The sociological aspects of secrecy were first studied by Georg Simmel in the early-1900s. Simmel describes secrecy as the ability or habit of keeping...
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Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other...
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or is a business secret (see also information security and sociological aspects of secrecy). A price system is therefore not necessarily transparent at...
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secrecy to be returned to its limited but necessary role. Secrets can be protected more effectively if secrecy is reduced overall. Apart from aspects...
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Georg Simmel (category Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin)
field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism...
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opposed to secrecy, which he saw espoused in the work of Henry Cavendish, "selfish and anti-social".[citation needed] The two aspects of Merton's universalism...
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Secret society (redirect from Societies of secrets)
on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, the denial of membership or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal...
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a dissimulation and secrecy of religious belief and practice. Generally, taqiyya is regarded as the action of maintaining secrecy or mystifying one's...
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Economic globalization (redirect from Economic aspects of globalization)
Markus Meinzer and Richard Murphy (October 2012) "Financial Secrecy, Banks and the Big 4 Firms of Accountants" Archived 7 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine...
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Gender (redirect from Multiplicity of genders)
difference between the sociological and popular definitions of gender involve a different dichotomy and focus. For example, the sociological approach to "gender"...
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Subculture (section History of studies)
subculture, in regards to sociological and cultural anthropology, as "an identifiable subgroup within a society or group of people, esp. one characterized...
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Muqaddimah (section Sociology)
science" around which he had maintained secrecy up until his retirement to Qalʿat ibn Salama, a new science for the study of what he calls "ʿumrān" (عُمران)....
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Love, Simon (category 2010s coming-of-age comedy-drama films)
Berlanti seems to have "a lot of fun keeping us in suspense", and thus, makes use of secrecy all throughout the film. The concept of normal is common throughout...
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Propaganda techniques (redirect from Methods of propaganda)
propaganda to manipulate public opinion (Edward Bernays) to "sociological propaganda" (propaganda of integration), where the unconscious desire to be manipulated...
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Religious assimilation (category Sociology of religion)
those who converted fully adopted Catholicism; many of these continued to practice Judaism in secrecy, becoming known as "crypto-Jews." Others converted...
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lived as the expected descendant of piety and the other lived wild, outside of the morals of religion, cloaked in secrecy. Songs such as "Preacher's Daughter"...
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multilingual staff, a tradition of banking secrecy and cross-border financial expertise have all contributed to the growth of the financial sector. These...
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Queer theory (redirect from Criticism of queer theory)
[page needed] Epstein, Steven (1994). "A Queer Encounter: Sociology and the Study of Sexuality". Sociological Theory. 12 (2): 188–202. doi:10.2307/201864. JSTOR 201864...
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Hazing (category Rites of passage)
component of initiation rites. Hazing can be used as a way to engender conformity within a social group, something that can be seen in many sociological studies...
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Marriage (redirect from Religious aspects of marriage)
at the Wayback Machine. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel...
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Western esotericism (category Schools of thought)
context of Ancient Greek philosophy, the terms "esoteric" and "exoteric" were sometimes used by scholars not to denote that there was secrecy, but to...
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Closeted (category Passing (sociology))
and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior. This metaphor is associated and sometimes combined with coming out, the act of revealing...
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Skunkworks project (section Evolution of the idea)
developed in semi-secrecy, such as Google X Lab. Other famous skunkworks were Microsoft Research, special teams at Boeing, and the lab of about 50 people...
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Scientology (redirect from History of Scientology)
typically given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Scientology organization. Despite its efforts to maintain the secrecy of the texts, they are freely...
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David Lyon (sociologist) (category Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences)
suspicion and secrecy. In the ironically titled Surveillance Studies: An Overview (2007) Lyon lays out dynamically the key features of surveillance studies...
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Scientology beliefs and practices (redirect from Doctrine of Exchange)
University of New York Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-7914-2397-4. Urban, Hugh B. (June 2006). "Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology...
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Conspiracy theory (redirect from Conspiracy theory of history)
successful and that groups of conspirators, such as bureaucracies, can act with near-perfect competence and secrecy. The causes of events or situations are...
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Labeling theory (category Sociological theories)
President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and one of America's most cited sociologists. His most popular books include The Presentation of Self...
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encompasses the perception of menstruation as impure or shameful and often leads to secrecy and emotional distress. The manifestation of menstrual stigma varies...
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Alchemy (redirect from History of Alchemy)
idea that everything is composed of four elements, and they tended to guard their work in secrecy, often making use of cyphers and cryptic symbolism. In...
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