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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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• Chance
  ...ter developed into the concept of [[information]] entropy in [[information theory]]. ...subject of current research. At least in some disciplines of computability theory, the notion of randomness turns out to be identified with computational unp
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• Caesaropapism
  ...stian Church with government. In its extreme form, it is a [[political]] [[theory]] in which the head of [[state]], notably the Emperor ('Caesar', by extensi ...James H. (1966), The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture, New York: Random House, pp. 67
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• Emotion
  ...nsider the behaviour not to be essential to the emotion. The [[James-Lange theory]] posits that emotional experience is largely due to the experience of bod ...rm complex emotions. In one model, the complex emotions could arise from [[culture|cultural]] conditioning or association combined with the basic emotions. Al
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• Jealousy
  Popular [[culture]] uses the word jealousy as a synonym for envy. Many dictionary definitions Although popular culture often uses jealousy and envy as synonyms, modern [[philosophers]] and [[psy
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• Ethics
  ...'' "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of [[Value theory|value]]s and [[Custom (law)|custom]]s of a person or group. It covers the [ Another strand of meta-ethical theory, called 'realism', holds that moral value is somehow an intrinsic property
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• Shadow
  An unattended shadow or shade was [[thought]] by some [[culture]]s to be similar to that of a [[ghost]], a flicker of a life unable to end ...nd an object; like a [[halo]]. Early eastern [[belief]]s also play to this theory. For example, Vishnu (a prominent Hindu god) would appear to help followers
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• Hope
  ...ermeates everyday life and it is present in countless aspects of popular [[culture]] [[phenomenon]] such as jokes, fairy tales, fashion or images of death. In ...recently, psychologist Anthony Scioli (2006) has developed an integrative theory of hope that consists of four elements: attachment, mastery, survival, and
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• Cultural
  ...nd practices in which such objects and processes become embedded. For the, culture thus includes technology, art, science, as well as moral systems. ...social, and the normative, nor does it reflect three competing theories of culture.
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• Sanskrit
  ...n the grammar of Pāṇini, around the 4th century BCE. Its position in the [[culture]]s of South]] and Southeast Asia] is akin to that of [[Latin]] and Greek in ...west some time during the early second millennium BCE. Evidence for such a theory includes the close relationship of the Indo-Iranian tongues with the Baltic
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• 121:6 The Hebrew Religion
  ...he [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Judaism Greek wing of Jewish culture and theology]. And the [[writings]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S ...ce]] of the [[Thought Adjusters]] more clearly than did Paul. But Paul's [[theory]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin original sin], the doctrin
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