, 2001 attacks - International reaction
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Public response in the United States
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Economic aftermath
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Rescue, recovery, and compensation
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Potential health effects
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Collapse of the World Trade Center
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Survivors
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Congressional inquiries
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Speculation, alternative theories, and claims of further conspiracies
• September 11, 2001 attacks - 20th hijacker
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Other planned attacks
• September 11, 2001 attacks - The War on Terrorism
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Memorials
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Arts and literature
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Media
• September 11, 2001 attacks - Victims

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In 2003, the British government proposed legislation to counter anti-social behaviour - the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003. This introduced Anti-social behaviour orders which are civil orders which if broken can result in imprisonment of up to five years. The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 defines anti-social behaviour as behaviour "caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household." The counter part of Anti-Social Behaviour is Pro-Social Behaviour. Pro-Social Behaviour is ...

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Anti-social, Anti-social - Anti-social behaviour in the UK

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The big breakthrough to a new idea in Europe came with the Enlightenment, when social commentators and philosophers began to realize that people themselves could change society and change their way of life. Instead of being made completely by God, there was increasing room for the idea that people themselves made their own society - and not only that, as Giambattista Vico argued, because people practically made their own society, they could also fully comprehend it. This gave rise to new sciences, or proto-sciences, which claimed to provide new scientific knowledge about what society was really ...

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Social progress, Social progress - Enlightenment, Social progress - The notion of freedom, Social progress - Marx's radicalism, Social progress - Modernism, Social progress - Postmodernism and social progress, Social progress - Four recent trends of thought about social progress

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A convention is a rule or a selection from among two or more alternatives, where the rule or alternative is agreed upon among participants. Often the word refers to unwritten customs shared throughout a community. For instance, it is conventional in many societies that strangers being introduced shake hands. Some conventions are explicitly legislated; for example, it is conventional in America and Germany that motorists drive on the right side of the road, whereas in England and Barbados they drive on the left. The extent to which justice is conventional (as opposed to natural ...

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Convention philosophy and social sciences, Convention philosophy and social sciences - General, Convention philosophy and social sciences - Customary or social conventions, Convention philosophy and social sciences - Government, Convention philosophy and social sciences - International law

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The UK Department of Media, Culture and Sports (DCMS) define the Creative Industries as: “those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.” The DCMS category list consists of production in the following sectors: Advertising Architecture Art and Antiques Market Crafts Design Designer Fashion Film and Video < ...

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Creative industries, Creative industries - Definitions and context for the sector, Creative industries - Economic contribution, Creative industries - Wider role, Creative industries - Success factors, Creative industries - Measuring performance

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The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of Jewish manuscripts written from about 870 to as late as 1880 CE, that were found in the geniza of the synagogue of Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt (built 882), the Busatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century that are now archived in various American and European libraries. The Taylor-Schechter collection in the University of Cambridge runs to 140,000 manuscripts; there are a further 40,000 fragm ...

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• Cairo Geniza - Creation of the contents
• Cairo Geniza - Modern discovery
• Cairo Geniza - Modern scholarship

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Blue Dog Democrats are social and economic conservatives in the United States Democratic Party. In the United States House of Representatives, Blue Dogs are an actual coalition of likeminded Democrats organized as the Blue Dog Coalition, rather than just an expression such as "Yellow Dog" Democrats. The term is a reference to the "Blue Dog" paintings of Cajun artist George Rodrigue of Lafayette, Louisiana; the original members of the coalition would regularly meet in the offices of Louisiana representatives who had Rodrigue's painting ...

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• Blue Dog Democrats - The Blue Dog Coalition
• Blue Dog Democrats - List of Blue Dog Coalition members
• Blue Dog Democrats - Differences between the Blue Dogs and the Democratic Leadership Council
• Blue Dog Democrats - Differences between the Blue Dogs and the party's left wing

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Gerontology is the study of the elderly, and of the aging process itself. It is to be distinguished from geriatrics, which is the study of the diseases of the elderly. Gerontology covers the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging. Gerontology includes these and other endeavors: studying physical, mental, and social changes in people as they age. investigating the effects of our aging population on society. applyi ...

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• Gerontology - Gerontologists
• Gerontology - Biogerontology
• Gerontology - Biogerontologists

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Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Moreno de Macias on May 2, 1945, in Managua, Nicaragua) is a social and political activist made famous by having married Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Bianca was born into a well-situated family. Her father was a businessman and her mother a housewife. They divorced when Bianca was ten and she stayed with her mother, who had to take care of four children on a small income. When Bianca was studying political science in Paris, she demonstrated against the Somoza regime after the massacre of ...

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The biopsychosocial model of medicine, is a way of looking at the mind and body of a patient as two important systems that are interlinked. The biopsychosocial model is also a technical term for the popular concept of the mind-body connection. This is in contrast to the traditional biomedical model of medicine. The model was proposed by psychiatrist George Engel in a 1977 article in Science. The biopsychosocial model treats the biological, psychological and social issues as systems of the body, similar to the traditional medical ...

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The Bluestocking society was an informal women's social and educational movement that came into being in England in the mid-eighteenth century in imitation of a similar - though more formal - movement in France. The most striking difference between the two movements was the English emphasis on education and mutual co-operation as opposed to the French emphasis on social "networking" and individual social progress. ...

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Bowing is the act of lowering the head, or sometimes the entire upper body from the waist, as a social gesture. Bowing exists now and has existed in various cultures at various periods in history. Different cultures have placed varying degrees of importance on bowing, and have used bowing in a variety of ways. In European cultures, bowing is an exclusively male practice - females perform a related gesture called a "courtsey" or "curtsy." As in Japan, the depth of the bow expresses degree of respect or gratitude, and, in ...

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• Bowing social - Bowing in Japan

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A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. During their heyday (from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s), many BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the "SysOp" (system operator), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access. In current usage (primarily in Japan and China) the term BBS may be used to ref ...

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• Bulletin board system - History
• Bulletin board system - Shareware
• Bulletin board system - Features
• Bulletin board system - BBSes
• Bulletin board system - Related terms
• Bulletin board system - BBS programs
• Bulletin board system - Other

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A catatonic stupor is a motionless or apathetic state in which one remains oblivious to external stimuli. Motor activity is limited to near non-existent. Individuals avoid bathing and grooming, make little or no eye contact with others, may be mute and rigid, and initiate no social behaviors. This psychiatric symptom is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and can point towards schizophrenia (catatonic-type), post-traumatic stress disorder, and other mental health illnesses.

Z Communications is a politically progressive left-wing, journalism-intensive, media group, founded in 1987 by Michael Albert. Its publications include Z Magazine, ZNet, Z Media, and Z Video. Regular contributors to Z Communications publications include Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Tim Wise, Ward Churchill, Amira Hass, Norman Solomon, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Howard Zinn, Edward S. Herman, and Eleanor Bader, (and occasionally) Barbara Ehrenreich, and "Mickey Z". Z Communications - ...

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• Z Communications - Publications and organizations
• Z Communications - Z Magazine
• Z Communications - Z Net
• Z Communications - Z Media Institute
• Z Communications - Z Video

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Chartism is also an alternative term for technical analysis Chartism was a movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century. It gains its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement. Chartism - Origin. Chartism followed earlier Radical movements which demanded a widening of the franchise, and came after the passing of the Reform Act 1832, which gave the vote to the majority of the male middle classes, but ...

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• Chartism - Origin
• Chartism - The first wave
• Chartism - The 1848 petition
• Chartism - Legacy

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