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• Social consciousness
  ==Theory== ...his individual avoids identifying himself or herself with a marginalized [[culture]]. This individual generally is either not aware of or does not acknowledge
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• Context
  * Context theory, theory of how environmental design and planning of new development should relate t * Low context culture
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• Assimilation
  ...ipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minority ethnic minorities] into the [[dominant]] [[culture]]. It is [[opposed]] to affirmative [[philosophy]] (for example, [https://e ==Constructivist Theory==
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• Raymond Guess
  ...The Idea of Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School; Morality, Culture, and History; Public Goods, Private Goods; and History and Illusion in Poli
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• Secondary Corpus
  *A broad subdivision of [[culture]], composed of many expressive disciplines. The theory and practice of [[politics]]; descriptive analyses of [[political system]]s
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• Archaeology
  ...ctivity, primarily through the recovery and [[analysis]] of the material [[culture]] and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes [[artif ...from studying human [[evolution]] to cultural evolution and understanding culture [[history]].
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• Value
  ...[[system]]. Values are considered subjective and vary across people and [[culture]]s. Types of values include ethical/moral values, doctrinal/[[ideology|ideo * [[Value theory]] -- in ethics, aesthetics and other evaluative matters
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• Fantasy
  In popular [[culture]], the genre of fantasy is dominated by its medievalist form, especially si ...ions ([[political]], historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture.
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• Ratio
  ...m which it developed would have been familiar to [[Orality|preliterate]] [[culture]]s. For example the idea of one village being twice as large as another or ...proportions that appears in Book VII of The Elements reflects the earlier theory of ratios of commensurables.[10]
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• Personality disorder
  ...xts]] and deviating markedly from those [[accepted]] by the individual's [[culture]]. These patterns develop early, are inflexible, and are associated with si ...rts]] on the basis of invariable [[subjectivity]]. They [[argue]] that the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on [[social]], or
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• Intellect
  ...ers: he is aloof from the world, and especially is a man of training and [[culture]] who cares little for the ordinary pleasures of sense.
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• 195:2 The Roman Influence
  195:2.1 The [[Romans]] bodily took over [[Greek]] [[culture]], putting [[representative]] [[government]] in the place of government by ...] as its [[moral]] [[philosophy]]. [[Christianity]] became the [[moral]] [[culture]] of [[Rome]] but hardly its [[religion]] in the sense of being the [[indiv
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• Groups
  *2. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an [[ *7. ([[sociology]]) A subset of a culture or of a society.
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• Sumer
  ...aid_period Ubaidians]", and are theorized to have evolved from the Samarra culture of northern Mesopotamia ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyria]). ...the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of a
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• Avant-garde
  ...re [[experiment]]al or innovative, particularly with respect to [[art]], [[culture]], and [[politics]]. ...h are manifested in the non-conformist lifestyles they adopted, vanguard [[culture]] being shown to be a variety or subcategory of Bohemianism.[5]
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• Cultural Formation
  ==Theory of developmental stages== ...w children reason and interact with their surroundings. [[James Marcia]]'s theory focuses on identity achievement and has four identity statuses. [[Maria Mon
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• Social movement
  ...n and [[relative]] economic independence prevalent in the modern Western [[culture]] is responsible for the unprecedented number and scope of various contempo ===Culture theory===
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• Spiritual Evolution
  ...[[spiritual]] [[idea]] that [[nature]] and [[human being]]s and/or human [[culture]] evolve along a predetermined [[cosmological]] pattern or ascent, or in ac ...ach independently incorporated the findings of [[science]] into a larger [[theory]] of spiritual evolution, and extended the [[traditional]] human, animal, v
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• Interval
  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory music theory], an '''interval''' is a combination of [[two]] [[notes]], or the [[ratio]] In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Western culture], the most common [[method]] to [[classify]] and name intervals is based on
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• Holism
  *1: a [[theory]] that the [[universe]] and especially living [[nature]] is correctly seen ...the sort of [[recognition]] of [[identity]] which is typical of our own [[culture]].
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• Commentary
  ...[purpose]] is to elucidate the [[language]] of the text and the specific [[culture]] that produced it, both of which may be foreign to the reader. Such a comm If a text is [[historical]], or is produced within a culture assumed to be of limited familiarity to a reader, a broader range of issues
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...iography, [[linguistics]], sociolinguistics, [[psychoanalysis]], political theory, feminism, and queer studies. His work still has a major influence in the a ...American [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_1980s_culture_wars 1980s culture wars], this would attract the [[anger]] of politically conservative and rig
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• Oral Tradition
  ...]]''. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of [[culture|cultural]] material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key ...is summarized from the overlapping prefaces to the following volumes: The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology, (Indiana University Press, 19
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• Commitment
  ...se of the entity, the environment in which commitment takes place, and the culture of the members of the entity; one can exhibit personal commitment to a corp ...importance, the personal commitments and presuppositions of this and the [[theory]] and [[practice]] of working it out in living.
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• Racism
  ...Republic, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (18th century US racial theory) * Feagin, Joe R. (2006). Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression, Routledge: New York, NY.
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• Secession
  ...ion should be considered only to [[rectify]] grave injustices (“Just Cause Theory”). Some theories do both. A list of justifications may be presented [[su * Preserving [[culture]], [[language]], etc. from assimilation or destruction by a larger or more
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• Animism
  ...871 [[book]] ''Primitive Culture'', in which he defined it as being "the [[theory]] of the [[universal]] animation of [[nature]]".
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• Integral Movement
  ...s given a further definition, being made synonymous with Wilber's [[AQAL]] theory [https://aqaljournal.integralinstitute.org/public/Pdf/AQAL_Glossary_01-27-0 ...n of [[consciousness]] has also become a central theme in much of integral theory [https://integral-review.org/current_issue/documents/Gidley,%20Evolution%20
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• Progress
  ...asing advance. The idea of eternal progress is in opposition to the cyclic theory of eternal return or eternal recurrence, which implies that with a [[finite ...reans]] with having had a potential for leading to the [[foundation]] of a theory of Progress through their [[materialistic]] acceptance of the atomism of De
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• Narrative
  Stories are an important aspect of [[culture]]. Many works of [[art]], and most works of [[literature]], tell stories; ...ancient origin, existing in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Chinese and Indian [[culture]]s. Stories are also a ubiquitous component of human [[communication]], us
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• Retribution
  '''Retributive''' [[justice]] is a [[theory]] of justice that considers that [[punishment]], if [[proportionate]], is a ...[presence]] in the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish Jewish] [[culture]] is shown by its inclusion in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah law
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• Dilmun
  ...from many different sources, including Landsat images from space. In this theory, the Bible’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gihon Gihon River] would corr superior [[culture]], embracing [[temples]], metalwork, [[agriculture]], animals, pottery, wea
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• Psychosomatic Medicine
  ...sis for psychosomatic medicine. Particularly, the umwelt concept and the [[theory]] of [[organism]] by Jakob von Uexküll has been found useful as an approac ...s term, which was largely due to the [[influence]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]] on psychiatric physicians and the inaccurate application by non-specialis
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• Satisfaction
  The [[origins]] of contentment in Jewish culture [[reflect]] an even older [[thinking]] reflected in the [[Book of Proverbs] ...g of human behavior. Dr. Raup made this the basis of his [[pedagogical]] [[theory]], which he later used in his severe criticisms of the American Education s
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• Hegemony
  Pertinent to the concept are the processes by which a dominant culture maintains its dominant position. Examples are: the use of institutions to ...rather than armed force. Such conceptions are sometimes referred to as "[[culture|cultural]] hegemony." It should be made clear that these 'subalterns of sta
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• Parent
  ...ts vary throughout the tree of life, and are especially complex in human [[culture]]. ...oposed by Robert Trivers in 1974 and extends the more general selfish gene theory and has been used to explain many observed [[biological]] [[phenomena]].[1]
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• Hermeneutics
  '''Hermeneutics''' is the study of [[interpretation]] theory. [[Tradition]]al hermeneutics - which includes [[Bible|Biblical]] hermeneut Philosophical hermeneutics refers primarily to [[Hans-Georg Gadamer]]'s theory of [[knowledge]] as developed in ''Truth and Method'', and sometimes to [[P
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• Human Evolution
  ...increasing sophistication. About 50,000 years ago, human technology and [[culture]] began to change more rapidly. ...arwin wrote on the subject. Nevertheless, the implications of evolutionary theory were clear to contemporary readers (On the Origin of Species, [https://darw
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• 19:6 Havona Natives
  ...dex.php?title=Paper_14#14:3._THE_HAVONA_WORLDS billion worlds of Havona] [[culture]] you will develop an eternal [[friendship]] for these superb beings. And h ...a will ever be entirely depleted of its natives. We have entertained the [[theory]] that Havoners will possibly cease entering the finaliter corps sometime d
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• Disease
  ...rganic]] causes and aspects of disease. [[Discoveries]] such as the [[germ theory]] of disease and the [[existence]] of entities such as [[virus]]es and [[ba ...und to vary in their prevalence depending on a diet common to a particular culture or region.
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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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• 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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• Culture
  ...nd practices in which such objects and processes become embedded. For the, culture thus includes technology, art, science, as well as moral systems. ...ture''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Culture this link].</center>
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• Philosophy
  ...story, possibly even causing its failure (See [[Battle of Lade]]). Another theory explains the birth of philosophical debate in Athens with the presence of a ...ical problems. Some central ideas of Plato's dialogues are the [[The Forms|Theory of Forms]], i.e., that the mind is imbued with an innate capacity to unders
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• 2016-03-21-New Era Conversations 65
  ...g else that was the original cause for the reinterpretation of needs. The theory of human motivation is very old, but there has been no accuracy as to what ...ific, social research that has been conducted to support this values-based theory of motivation. The proof of their validity is that they are self-evident,
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• Western Philosophy
  Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of [[Western culture|Western civilization]], beginning with [[Greek philosophy]] in [[ancient Gr ...Subdisciplines include [[meta-ethics]], [[value (ethics)|value theory]], [[theory of conduct]], and [[applied ethics]].
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• Identity
  ...ego identity, along with the proper integration into a stable society and culture, lead to a stronger sense of identity in general. Accordingly, a deficiency ...le's evaluations of others. [https://www.tcw.utwente.nl/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20lusters/Interpersonal%20Communication%20and%20Relations/Social_Identity_T
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• Social Status
  The German sociologist [[Max Weber]] developed a theory proposing that stratification is based on three factors that have become kn ==Pierre Bourdieu's theory on class distinction==
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• Orality
  ==The impact of literacy on culture== ...McLuhan’s term) the use of these technologies in their daily lives. As a culture interiorizes the technologies of literacy, the ‘oral residue’ diminishe
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• Courage
  ...d in his 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" a "Northern 'theory of courage'"—the heroic or "virtuous pagan" insistence to do the right th ...nd a potent and terrible solution in naked will and courage. 'As a working theory absolutely impregnable.' So potent is it, that while the older southern ima
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• Philistine
  ...in mainland [[Greece]]. Though the Philistines adopted local [[Canaan]]ite culture and language before leaving any written texts, an [[Indo-European languages ...repulsed by [[Ramesses III]], he finally resettled them, according to the theory, to rebuild the coastal towns in Canaan.
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• 92:3 The Nature of Evolutionary Religion
  ...ps://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Jude] must, in [[theory]], be both final and infallible. The [[cult]] resists [[development]] becau ...th-while [[civilization]]. [[Religion]] en[[mother]]ed much nonreligious [[culture]]: [[Sculpture]] originated in [[idol]] making, [[architecture]] in [[templ
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• Synchronicity
  ...tical of confirmation bias, lent his scientific credibility to support the theory, coauthoring a paper with Jung on the subject. Some of the evidence that Pa ==In popular culture==
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• Pedagogy
  ...[[English]]-speaking world the term pedagogy refers to the [[science]] or theory of educating.[5] The late Malcolm Knowles reasoned that the term andragogy ...dagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, Culture'']
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• Discourse
  ...ilosopher [[Michel Foucault]] (1926-1984) and [[Jürgen Habermas]]' ''[[The Theory of Communicative Action]]'' (''Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns''). Each ...to developmental psychology by [[Erica Burman]] and in relation to social theory and psychoanalysis by [[Ian Parker (psychologist)]], and a critical researc
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• Secularism
  ...n_Society_and_Culture Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture] breaks modern secularism into two types: hard and soft secularism. Accordi ...Keysar. Hartford, CT: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC), 2007.
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• Empire
  ...ethnically distinct from the imperial (ruling) ethnic [[group]] and its [[culture]] [3] — unlike a federation, an extensive State voluntarily composed of a ...(1996) ([dead link] – Scholar search), The Decline and Fall of Empires: A Theory of De-Development, Honolulu, retrieved on 2008-01-06 Written for the United
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• Semiotics
  ...s (see syntax and semantics). Codes also represent the [[values]] of the [[culture]], and are able to add new shades of connotation to every aspect of life. ...while semiotics is closer to some of the humanities (including [[literary theory]]) and to cultural [[anthropology]].
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...ture, while practical reason deals with the moral actions of a society and culture, with these two realms being governed by the concepts of nature and freedom ...dead inherently empty concept, and the full concreteness of life, between theory or subjective thinking, and objective existence and experience.’
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• History
  ...trends. Traditionally, history has been studied with some practical or [[theory|theoretical]] aim, but now it is also studied simply out of intellectual cu ...n.Btitle=Unwrapping+the+Sacred+Bundle][https://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/theory/yanasegal.pdf Introduction available online]. Reviewed by [https://www.anth
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• Art History
  ...ich'', p. 7. London: Phaidon Press</ref> Works of art criticism and of art theory frequently have been the pivots upon which the understanding of art history ...comparable style, or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and ''[[art theory]]'', which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art, and is more rel
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• Sensitivity
  ...trast Aron's approach with Dabrowski's concept of over-excitability in his theory of Positive Disintegration. ...uring a difficult discrimination task known to be affected by culture, but culture had no impact on the activated areas for highly sensitive subjects, as if t
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ...hics and philosophical anthropology, and the reasons for relating literary theory to ethics and philosophical anthropology. Construing Schelling as an ideali ...sm. Bakhtin’s ‘ethics of answerability’ together with his work on literary theory can be understood as a solution to problems posed by Schelling’s philosop
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• Power (sociology)
  Even in [[structuralism|structuralist]] social theory, power appears as a ''process'', an aspect to an ongoing social relationshi ...ssociated with [[Alfred Adler]], place power dynamics at the core of their theory (where orthodox [[Freudian]]s might place [[human sexuality|sexuality]]).
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• Dream
  ...f dreams as unconscious wishes to be interpreted. The activation synthesis theory asserts that the sensory experiences are fabricated by the cortex as a mean ...s a function of many complex brain structures as validating Freudian dream theory, an idea that drew criticism from Hobson.(The Mind at Night: The New Scienc
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• Real Presences
  mirrors which is that of modernist theory and practice’ (141)3 have tantalising resonances with our us’. (39) (For Steiner, ‘culture’ is ‘literature, art and music’ - an irritating pair of blinkers whic
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• Reality
  ...re they come from. The Galilean proposition in support of the Copernican [[theory]], that the sun is the center of the solar system is one that states the fa In ethics, [[Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought|political theory]], and the [[The Arts|arts]], reality is often contrasted with what is "[[i
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• Exponential
  ** The number of microorganisms in a culture broth will grow exponentially until an essential nutrient is exhausted. Typ ** In [[computational complexity theory]], computer algorithms of exponential complexity require an exponentially i
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• Collective Intelligence
  ...tive intelligence can be attributed to media convergence and participatory culture.[1] Collective intelligence is not merely a quantitative contribution of in Tom Atlee and George Pór, on the other hand, feel that while group theory and artificial intelligence have something to offer, the field of collectiv
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• Self Realization
  ...or the sum virtue with regard to one's relations with others. Aristotle's theory of virtue helped define the excellent man as one who excelled in leading a ...elf-actualization, as high-order needs, are internally satisfied. Maslow's theory was a psychology of the whole person.
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• Other
  ...an notion of the Other, for use in her description of [[male]]-dominated [[culture]]. According to her, it treats woman as the Other in relation to man. The O * Derrida, Jacques (1973). Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs. Trans. David B. Allison. Evanston: Ill.: Northwestern University
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• Peace
  ...her groups take a wide variety of stances, many maintaining a [[Just War]] theory. Proponents of the [[democratic peace theory]] argue that strong empirical evidence exists that [[democracies]] never or
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