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Kolín (Czech pronunciation: ⓘ; German: Kolin, Neu Kolin) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation.
Kolin may refer to: Kolín, a town in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic Kolín District; Starý Kolín, a municipality and village near Kolín, Czech Republic;
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.
The Výrovka River in Kouřim. The district is located in a agricultural and deforested landscape, which is mostly flat and belongs to the Polabí region. The territory extends into three geomorphological mesoregions: Central Elbe Table (most of the territory), Upper Sázava Hills (southeastern part) and East Elbe Table (small northeastern part).
There are two theories about the origin of the name. Either it was derived from the personal name Kouřim, similar to how the names of the nearby localities Vlašim and Radim arose. According to the second theory, the name was derived from the word kouřit ('to smoke') and originally referred to a mountain that "smoked" (from which water ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology: . Sociology – the study of society [1] using various methods of empirical investigation [2] and critical analysis [3] to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.
Examples of boundary blurring include emerging disciplines like social studies of medicine, neuropsychology, biocultural anthropology, and the history and sociology of science. Increasingly, quantitative and qualitative methods are being integrated in the study of human action and its implications and consequences.