Key Lectures 1) Social Thoughts of Ancient Greece 2)Cosmopolitanism of Mediterranean Empire: Hellenic Social Thoughts 3)Social Thoughts in Roman Law 4) Christian Social Philosophy in the Middle Ages

Key Lectures 1)Social Thoughts of Ancient Greece 2)Cosmopolitanism of Mediterranean Empire: Hellenic Social Thoughts 3) Social Thoughts in Roman Law 4) Christian Social Philosophy in the Middle Ages

Social meaning is that which a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. In part, we decode the social meaning of a text through our recognition of different dimensions and levels of style within the same language

An introduction to Western Social Theory e l.The significance of studying western social theory e1. 1 The developing tendency of social science =1. 2 The sociology's researching target 3.1.3 The independence of sociology

Social Insurance Programs Generally share 4 characteristics: Participation is mandatory Eligibility and benefits depend on prior contributions Benefits begin with an identifiable occurrence Programs are not means-tested

• Nature of citizenship • Western understanding of citizenship • Citizenship as a practice • Main principles of citizenship • Citizens' civic obligations /responsibilities • Understanding of the common good: public good, social good • Understanding of the civic virtue • Understanding the deliberative aspect • Reasons for citizens education • Decline of political awareness of young people • Social and moral deviancy • Complex and heterogeneous Western societies • Complex political and social world • Definition of citizens education • Passive learning / active learning • Classroom learning community learning

Contemporary globalization both requires, and permits, the re-casting of international law away from a\society of states \model and towards a model of global society and even global community. By effectively eliminating both time and space factors in social interaction, globalization is changing the nature of global social relations, intensifying the obsolescence of the society of states\model, and demanding al fundamental change in the social theory of international law towards a global society of persons. Because of these changes

Social welfare function W: Rn-R gives social utility W(u1, u2,. un ). W is strictly increasing is socially optimal if it solves max Wu(a1), u2(a2),., un(n) st>Tis>w Proposition 1.29. If is SO, it is PO. I Proposition 1. 30. Suppose that preferences are continuous, strictly monotonic, and strictly convex. Then, for any PO allocation x* with >>0,v i, there exist ai

Race and Anthropology Huge topic-only going to cover a small portion of the discussion Two notions about race: Race has a biological meaning, but not a social meaning *Race has a social meaning but not biological meaning

It is hard to get any agreement on the accurate meaning of the term \social class\. In everyday life, people tend to have a different approach to those they consider their equals from that which they assume with people they consid er higher or lower than themselves in the social scale. The criteria we use to“place new acquaintance(熟人), however, are complex mixture of factors. Dress, way of speaking, area of residence in a given city or province