Motivation
While one-place studies in Britain are often pursued for simple enjoyment, amateur one-place studies in continental nations sometimes assert their value to social science. The introduction to a recent survey of German one-place studies listed the following topics that were likely to benefit from the research:
- Genetic pathology involving incest
- Economics of peasant families
- Varying rules of legal inheritance
- Village ecology
- Class basis of family sizes
- Migration
- Urbanization
- Age at marriage
- Social mobility
- Household structure
- Sociology of the family
- Microhistory
- Catholic-Protestant comparisons
- Sociobiology
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Famous quotes containing the word motivation:
“Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we’re talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)