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school
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......properly includes colleges, universities, and many types of special...see adult education; colleges and universities; community college; vocational education...Latin grammar schools, and colleges into a well-organized...meet the psychological and social stresses of early ......
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education
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......considered essential for social functioning. Techniques...the monastic schools and universities were the chief centers...counseling) and included aspects of vocational education...especially in the land-grant colleges of the western United States...schools. Private schools and colleges have ......
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sociology
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......scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of...activities—economic, social, political, and religious...such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility...the noneconomic causes of social cohesion.It was not ......
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bossism
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......reciprocity in promoting financial and social self-interest. Bossism depends upon...of the voters and thus always has some aspects of corruption and fraud, even though...machines may do much good service for the community, the state, or the nation. Control...literacy, extension of government into the ......
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home economics
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......and the relation of the home to the community. Formerly limited to problems of food...economics, it later came to include many aspects of family relations, parental education...later an emphasis was placed on the social, economic, and aesthetic aspects. Although called in some countries......
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prophet
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......to purify Israel's religion, the prophets attacked many aspects of people's lives and came forward as the advocates of the poor and oppressed and as the leaders in social reform. According to them, Israel could be reconciled with...Muhammad as the last and greatest of prophets. He gathered a community ......
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Spinoza, Baruch
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......philosopher, b. Amsterdam. Spinoza's LifeHe belonged to the community of Jews from Spain and Portugal who had fled the Inquisition...different substances, Spinoza holds that the two are different aspects of a single substance, which he called alternately God and...PhilosophyPolitically, Spinoza and Hobbes again ......
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transcendentalism (American literary and philosophical movement)
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......authors as Carlyle, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Its mystical aspects were partly influenced by Indian and Chinese religious...a journal edited by Fuller and Emerson. The cooperative community Brook Farm (1841–47) grew out of their ideas on social reform, which also found expression in their many ......