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G.01 - Population
G.02 - Structure of society
G.03 - Social processes/integration
G.04 - Societal system
G.05 - Ideologies/Political philosophies
G.06 - Public opinion/Political and social consciousness
G.07 - Social/Political movements
G.08 - Associations/Confederations
G.09 - Human beings/Human groups

G.01 - Population ↑ top

G.01.01 Population/Population development

Birth rate 🔎
Demographic change 🔎
Demographic structure 🔎
Demography 🔎
Family planning 🔎
Fertility 🔎
Infant mortality 🔎
Life expectancy 🔎
Mortality 🔎
Mortality rates 🔎
Overpopulation 🔎
Population 🔎
Population census 🔎
Population decline 🔎
Population density 🔎
Population distribution 🔎
Population growth 🔎
Population policy 🔎
Population trends 🔎
Regional mobility 🔎
Rural population 🔎
Urban population 🔎
World population 🔎

G.01.02 Population groups

Aliens 🔎
Aliens policy 🔎
Diaspora 🔎
Disadvantaged groups 🔎
Ethnic mix 🔎
Ethnic policy 🔎
Ethnic/national communities 🔎
Ethnic/national group issues 🔎
Ethnic/national groups 🔎
Foreign workers 🔎
Interethnic relations 🔎
Majority groups 🔎
Minority groups 🔎
Nationals abroad 🔎
Nonstate nations 🔎
Population groups 🔎
Privileged groups 🔎
Religious population groups 🔎
Tribes 🔎

G.01.03 Age structure/Gender

Adults 🔎
Age groups 🔎
Age structure 🔎
Children 🔎
Gender groups 🔎
Infants/babies 🔎
Men 🔎
Old people 🔎
Women 🔎
Young men 🔎
Young people 🔎
Young women 🔎

G.01.04 Settlement/Settlement area

Cities 🔎
Industrial regions 🔎
Land settlement 🔎
Local authorities 🔎
Local districts 🔎
Locality 🔎
Oases 🔎
Place names 🔎
Residential areas 🔎
Rural areas 🔎
Rural development 🔎
Rural population 🔎
Rural-urban relationships 🔎
Satellite towns 🔎
Settlement policy 🔎
Settlements 🔎
Slums 🔎
Suburbs 🔎
Town centres 🔎
Towns 🔎
Types of settlement 🔎
Urban agglomerations 🔎
Urban development 🔎
Urban outskirts 🔎
Villages 🔎

G.02 - Structure of society ↑ top

G.02.01 Social structure/Social strata

Bourgeoisie 🔎
Class struggle 🔎
Disadvantaged groups 🔎
Ethnic stratification 🔎
Lower class 🔎
Middle class 🔎
Privileged groups 🔎
Privileges 🔎
Ruling class 🔎
Social differentiation 🔎
Social division of labour 🔎
Social inequality 🔎
Social strata 🔎
Social structure 🔎
Upper class 🔎
Working class 🔎

G.02.02 Social status/Social role

Caste system 🔎
Economic elite 🔎
Educated class 🔎
Elites 🔎
Intellectuals 🔎
Political elites 🔎
Social background 🔎
Social group identity 🔎
Social hierarchy 🔎
Social prestige 🔎
Social status 🔎
Status and role 🔎

G.02.03 Social mobility

Regional mobility 🔎
Social advancement 🔎
Social decline 🔎
Social mobility 🔎

G.02.04 Socio-professional structure

Legal professions 🔎
Miners 🔎

G.02.05 Social group

Clubs 🔎
Collectives 🔎
Families 🔎
Individuals 🔎
Legal status of groups 🔎
Non-organized groups 🔎
Organized groups 🔎
Relations between groups/institutions 🔎
Relatives/kin 🔎
Single persons 🔎
Social groups 🔎
Societal groups - state relations 🔎

G.02.06 Family

Ancestors 🔎
Births 🔎
Children 🔎
Cohabitation 🔎
Divorce 🔎
Families 🔎
Fathers 🔎
Large families 🔎
Marriage 🔎
Matrimonial law 🔎
Mixed marriages 🔎
Mothers 🔎
Orphans 🔎
Parents 🔎
Personal names 🔎
Polygamy 🔎
Relatives/kin 🔎
Single parents 🔎
Small families 🔎
Widows/widowers 🔎

G.02.07 Womens issues/Womens politics

Emancipation 🔎
Equal rights 🔎
Female labour 🔎
Feminism 🔎
Gender studies 🔎
Genders/gender roles 🔎
Quota regulations 🔎
Violence against women 🔎
Women 🔎
Women's movements 🔎
Women's organizations 🔎
Women's politics 🔎
Women's suffrage 🔎

G.02.08 Social fringe phenomena

Culture of poverty 🔎
Deviants 🔎
Disadvantaged groups 🔎
Drug addiction/drug consumption 🔎
Homeless persons 🔎
Persons without fixed residence 🔎
Prostitution 🔎
Social exclusion 🔎
Social fringe groups 🔎
Squatters 🔎
Street children 🔎
Subcultures 🔎

G.03 - Social processes/integration ↑ top

G.03.01 Social relationships/Social control

Authority 🔎
Bonded labour 🔎
Claim to leadership 🔎
Clientelism 🔎
Community building 🔎
Competing interests 🔎
Convergence of interests 🔎
Dependence 🔎
Divergences of interests 🔎
Divided power 🔎
Duties 🔎
Elite formation 🔎
Equal treatment 🔎
Exploitation 🔎
Foreign rule 🔎
Gender politics 🔎
Group formation 🔎
Hegemonic systems 🔎
Independence 🔎
Individualism 🔎
Interests 🔎
Law as social control 🔎
Leadership 🔎
Mistrust 🔎
Neighbourhood 🔎
Networks (institutional/social) 🔎
Personal relations/contacts 🔎
Popularity 🔎
Power 🔎
Prohibitions 🔎
Relations between groups/institutions 🔎
Responsibility 🔎
Rule 🔎
Selfadministration 🔎
Slavery 🔎
Social coercion 🔎
Social control 🔎
Social discrimination 🔎
Social hierarchy 🔎
Social influence 🔎
Social norms 🔎
Social processes 🔎
Social relationships 🔎
Social role models 🔎
Social sanctions 🔎
Socio-economic processes 🔎
Solidarity 🔎
Suppression/reprisals 🔎
Taboos 🔎
Terrorism 🔎
Trust 🔎

G.03.02 Social conflict

Domestic political conflicts 🔎
Ethnic conflicts 🔎
Generational relations 🔎
Identity conflicts 🔎
Ideological conflicts 🔎
Intercultural conflicts 🔎
Labour disputes 🔎
Religious conflicts 🔎
Resource conflicts 🔎
Revolution 🔎
Social conflicts 🔎
Tribal conflicts 🔎

G.03.03 Type of rule (society)

G.03.04 Social change

Acculturation 🔎
Alienation 🔎
Assimilation 🔎
Cultural lag 🔎
Democratization 🔎
Disintegration 🔎
Emancipation 🔎
Formation of consciousness 🔎
Integration policy 🔎
Liberalization 🔎
Modernization 🔎
Politicization 🔎
Radicalisation 🔎
Social adjustment 🔎
Social change 🔎
Social exclusion 🔎
Social integration 🔎
Social processes 🔎
Social/political opposition 🔎
Socialization (individual) 🔎
Socio-cultural change 🔎
Socio-cultural level of development 🔎
Socio-economic change 🔎
Socio-economic processes 🔎
Socio-political change 🔎

G.03.05 Migration/Regional mobility

Aliens 🔎
Asylum policy 🔎
Asylum seekers 🔎
Commuters/cross border commuters 🔎
Displaced persons 🔎
Domestic migration 🔎
Emigration/emigrants 🔎
Evacuation 🔎
Exiles 🔎
Expulsion of individuals 🔎
Expulsion of peoples 🔎
Family reunifications 🔎
Flight 🔎
Forced relocation/deportation 🔎
Geographical origin 🔎
Immigration/immigrants 🔎
International migration 🔎
Migrant workers 🔎
Migrants 🔎
Migration policy 🔎
Nomads 🔎
Refugees 🔎
Regional mobility 🔎
Resettlement 🔎
Return migration 🔎
Right of establishment law 🔎
Right to freedom of residence 🔎
Rural-urban migration 🔎
Second generation immigrants 🔎
Settlement process 🔎
Settlers 🔎
Urban-rural migration 🔎
Urbanization 🔎

G.03.06 Social behaviour

Abnormal behaviour 🔎
Aggressiveness 🔎
Behavioural patterns 🔎
Clientelism 🔎
Corruption 🔎
Criminality/delinquency 🔎
Crisis behaviour 🔎
Culture of poverty 🔎
Discipline 🔎
Ethnic discrimination 🔎
Genders/gender roles 🔎
Group behaviour 🔎
Homosexuals/homosexuality 🔎
Illegal acts 🔎
Indoctrination 🔎
Intolerance 🔎
Life style/way of life 🔎
Manners and customs 🔎
Mentality 🔎
Motivation 🔎
Nonviolence 🔎
Political resistance 🔎
Population behaviour 🔎
Religious discrimination 🔎
Selfhelp (social groups) 🔎
Sexuality 🔎
Social behaviour 🔎
Social discrimination 🔎
Social exclusion 🔎
Social group identity 🔎
Social tolerance 🔎
Socio-political behaviour 🔎
Solidarity 🔎
Violence 🔎
Violence against women 🔎
Youth culture 🔎

G.04 - Societal system ↑ top

Achievement oriented societies 🔎
Agrarian societies 🔎
Bourgeois societies 🔎
Civil society 🔎
Class societies/classless societies 🔎
Coexistence of societal systems 🔎
Competition between societal systems 🔎
Consumer societies 🔎
Convergence of societal systems 🔎
Criticism of society 🔎
Feudal societies 🔎
Multicultural societies 🔎
Pluralistic societies 🔎
Relations between different types of societal systems 🔎
Resilience 🔎
Services oriented societies 🔎
Societal policy 🔎
Societal reforms 🔎
Societal systems 🔎
Society 🔎
Systems transformation 🔎
Transitional societies 🔎
Tribal societies 🔎

G.05 - Ideologies/Political philosophies ↑ top

G.05.01 Ideologies/Political philosophies, general

Dialectical materialism 🔎
Enlightenment 🔎
Historical materialism 🔎
Humanism 🔎
Idealism (philosophy) 🔎
Ideology 🔎
Materialism (philosophy) 🔎
Pacifism 🔎
Political philosophy 🔎
Populism 🔎
Rationalism 🔎
Realism (philosophy) 🔎
Revisionism 🔎
Utopianism 🔎

G.05.02 Foreign policy related attitudes/ideologies

Anticolonialism 🔎
Antiimperialism 🔎
Antimilitarism 🔎
Chauvinism 🔎
Colonialism 🔎
Ethnocentrism 🔎
Euroscepticism/Eurooptimism 🔎
Expansionism 🔎
Imperialism 🔎
Isolationism 🔎
Nationalism 🔎
Neoimperialism 🔎
Neutralism 🔎
Pacifism 🔎
Pan ideas 🔎
Socialist internationalism 🔎
Zionism 🔎

G.05.03 Bourgeois/Conservative ideologies

Bourgeois ideology 🔎
Capitalism 🔎
Conservatism 🔎
Corporatism 🔎
Feudalism 🔎
Liberalism 🔎
Neoconservatism 🔎
Neoliberalism 🔎
Republicanism 🔎

G.05.04 Socialist ideologies

Arab socialism 🔎
Democratic socialism 🔎
Social democracy 🔎
Socialism 🔎
Syndicalism 🔎

G.05.05 Communist ideologies

Anticommunism 🔎
Bolshevism 🔎
Class struggle 🔎
Collectivism 🔎
Communism 🔎
Eurocommunism 🔎
Maoism 🔎
Marxism 🔎
Marxism-Leninism 🔎
Stalinism 🔎
Trotskyism 🔎

G.05.06 Extremism

Anarchism 🔎
Antisemitism 🔎
Authoritarianism 🔎
Cyberterrorism 🔎
Extremism 🔎
Fascism 🔎
Left-wing extremism 🔎
Militarism 🔎
Nazism 🔎
Racism 🔎
Right-wing extremism 🔎
Terrorism 🔎
Totalitarianism/totalitarian systems 🔎

G.05.07 Religious ideologies

Atheism 🔎
Christian-democratic ideologies 🔎
Laicism 🔎
Liberation theology 🔎
Militant Islam 🔎
Political Islam 🔎
Political Orthodoxy 🔎
Political protestantism 🔎
Religious fundamentalism 🔎
Religious ideologies 🔎
Zionism 🔎

G.05.08 Opinion trends

Capitalist orientation 🔎
Conservative orientation 🔎
Dogmatism 🔎
Fundamentalist orientation 🔎
Left-wing orientation 🔎
Liberal orientation 🔎
Opinion trends 🔎
Pragmatism 🔎
Reactionary orientation 🔎
Reformist orientation 🔎
Revisionist orientation 🔎
Revolutionary orientation 🔎
Socialist orientation 🔎
Utopianism 🔎

G.06 - Public opinion/Political and social consciousness ↑ top

G.06.01 Political culture

Opinions/attitudes 🔎
Political culture 🔎
Political values 🔎
Socio-political behaviour 🔎

G.06.02 Social values and basic concepts

Changes in values 🔎
Collective identity 🔎
Coming to terms with the past 🔎
Cultural identity 🔎
Cultural values and standards 🔎
Economic participation 🔎
Equal opportunity 🔎
Equal rights 🔎
Equality 🔎
Freedom 🔎
Myths 🔎
National identity 🔎
Peace 🔎
Pluralism 🔎
Political participation 🔎
Public interest 🔎
Right to selfdetermination 🔎
Sense of tradition 🔎
Social justice 🔎
Social participation 🔎
Social tolerance 🔎
Social values 🔎
Socio-political consciousness 🔎
Systems of value 🔎

G.06.03 Opinion/Attitude

Criticism 🔎
Criticism of governments 🔎
Criticism of society 🔎
Cultural criticism 🔎
Ethical principles 🔎
Foreign criticism 🔎
Formation of consciousness 🔎
Framing 🔎
Historical awareness 🔎
Historical experience 🔎
Image abroad 🔎
Life satisfaction 🔎
Morals 🔎
Opinion formation 🔎
Opinion polls/opinion research 🔎
Opinions of individuals 🔎
Opinions/attitudes 🔎
Perceptions of enemy 🔎
Perceptions of foreigners 🔎
Perceptions of threat (society) 🔎
Political opinion/stance 🔎
Prejudices 🔎
Public opinion 🔎
Revision of opinions/of perceived knowledge 🔎
Revisionism 🔎
Self-image 🔎
Social group identity 🔎
Stereotypes 🔎
Views of history 🔎
Views of the world 🔎
World public opinion 🔎
Xenophobia 🔎

G.07 - Social/Political movements ↑ top

Civil rights movements 🔎
Dissidents 🔎
Ecological movements 🔎
Ecumenical movements 🔎
Farm workers movements 🔎
Independence movements/liberation movements 🔎
International ecumenical movements 🔎
Labour movements 🔎
Mass movements 🔎
Peace movements 🔎
Peasant movements 🔎
Protest movements 🔎
Reform movements 🔎
Renewal movements 🔎
Resistance movements 🔎
Revolutionary movements 🔎
Social/political movements 🔎
Socialist movements 🔎
Student movements 🔎
Trade union movements 🔎
Women's movements 🔎
Youth movements 🔎

G.08 - Associations/Confederations ↑ top

Aims and programmes of institutions/organizations 🔎
Association officials 🔎
Clubs 🔎
Confederations 🔎
Elected representatives 🔎
Foreign cultural associations 🔎
Human rights organizations 🔎
Interest group politics 🔎
Interest groups 🔎
Internal democracy in parties/associations 🔎
Internal organization of institutions/organizations 🔎
International associations 🔎
Organization principles of institutions/organizations 🔎
Political associations with international aims 🔎
Political associations/groupings 🔎
Position of actors on specific issues 🔎
Professional associations 🔎
Relief organizations 🔎
Religious associations 🔎
Religious systems and groups 🔎
Secret societies 🔎
Social associations - state relations 🔎
Social welfare organizations 🔎
Societal associations 🔎
Specialists associations 🔎
Sports associations 🔎
Student organizations 🔎
Trade unions 🔎
Umbrella organizations/national confederations 🔎
Youth organizations 🔎

G.09 - Human beings/Human groups ↑ top

Blacks 🔎
Coloured people 🔎
Ethnic/national groups 🔎
Groups of peoples 🔎
Human beings 🔎
Indigenous peoples 🔎
Mixed race persons 🔎
Whites 🔎