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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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