- Industry: Printing & publishing
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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
A social position "assigned" to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Industry:Sociology
The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Industry:Sociology
A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment, or both.
Industry:Sociology
Processes of socialization in which a person "rehearses" for future positions, occupations, and social relationships.
Industry:Sociology
Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Industry:Sociology
The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Industry:Sociology
The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Industry:Sociology
