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The enlightenment-era concept that human beings abandon their natural state of individual freedom to join together and form society. Although, in the process of forming a social contract, individuals surrender some freedoms to society as a whole, government, once formed, is obligated to assume responsibilities toward its citizens and to provide for their protection and welfare.
Industry:Sociology
The degree of positive relationships with other persons and with social institutions, that individuals build up over the course of their lives.
Industry:Sociology
The computer-created matrix of virtual possibilities, including on-line services, wherein human beings interact with each other and with technology itself.
Industry:Sociology
The classification of human beings into types according to body build and other physical characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
The certainty that experimental interventions did indeed cause the changes observed in the study group; also the control over confounding factors which tend to invalidate the results of an experiment.
Industry:Sociology
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
Industry:Sociology
The attempt to categorize, understand, and predict, the behavior of certain types of offenders based upon behavioral clues they provide.
Industry:Sociology
The aspect of the personality from which drives, wishes, urges, and desires emanate. More formally, the division of the psyche associated with instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.
Industry:Sociology
The application of scientific techniques to the study of crime and criminals.
Industry:Sociology
