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• Mind Control
  ...versions]] to [[new religious movements]] (NRMs). A third-[[generation]] [[theory]] proposed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Zablocki Ben Zablocki] [[f ...Behavior Modification Programs; Terrorist Groups; Dysfunctional Corporate Culture; Interpersonal Violence; and Alleged Chinese Governmental Human Rights Viol
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• Ritual
  Rituals have formed a part of human [[culture]] for tens of thousands of years. The earliest known undisputed evidence of ...g anthropologists, and other ethnographers, who have contributed to ritual theory are [[Victor Turner]], Ronald Grimes, [[Mary Douglas]], and the [[Biogeneti
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• Socialization
  ...]] and [[education]]alists to refer to the [[process]] of learning one’s [[culture]] and how to live within it. For the individual it provides the skills and ...Bales 1956) and a group of colleagues in the US developed a comprehensive theory of society that responded to the emergence of [[modernity]] in which the co
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• Perception
  ...perceives is a result of interplays between past [[experience]]s, one’s [[culture]] and the interpretation of the perceived. If the percept does not have sup ...most notably the works of Professor Emeritus [[Richard L. Gregory]]. This theory is increasingly gaining experimental support and could be surmised as dynam
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• Gesture
  ...oblem solving in children. David McNeill (1992, 2006)has developed a broad theory about how gesture and speech are part of a single [[thought]] [[process]]. ...known gestures are the so-called emblems or quotable gestures. These are [[culture]]-specific gestures that can be used as replacement for [[words]]. Communit
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• Worldview
  ...amework of [[ideas]] and [[beliefs]] through which an individual, group or culture [[interprets]] the world and [[interacts]] with it. ...ued that language was part of the [[creative]] adventure of [[mankind]]. [[Culture]], [[language]] and linguistic communities developed [[simultaneously]], he
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• Knowledge
  ...fulfilled; that in order to count as knowledge, a [[statement]] must be [[theory of justification|justified]], [[truth|true]], and [[belief|believed]]. Some Situational knowledge is often embedded in language, culture, or traditions.
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• Great Pyramid of Gizeh
  ...osits that [[slaves]] were forced to work until the pyramid was done. This theory is no longer accepted in the modern era, however. Egyptologists believe tha *The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments, ISBN 0-8021-1703-1
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ...nobe/rorty.html] An interview with Rorty] Davidson, D., 1986, "A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge," Truth And Interpretation, Perspectives on the Phil ...ings of Lyotard were largely concerned with the role of narrative in human culture, and particularly how that role has changed as we have left modernity and e
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• Albert Einstein
  ...yond the boundaries of physics as he engaged himself in the educational, [[culture|cultural]], and philosophical concerns of his generation. Less known is Ein ...paper on Brownian motion, and in June his celebrated essay on the special theory of relativity, which was followed in September by his derivation of the fam
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• Childhood
  ...have constructed a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory critical theory] of childhood and childhood [[education]] that they have labeled kindercult *Calvert, Karin. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.
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• Tragedy
  While most [[culture]]s have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy ref ...he Origin of German Tragic Drama'' (1928). [[Gilles Deleuze]] develops his theory of tragic representation in his collaboration with [[Félix Guattari]], ''A
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• Vision
  ...h was sighted as the result of the movement of the rays from the eye. This theory was championed by scholars like [[Euclid]] and [[Ptolemy]] and their follow ...se on what really vision is, but [[light]] did not play any role in this [[theory]] and it remained only a speculation lacking any [[experiment]]al foundatio
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• Heart
  ...'s identification of the heart with emotion were proposed as a part of his theory of the circulatory system, the heart has continued to be used as a symbolic ...on St. Valentine's Day greeting cards, candy boxes, and similar popular [[culture]] artifacts as a [[symbols|symbol]] of [[romance|romantic love]].
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• Genre
  ...ntions. The scope of the word "genre" is usually confined to [[art]] and [[culture]], particularly [[Literary genre|literature]]. In [[genre studies]] the con ...ies. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on [[faster-than-light]] travel, are still
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• Duality
  In some [[culture]]s, people (or also other beings) are believed to have two (or more) kinds ==In contemporary feminist theory==
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• Fundamentalism
  ...eatedly placed them in conflict with mainstream trends in American popular culture—not only in [[religion]], but in the realms of [[education]], [[politics] ...became increasingly alienated from the [[mainstream]] of American popular culture.
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• Narcissism
  ...ept of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalytic_theory psychoanalytic theory], a mental illness, a social or [[cultural]] [[problem]], or simply a [[per ...have applied the term "narcissism" more generally to contemporary American culture. Some experts believe a disproportionate number of pathological narcissists
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• 94:6 Lao-Tse and Confucius
  94:6.10 The Confucian preachment of [[morality]] was predicated on the [[theory]] that the earthly way is the distorted [[shadow]] of the heavenly way; tha ...have ever since constituted the basis of the [[moral]] [[fabric]] of the [[culture]] of almost a third of [[Urantia]]ns. These [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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• Rest
  ...re many different definitions of leisure. One popular social psychological theory of leisure was put forward by [[psychology]] professor John Neulinger in th ...optimal arousal to explain leisure. M[[ihaly Csikszentmihalyi]]'s [[flow]] theory is another popular definition of leisure.
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