Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4/Society and social sciences

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Total 927 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 8
GA 30
B 289
C 447
FFA 35
DGA 47
FFLC 1
Start 153

Society and social sciences[edit]

This section contains 927 articles.

Society and social sciences: General[edit]

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Communication (Level 2)
    1. Nonverbal communication
      1. Body language
  2. Social science (Level 3)
  3. Humanities
  4. Information
  5. Meme
  6. Safety

Anthropology[edit]

This section contains 6 articles.

Business and economics[edit]

This section contains 126 articles.

Business and economics: General[edit]

This section contains 75 articles.

  1. Business (Level 2)
  2. Company
    1. Corporation (Level 3)
      1. Multinational corporation
    2. Partnership
  3. E-commerce
  4. Economics (Level 2)
    1. Macroeconomics
    2. Microeconomics
    3. Econometrics
    4. Economic growth
    5. Economy (Level 3)
      1. Economy of China
      2. Economy of the European Union
      3. Economy of the United States
    6. Gross domestic product
      1. Goods
      2. Service
    7. Inflation
    8. Deflation
    9. Labour economics
    10. Market
      1. Black market
      2. Market failure
      3. Monopoly
      4. Perfect competition
      5. Supply and demand (Level 3)
    11. Productivity
    12. Subsidy
  5. Tax (Level 3)
    1. Income tax
    2. Property tax
    3. Sales tax
    4. Value-added tax
  6. Trade (Level 2)
    1. International trade
    2. Protectionism
  7. Management (Level 3)
    1. Logistics
  8. Marketing (Level 3)
    1. Advertising
      1. Brand
    2. Sales
  9. Retail (Level 3)
    1. Shopping mall
    2. Supermarket
  10. Property (Level 3)
    1. Capital (economics)
    2. Agriculture (Level 2)
    3. Construction (Level 3)
    4. Energy industry
    5. Film industry
    6. Fishing industry
    7. Forestry
    8. Fur trade
    9. Hunting (Level 3)
      1. Fishing (Level 3)
      2. Whaling
    10. Manufacturing (Level 2)
      1. Aerospace manufacturer
      2. Automotive industry
      3. Chemical industry
      4. Clothing industry
      5. Food industry
      6. Textile manufacturing
    11. Mining (Level 3)
    12. Music industry
  11. Insurance (Level 3)
  12. Investment
    1. Derivative (finance)
    2. Real estate
    3. Stock
    4. Stock exchange
      1. New York Stock Exchange
      2. London Stock Exchange

Banking and finance[edit]

This section contains 21 articles.

Banking and finance: General[edit]

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Accounting
  2. Bank (Level 3)
  3. Bankruptcy
  4. Cheque
  5. Debit card
  6. Debt
    1. Credit card
    2. Interest
    3. Loan
      1. Mortgage
  7. Finance (Level 3)

Money[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Money (Level 3)
  2. Currency
    1. Banknote
    2. Coin
    3. Exchange rate

Specific currencies[edit]

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Euro
  2. Japanese yen
  3. Pound sterling
  4. Renminbi
  5. United States dollar

Employment[edit]

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Domestic worker
  2. Employment (Level 3)
  3. Layoff
  4. Retirement
    1. Pension
  5. Unemployment
  6. Wage
  7. Work

Companies[edit]

This section contains 22 articles.

Companies: General[edit]

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Alibaba Group
  2. Amazon
  3. Apple Inc.
  4. AT&T
  5. Facebook
  6. General Electric
  7. Google
    1. YouTube
  8. IBM
  9. McDonald's
  10. Microsoft
  11. Nestlé
  12. Samsung
  13. Standard Oil
  14. Walmart
  15. Wikipedia

Car companies[edit]

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Ford Motor Company
  2. General Motors
  3. Toyota
  4. Volkswagen

Media companies[edit]

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Nintendo
  2. The Walt Disney Company

For other media companies, see under Mass media

Culture[edit]

This section contains 36 articles.

Education[edit]

This section contains 49 articles.

Educational institutions[edit]

This section contains 31 articles.

Ethnology[edit]

This section contains 38 articles.

Ethnology: General[edit]

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Ethnology
  2. Ethnicity (Level 2)
  3. Indigenous peoples (Level 3)
  4. Diaspora
  5. Ethnocentrism
  6. Ethnography
  7. Self-determination

Ethnic groups[edit]

This section contains 31 articles.

  1. Aboriginal Australians
  2. Adivasi
  3. African Pygmies
  4. Arabs
    1. Bedouin
  5. Austronesian peoples
  6. Bantu peoples
    1. Zulu people
  7. Basques
  8. Berbers
  9. Han Chinese
  10. Hmong people
  11. Indigenous peoples of the Americas
    1. Cherokee
    2. Inuit
    3. Iroquois
    4. Maya peoples
    5. Navajo
    6. Quechua people
    7. Sioux
  12. Jews
  13. Kurds
  14. Maasai people
  15. Māori people
  16. Romani people
  17. Sámi peoples
  18. San people
  19. Slavs
  20. Tibetan people
  21. Uyghurs
  22. Yoruba people

International organizations[edit]

This section contains 29 articles.

United Nations organizations[edit]

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. United Nations (Level 3)
  2. International Atomic Energy Agency
  3. International Court of Justice
  4. International Criminal Court
  5. International Monetary Fund
  6. UNESCO
  7. UNICEF
  8. World Bank Group
  9. World Health Organization
  10. World Trade Organization

Governmental organizations[edit]

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. African Union
  2. Arab League
  3. ASEAN
  4. Commonwealth of Independent States
  5. Commonwealth of Nations
  6. Council of Europe
  7. European Union (Level 3)
  8. G20
  9. Interpol
  10. League of Nations
  11. NATO (Level 3)
  12. North American Free Trade Agreement
  13. OECD
  14. OPEC
  15. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  16. Organization of American States

Non-governmental organizations[edit]

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Level 3)
  2. Nobel Prize
  3. Scouting

Language[edit]

This section contains 198 articles.

Basics[edit]

This section contains 62 articles.

  1. Language (Level 2)
    1. Origin of language
  2. Grammar (Level 3)
    1. Syntax
    2. Sentence
    3. Clause
    4. Phrase
      1. Proverb
    5. Noun
      1. Name
        1. Personal name (Level 3)
        2. Surname
    6. Verb
      1. Grammatical tense
    7. Adjective
    8. Adverb
    9. Pronoun
    10. Adposition
    11. Conjunction
    12. Interjection
  3. Linguistics (Level 3)
    1. Comparative linguistics
    2. Historical linguistics
      1. Etymology
    3. Linguistic typology
  4. Literacy
    1. Reading
  5. Morphology
    1. Morpheme
  6. Phonetics
    1. Consonant
    2. International Phonetic Alphabet
    3. Prosody
    4. Vowel
  7. Phonology
    1. Phoneme
    2. Syllable
  8. Rhetoric
  9. Semantics
    1. Euphemism
    2. Profanity
  10. Semiotics
    1. Pragmatics
    2. Symbol
  11. Sociolinguistics
    1. Accent
    2. Dialect
    3. Diglossia
    4. Endangered language
    5. Language death
    6. Multilingualism
    7. Slang
  12. Speech (Level 3)
    1. Speech act
  13. Translation
  14. Word (Level 3)
  15. Writing (Level 2)
    1. Alphabet (Level 3)
    2. Letter
    3. Orthography
    4. Transliteration
    5. Writing system

Language families[edit]

This section contains 28 articles.

  1. Language family
  2. Afroasiatic languages
    1. Semitic languages
  3. Algic languages
  4. Austroasiatic languages
  5. Austronesian languages
  6. Creole language
  7. Dravidian languages
  8. Eskaleut languages
  9. Indo-European languages (Level 3)
    1. Indo-Aryan languages
    2. Romance languages
    3. Germanic languages
    4. Iranian languages
    5. Slavic languages
  10. Kartvelian languages
  11. Khoisan languages
  12. Kra–Dai languages
  13. Niger–Congo languages
    1. Bantu languages
  14. Nilo-Saharan languages
  15. North Caucasian languages
  16. Sign language
  17. Sino-Tibetan languages
  18. Trans–New Guinea languages
  19. Turkic languages
  20. Uralic languages
  21. Uto-Aztecan languages

Alphabets and writing systems[edit]

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Arabic script (Level 3)
  2. Brahmic scripts (Level 3)
  3. Braille
  4. Chinese characters (Level 3)
  5. Cuneiform
  6. Cyrillic script (Level 3)
  7. Devanagari
  8. Egyptian hieroglyphs
  9. Greek alphabet (Level 3)
  10. Hangul
  11. Japanese writing system
  12. Latin script (Level 3)
  13. Maya script
  14. Morse code
  15. Phoenician alphabet
  16. Rosetta Stone
  17. Runes

Specific languages[edit]

This section contains 91 articles.

Law[edit]

This section contains 85 articles. For legal history see History of other topics

Mass media[edit]

This section contains 47 articles. For technology of mass communication, television, radio, etc., see technology section

Politics and government[edit]

This section contains 74 articles.

Psychology[edit]

This section contains 81 articles. For psychological disorders see Mental disorders

Society[edit]

This section contains 79 articles.

Sociology[edit]

This section contains 22 articles.

  1. Sociology (Level 3)
  2. Criminology
  3. Demography
    1. Census
  4. Etiquette
  5. Generation
  6. Nature versus nurture
  7. Peer pressure
  8. Power (social and political) (Level 3)
  9. Social change
    1. Industrialisation
  10. Social control
    1. Deviance
  11. Social group
    1. Identity
  12. Social reality
  13. Social research
  14. Social theory
  15. Socialization
  16. Sociological theory
  17. Structure and agency
  18. Subculture

War and military[edit]

This section contains 49 articles. See also Military technology


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