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sociology

noun as in anthropology

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noun as in social engineering

noun as in social studies

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“This is what we call in sociology a moral panic,” she said.

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But after graduating from UC Berkeley with a sociology degree, Torres found himself back in the family business, unable to find a job that satisfied him.

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“It’s just a huge amount of generated wealth that completely escapes taxation,” said Cristobal Young, a sociology professor at Cornell University who studies economic inequality, referring to unrealized capital gains.

And how could departments of literature, sociology or anthropology be competent given the same limitation?

"Public opinion matters in foreign policy," Gi-Wook Shin, a Korea expert and sociology professor at Stanford University, told AFP.

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