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Society and social sciences

Society and social sciences: General

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

Anthropology

1. Anthropology (Level 3)
   1. Linguistic anthropology

Societal adaptations

1. Farmer
2. Hunter-gatherer
3. Nomad

Business and economics

Business and economics: General

1. Business (Level 2)
2. Company
   1. Corporation (Level 3)
      1. Multinational corporation
   2. Partnership
3. Commerce
   1. 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 (Level 3)
   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
   13. Price
5. Tax (Level 3)
   1. Income tax
   2. Profit (economics)
   3. Property tax
   4. Sales tax
   5. 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
   2. Shopping mall
   3. 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

Banking and finance: General

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

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

Specific currencies

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

Employment

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

Companies

Companies: General

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 Company
14. Walmart
15. Wikipedia

Car companies

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

Media companies

1. Nintendo
2. The Walt Disney Company

For other media companies, see under Mass media

Culture

Basics

1. Culture (Level 2)
   1. Cultural heritage
2. Popular culture (Level 3)
3. Cultural assimilation
4. Tradition
   1. Oral tradition (Level 3)
   2. Greeting
5. Body modification
   1. Body piercing
   2. Circumcision
   3. Female genital mutilation
   4. Tattoo
6. Taboo
   1. Human cannibalism

Festivals, holidays, and observances

1. Birthday
2. Festival (Level 3)
   1. Carnival
   2. Harvest festival
   3. Holi
   4. Diwali
   5. World's fair
3. Holiday
   1. Christmas
   2. Easter
      1. Pentecost
   3. Halloween
   4. New Year
      1. New Year's Day
      2. Chinese New Year
      3. Rosh Hashanah
   5. Nowruz
   6. Passover
   7. Yom Kippur
4. Ramadan
   1. Eid al-Fitr
5. Sabbath

Education

Education: General

1. Education (Level 2)
   1. Early childhood education
   2. Primary education
   3. Secondary education
2. Learning (Level 3)
   1. Skill
3. Library (Level 3)
4. School (Level 3)
   1. Boarding school
   2. Curriculum
   3. Teacher
   4. Test
5. University (Level 3)
   1. College

Libraries

Africa

1. Library of Alexandria

Americas

1. Library of Congress

Europe

1. Vatican Library
2. British Library

Educational institutions

Africa

1. Al-Azhar University

Americas

1. National Autonomous University of Mexico
2. University of Toronto

United States

1. Harvard University
2. Columbia University
3. Johns Hopkins University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Princeton University
6. Stanford University
7. University of California, Berkeley
8. Yale University

Asia

1. Indian Institutes of Technology
2. Peking University
3. Tsinghua University

Japan

1. Kyoto University
2. University of Tokyo

Europe

1. ETH Zurich
2. Moscow State University
3. Sorbonne University
4. University of Copenhagen
5. University of Vienna

Germany

1. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2. Humboldt University of Berlin
3. University of Göttingen
4. Heidelberg University

Italy

1. University of Bologna
2. Sapienza University of Rome

UK

1. University of Cambridge
2. University of Oxford

Ethnology

Ethnology: General

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

Ethnic groups

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 people
18. San people
19. Slavs
20. Tibetans
21. Uyghurs
22. Yoruba people

International organizations

United Nations organizations

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

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

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

Language

Basics

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

1. Language family
2. Afroasiatic languages
   1. Semitic languages
3. Algic languages
4. Austroasiatic languages
5. Austronesian languages
6. Creole language
7. South Indian 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

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

Indo-European languages

1. Armenian language
2. Greek language (Level 3)
   1. Ancient Greek

Germanic languages

1. Danish language
2. Dutch language
3. English language (Level 3)
   1. English grammar
   2. Old English
   3. Middle English
   4. Modern English
4. German language (Level 3)
5. Swedish language
6. Yiddish

Romance languages

1. French language (Level 3)
2. Italian language
3. Latin (Level 3)
4. Portuguese language (Level 3)
5. Romanian language
6. Spanish language (Level 3)

Slavic languages

1. Czech language
2. Old Church Slavonic
3. Polish language
4. Russian language (Level 3)
5. Serbo-Croatian
6. Ukrainian language

Iranian languages

1. Kurdish language
2. Pashto
3. Persian language

Indo-Aryan languages

1. Assamese language
2. Bengali language (Level 3)
3. Hindustani language (Level 3)
   1. Hindi
   2. Urdu
4. Marathi language
5. Nepali language
6. Odia language
7. Pali
8. Sanskrit
9. Sindhi language
10. Sinhala language
11. Punjabi language
12. Gujarati language

Afroasiatic languages

1. Akkadian language
2. Amharic
3. Arabic (Level 3)
   1. Classical Arabic
   2. Egyptian Arabic
4. Aramaic
5. Berber languages
6. Egyptian language
7. Hebrew language
8. Hausa language
9. Oromo language
10. Somali language

Sino-Tibetan languages

1. Burmese language
2. Chinese language (Level 3)
   1. Classical Chinese
   2. Hakka Chinese
   3. Mandarin Chinese
   4. Sichuanese dialects
   5. Wu Chinese
   6. Yue Chinese
   7. Min Chinese

Austronesian languages

1. Cebuano language
2. Indonesian language
3. Javanese language
4. Malagasy language
5. Malay language (Level 3)
6. Sundanese language
7. Tagalog language

Austro-Asiatic languages

1. Khmer language
2. Vietnamese language

Dravidian languages

1. Kannada
2. Malayalam
3. Tamil language
4. Telugu language

Niger–Congo languages

1. Fula language
2. Igbo language
3. Swahili language (Level 3)
4. Yoruba language

Turkic languages

1. Azerbaijani language
2. Kazakh language
3. Turkish language
4. Uzbek language

Other languages

1. Esperanto
2. Japanese language (Level 3)
3. Hungarian language
4. Korean language
5. Quechuan languages
6. Sumerian language
7. Thai language

Law

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Basics

1. Law (Level 2)
2. Alternative dispute resolution
3. Appeal
4. Capital punishment
5. Constitution (Level 3)
6. Contract
7. Damages
8. Equity
9. Evidence
   1. Forensic science
10. Impartiality
11. Injunction
12. Jurisprudence
    1. Statutory interpretation
13. Justice (Level 3)
14. Lawsuit
15. Negligence
16. Presumption of innocence
17. Rights
    1. Civil and political rights
    2. Freedom of religion
    3. Freedom of speech
    4. Freedom of thought
    5. Suffrage (Level 3)
       1. Women's suffrage
18. Tort
19. Trial
20. Witness

Crime

1. Crime (Level 3)
   1. Organized crime
2. Driving under the influence
3. Fraud
4. Human trafficking
5. Illegal drug trade
6. Kidnapping
7. Piracy
8. Smuggling
9. Theft
   1. Robbery
10. Assault
11. Battery (crime)
12. Domestic violence
13. Homicide
    1. Murder
14. Sexual assault
    1. Rape
15. Torture

Institutions and professions

1. Court
2. Judge
3. Judiciary
   1. Rule of law
4. Jury
5. Lawyer
6. Police (Level 3)
7. Security

Subjects

1. Administrative law
2. Civil law
3. Common law
4. Criminal law
   1. Criminal procedure
5. Customary law
6. Intellectual property
   1. Copyright
   2. Patent
7. International law
8. Precedent
9. Property law
   1. Inheritance
   2. Will and testament
10. Religious law
11. Statute
12. Trust (law)

Specific documents

1. Code of Hammurabi
2. Corpus Juris Civilis
3. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
4. Geneva Conventions
5. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
6. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
7. Magna Carta
8. Napoleonic Code
9. Nuremberg principles
10. Statute of Westminster 1931
11. Constitution of the United States
12. United States Declaration of Independence
13. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Mass media

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Mass media: General

1. Cartoon
2. Censorship
3. Journalism
4. Mass media (Level 2)
5. Multimedia
6. News (Level 3)
7. News media
8. Photojournalism
9. Propaganda
10. Public relations
11. Publishing (Level 3)
12. Western (genre)

Academic journals

1. Academic journal
   1. Nature
   2. Science

Magazines

1. Magazine
   1. National Geographic
   2. Playboy
   3. Scientific American
   4. Time
   5. Vogue
   6. Weekly Shōnen Jump

Newspapers

1. Newspaper
   1. The Times
   2. The New York Times
   3. The Wall Street Journal
   4. The Washington Post
   5. Le Monde

Radio

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Television

1. Television broadcaster
   1. BBC
   2. NBC

Politics and government

Politics

1. Politics (Level 2)
2. Political science (Level 3)
3. Diplomacy (Level 3)
   1. Diplomatic mission
   2. International relations
4. Imperialism (Level 3)
   1. Colonialism (Level 3)
5. Globalization (Level 3)
6. Civics
   1. Citizenship
7. Civil liberties
8. Election
   1. Opinion poll
   2. Political campaign
   3. Political party (Level 3)
      1. Chinese Communist Party
   4. Referendum
9. Nation
10. Revolution
    1. Coup d'état
11. Riot
12. Cult of personality

Forms of government

1. Government (Level 2)
   1. Democracy (Level 3)
   2. Dictatorship (Level 3)
   3. Monarchy (Level 3)
      1. Absolute monarchy
      2. Constitutional monarchy
   4. Theocracy
   5. Oligarchy
   6. Republic

State structure and administration

1. State (Level 3)
   1. City-state
   2. Sovereign state
      1. Unitary state
      2. Federation
      3. Federalism
   3. Confederation
   4. Empire
   5. Welfare state
      1. Welfare spending (Level 3)
2. Sovereignty
3. National security
4. Decentralization
5. Executive
   1. Head of state
6. Legislature
   1. Parliament
7. Public administration
   1. Civil service
8. Public policy
   1. Economic policy
9. Separation of powers

Ideology and political theory

1. Ideology (Level 3)
   1. Political spectrum
2. Anarchism (Level 3)
3. Capitalism (Level 3)
4. Socialism (Level 3)
5. Communism (Level 3)
   1. Marxism
      1. Leninism
6. Fascism (Level 3)
   1. Nazism
7. Liberalism (Level 3)
   1. Libertarianism
8. Conservatism (Level 3)
9. Nationalism (Level 3)
10. Patriotism
11. Populism
12. Totalitarianism
13. Authoritarianism
14. Christian democracy
15. Social democracy
16. Green politics
17. Multiculturalism
18. Islamism

Psychology

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Basics

1. Psychology (Level 2)
2. Clinical psychology
3. Cognitive psychology
4. Developmental psychology
5. Personality psychology
6. Psychology of religion
7. Psychotherapy

Psychology schools

1. Analytical psychology
2. Behaviorism
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Gestalt psychology
5. Humanistic psychology
6. Psychoanalysis

Interpersonal relations

1. Aggression
2. Altruism
3. Blame
4. Bullying
5. Charisma
6. Competition
7. Conformity
8. Empathy
9. Forgiveness
10. Honour
11. Lie
12. Privacy (Level 3)
13. Prejudice
14. Punishment
15. Respect
16. Shyness
17. Trust

Emotions and traits

1. Emotion (Level 2)
2. Agreeableness
3. Anger (Level 3)
4. Anxiety
5. Conscientiousness
6. Courage
7. Curiosity
8. Dignity
9. Disgust
10. Doubt
11. Embarrassment
12. Extraversion and introversion
13. Fear (Level 3)
14. Greed
15. Guilt (emotion)
16. Happiness (Level 3)
17. Hatred
18. Hope
19. Humour (Level 3)
20. Jealousy
21. Love (Level 3)
22. Lust
23. Neuroticism
24. Pleasure
25. Remorse
26. Sadness
27. Self-esteem
28. Shame
29. Surprise
30. Suffering

Concepts

1. Amnesia
2. Attention
3. Bias
4. Cognition
5. Cognitive development
6. Consciousness (Level 3)
7. Creativity
8. Dream (Level 3)
9. Human behavior (Level 3)
10. Human intelligence
11. Hypnosis
12. Imagination
13. Introspection
14. Memory (Level 3)
15. Mind (Level 2)
16. Mood
17. Motivation
18. Perception
19. Personality (Level 3)
20. Stereotype
21. Thought (Level 3)

Society

Basics

1. Society (Level 1)
2. Civil society
3. Institution
4. Social norm
5. Social order
6. Solidarity
7. Public

Groups

1. Club
2. Community (Level 3)
3. Gang
4. Organization
   1. Non-governmental organization
   2. Nonprofit organization
   3. Trade union (Level 3)
5. Secret society
6. Social network
7. Support group
8. Tribe
9. Voluntary association

Services and institutions

1. Emergency management
2. Firefighting
3. Orphanage
4. Prison
5. Social work

Issues

1. Social issue
2. Animal welfare
3. Child labour
4. Corruption
5. Deforestation
6. Disability (Level 3)
7. Environmentalism (Level 3)
8. Euthanasia
9. Famine (Level 3)
10. Homelessness
11. Human migration (Level 3)
    1. Immigration
12. Human overpopulation
    1. One-child policy
13. Humanitarianism
14. Pacifism
    1. Peace (Level 3)
    2. World peace
15. Pollution (Level 3)
    1. Air pollution
    2. Water pollution
16. Population ageing
17. Poverty (Level 3)
18. Social movement
19. Sustainable development
20. Violence (Level 3)

Social status

1. Economic inequality
2. Gender equality
   1. Feminism (Level 3)
   2. Women's rights
3. Human rights (Level 3)
   1. Liberty (Level 3)
   2. Social equality (Level 3)
4. Minority group
5. Political freedom
6. Race
7. Social stratification
8. Slavery (Level 3)

Caste

1. Caste
2. Caste system in India

Social classes

1. Social class (Level 3)
2. Clergy
3. Eunuch
4. Upper class
5. Middle class
6. Working class
7. Underclass
8. Peasant

Discrimination

1. Discrimination (Level 3)
2. Class discrimination
3. Homophobia
4. Racism (Level 3)
5. Sexism (Level 3)
6. Genocide denial

Sociology

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. Conspiracy theory
    2. 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

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Basics

1. War (Level 2)
2. Casualty
3. Conscription
4. Desertion
5. Duel
6. Law of war
7. Militarism
8. Prisoner of war
9. Refugee
10. War crime
    1. Genocide (Level 3)

Wars by type

1. Civil war
2. Counterinsurgency
3. Ethnic conflict
4. Insurgency
5. Invasion
6. Religious war

Warfare by type

1. Terrorism (Level 3)
2. Aerial warfare
3. Anti-aircraft warfare
4. Armoured warfare
5. Espionage
6. Naval warfare
7. Siege
8. Sniper
9. Trench warfare

Military

Basics

1. Military (Level 3)
2. Military education and training
3. Military–industrial complex
4. Military science
5. Military strategy
6. Military tactics

Military forces

1. Army
   1. Cavalry
   2. Infantry
   3. Militia
2. Navy
3. Air force
4. Soldier
5. Military reserve

Military operations

1. Battle
2. Blockade
3. Military exercise

Military organization

1. Military organization
2. Staff (military)

Military ranks

1. Military rank
2. Officer

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