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  2. Social hygiene movement - Wikipedia

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    Poster for the Hygiene Congress in Hamburg, 1912 "Sex hygiene" is contrasted with "false modesty" in this frontispiece to an early 20th-century book.. The social hygiene movement in the United States was an attempt by Progressive era reformers to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use of scientific research methods and modern ...

  3. Sanitation - Wikipedia

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    Hygiene promotion is therefore an important part of sanitation and is usually key in maintaining good health. [50] Hygiene promotion is a planned approach of enabling people to act and change their behavior in an order to reduce and/or prevent incidences of water, sanitation and hygiene [51] related diseases. It usually involves a participatory ...

  4. Non-governmental organization - Wikipedia

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    Europe-Georgia Institute head George Melashvili addresses the audience at the launch of the "Europe in a suitcase" project by two NGOs (the EGI and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation), which aims to increase cooperation between European politicians, journalists and representatives of the civic sector and academia with their counterparts in Georgia.

  5. Atomism (social) - Wikipedia

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    Atomism or social atomism is a sociological theory arising from the scientific notion atomic theory, coined by the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus and the Roman philosopher Lucretius. In the scientific rendering of the word, atomism refers to the notion that all matter in the universe is composed of basic indivisible components, or atoms.

  6. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective, [ 1 ]: 14 drawing connections between individual concepts in order to organize and substantiate sociological knowledge.

  7. Social services - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. [ 1 ] They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organizations, or administered by a government agency. [ 1 ] Social services are connected with the concept of ...

  8. Social system - Wikipedia

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    Society portal. v. t. e. In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions. [1] It is the formal structure of role and status that can form in a small, stable group. [1] An individual may belong to multiple social systems at once; [2 ...

  9. Hygiene - Wikipedia

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    Definition and overview. Hygiene is a practice [3] related to lifestyle, cleanliness, health, and medicine. In medicine and everyday life, hygiene practices are preventive measures that reduce the incidence and spread of germs leading to disease. [4] Hygiene practices vary from one culture to another. [5]