- 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.
The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Industry:Sociology
A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Industry:Sociology
The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Industry:Sociology
A set of people related by blood, marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship), or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Industry:Sociology
Pride in the extended family, expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Industry:Sociology
A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Industry:Sociology
A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Industry:Sociology
A family in which relatives-such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles-live in the same home as parents and their children.
Industry:Sociology
A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Industry:Sociology
