Particular groups

This will include a directory of important named and identified social groups. At present, I am linking to and using other categories. This directory is alphabetical: In order to search it by subject, see that subject.

   

Group Directory

1903-1908 Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville made the first trials of powered, sustained, and controlled flight and developed the first airplanes.


History

The development of groups in prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval times can be considered. Modern groups are the best known. The future can also be considered.

Sociology

Examination of peoples of the world will help analyze this subject. This will depend on particular nations somewhat. Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi, Ecuador, Niger, Guatemala, Senegal, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mali, and Zambia are some of them.

Western civilization including Canada provides many examples. Balkan peoples and Scandinavian peoples will have varying degrees of usefulness. Anglic peoples including the United Kingdom and the United States are especially important. Latin peoples including Spain are also important. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including France are significant. Hispanic peoples including those of Argentina can be considered. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany provide examples. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia, Ukraine, and Poland also provide examples.

Asiatic peoples also have many examples such as peoples of Nepal. Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Afghanistan can be connected. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Persian peoples including those of Iran can be connected. North African peoples such as those of Morocco and Algeria can be connected. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh may provide examples. Oriental peoples including China, Japan, and South Korea provide examples. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Burma can be considered. The Southeast Asian Mainland including Vietnam and Thailand can be connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes, including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples including those of Uganda may also be considered. Eastern African peoples such as those of Kenya can be connected. Northern East African peoples such as those of Ethiopia can be considered. Interior East African peoples such as those of Sudan can be connected. Central East African peoples such as those of Tanzania can be connected. Western African peoples such as Nigeria can be considered. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected. Central African peoples such as those of Congo (DR) can be connected.

American Indian peoples such as are found in parts of Canada also provide examples. Middle American peoples such as those of Mexico can be considered. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be considered. South American Indian peoples including those found in Argentina may have some important groups. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia can be connected. Amazonian peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. North American Indian peoples found in the United States may have some important groups. Eastern North American Indians can be considered. Western North American Indian peoples can be considered.

Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City can also be considered.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes may be connected. The Agricultural revolution is not well connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization might be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors including demographic change and natural change can be connected. Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected.

Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered.

Social types

Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure

Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Particular traditions of Pagan religion, Asiatic religion, and secularism can be connected. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism will be significant. Christanity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. Religious organization, practices, and beliefs will also be useful.

Government

Particular governments including local, national, and international governments may provide examples. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including firms, networks, system types, and system behavior can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial services, communications, transportation, social and medical services, building and construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including consumption, distribution and exchange, and production can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including miscellaneous events, holidays, meetings, and disasters are connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, music, and dance can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building-related occupations, and food-related occupations can be considered. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, Dress customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can also be connected.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, special topics, and philosophical schools and doctrines may be considered. Applied science such as applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be considered. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including literary works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition will be applicable. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected.

Material culture

Miscellaneous artifacts such as sculpture, toys, musical instruments, and medicines can be connected. Communications technology including electronic, graphic, and writtenn communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, processed and preserved foods, and raw foods can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, weaponry, chemical technology, fuels, and tools can be connected.

Other Anthropology

Human geography including Asian geography, European geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology including the effects of the environment on people, relationshis with other life, the effects of people on the environment may be useful. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human disperson seems to be weakly connected. There are weak connections to demography including birth, migration, death, population size and structure, and population change. This includes connections to social fundamentals, social presentation, interaction, control, social group behavior, and group types.

Personal studies

Biographies can be connected. Psychology including behavioral foundations, mind, behavior patterns, develomental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology may be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body function, and body systems can also be connected.

Science

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory seems to be minimally useful. Earth Science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography down to the level of terrestrial geography may be somewhat useful. Geohistory may also be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stllar astronomy, and solar system astronomy is only slightly useful. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical changes, and chemical substances might be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, modern physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics does not seem to be directly very useful.


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