]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. SocialScienceType This is a collection of fields of study which have to do with the behavior of social groups. It includes <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVvb3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Sociology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvqlEOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Economics</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigVpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Anthropology</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLM7zJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PoliticalScience</a>. social science sociology social science The most general instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgPZF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialScienceType</a>. All other instances are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi87JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subFields</a> of this one. SocialScience The scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of humans in their collective aspect, sociology is concerned with all group activities-economic, social, political, and religious. Sociologists study such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility, social stratification, and such specific problems as crime, divorce, child abuse, and substance addiction. Sociology tries to determine the laws governing human behavior in social contexts. sociology Sociology WomensStudies women's studies economics The study of how human beings allocate scarce resources to produce various commodities and how those commodities are distributed for consumption among the people in society Economics gay studies Gay studies: a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgPZF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialScienceType</a>. LesbianGayAndBisexualStudies political science PoliticalScience Political science: a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgPZF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialScienceType</a>. Anthropology: a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgPZF5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SocialScienceType</a>. Anthropology anthropology scientific discipline A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi3N5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FieldOfStudy</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi3_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ScientificFieldOfStudy</a> is a specialized body of knowledge, theory, hypotheses, observations, and problems, which together constitute the informational content of a systematic endeavor to explain (some part of) the natural world by rational (and frequently, quantifiable) methods, including, but not limited to, induction, falsifiable hypotheses tested by repeatable physical experiments, and deductive proof. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi3_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ScientificFieldOfStudy</a> include the traditional hard sciences (e.g., <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViOapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Physics</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVixcJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Chemistry</a>), the life sciences (e.g., <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVili5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Biology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Genetics</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi1ipwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Toxicology</a>), and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjHd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mathematics</a>. ScientificFieldOfStudy SocialScienceType This is a collection of fields of study which have to do with the behavior of social groups. It includes <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVvb3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Sociology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvqlEOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Economics</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigVpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Anthropology</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLM7zJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PoliticalScience</a>. social science first-order collection An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtppU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rNooX_CChEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. FirstOrderCollection Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString SocialScienceType This is a collection of fields of study which have to do with the behavior of social groups. It includes <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVvb3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Sociology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvqlEOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Economics</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigVpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Anthropology</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLM7zJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PoliticalScience</a>. social science SocialScienceType This is a collection of fields of study which have to do with the behavior of social groups. It includes <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVvb3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Sociology</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvqlEOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Economics</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigVpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Anthropology</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLM7zJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PoliticalScience</a>. social science