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Cultural universals: those culture traits, norms, values, rules etc which are shared by more or less all people in a given group ...

Custom: Is a folkway or form of social behavior that, having persisted a long period of time, has become traditional and well es ...

Enlightenment: is the eighteenth century social philosophical movement that emphasized human progress and the poser of reason, a ...

Family: is a minimal social unit that cooperated economically and assumes responsibilities for rearing children. Fashion: Is a f ...

Formal laws: are written and codified social norms Group work: A method of social work in which small sized social groups I faci ...

In-depth interview: A method of qualitative data collection in which the researcher asks informants on certain issues taking lon ...

Intra-generational mobility: a type of social mobility referring to individual changes in positions during one's lifetime. It ma ...

Language: a system of verbal and in many cases written symbols with rules about how those symbols can be strung together to conv ...

Micro-sociology: A level of sociological analysis that is interested in small-scale level of the structure and functioning of hu ...

Norms: are implicit principles for social life, relationship and interaction. Norms are detailed and specific rules for specific ...

Pastoral societies: are those whose livelihood is based on pasturing of animals, such as cattle, camels, sheep and goats Planned ...

Primary data: Is that which is collected by the sociology themselves during their own research using research tools such as expe ...

Quantitative data: those which are mainly expressed in terms of numbers, percentages, rates to measure size, magnitude, etc. Qua ...

Re-socialization: means the adoption by adults of radically different norms and lifeways that are more or less completely dissim ...

Secondary data: are those which are already collected by some one else found in various sources as documents or archives. They i ...

Social change: the alteration or transformation at large scale level in the social structure, social institutions, social organi ...

Social control: is thus simply defined as all the mechanisms and processes employed by a society to ensure conformity Social Dar ...

Social function: are consequences for the operations of society. Social groups: is the collectivity or set of people who involve ...

Social organization: the pattern of individual and group relations. The term "organization" signifies technical arrangement of p ...

Social roles: are the expectations, duties, responsibilities, obligations, etc, which are associated with a given social status ...