The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? By Jared Diamond...Johnson, CarylAmerican Association of Family and Consumer SciencesJournal of Family and Consumer Sciences...
Culture is what gives us our identity; we're bound together by being on the planet but within that, our specific culture relates to the areas and the places and the societies in which we live. That's what differentiates us and makes the world the interesting place it is. Particularly in ...
施特劳斯认为,政治哲学是哲学的组成部分或一个分支:“哲学”表示处理的方式,本根的和整全的;“政治的”既表示主题又表示功能。(By calling this pursuit political philosophy, we imply that it forms a part of a larger whole: of philosophy; or that political philosophy is a branch of philosophy. In th...
There is a young girl in Pakistan. Her name is Javed. She and other children do not have easy lives there. Many of them are poor and need better health care. They don’t have enough food to eat. They don’t have enough clean water to drink. What’s more, they can’t go to sch...
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those correlations don't prove cause and effect . The only previous studyanalyzing causality , based on an area in Mexico that had institutedCCTs, supported the traditional view .There,as people got moremoney , some of them may have more cleared land for cattle to raisefor meat,Ferrarosays...
In the contemporary debate on social justice, the meaning of the term “equality” cannot be reduced to a description of people as equal beings or egalitarian conditions; it is used, on the other hand, to justify a more equal distribution of goods, services and opportunities among people. It...
What Is Socialism? Socialism is an economic system where the means of production are owned by the society as a whole, meaning the value made by workers belongs to everyone in that society, rather than a group of private owners and investors. It is an economic philosophy based on the princip...
Social science as a field of study is separate from the natural sciences, which covers topics such as physics, biology, and chemistry. Social science examines the relationships between individuals and societies as well as the development and operation of societies, rather than focusing on the physic...
The traditional distinction between products that satisfy needs and those that satisfy wants is no longer adequate to describe classes of products. In today’s prosperous societies, the distinction has become unclear because so many wants have been turned into needs. A writer, for instance, can wo...