15 January, 2011

Vocabulary (thuật ngữ)

1. periplus (Navigation, Hàng hải): đi quanh bờ biển; hướng dẫn đi quanh bờ biển
- Periplus is the Latinization of an ancient Greek word, περίπλους, literally "a sailing-around." Both segments, peri- and -plous, were independently productive: the ancient Greek speaker understood the word in its literal sense; however, it developed a few specialized meanings, one of which became a standard term in the ancient navigation of Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.
2. Social cycle theories (xã hội học):
- Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history are generally repeating themselves in cycles. Such a theory does not necessarily imply that there cannot be any social progress. In the early theory of Sima Qian (Tư Mã Thiên, Shiji) and the more recent theories of long-term ("secular") political-demographic cycles as well as in the Varnic theory of P.R. Sarkar an explicit accounting is made of social progress.

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