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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.
Use of a church, primarily Roman Catholicism, in a political effort to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Industry:Sociology
Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Industry:Sociology
The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Industry:Sociology
Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences.
Industry:Sociology
An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Industry:Sociology
A form of capitalism under which people compete freely, with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Industry:Sociology
