113 relations: Agent (economics), Alexis de Tocqueville, American Journal of Sociology, Anomie, Anthony Giddens, Aristotle, Autonomy, Émile Durkheim, Barry Wellman, Ben Fine, Better Together: Restoring the American Community, Bowling Alone, Capital (economics), Carl L. Bankston, Catholic school, Child development, Chinese Americans, Choir, Civic engagement, Civil society, Common good, Consensus decision-making, Cooperation, Cultural capital, Cultural economics, Daniel P. Aldrich, David Bollier, Democracy, Democracy in America, Eastern Europe, Economic capital, Edmund Burke, End of history, Facebook, Ferdinand Tönnies, Francis Fukuyama, Free-rider problem, Gang, Gary Becker, Georg Simmel, Glenn Loury, Goods and services, Growing Up American, Guanxi, Henry Ward Beecher, Hong Kong, Human capital, Immigration, Information, Intellectual capital, ..., Intellectual capital management, Ismail Serageldin, James Madison, James Samuel Coleman, Jane Jacobs, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Ku Klux Klan, L. J. Hanifan, Labour power, Laurence Iannaccone, Leisure, Leisure studies, Lewis M. Feldstein, Liberal democracy, LinkedIn, Market (economics), Max Boisot, Max Weber, Min Zhou, Multiculturalism, Myspace, Nan Lin, Narcissism, Organization workshop, Partha Dasgupta, Peyton Young, Pierre Bourdieu, Political party, Rational choice theory, Reciprocity (social psychology), Reed's law, Relational capital, Rent-seeking, Robert D. Putnam, Social alienation, Social engagement, Social lubricant, Social market economy, Social network, Social norm, Social structure, Socialism, Society, Solidarity, Soviet Union, Stock and flow, Structural capital, Sustainable Development Goals, Symbolic capital, The Federalist Papers, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, The Organization Man, Thomas Aquinas, Transaction cost, Trust (emotion), Urban sprawl, Value theory, Vietnamese people, Weimar Republic, Whuffie, World Bank, Yes! (U.S. magazine). Expand index (63 more) »
Agent (economics)
In economics, an agent is an actor and more specifically a decision maker in a model of some aspect of the economy.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville (29 July 180516 April 1859) was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian.
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American Journal of Sociology
Established in 1895 as the first US scholarly journal in its field, American Journal of Sociology (AJS) presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods.
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Anomie
Anomie is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".
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Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
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Autonomy
In development or moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, un-coerced decision.
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Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim (or; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.
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Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman, FRSC (born 1942) is a Canadian-American sociologist and is the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network.
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Ben Fine
Ben Fine (born 1948) is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Better Together: Restoring the American Community
Better Together: Restoring the American Community is both a book and website published as an initiative of the Saguaro Seminar conducted at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam.
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Capital (economics)
In economics, capital consists of an asset that can enhance one's power to perform economically useful work.
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Carl L. Bankston
Carl L. Bankston III (born August 8, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American sociologist and author.
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Catholic school
Catholic schools are parochial schools or education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Child development
Child development entails the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.
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Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans, which includes American-born Chinese, are Americans who have full or partial Chinese ancestry.
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Choir
A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
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Civic engagement
Civic engagement or civic participation is any individual or group activity done with the intent to advocate on behalf of the public.
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Civil society
Civil society is the "aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens".
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Common good
In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, common weal or general welfare) refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service.
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Consensus decision-making
Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which group members develop, and agree to support a decision in the best interest of the whole.
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Cooperation
Cooperation (sometimes written as co-operation) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common, mutual, or some underlying benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.
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Cultural capital
In sociology, cultural capital consists of the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech and dress, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.
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Cultural economics
Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes.
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Daniel P. Aldrich
Daniel P. Aldrich (born 1974) is an academic in the fields of political science and Asian studies.
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David Bollier
David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist.
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Democracy
Democracy (δημοκρατία dēmokraa thetía, literally "rule by people"), in modern usage, has three senses all for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.
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Democracy in America
De La Démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.
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Economic capital
In finance, mainly for financial services firms, economic capital is the amount of risk capital, assessed on a realistic basis, which a firm requires to cover the risks that it is running or collecting as a going concern, such as market risk, credit risk, legal risk, and operational risk.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.
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End of history
The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.
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Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
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Ferdinand Tönnies
Ferdinand Tönnies (26 July 1855 – 9 April 1936) was a German sociologist and philosopher.
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Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis "Frank" Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and author.
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Free-rider problem
In economics, the free-rider problem occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods, or services do not pay for them, which results in an underprovision of those goods or services.
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Gang
A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.
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Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist and empiricist.
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Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 – 28 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
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Glenn Loury
Glenn Cartman Loury (born September 3, 1948) is an American economist, academic, and author.
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Goods and services
Goods are items that are tangible, such as pens, salt, apples, oganesson, and hats.
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Growing Up American
Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III is one of the most influential books on the Vietnamese American experience.
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Guanxi
Guanxi describes the rudimentary dynamic in personalized social networks of influence (which can be best described as the relationships individuals cultivate with other individuals) and is a central idea in Chinese society.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Human capital
Human capital is a term popularized by Gary Becker, an economist and Nobel Laureate from the University of Chicago, and Jacob Mincer.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.
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Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.
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Intellectual capital
Intellectual capital is the intangible value of a business, covering its people (human capital), the value inherent in its relationships (Relational capital), and everything that is left when the employees go home (Structural capital), of which Intellectual property (IP) is but one component.
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Intellectual capital management
Intellectual capital is the sum of all knowledge; implying that knowledge that exists at different levels both within or outside the organisation has to be taken into account for intellectual capital.
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Ismail Serageldin
Ismail Serageldin (born 1944 in Giza, Egypt), Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria.
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James Madison
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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James Samuel Coleman
James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.
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John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
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Karl Marx
Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.
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L. J. Hanifan
Lyda Judson Hanifan (February 12, 1879 – December 11, 1932), better known as L. J. Hanifan, is credited with introducing the concept of social capital.
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Labour power
Labour power (in German: Arbeitskraft; in French: force de travail) is a key concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of capitalist political economy.
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Laurence Iannaccone
Laurence Robert Iannaccone (born May 24, 1954) is a Professor of Economics at Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Orange County, California.
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Leisure
Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping.
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Leisure studies
Leisure studies is a branch of the social sciences that focuses on understanding and analyzing leisure.
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Lewis M. Feldstein
Lewis M. Feldstein is the Co-Chair of The Saguaro Seminar along with Robert D. Putnam and was President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation until June 2010.
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Liberal democracy
Liberal democracy is a liberal political ideology and a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of classical liberalism.
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LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps.
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Market (economics)
A market is one of the many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange.
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Max Boisot
Max Henri Boisot (11 November 1943 – 7 September 2011) was a British architect and management consultant who was professor of Strategic Management at the ESADE business school in Barcelona.
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Max Weber
Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist.
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Min Zhou
Min Zhou (born July 14, 1956 in Zhongshan), is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is the founding chair of the University's Department of Asian American Studies.
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Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is a term with a range of meanings in the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and in colloquial use.
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Myspace
Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.
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Nan Lin
Nan Lin (born 1938 in Chongqing, China) is the Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology of the Trinity College, Duke University.
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Narcissism
Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.
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Organization workshop
The Organization workshop (OW) – or "Laboratorio Organizacional" (LO) in both Portuguese and Spanish – is a CHAT-based learning event where participants master new organizational as well as social knowledge and skills through a learning-by-doing approach.
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Partha Dasgupta
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, FRS, FBA (born 17 November 1942), is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities, London.
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Peyton Young
Hobart Peyton Young (born March 9, 1945) is an American game theorist and economist known for his contributions to evolutionary game theory and its application to the study of institutional and technological change, as well as the theory of learning in games.
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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Felix Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and public intellectual.
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Political party
A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.
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Rational choice theory
Rational choice theory, also known as choice theory or rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior.
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Reciprocity (social psychology)
In social psychology, reciprocity is a social norm of responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions.
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Reed's law
Reed's law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.
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Relational capital
Relational capital is one of the three primary components of intellectual capital, and is the value inherent in a company's relationships with its customers, vendors, and other important constituencies.
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Rent-seeking
In public choice theory and in economics, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.
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Robert D. Putnam
Robert David Putnam (born January 9, 1941) is an American political scientist.
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Social alienation
Social alienation is "a condition in social relationships reflected by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between individuals, or between an individual and a group of people in a community or work environment".
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Social engagement
Social engagement (also social involvement, social participation) refers to one's degree of participation in a community or society.
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Social lubricant
A social lubricant is any food, beverage, drug or activity that helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions.
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Social market economy
The social market economy (SOME; soziale Marktwirtschaft), also called Rhine capitalism, is a socioeconomic model combining a free market capitalist economic system alongside social policies which establish both fair competition within the market and a welfare state.
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Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
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Social norm
From a sociological perspective, social norms are informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society.
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Social structure
In the social sciences, social structure is the patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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Solidarity
Solidarity is unity (as of a group or class) which produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Stock and flow
Economics, business, accounting, and related fields often distinguish between quantities that are stocks and those that are flows.
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Structural capital
Structural capital is one of the three primary components of intellectual capital, and consists of the supportive infrastructure, processes, and databases of the organisation that enable human capital to function.
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Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a good collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015.
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Symbolic capital
In sociology and anthropology, symbolic capital can be referred to as the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition, and serves as value that one holds within a culture.
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist (later known as The Federalist Papers) is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008), 2nd ed., is an eight-volume reference work on economics, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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The Organization Man
The Organization Man is a bestselling book by William H. Whyte, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1956.
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Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.
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Transaction cost
In economics and related disciplines, a transaction cost is a cost in making any economic trade when participating in a market.
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Trust (emotion)
In a social context, trust has several connotations.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.
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Value theory
Value theory is a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree persons value things; whether the object or subject of valuing is a person, idea, object, or anything else.
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Vietnamese people
The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people (người Việt or người Kinh), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam.
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Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik) is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state during the years 1919 to 1933.
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Whuffie
Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and his short story "Truncat".
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World Bank
The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.
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Yes! (U.S. magazine)
YES! is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital