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• Social consciousness
  ==Theory== ...discontent and [[action]] is often over the right to be visible, to have [[choice]], or to be self-determining.
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• Political philosophy
  ...sarily belong to the technical [[discipline]] of [[philosophy]]. In short, political philosophy is the activity, as with all philosophy, whereby the [[conceptua ...ic_Voegelin Eric Voegelin] and Judith Shklar—encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and
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• Mathematical model
  ...ial science]]s (such as [[economics]], [[psychology]], [[sociology]] and [[political science]]); [[physics|physicist]]s, engineers, [[computer science|computer ...l systems]], [[statistical model]]s, [[differential equations]], or [[Game theory|game theoretic models]]. These and other types of models can overlap, with
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• Rational
  ...ctive - it exists only when a valid practical syllogism is used. Second, a choice is either rational or it is not - there is no gradation since there is no g ...y only demands logical consistency in choice making. See [[rational choice theory]].
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• Commitment
  ...[[choice]] of a course of action; hence, the state of being involved in [[political]] or [[spiritual]] questions, or in furthering a particular doctrine or cau ...importance, the personal commitments and presuppositions of this and the [[theory]] and [[practice]] of working it out in living.
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• Social movement
  ...[individual]]s and/or [[organization]]s [[focus]]ed on specific [[politics|political]] or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a ...highlights the relation between popular movements and the formation of new political parties as well as discussing the function of social movements in relation
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• Social
  ...reality and what (or how) we can know about it are the object of [[social theory]]. ...s used much more often by those on the political left than by those on the political right.
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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 [ ...-realist', such theories may see reality as important in shaping the human choice of ethical values. This could occur indirectly by, for example, the evoluti
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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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• Justice
  The law of ''[[retaliation]]'' (lex talionis) is a military theory of retributive justice, which says that reciprocity should be equal to the ...of possible answers to these questions from divergent perspectives on the political and philosophical [[spectrum]].
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• Analogy
  ...''target'', using all of these words in the sense of mathematical category theory. ...ion that appears to be more common in [[cognitive psychology]], [[literary theory]], and specializations within [[philosophy]] outside of [[logic]], speaks o
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• Power (sociology)
  ...ichel Foucault]] ([[1926]]-[[1984]]), who, following the [[Italy|Italian]] political philosopher [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] ([[1469]]-[[1527]]), sees power as "a ...Thus "power" in the sociological sense subsumes both physical power and [[political power]], including many of the types listed at power. In some ways it more
  27 KB (4,126 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Personal
  ...[[medicine]], [[ethics]], [[economic]] and [[Political science|political]] theory, [[human rights]], and [[animal rights]]. ...octrine and economic theory, both of which assume some level of individual choice and personal responsibility.
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• Empowerment
  '''Empowerment''' refers to increasing the [[spiritual]], [[political]], social or [[economic]] strength of [[individuals]] and [[communities]]. ...ch]] suggests that the opportunity to [[exercise]] [[personal]] discretion/choice (and complete meaningful work) is an important element contributing to empl
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• Social Sciences
  ...e his ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan]]'' was a scientific description of a political [[commonwealth]]. What would happen within decades of his work was a revolu ...d, seemingly, resisted mathematical study, and yet the [[Natural Selection|Theory of Natural Selection]] and the implied idea of [[Genetic inheritance]] - la
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• Letters I-VII, Mr. Jefferson Returns: American Mentor and Prophet
  I suggest to you that you will have to develop a totally new [[politics|political]] I have found from those among you the general systems science [[theory]] of
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• Wealth
  ...(especially in hostile biomes), ideas such as the inheritance of wealth, [[political]] positions, leadership, and ability to control group [[movement]]s (to per ...that we now call classical economics and Marxian economics (''see [[labor theory of value]]''). Marx distinguishes in the ''Grundrisse'' between material we
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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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• The Universal Schoolhouse
  our conditioning, which we take for [[free will]] and choice, just as we take the the problems with schools are organizational and [[political]] rather than
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• Identity
  ...le's evaluations of others. [https://www.tcw.utwente.nl/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20lusters/Interpersonal%20Communication%20and%20Relations/Social_Identity_T ...ective criteria. Both approaches need to be understood in their respective political and historical contexts, characterised by debate on issues of class, race a
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