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	Bethlehem University - Faculty of Art - Social Sciences
		The nature of social research is studied with emphasis on the characteristics of the social researcher and the scientific method in social studies.
		Social, cultural and political systems and their manifestations in social structure, institutions and behavior of individuals will be examined in the Arab and Palestinian contexts.
		Under the general theme of "strategic planning," students examine the key theoretical bases of social planning and the important issues, methodologies and technologies relating to both the strategic and technical aspects of planning, which are dealt with both as an early stage in the problem-solving process and as the setting for a field of practice.
	www.bethlehem.edu /programs/art/social.shtml (3445 words)

	Identity (social science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences for an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity.
		It is in this sense which sociologists and historians speak of a national identity of a particular country, and feminist and queer theorists speak of gender identity.
		Identity has been a central element of pride in social movements such as gay pride or fl consciousness, which seek to strengthen politically oppressed groups by improving members' sense of identity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity_(social_science) (597 words)

	Social identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social identity is a theory formed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner to understand the psychological basis of intergroup discrimination.
		As developed by Tajfel, Social Identity Theory is a diffuse but interrelated group of social psychological theories concerned with when and why individuals identify with, and behave as part of, social groups, adopting shared attitudes to outsiders.
		Social Identity Theory is thus concerned both with the psychological and sociological aspects of group behaviour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_identity (1152 words)

	Identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.
		Cultural identity is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group.
		Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity (313 words)

	SOCIAL SCIENCE
		Students studying for the Master Science degree have the opportunity to emphasize one field of study in the department, such as political science or sociology, or to distribute their studies over a combination of courses in those fields and others in the department.
		The Department of Social Science also offers work which may be taken as part of graduate programs designed to prepare community college instructors who elect to combine study in appropriate professional education areas with their study in social science.
		The Bachelor of Science degree with a major in justice studies is an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree with a foundation in social science inquiry.
	www.pittstate.edu /pubs/catalog01-03/socsc.html (7238 words)

	identity - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Identity, in mathematics, a number or operation that leaves others unchanged when combined with them.
		Zero is the identity for addition; one is the...
		Identity (philosophy), the sameness of two things; Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the...
	encarta.msn.com /identity.html (253 words)

	Social Science Baha - Nepal Tari Conference
		Acknowledging this reality, the Social Science Baha is holding a two-day conference entitled ‘Nepal Tarai: Context and Possibilities’ to deal with overarching issues with required depth, bringing together experienced scholars even while trying to generate interest among young academics to the study of this dynamic region.
		For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Nepal Tarai was seen to be largely a combination of a colony and a frontier in the eyes of the Kathmandu-based rulers.
		Social Science Baha believes the two-day conference it is organizing will help to address how one can go about ‘including’ the Nepal Tarai and its population within the Nepali state.
	www.himalassociation.org /baha/nepal-tarai.htm (1348 words)

	Athletic Insight - The Social Psychology of the Creation of a Sports Fan Identity: A Theoretical Review of the ...
		Social identity theory, however, is based on Festinger’s (1954) social comparison theory, which suggests that individuals will strive to attach themselves to other individuals who are similar or slightly better.
		Identity is defined as “a set of meanings applied to the self in a social role or situation defining what it means to be who one is” (Burke 1991: 837).
		In identity theory, this is referred to as identification, and “the core of an identity is the categorization of the self as an occupant of a role”(Stets and Burke, 2000:2 of 14).
	www.athleticinsight.com /Vol5Iss2/FanDevelopment.htm (5282 words)

	Identity (social science) - Psychology Wiki
		Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences for an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity.
		It is in this sense which sociologists and historians speak of a national identity of a particular country, and feminist and queer theorists speak of gender identity.
		Identity has been a central element of pride in social movements such as gay pride or fl consciousness, which seek to strengthen politically oppressed groups by improving members' sense of identity.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Identity_(social_science) (502 words)

	Identity and Knowledge
		But when it comes to political, social, economic, and moral issues, the many failures of the present West are a testimony to the fact that its triumphs in the natural sciences are not replicated in the social sciences.
		Identities are a product of "horizontal relationships" of identity and difference, and the self is the consequence of a "vertical relationship," which simultaneously posits identity as well as difference.
		Thus when knowledge is a function of a self or an identity and the process of knowing does not implicate the self or the identity itself, then we have a knowledge form that is subordinate to the self/identity.
	www.ijtihad.org /identity.htm (2839 words)

	identity - Anarchopedia
		An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
		An identity object is an entity that does not change other objects: see identity function, identity element, identity matrix, and identity morphism.
		identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /identity (303 words)

	Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science
		While three of Erikson's defining characteristics of identity are largely intrapsychic (a sense of uniqueness, a feeling of continuity over time, and a sense of ego completeness), his fourth characteristic demands identification with the ideals of some group that affirms the sense of self that is the final achievement of a healthy sense of identity.
		Thus identity becomes a crucial concept in linking individuals to both the maintenance and the transmission of cultures, as it is both socially bestowed and sustained.
		Social identity in turn may include a religious identity among one of several subidentities formed by conscious commitments to different groups.
	hirr.hartsem.edu /ency/identity.htm (891 words)

	Philosophy of Social Science [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Those sciences deal with a subject matter which is often unfamiliar to the scientifically uneducated, and provide theories or claims about their subject matters which are almost always "news" to non-scientists, news which often is or verges on the unintelligible.
		Science in that sense seems incompatible with "human values." On the other hand, science has proved to be a powerful tool which has enhanced human life in many ways.
		Behaviorism in psychology and the social sciences is but one attempt to develop a science of human beings in the sense of 'science' appropriate to physics etc. Many have come to view it as a failure (for the kinds of reasons just mentioned and other reasons as well).
	www.iep.utm.edu /s/socscien.htm (10980 words)

	Rooting for laundry: An examination of the creation and maintenance of a sport fan identity
		Social science research on sport fans focuses largely on the effects of fandom, for example, the violence and aggression, which may result from being a fan.
		An examination of identity formation among sport fans is beneficial in that it unites two previously unrelated literature bases, namely identity formation and sport sociology.
		I suggest that individuals who are not socialized into fandom, or who do not become a fan through socio-cultural means, may become a fan in the third tier, the symbolic tier.
	digitalcommons.uconn.edu /dissertations/AAI3118954 (390 words)

	WPI Projects Program - Confidentiality In Social Science Research
		This is because social science examines the public and private lives of people, including their ideas, beliefs, opinions, behaviors, emotions and attitudes.
		Hence, since social science carries with it potentially enormous risks for respondents, social scientists are obligated to conduct their activities within a defined code of conduct which minimizes those risks.
		In other words, respondents in social science projects have come to expect that their participation should not harm them; if it does, they are increasingly likely to bring a SLAP lawsuit against the researcher or institution that supports the research.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Projects/confidentiality.html (1654 words)

	Social Science - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
		The School of Social Science includes historians, psychologists, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, and lawyers as well as faculty trained in geography and urban studies, philosophy, cultural studies, and education.
		Many are interested in the social, political and economic interrelationships of these different regions and communities in the increasingly mobile and transnational realities of the 21st century.
		Faculty focus on a wide range of topics in their teaching and research, examining these from the perspective of individual and collective identity, social and cultural institutions, political economy, and our relationship to the natural world.
	www.hampshire.edu /cms/index.php?id=146 (494 words)

	SOCIAL SCIENCE
		Examines the interrelationship between social class, race and ethnicity, the ways in which gender roles are defined and practiced within different groups in America, as well as the experiences of gays and lesbians, who are also minorities.
		Social movements are a response to economic and demographic changes and they, in turn, make societal and cultural changes (or perhaps solidify them).
		Social Science 497 is the first semester of the two semester integrative seminar.
	www.chapman.edu /catalog/cuc/current/content/451.htm (659 words)

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		This debate has centered on the question of whether the social sciences are part of a unified scientific enterprise, or whether there are fundamental differences between them and the natural sciences.
		In examining the relationship between national politics and the social sciences, this study will focus on federal science policy, namely the role of the National Science Foundation in funding social science research.
		Such questions were central to the development of federal science policy for the social sciences over the decades; they were thus important in decisions about what areas of the social sciences were eligible for funding; and they served as a common area of concern for the political and academic communities.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/yguan/NSFAbstracts/Abstracts/SBE/SBR.SBE.a9810635.txt (249 words)

	Behavioral and Social Science Research
		The behavioral and social sciences play a key role in HIV prevention research, because every strategy that can be utilized for preventing the acquisition or transmission of HIV has one or more associated behavioral components that can influence its efficacy.
		Social and environmental factors that influence risk may include cultural and religious beliefs about sexuality and sexual behavior, culturally proscribed gender norms, and marginalization of certain populations, such as gay men, drug users, commercial sex workers, and at-risk youth.
		NIAID is supporting a number of research studies that aim to better understand the behavioral and social factors that influence HIV risk and to integrate social and behavioral prevention strategies into a more comprehensive portfolio of interventions designed to prevent transmission of HIV.
	www3.niaid.nih.gov /research/topics/HIV/prevention/research/SocialScience.htm (566 words)

	Web Social Architecture: Identity
		I posted a bit about this idea earlier in the context of personalization, where attributes attached to identity are matched or correlated to attributes attached to content.
		Authentication is important from a social architecture perspective because it's an important mechanism for establishing thresholds of entry and participation, establishing identity, and managing permissions.
		Identity is one of the great frontiers of the online world, and there are lots of people out there who know more about it than I do.
	www.websocialarchitecture.com /community/identity/index.html (4008 words)

	Books, Chapters and Articles in Social Psychology: The Self (CROW)
		Tetlock, P. and Lerner, J. The social contingency model: Identifying empirical and normative boundary conditions on the error-and-bias portrait of human nature.
		Exceptions that prove the rule: Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies.
		Markman, K.D., Hirt, E.R. Social prediction and the "allegiance bias." Social Cognition, 20, 58-86.
	jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu /crow/booktheself.htm (5487 words)

	SOCIAL SCIENCE Science Social Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tiananmen Square in 1989, and marked an escalation in the social protests that have convulsed the Chinese countryside...
		Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a...
		The members of the Social Science History Association share a common interest in interdisciplinary and systematic approaches to historical research.
	www.iperfull.com /Social_science (1078 words)

	definition of social science pictures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Obviously the individual indentity does depend upon the social proces, yet the answer to the questions in what way and how much are very complicated and relative, I think.
		The girl might be either very into this activity or she is performing a role that the social process and institutions have taught her.
		On the other hand she may have been taught by the culture, including her family to be a 'good girl', and good girls do what they are told(in those days anyway), girls of a particular class do certain things like play an instrument, etc...social relationships and institutions.
	www.lcsc.edu /ss150/_visuals/0000015f.htm (1070 words)

	Social Science
		Within the framework stated above and with the approval of the social science adviser, courses may be selected that provide an appropriate foundation for the study of law.
		Undergraduate students beginning their SMP should be advised, however, that bachelor's degree in economics, geography, history, or political science are recommended for those intending to teach secondary social studies because those areas most closely parallel the social sciences requirements.
		Consult the social science credential adviser before enrolling in courses that are not on the SMP list.
	www.csufresno.edu /catoffice/archives/0102/socialsci.html (595 words)

	Social Science Requirements \| College of the Holy Cross
		The Social Sciences investigate human behavior and the structures, institutions, and norms operative in social life.
		Their main objectives are to identify, through empirical and systematic observations, both universal and particular patterns of human behavior and to explain or interpret human relationships, cultures, and social phenomena.
		These courses are designed to offer an opportunity to reflect on the methodological assumptions and theoretical foundations of social science in its various forms, including anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology.
	www.holycross.edu /academics/requirements/social-science (129 words)

	GigerBlog: Identity 2.0: Multiple Web Personalities, Identity Banks, and the Urge for Anonymity
		This dictionary entry identity is practically useless in most settings – such as the academic – so it is almost necessary to use one of the more precise terms.
		Identity 2.0, and similar thoughts, could be a solution to some of the security and integrity problems talked about in media the last few years.
		These identity warehouses will be a flytraps for identity thieves - but on the other side, we already have more sensitive goals for criminals, such as banks, so that is nothing new.
	gigerblog.blogspot.com /2006/03/identity-20-multiple-web-personalities.html (2139 words)

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