Pillar 7: Society 

 7.1 Theory
Philosophy of Social Science | Social Philosophy | Social Theory
7.2 Society at Large
7.2.1 General
Sociology | Anthropology | Human geography | Demography
7.2.2 Area-based
Area studies: Continents: Asia / Europe / Africa / North America / South America / Oceania / Antarctica | Intercontinental areas
7.3 Domains
7.3.1 Community
7.3.1.1 Communication
Semiotics | Linguistics | Languages | Communication studies
7.3.1.2 Contract
Political science | International relations | Public policy
7.3.1.3 Codes
Ethics | Law 
7.3.1.4 Conduct
Social psychology | Criminology
7.3.2 Needs and Activities
7.3.2.1 Security
Military studies | Police studies
7.3.2.2 Health
Health policy | Health education 
7.3.2.3 Economics
Economics | Marketing
7.3.2.4 Education
Education
7.3.2.5 Work 
Work studies
7.3.2.6 Welfare
Social work
7.3.2.7 Environmental Planning 
Urban studies | Sustainability studies
7.3.2.8 Human relations
Conflict management 
7.3.2.9 Culture
Cultural studies*
7.3.2.10 Communication 
Media studies | Journalism | Advertising
7.3.2.11 Recreation 
Recreation studies 
7.3.2.12 Sport
Sports studies
7.3.3 Management
Business management | Healthcare management
7.4 Social Groups
7.4.1 Gender
Gender studies | LGBT studies
7.4.2 Age 
Childhood studies | Adolescence studies | Gerontology
7.4.3 Ethnicity
Romani studies
7.4.4 Themes 
Family studies

7.1 Theory

  • Philosophy of social science (W)

  • Social philosophy (W)

  • Social theory (W)

 7.2 Society at large

  7.2.1 General

   • Sociology (W) 

   • Anthropology (W)

   • Human geography(W)

    •• Historical geography (W)

   • Demography (W)

  7.2.2 Area-based

   • Area studies (W) (map)
     Region-focused integrative fields

   Continents (W) (map)

    Asia (W)

      North Asia (W)

      Siberia (see Russia) (W)

      Central Asia (W)

      Kazakhstan (W) |
      Kyrgyzstan (W) |
      Tajikistan (W)
      Turkmenistan (W) |
      Uzbekistan (W)

      East Asia (W)

      Mainland: China (W)
      (incl. Hong Kong (W), Macao (W)
      and Tibet (W) |
      Mongolia (W) |
      North Korea (W) | 
      South Korea (W)
      Islands: Japan (W) |
      Taiwan (W)

     Southeast Asia(W)

      Mainland: Cambodia (W) |
      Laos (W) |
      Malaysia (west (W) |
      Myanmar (W) |
      Philippines (W) |
      Singapore (W) |
      Thailand (W) |
      Vietnam (W)
      Islands: Brunei (W) |
      East Timor (W) |
      Indonesia (W) |
      Malaysia (east) (W) |

     South Asia(W)

      Mainland:  Afghanistan (W) | 
      Bangladesh (W) |
      Bhutan (W) |
      India (W) |
      Iran (W) |
      Nepal (W) |
      Pakistan (W) |
      Islands: Maldives (W) |
      Sri Lanka (W)

     West Asia(W)

       Armenia (W) |
      Azerbaijan (W) |
      Georgia (W) |
      Turky (W) (see Anatolia (W))
      Cyprus (W) |
      Israel (W) |
      Palestinian Authority* (W) |
      Bahrain (W) |
      Iraq (W) |
      Jordan (W) |
      Kuwait (W) |
      Lebanon (W) |
      Oman (W) |
      Qatar (W) |
      Saudi Arabia (W) |
      Syria (W) |
      United Arab Emirates (W) |
      Yemen (W)

    Europe (W)

     Eastern Europe (W)

      Belarus (W) |
      Bulgaria (W) |
      Czechia (W) |
      Hungary (W) |
      Poland (W) |
      Moldova (W) |
      Romania (W) |
      Russia (W) |
      Slovakia (W) |
      Ukraine (W)

      Northern Europe (W)

      Baltic states (W):  Estonia (W) |
      Latvia (W) |
      Lithuania (W)   
      Nordic countries (W): Denmark (W) |
      Norway (W) |
      Sweden (W) |
      Finland (W) |
      Islands: Faroe Islands (W) |
      Iceland (W) | 

     Southern Europe (W)

      Mainland:  Albania (W) |
       Andorra (W) |
      Bosnia and Herzegovina (W) |
      Croatia (W) |
      Gibraltar (W) |
      Greece (W) |
      Italy (W) | 
      Monaco (W) |
      Montenegro (W) |
      North Macedonia (W) |
      Portugal (W) |
      San Marino (W) |
      Serbia (W) |
      Slovenia (W) |
      Spain (W) |
      Turkey (see Asia) (W) |
      Vatikan City (W) 
      Islands: Corsica (W) |
      Malta (W) |
      Sardinia (W) |
      Sicily (W) | 

     Western Europe (W)

      Austria (W) |
      Belgium (W) |
      France (W) |
      Germany (W) |
      Ireland (W) |
      Liechtenstein (W) |
      Luxembourg (W) |
      Netherlands (W) |
      Switzerland (W) |
      United Kingdom (W)

    Africa (W)

     Northern Africa (W)

       Algeria (W) |
       Egypt (W) |
      Libya (W) |
       Morocco (W) | 
       Sudan (W) |
      South Sudan (W) |
      Tunisia (W) |
       Western Sahara* (W)

     Sub-Saharan Africa (W)

      Eastern Africa (W)

       Mainland:  Burundi (W) | 
        Djibouti (W) |
       Eritrea (W) |
        Ethiopia (W) |
        Kenya (W) |
        Malawi (W) |                     
        Mozambique (W) | 
        Rwanda (W) | 
        Somalia (W) | 
        Uganda (W) |
        Tanzania (W) |
        Zambia (W) |
        Zimbabwe (W)
       Islands:  Comoros (W) |
        Madagascar (W) |
        Mauritius (W) |
       Mayotte (W) |
        Réunion (W) |
        Seychelles (W) |

      Central Africa (W)

       Mainland:  Angola (W) |
       Cameroon (W) |
       Central African Republic (W) |
       Chad (W) |
       Congo (W) |
       DR Congo (W) |
       Equatorial Guinea (W) |
       Gabon (W)
        Islands: São Tomé & Príncipe (W)

      Western Africa (W)

       Mainland: Benin (W) |
       Burkina Faso (W) |
       Gambia (W) |
       Ghana (W) |
       Guinea (W) |
       Guinea-Bissau (W) |
       Ivory Coast (W) |
       Liberia (W) |
       Mali (W) |
       Mauritania (W) |
       Niger (W) |
       Nigeria (W) |
       Senegal (W) |
       Sierra Leone (W) |
       Togo (W)
       Islands: Cape Verde (W) |
       Saint Helena (W)  

      Southern Africa (W)

       Botswana (W) |
       Eswatini (W) |
       Lesotho (W) |
       Namibia (W) |
       South Africa (W)

    North America (W)

       Northern America (W)

       Mainland: Canada (W) |
       United States (W) |
       Islands: Bermuda (W) |
       Greenland (W)

      Middle America (W)

      Mexico (W) |
      Central America (W): Belize (W) |
      Guatemala (W) |
      El Salvador (W) |
      Honduras (W) |
      Nicaragua (W) |
      Costa Rica (W) |
      Panama* (W)

     Caribbean (W)

      Greater Antilles (W): 
      Cayman Islands (W) |
      Cuba (W) |
      Dominican Republic (W) |
      Haiti (W) |
      Jamaica (W) |
      Puerto Rico (W)
      Lesser Antilles (W): Anguilla (W) |
       Antigua and Barbuda (W) |
      Aruba (W) |
      Barbados (W) |
      Curaçao (W) | 
      Grenada (W) |
      Guadeloupe (W) |
      Martinique (W) |
      St. Lucia (W) |
      St. Vincent (W) |
      Trinidad & Tobago (W) |
      US Virgin Islands (W) |
      Virgin Islands (W)
      Bahamas (W)

    South America (W)

      Argentina (W) |
     Bolivia (W) |
     Brazil (W) | 
     Chile (W) |
     Colombia (W) |
     Ecuador (W) |
     French Guiana (W) |
     Guyana (W) | 
     Paraguay (W) |
     Peru (W) |
     Suriname (W) |
     Uruguay (W) |
     Venezuela (W)
     Falkland Islands (W) |
     Galápagos Islands (W)

    Oceania (W) (map)

      Australia and New Zealand
      Australia (W) |
      New Zealand (W)

      Melanesia (W)

      Fiji (W) |
      New Caledonia (W) |
      Papua New Guinea (W) |
      Western New Guinea(W) |
      Solomon Islands (W) |
      Vanuatu (W)

      Micronesia(W)

      Guam (W) |
      Kiribati (W) |
      Marshall Islands (W) |
      Micronesia (W) |
      Nauru (W) |
      Palau (W) |

      Polynesia (W)

      American Samoa (W) |
      Cook Islands (W) |
      Easter Island (W) |
      French Polynesia (W)
      (including Bora Bora (W) and Tahiti (W) |
      Hawii (W) |
      Niue (W) |
      Samoa (W) |
      Tonga (W) |
      Tuvalu (W) |
      Wallis & Futuna (W) 

    Antarctica (W)

   Intercontinental areas

     Arctic Circle (W)
     Middle East (W)
     Mediterranean Basin (W)

 7.3 Domains

  7.3.1 Community

   7.3.1.1 Communication (W)

    • Semiotics (W)
      Signs and their meanings

     •• Biosemiotics (W)

    • Linguistics (W) | Languages (W)

    • Communication studies (W)

   7.3.1.2 Contract

    • Political science (W)

     ••Political philosophy (W)

    • International relations (W)

    • Public policy (W)

   7.3.1.3 Codes

     • Ethics (W)

     • Law (W)

     Theory (meta-knowledge of law)

       •• Philosophy of law (W)
          (or Jurisprudence)

       •• History of law (W)
           History of jurisprudence, legal systems
           and legal professions

      •• Sociology of law(W)
          Social aspects of law and justice

      •• Legal education (W)
          Law schools and professional education

     Public law (W)

       •• Constitutional law (W)

       •• Administrative law (W)

       •• Tax law (W)

       •• Criminal law  (W)

     Private law (W)

     International law (W)

     Legal systems (W)

      National legal systems

        •• Division by countries
           (See listing in Area studies, c. 7.2.2)

        •• Comparative law (W)
            Comparison 

   7.3.1.4 Conduct

    • Social psychology (W)

    • Criminology (W)

  7.3.2 Needs and Activities

   7.3.2.1 Security

    •Military studies (W)

    • Police studies

   7.3.2.2 Health

    •Health policy (W)

    •Health education (W)

   7.3.2.3 Economics

    •Economics (W)

    •Marketing (W)

   7.3.2.4 Education

    •Education (W)

    ••Pedagogy (W)

    ••Teaching (W) 

   7.3.2.5 Work 

    •Work studies (W)

   7.3.2.6 Welfare (W)

    •Social work (W)

   7.3.2.7 Environmental Planning 

    •Urban studies (W)

    •Sustainability studies (W)

   7.3.2.8 Human relations

    •Conflict management (W)

   7.3.2.9 Culture

    • Cultural studies* (W)

   7.3.2.10 Communication 

    •Media studies (W)
      Mass communication (W)

    •Journalism (W)

    •Advertising (W)

   7.3.2.11 Recreation 

    •Recreation studies (W)

   7.3.2.12 Sport (W)

    • Sports studies

   7.3.3 Management (W)

    • Business management (W)

    • Healthcare management (W)

 7.4 Social Groups (W)

  7.4.1 Gender

   • Gender studies (W)

   • LGBT studies (W)

  7.4.2 Age 

   • Childhood studies* (W)
     Children studies

   • Adolescence studies* (W)
     Youth studies

   • Gerontology (W)
     Ageing studies

  7.4.3 Ethnicity (W)

   • Romani studies (W)

  7.4.4 Themes 

   • Family studies (W)

The Society pillar

7.2.2

Area Studies is an umbrella name for hundreds of area-based interdisciplinary academic fields. The most useful division is by countries. Countries are political entities rather than geographical units. Still, the geographical division of countries seems very usefull. Note that the geographical division of the world into geographical regions and continents is academicaly debatebale. Key resources: the United Nations geoscheme (see M49 Standard).