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  • Social Disorganization Theory

    Definition of Social Disorganization Theory The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Social Disorganization Theory: The theory that crime and other deviant behaviour is most likely to occur where social institutions are not able to direct and control […]

  • Total Institution

    Definition of Total Institution The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Total Institution: A social institution which encompasses the individual, cutting them off from significant social interaction outside its bounds. These institutions are frequently […]

  • Total Institution

    Definition of Total Institution The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Total Institution: A social institution which encompasses the individual, cutting them off from significant social interaction outside its bounds. These institutions are frequently […]

  • Institutional Completeness

    Definition of Institutional Completeness The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Institutional Completeness: The condition of a group within a larger society where the major institutions –economy, politics, family, schooling, — are reproduced thus […]

  • Resocialization

    Definition of Resocialization The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Resocialization: Rather profound change or transformation of personality arising from being placed within a situation or environment no longer conducive to maintaining a previous […]

  • Structural Gender Inequality

    Structural Gender Inequality in Voting Law Definition of Structural Gender Inequality in the context of the United States election law: Situation where a system of gender discrimination is practiced by public or social institutions. Gender inequality becomes structural when it is entrenched […]

  • Ideological Hegemony

    Definition of Ideological Hegemony The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Ideological Hegemony: A situation where a particular ideology (see definition) is pervasively reflected throughout a society in all principal social institutions and permeates […]

  • Ideological Hegemony

    Definition of Ideological Hegemony The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Ideological Hegemony: A situation where a particular ideology (see definition) is pervasively reflected throughout a society in all principal social institutions and permeates […]

  • Mass Society

    Definition of Mass Society The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Mass Society: Refers to a society with a mass culture and large-scale, impersonal, social institutions. Even the most complex and modern societies have lively primary group social […]

  • Japanese Measures On Leather

    Japanese Measures On Leather

    Japanese measures on leather in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, japanese measures on leather is: a case launched under the GATT in 1983 by the United States. The case was preceded by two earlier ones which, however, did not run the full course of the dispute settlement process. The […]

  • Japanese Measures On Leather

    Japanese Measures On Leather

    Japanese measures on leather in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, japanese measures on leather is: a case launched under the GATT in 1983 by the United States. The case was preceded by two earlier ones which, however, did not run the full course of the dispute settlement process. The […]

  • Infrastructure

    Infrastructure

    Infrastructure in the Economic Activity An introductory concept of Infrastructure may be: the roads, ports, bridges, and legal system that provide the necessary basis for a working economy Concept of Infrastructure in the context of Real Property A short definition of Infrastructure: Services […]

  • Infrastructure

    Infrastructure

    Infrastructure in the Economic Activity An introductory concept of Infrastructure may be: the roads, ports, bridges, and legal system that provide the necessary basis for a working economy Concept of Infrastructure in the context of Real Property A short definition of Infrastructure: Services […]

  • Plutocracy

    Definition of Plutocracy The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Plutocracy: Literally ‘rule by the rich’, the term is used to denote a wide range of situations where a group of individuals are able to exert disproportionate power and influence in […]

  • Secularization

    Definition of Secularization The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Secularization: The process of organizing society or aspects of social life around non-religious values or principles. The term is linked closely to Max Weber’s concept of a growing […]