Sociology & Anthropology

Accessibility is the removal and prevention of barriers to environments, information, products, and services, particularly for people with disabilities.

Anthropology studies human biological and cultural diversity, social life, and historical development through comparative, field-based, and scientific research.

A system of hereditary social stratification, especially associated with South Asia, organized through ranked groups, marriage boundaries, and inherited status.

A city is a concentrated human settlement that organizes population, economic activity, institutions, and infrastructure within an urban area.

Demography is the scientific study of human population size, composition, distribution, and change through births, deaths, and migration.

The digital divide comprises inequalities in access to digital technologies, the skills and conditions needed to use them, and the benefits obtained from their use.

Disability encompasses impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions arising through interactions between individuals’ health conditions and their environments.

Ethnography is the systematic study and representation of social life through situated observation, participation, and interpretation.

A family is a socially recognized network of relationships organized around kinship, partnership, parenthood, and enduring responsibilities of care and support.

Gender equality concerns equal rights, responsibilities, opportunities, and participation regardless of gender, encompassing law, institutions, economic life, and social relations.

A Hong Kong family associated with commerce, public service, education, and philanthropy, centred on Sir Robert Ho Tung and related Ho family branches.

A household is a residential and economic unit consisting of one person or several people whose living arrangements meet specified statistical criteria.

Human migration is the movement of people from one locality to another, a constant force in prehistory and history that continues to reshape societies, economies and populations today.

Peoples with enduring ancestral ties to territories and distinct collective identities, institutions, cultures, and rights.

Kinship is the culturally recognized network of relationships through which people define relatives, belonging, and mutual rights and obligations.

An adult male human, considered in biological, demographic, social, historical, and cultural contexts.

Marriage is a socially or legally recognized union that establishes rights, responsibilities, and relationships between spouses and often their families.

German sociologist and political economist whose studies of religion, authority, and rationalization helped shape modern social science.

A metropolitan area comprises an urban core and surrounding settlements connected through commuting, employment, and other economic and social relationships.

A community understood as a distinct people through shared identity, historical connections, culture, or political aspirations.

Population ageing is the rising share of older people in a population's age structure, driven mainly by longer lives and lower fertility, with major effects on economies, health systems and social institutions.

A systematic production of population counts and demographic, social, and economic statistics for a defined territory and reference time.

Poverty is a condition of insufficient resources or opportunities to meet basic needs and participate in society, measured through monetary and nonmonetary indicators.

Qualitative research investigates meanings, experiences, practices, and social processes through contextual analysis of empirical materials.

Quality of life is a multidimensional concept encompassing people’s living conditions, functioning, relationships, and subjective evaluations of their lives.

A social norm is a shared expectation about appropriate behavior within a group, sustained through social learning, mutual expectations, and responses to conformity or violation.

Socialization is the lifelong process through which people acquire cultural knowledge, social expectations, and identities through interaction with others.

Society is an organized community of people who share territory, culture, institutions, and norms; sociology studies its structure and change.

Sociology is the systematic study of social relationships, institutions, and the processes through which societies persist and change.

Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries a pregnancy for intended parents who will raise the child. Its legal status and ethical acceptability vary widely.

A synthetic demographic measure of lifetime childbearing calculated from the age-specific fertility rates observed during a particular period.

Urban planning coordinates land use, infrastructure, development, and public decisions to shape cities and their surrounding regions.

Urbanization is the increasing concentration of a population in urban settlements, accompanied by changes in land use, economic activity, and social organization.

American philosopher and psychologist whose work shaped pragmatism, theories of consciousness, and the study of religious experience.