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Parent topics
Economics: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
Politics: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
Sociology: Social science that studies human social behavior or social relations, social institutions and structures, demography, public opinion, social welfare, social psychology and some forms of political behavior, as well as the history of sociology. [e]- History: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. [e]
Subtopics
- Independent sector: (1) A sector (logical or empirical subset) of civil society independent of or autonomous from government. (2) A national umbrella organization of civil society organizations or nonprofit organizations in Washington DC. [e]
- Nongovernmental sector: The category or network of all nongovernmental organizations. [e]
- Nonprofit sector: A sector or category of formal organizations, associations or corporations organized for purposes other than profit and governed by legal or ethical non-distribution constraints. Controversy continues over whether the nonprofit sector defines the third sector or civil society or is merely one of the component parts. [e]
- Nonprofit corporation: Any of a number of types of corporation recognized by tax authorities as subject to nondistribution constraints. [e]s
- Voluntary sector: Used in Great Britain to describe the set or category of organisations very close to those characterized in the U.S. as nonprofits. [e]
- Tertiary sector: Term usually applies to the service sector, as opposed to the secondary (manufacturing) sector and the primary sector of agriculture, mining, and fishing. The tertiary sector is easily confused with the third sector of nonprofit, philanthropic organizations and civil society institutions. Although there is overlap between the two concepts. Nearly all third sector establishments are in the tertiary sector (i.e. services) although the largest portion of tertiary sector services are not nonprofits. [e]