background preloader

Society & social sciences

Facebook Twitter

Portal:War. Portal:Political science. Portal:Politics. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Politics are the process and method of gaining or maintaining support for public or common action: the conduct of decision-making for groups.

Portal:Politics

Although it is usually applied to governments, political behavior is also observed in corporate, academic, religious, and other institutions. Political science is the field devoted to studying political behavior and examining the acquisition and application of power, or the ability to impose one's will on another. Its practitioners are known as political scientists. Political scientists look at elections, public opinion, institutional activities (how legislatures act, the relative importance of various sources of political power), the ideologies behind various politicians and interest groups, how politicians achieve and wield their influence, and so on.

The European Union is an international organization of 27 European states, established in 1992. Purge server cache. Portail:Altermondialisme. Une page de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Portail:Altermondialisme

Politique > Mouvements politiques > Altermondialisme Portail de l’altermondialisme Maintenance : Derniers changements des pages liées au portail - Derniers changements des articles sur l'altermondialisme Rafraîchir la page. Portal:Community. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Welcome to the Community Portal.

Portal:Community

A Community is a tight formation of members that share common ground in a variety of real or abstract areas. Most sociologists agree that a society, while much larger in size, lacks the cohesion provided by the sense of community exhibited in a community. From a psychological perspective, an individual's success and happiness can be affected by their social interaction with others. ...that according to the McMillan & Chavis theory, there are four basic elements to the sense of community: membership, influence, fulfillment of needs and a shared emotional connection?

Ferdinand Tönnies (1855 - 1936), was a German sociologist best known for describing two distinguishable types of social groups — Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: Purge server cache. Portal:Gangs. Latin King gang member showing his gang tattoo, a lion with a crown, and signifying the 5 point star with his hands The Latin Kings are said to be the largest and most organized Hispanic street gang in the United States of America; the group has roots dating back to the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois.

Portal:Gangs

The Latin Kings first emerged in Chicago in the 1940s after several young Puerto Rican males on the north side—and later, Mexican males on the south side—organized into a self-defense group to protect their communities. The initial intention was to unite "all Latinos" into a collective struggle against "oppression" and to help each other overcome the problems of racism and prejudice that newly arriving Latino immigrants were experiencing.

Hence, the name "Latin Kings and Queens", which as it denotes, is a reference to members of all Latino heritages. They organized themselves as a vanguard for their communities. Portal:Social movements. Portal:Education. Portal:Society. Portal:Companies. Category:Society. A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by common interest and may have distinctive culture and institutions.

Category:Society

Society can also be explained as an organized group of people associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, recreational, or other purposes. Subcategories This category has the following 69 subcategories, out of 69 total. Pages in category "Society" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. Portal:Law. Portal:Contents/Society and social sciences.