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  2. Military history - Wikipedia

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    Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships.

  3. Social conflict - Wikipedia

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    Weber discussed the conflict of stratification and its effects on power in society and stressed property, prestige, and power to be the main influences to the conflicting behaviours of groups in society. [citation needed] Marx argued: "The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and ...

  4. Power (social and political) - Wikipedia

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    A must draw on the 'base' or combination of bases of power appropriate to the relationship to effect the desired outcome. Drawing on the wrong power base can have unintended effects, including a reduction in A's own power. French and Raven argue that there are five significant categories of such qualities, while not excluding other minor ...

  5. Historical materialism - Wikipedia

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    Social progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has at its disposal (technology, labour, capital goods and so on). Humans are inevitably involved in productive relations (roughly speaking, economic relationships or institutions), which constitute the most decisive social relations. These relations progress ...

  6. Technology and society - Wikipedia

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    Although these previous examples only show a few of the positive aspects of technology in society, there are negative side effects as well. [6] Within this virtual realm, social media platforms such as Instagram , Facebook , and Snapchat have altered the way Generation Y culture is understanding the world and thus how they view themselves.

  7. Effects of war - Wikipedia

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    The labor force of the economy also changes with the effects of war. The labor force is affected in a multitude of ways most often due to the drastic loss of life, change in population, the labor force size shrinking due to the movement of refugees and displacement and the destruction of infrastructure which in turn allows for a deterioration ...

  8. Effects of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The effects of the Cold War on nation-states were numerous both economically and socially until its subsequent century. For example, in Russia, military spending was cut dramatically after 1991, which caused a decline from the Soviet Union's military-industrial sector. Such a dismantling left millions of employees throughout the former Soviet ...

  9. Political sociology - Wikipedia

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    Political sociologists, throughout its broad manifestations, propose that in order to understand power, society and politics must be studied with one another and neither treated as assumed variables. In the words of political scientist Michael Rush, "For any society to be understood, so must its politics; and if the politics of any society is ...