school teacher and curriculum specialist. However‚ in 1984‚ Collins returned to graduate school and obtained a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University. Patricia Hill Collins field of interest mainly focused on black feminist. She believed learning these materials are significant because black women were excluded from their differences. Therefore‚ she became the Professor of Sociology within the Department of African American Studies. Collins taught at a variety of universities: Northern Kentucky University
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Sociology which is known as the science of society‚ is one of the youngest as well as one of the oldest of the social sciences. It is one of the youngest sciences because only recently it came to be established as a distinct branch of knowledge with its own distinct set of concepts and its own methods of inquiry. Sociology is also one of the oldest of the sciences. Since the dawn of civilization‚ society has been as a subject for speculation and inquiry along with other phenomena which have agitated
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George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born English poet‚ orator and Anglican priest. Herbert’s poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets‚ and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular‚ deeply and broadly influential‚ and arguably the most skillful and important British devotional lyricist."[ George Herbert as a Religious poet George Herbert as a Religious poet George Herbert is considered as a religious poet because of the subject matter
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Contributions to Indian Sociology http://cis.sagepub.com/ Introduction: Honouring Patricia Uberoi Satish Deshpande‚ Nandini Sundar and Amita Baviskar Contributions to Indian Sociology 2010 44: 1 DOI: 10.1177/006996671004400201 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cis.sagepub.com/content/44/1-2/1 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Contributions to Indian Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://cis.sagepub
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Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10‚ 1874. He was the thirty first president of the United States. Hoover’s Term for President was from 1929 to 1933. He was a world-wide known mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. "As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge‚ he promoted economic modernization. In the presidential election of 1928‚ Hoover easily won the Republican Nomination. The nation was prosperous
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Herbert Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith‚ (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was the longest continuously serving Prime Minister in the twentieth century until early 1988. As Prime Minister‚ he led his Liberal party to a series of domestic reforms‚ including social insurance and the reduction of the power of the House of Lords. He led the nation into The First World War‚ but a series of military and political crises
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considered the doyen of Indian Sociology. Ghurye’s contribution to the development of sociology and anthropology in India is enormous and multi-faceted. A prolific writer‚ Ghurye wrote 32 books and scores of papers‚ which cover such wide-ranging themes as kinship and marriage‚ urbanization‚ ascetic traditions‚ tribal life‚ demography‚ architecture and literature Ghurye played a key role in the professionalisation of sociology by founding the Indian Sociological
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What is Sociology Sociology is the ordered‚ logical study of human society and its origins‚ development‚ organizations‚ and institutions. It is a social science which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity‚ structures‚ and functions. A goal for many sociologists is to conduct research which may be applied directly to social policy and welfare‚ while others focus primarily on refining the theoretical understanding
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Auguste Compte and Herbert Spencer were two of sociology’s first great theorists. Both Compte and Spencer studied society and the many ways in which people in society interact. Both theorists agree on certain issues pertainning to society and social science‚ yet they completely differ on their views of the function of sociology. Spencer and Compte both realize that there is an order of co-existance in society. Society itself is made up of several components and parts which are subject to change
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December 18‚ 2011 Herbert C. Hoover My president is Herbert Clark Hoover. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president. His time in office was not very pleasant for him or American. Here are some interesting facts about his life! Herbert Hoover was born on August 10‚ 1874 in West Branch‚ Iowa. His parents are Jesse Hoover and Huldan Minthorn Hoover. Herbert Hoover’s family was Quakers. He also has 2 siblings‚ 1 brother and 1 sister. Their names were Herbert Jr. and Allan. Herbert was also married to
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