Pillar 7: Society 

 7.1 Theory
Philosophy of Social Science | Social Philosophy | Social Theory
7.2 Society at Large
7.2.1 General
Sociology | AnthropologyHuman geographyDemography
7.2.2 Area-based
Area studies: Continents: AsiaEurope / Africa / North America / South AmericaOceania / 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
EthicsLaw 
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 policyHealth 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 JournalismAdvertising
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 studiesAdolescence 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)

     tally3West 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)


    tally2Europe (W)

     tally3Eastern Europe (W)

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


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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) | 


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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) | 

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Western 
Europe 
(W)

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


    tally2Africa (W)

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Northern Africa
(W)

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


     tally3
Sub-Saharan Africa
(W)

      tally4Eastern Africa (W)

       MainlandFlag of Burundi Burundi (W) | 
       Flag of Djibouti Djibouti (W) |
       Eritrea (W) |
       Flag of Ethiopia Ethiopia (W) |
       Flag of Kenya Kenya (W) |
       Flag of Malawi Malawi (W) |                     
       Flag of Mozambique Mozambique (W) | 
       The flag of Rwanda: blue, yellow and green stripes with a yellow sun in top right corner Rwanda (W) | 
       Flag of Somalia Somalia (W) | 
       Flag of Uganda Uganda (W) |
       Flag of Tanzania Tanzania (W) |
       Flag of Zambia Zambia (W) |
       Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (W)

       Islands: Flag of Comoros Comoros (W) |
       Flag of Madagascar Madagascar (W) |
       Flag of Mauritius Mauritius (W) |
       Mayotte (W) |
        Réunion (W) |
       Flag of Seychelles Seychelles (W) |


      tally4Central 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)


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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
)  

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Southern Africa (W)

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

    tally2North America (W)

      tally3 
Northern America
(W)

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

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Middle America
(W)

      Mexico (W) |
      Central America (W): בליז
Belize (W) |
      גואטמלהGuatemala (W) |
      אל סלוודורEl Salvador (W) |
      הונדורסHonduras (W) |
      ניקרגואה
Nicaragua (W) |
      קוסטה ריקהCosta Rica (W) |
      פנמהPanama(W)

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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)


    tally2South 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)


    tally2Oceania (W) (map)

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Australia and New Zealand

      Australia (W) |
      New Zealand (W)

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Melanesia
(W)

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


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Micronesia
(W)

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


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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


    tally2Antarctica (W)

   tally1Intercontinental 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)

     tally1Theory (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

     tally1Public law (W)

        Constitutional law (W)

        Administrative law (W)

        Tax law (W)

        Criminal law
 
(W)

     tally1Private law (W)

     tally1International law (W)

     tally1Legal systems (W)

      tally2National 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).