A term used by Emile Durkheim that basically refers to the relative absence or distortion of societal values.
A philosophical position maintaining that the truth of any statement lies in its verification through sensory experience.
A term used by sociologists to refer to a group of people who share a culture and territory.
An academic discipline that aims to understand the world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observations.
It refers to the application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods.
A science that is designed to comprehend, explain, and predict events in our natural environment.
The application of the scientific approach to the social world.
The science that studies behavior of living organism, both human and animals, with emphasis on the study of individual behavior and its relationship to environmental stimuli.
The scientific study of human behavior.
It generally refers to non-literate community or a collection of such a community occupying a common geographic area having similar language and culture.