This glossary provides related words on the Social Science with mathematics field of study.
administration
administration
The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
Example: Committees were appointed to oversee ADMINISTRATION.
en: administration
algebra
alegebra
The part of mathematics in which letters and other general symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities in formulae and equations.
Example: In its curriculum the school concentrated on mathematics and science; there were courses in ALGEBRA, geometry and Newtonian physics.
en: algèbre
communication
communication
The imparting or exchanging of information or news.
Example: COMMUNICATION is also important with organisations such as Defra.
en: communication
culture
culture
The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
Example: They were small changes which were put in place to stimulate commitment to bigger and more significant changes in the CULTURE.
en: culture
data
data
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
Example: Using a conceptual level database design technique known as Object Role Modeling the classification system is translated first into DATA model and then into a fully-functional relational database.
en: données
differential equation
differential equation
An equation (= a mathematical statement) that expresses a relationship between a function (= a changing mathematical value) and one or more of its derivatives (= measures of the rate at which a function is changing).
Example: Solve the following differential equation.
en: équation différentielle
economy
economy
The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.
Example: It results in disadvantages for local animal populations or a specific group of people activities; it may also have an impact on the local or national ECONOMY.
en: économie
economy
economy
The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.
Example: More than 15 years ago (in 1989), Poland regained its democracy and since than has been undergoing deep changes in all sectors of ECONOMY.
en: économie
environment
environment
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
Example: We are living in an ENVIRONMENT expressing the end of movement - an era where physical activity is being engineered out of our lifestyles.
en: environnement
finance
finance
The management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies.
Example: Since 1945 there had been repeated inquiries into the structure and FINANCE of British local government, but until the 1970s no reform at all.
en: finance
history
history
The study of past events, particularly in human affairs.
Example: Without HISTORY, containing important events that may have affected gender roles in any one place, it could be argued that a comparison of two similarly structured societies concerning gender may very well be weak and subsequently invalid.
en: histoire
individual
individual
A single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.
Example: The addition of the benefit manipulation in this study resulted in a fluctuation in both the ethical position and the level of professional commitment of the INDIVIDUAL.
en: individu
management
management
The process of dealing with or controlling things or people.
Example: Of these seventeen standards and requirements, the following apply to Holly Green Farm; Protection of Hedgerows and Watercourses - buffer zones (2m margin) - Little affect upon farm MANAGEMENT, as is quite likely to be keeping from these anyway.
en: management
organisation
organisation
An organized body of people with a particular purpose, especially a business, society, association, etc.
Example: In conclusion, this study shows that to resolve the problem of managing information systems security, we need to understand the deep seated pragmatic aspects of an ORGANISATION.
en: organisation
politics
politics
The activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
Example: An erudite work by an Oxford New Historicist, David Norbrook's Poetry and POLITICS in the English Renaissance , illustrates the structuralist truism that in a binary grouping one of the two terms tends to assume dominance.
en: politiques
psychology
psychology
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: The psychology of interpersonal relationships.
en: psychologie
qualitative research
qualitative research
A method of research that produces descriptive (non-numerical) data, such as observations of behavior or personal accounts of experiences.
Example: The purpose of this study was to describe, using the tools of ethnography and QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, selected events in the history of a public special education school and its school culture.
en: recherche qualitative
quantitative research
quantitative research
A method of research that relies on measuring variables using a numerical system, analyzing these measurements using any of a variety of statistical models, and reporting relationships and associations among the studied variables.
Example: In its pure form, models are logically derived and then tested on historical data but I also include here most forms of QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH which use such data to test predefined hypotheses.
en: recherche quantitative
society
society
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
Example: This example serves as a more domestic metaphor for the more generalised issue of pollution as a means of shaping and defining SOCIETY, a way of establishing classification beliefs.
en: société
sociology
sociology
The study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
Example: Many different social sciences - economics, geography and SOCIOLOGY in particular - show how individually intended actions combine to produce social outcomes which may not have been the intentions of the actors.
