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	    <topic authority="International Standard Classification of Education : fields of education and training">Sociology and cultural studies</topic>
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            <related type="broader">
        <topic>Social and behavioural sciences</topic>
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    	<note  xml:lang="en">Sociology and cultural studies is the study of human beings and the way they behave in groups and in relation to society. The study of ethnology and social anthropology are included here, likewise the study of human and social geography.

Programmes and qualifications with the following main content are classified here:

- Criminology
- Cultural geography
- Cultural studies
- Demography/population studies
- Ethnology
- Gender studies
- Social anthropology
- Sociology</note>
    	<note  xml:lang="en">Social welfare where emphasis is given to practical social work is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0923 'Social work and counselling'.

Physical geography is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0532 'Earth science'.</note>
    
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