GLOSSARY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES - Rogers State University

1 GLOSSARY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES By Frank W. Elwell Consistent with the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (look it up) I am a great believer in the im-portance of vocabulary in learning any new area of study. I began my GLOSSARY of the SOCIAL SCIENCES while studying and teaching in Australia in 1996 and have periodically updated it. It has been on the Internet off of my site (and several others) ever since. A little about the process of creation: I began by consulting numerous glossaries in SOCIAL problems and introductory texts in sociology.

deviance are caused by a disjunction between society's goals and the approved means to achieve these goals; also called "structural strain theory." ... on the study of traditional cultures--particularly hunting and gathering and ... The threat or the actual dispersal of biological or chemical agents to cause

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