The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
Example: In any case, the idea of economy and of saving their ratepayers' money appealed to their concept of good management and ADMINISTRATION.
fr: administration
business
noun
A person's regular occupation, profession, or trade.
Example: A statistically significant and negative relationship was found between founders' educational major and industry, and BUSINESS success.
fr: entreprise
communication
noun
The imparting or exchanging of information or news.
Example: This research focuses on studying contemporary issues concerning the challenges that technology offers in later life in relation to the involvement of older citizens with COMMUNICATION technology.
fr: communication
community
noun
A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
Example: Some may consider property rights as means of possession, yet they represent a relationship between individuals and a COMMUNITY.
fr: communauté
culture
noun
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
Example: They were small changes which were put in place to stimulate commitment to bigger and more significant changes in the CULTURE.
fr: culture
development
noun
The process of developing or being developed.
Example: This suggests a need for academic DEVELOPMENT of a more effective methodology that offers the landscape architecture student the understanding of multiple perspectives, various thinking processes, and collaboration versus the traditional optimum autonomous perspective of the individual designer.
fr: développement
economics
noun
The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
Example: Many 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.
fr: économie
education
noun
The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.
Example: The final chapter considers the relationship between EDUCATION and development, observing how the prevailing development-as-economic-development definition has often led to increase inequality and injustice.
fr: éducation
ethics
noun
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Example: His theory of ETHICS, known as deontology is an obligation and rules based and proposes that a person's intentions are crucial in determining the moral worth of his or her actions, it is not concerned with the consequences of an action as are the Utilitarians.
fr: éthique
geography
noun
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
Example: Environmental factor Nepal's environment is characterized by its particular GEOGRAPHY.
fr: géographie
history
noun
The whole series of past events connected with someone or something.
Example: It sought to help explain how individuals with different levels of involvement with the HABS program, and throughout its entire HISTORY, understood the development, current operational context, and future direction of HABS.
fr: histoire
human behavior
noun
Human behavior is the complex array of actions and reactions of people to their internal feelings, thoughts, and external environment, which can be both innate and learned.
Example: According to Brown (2000), "cognitive psychologists (...) sought to discover underlying motivations and deeper structures of HUMAN BEHAVIOR by using a rational approach (p. 10).
fr: comportement humain
identity
noun
The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
Example: In middle age he has experienced a breakdown, an IDENTITY crisis, which followed a long illness and an operation.
fr: identité
opinion
noun
A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
Example: Locke's distinction between "knowledge" and "belief" or "OPINION" has, in effect, been acknowledged by later philosophers.
fr: avis
politics
noun
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: But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about POLITICS.
fr: politique
psychology
noun
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center, published in 1988, has he been looking from art to the resources offered by PSYCHOLOGY.
fr: psychologie
research
noun
The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
Example: The study relied on field RESEARCH a multi-method approach that included open-ended intensive interviews, and participant observation.
fr: recherche
socialization
noun
The activity of mixing socially with others.
Example: Once mother - infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about SOCIALIZATION - about how children are integrated into a social world.
fr: socialisation
society
noun
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
Example: A practical ideology for a catholic Ireland was worked out and the aim of a SOCIETY uncontaminated by the outside world was pursued.
fr: société
sociology
noun
The study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
Example: Many 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.
