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Social Sciences
The study of human society and of individual relationships in and to society.
5,538 Questions
What is the relation between sociology and political science?
Society is a more general topic than politics; politics are just one element of society, although they are obviously an important element which tends to influence all the other elements. Hence, political science could be described as a sub-set of sociology.
What chemical substance is found in the earth but not formed by plants or animals?
Carbon is a chemical substance found in the Earth but not formed by plants or animals.
Somebody that was born generally between 1946 and 1964.
Notice that baby boomers began to be born in 1946... right after World War II. The meaning of the term baby boomer is that during this time period, there was a very high birthrate... a BOOM of Birthing! In economics, when there is a lot of growth, companies doign well, everyone is employed, etc, it is an economic BOOM and in the case of births, there was a baby BOOM.
What effect did black Saturday have on the community?
Black Saturday, referring to the wildfires that occurred in Australia in 2009, had a devastating impact on the community. It resulted in loss of life, destruction of homes and properties, and had long-lasting psychological effects on survivors. The communities affected had to come together to support each other in the recovery and rebuilding process.
What is the difference between cremello and white horse coloring?
cremmello is a creamy white colour not just white!
Explain price determination under monopolistic competition?
My heartfelt apologies, I don't mean to be rude. But, is this a loaded question? If it is a monopoly, there's no competition. Therefore you can determine the price any way you want. {eijgniy: hey there is such a market called monopolistic competition.
What kind of science does the compass rose use?
A compass is a type of magnet. It interacts with the magnetic fieds in earth so it will point north, northeast, northwest, east, west, south, southeast, and southwest to the correct directions due to the magnetic fields of the earth. A compas rose is an illustration drawn on a map to show the direction of North, South, Northeast, North Northeast, etc., on that map.
What is one example of a monoculture?
Irish Potato Famine. The Irish focused only on one type of potato, so when blight hit, all their resources were gone and the people died or immigrated to other countries including America.
What does sustainable materials mean?
Timber is a sustainable material If you cut down a tree to use in making something then you sustain the supply by planting another tree.
A sustainable material, or a sustainable resource is something whose production is supported indefinitely by nature.It is not always the same as a renewable resource.
For example, cashmere wool is produced by goats and is a renewable resource. We can always get more as it grows on goats. But it is not sustainable. Goats have a devastating impact on the environment, eating vegetation right down to its roots and killing the plant, and their hard hooves tear up the topsoil. China produces a lot of cashmere but the cashmere region is beginning to look like the dust bowls of the US in the 1930s. As the goat's feed dies away, and the topsoil blows away, there will no arable land left for anything.
(See the link below to a Seattle Times report.)
Forested timber is perhaps a sustainable resource, if timber can be planted and grown as quickly as it is cut down to make wooden chopsticks and newspaper. Growing the same kind of trees over and over on the same bit of often substandard soil doesn't lead to a good ecology either, and foresters may have to load it up with fertilizer and pesticides.
Wind power and solar power, on the other hand, are renewable and sustainable resources. (If the great banks of windmills don't slow down the wind and lead to other problems!)
The engines used by the aircraft produces thrust and also motion to the aircraft in order to give speed to the aircraft so that the wings can produce lift that is greater than what actually the areoplane weighs with its cargo, passenger and the fuel on board. The amount of lift should be greater the the aircraft's mass so that it can stay in the air.
The aeroplane has an aerodynamicaly shaped (streamlined - to reduce drag or air friction ) body, with it's wings stretching out as much as 211ft (Boeing 747). Generally, such a large wingspan is to have a large surface area to give the plane a lift of the ground. Now, the huge winged turbones placed beneath the wings when started pushes the aeroplane forward from 0 to as much as 932 miles per hour during take off period and then cruise of at 300+ milse per hour at such speeds this creates a pressure difference on the belly side of the plane and the upper surface. The upper surface creates a low pressure and the belly side creates a high pressure so the wind tends to move from high pressure to low pressure area. Thereby giving the plane enough lift for initial take off. Similar pressure difference exsists when the plane is in motion as well which maitains the flight in its path. When sudden pressure differences occur in air ( generally reffered to as turbulence) causes the flight to shake or jerk when in air. hope this answers your questions
What did the Irish immigrants find in America?
the Irish Immigrants found religious freedom, better jobs because back in Ireland they had jobs but they were little pay, because Ireland was one of the poorest parts in the western. They also found better food casue all they ate in Ireland was mostly potatos until the potao famine struck, killing millions of Irish people, many of them died from diseases and starvation. So they came to America for a new life. It was called the Journey of hope....
Minor Edit here:As far as finding better jobs, this is partly true, but they mostly fond just as much bigotry here as they had back home. Many were put to work on the railroads along with blacks and Chinese immigrants, all of whom were treated like slaves.
What is the temperature of northern Europe throughout the year?
It varies a great deal over this region. One thing you could so would be to consult maps.google.com for some place names and look them up on en.wikipedia.org. I see, for instance, that average daily temperature in Stockholm, Sweden vary from -3 to 17.5 oC. For Murmansk, Russia, the corresponding figures are -10 to 12.8 oC.
How are the lines of lines of longitude linked to time?
The lines are relatively useless. But the angle of longitude itself is of interest, because time according to the sun advances through longitude at a steady rate, moving through 1 degree every 4 minutes, or 15 degrees every hour.
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There's another way of saying this.
The earth revolves once every 24 hours. There are 360o in a circle. Suppose you were in able to remain motionless above the equator, so that the earth could rotate beneath you, and that you were holding a watch. Every hour the earth would rotate through 360o/24=15o.
This means that if you started watching the time just as you pass over the zero longitude you would see the 15o longitude at one hour, the 30o longitude at two hours, the 45o at three hours, and so on, until the saw the 360o longitude at the end of a full 24 hours-back where you started.
When the price elasticity of a demand is large what happens?
Having a high price elasticity on a demand means that if there's a price change, the amount demanded will dramatically change. An example of a product with high elasticity is bananas. During the natural disaster in North Queensland, Australia, most of the banana crops were destroyed, and because of the supply going down, price went up. In response to this up-rise in price, demand for bananas dramatically decreased. Meaning it's a highly elastic product.
What is the atomicity of neon?
Neon is an inert gas (noble gas), natural, atomic number 10; it is a monoatomic ags and its atomicity is 1.
neon is used as filling gas in red lamps, in lasers, in plasma displays, in cryogenic applications, etc.
What is a miners canary and why is it referred to frogs?
because frogs are dying off due to the toxins humans are putting into the air. The miners canary would die as a result of toxic gases in the mines, this would tell the miner it was time to get out. The fact frogs are dying off is indicative of the fact that or environment is on its way to becoming too toxic for us to exist in.
It helped to make communication faster. People were able to travel the country more, visit people, learn new things, and get news to each other much easier.
Why pollution is more of an economic problem than social problem?
Because eventually you're going to have to pay for the consequences of it. Who knows what resources we're going to need in the future? Or what medical problems we're creating because of it. It may not be the most pressing concern to us, but certainly pollution will have negative impacts down the line--which we will definitely have to deal with by throwing a lot of time and money at it. Like water treatment plants; they're great but they may not be able to keep up with the demand for clean water. Nature used to sort of take care of that for us, like decomposer organisms and trees which spit out oxygen to help us take care of the abundence of carbon dioxide from air pollution. But what about the trees we're messing up with soil erosion and dirt pollution? It's all connected in ways most of us don't really look at.
Why has anti-semitism persisted?
As a general rule people who hate a particular race, religion or creed do so because of fear or ignorance. It is also encouraged by people with an agenda against that group, using propaganda, half truths and lies. Hatred also underlies much violence in the world. If people stopped exerting so much energy toward hating people who are different, they might just have the energy to rebuild this world to be a happier place.
The reasons for Jewish hatred have remained unabated. To see some of these reasons, check out the Related Question: Why do people hate the Jews?
Are there any African American Coal Miners in America?
There are, but when they come up from the mine you can't tell the difference.
Is the number of employees of a company a discrete quantitative variable?
Yes. You can't have a fraction of an employee. Thus, the range of values is not continuous, thus the variable is discrete.
How did the automobile help create social change?
The automobile created mobility on a scale never known before. Motor vehicles and paved roads havve narrowed the gap between rural and urban life. Farmers can ship easily and economically by truck and can drive to town when it is convenient. In addition it made regional schools and hospitals more accessable.
Why law of diminishing returns is considered a short-run phenomenon?
why law of diminishing returns is considered a short-run phenomenon?
