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• Pejorative
  ...contempt]] or distaste. A term can be regarded as ''pejorative'' in some [[social]] or cultural groups but not in others, e.g., [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik ...ered to be inferior or lower in [[Social status|social class]], as a group label with a disparaging meaning. Also, an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_
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• Political correctness
  ...r economically disadvantaged groups. The term usually implies that these [[social]] [[considerations]] are excessive or of a purely "[[political]]" nature. T ...ity politics itself. "Political correctness" became a convenient rightwing label for both of these things it rejected.
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• Crime
  ...eign]] [[state]] may impose more [[formalized]] or stricter [[systems]] of social [[control]]. With institutional and legal [[machinery]] at their disposal, The label of "crime" and the accompanying social [[stigma]] normally confine their scope to those activities seen as injurio
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• Social
  ...ue, suggesting that it is a [[fuzzy concept]]. An added difficulty is that social attributes or relationships may not be directly observable and visible, and ...ly beyond what an individual can empirically observe in order to grasp the social domain in all its dimensions — connecting, for example, "private trou
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• Satire
  ...He was [[aware]] of and commented on Greek satire, but at the time did not label it as such, although today the [[origin]] of satire is considered to be [ht ...s usually meant to be funny, its greater [[purpose]] is often constructive social [[criticism]], using wit as a weapon.
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• Neoconservative
  The "neoconservative" label was used by Irving Kristol in his 1979 article "Confessions of a True, Self ...icize the politics of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democrats,_USA Social Democrats, USA], has since 1980 been used as a [[criticism]] against propon
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• Political philosophy
  ...ontract]'' and Carole Patemen in her book ''The Sexual Contract'' that the social contract excluded persons of colour and [[women]] respectively. ...gel". Within the (post-) structuralist line (though mostly not taking that label) are thinkers such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze Gilles
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• Sui Generis
  A similar case which has led to the use of the label ''sui generis'' is the unique relationship between France and New Caledonia ...reduced to [[psychology|psychological]] or [[biology|biological]] factors. Social facts have a meaning of their own, they are 'sui generis'.
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• Mana
  .../History_of_evolutionary_thought#1859.E2.80.931930s:_Darwin_and_his_legacy Social evolutionary theorists] of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries wor ...ed mana with a second Austronesian word, tabu (''[[taboo]]''), which would label the [[supernatural]]’s [[negative]] mode. Marett disputed [https://en.wik
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• Language
  ...e specific language variety that people acquire as children depends on the social [[context]] within which they are enculturated. ...nguage (psycholinguistics), language variation across [[space]] or between social [[groups]] (dialectology), and language variation through [[time]] (histori
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• Deep Politics
  ...ere are [[facts]] which tend to be suppressed collectively, because of the social and [[psychology|psychological]] costs of not doing so. Like all other obse Although valuable, Scott ultimately found the label of parapolitics too limiting;
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• Relationship
  *1853 WHEWELL [[Grotius]] I. 309 Social ties are to be extended more widely by diffusing our relationships. ...groups]] and [[society]] as a whole. Although [[humans]] are fundamentally social creatures, interpersonal relationships are not always healthy. Examples of
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• Identity
  '''Identity''' is a term used throughout the [[Social Sciences|social sciences]] to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a ...ior. The notion of ''identity negotiation'' may arise from the learning of social roles through personal [[experience]]. Identity negotiation is a process in
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• Theonomy
  ...'s theonomy has been most often used in Protestant circles to specifically label the ethical perspective of Christian Reconstructionism, a perspective that "...no thought of generating a label for a distinctive school of thought or "movement." (Indeed, it was the oppo
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• Intellectual
  ...life of the mind. Second, “intellectuals” as a recognizable occupational [[social class|class]] consisting of lecturers, professors, lawyers, doctors, scient ...ishment lay intelligentsia is one of the more significant phenomena of the social history of Germany in the 1830s', and that '... three or four theological g
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• 2008-12-21-Energy of Interconnected Movement
  social advancements, and spiritual expansion. Love is truly a complicated force, transformation process. Therefore, to label it good or bad is irrelevant, for it is
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• Fear
  ...[[group]] or social network. In this way, personal fears are compounded by social influence to become [[mass hysteria]]. ...most afraid of two things: the threat of pain or death, and the threat of social rejection or isolation.
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• Jealousy
  ...itled to himself or herself. People often use the word jealousy as a broad label that applies to both experiences of jealousy and experiences of envy.[22] ...e]] matter in the formation of these factors, the more jealousy can have a social and cultural [[origin]]. By contrast, Goldie (2000, p. 228) shows how jealo
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• 2014-02-02-N. Idaho TeaM
  ...ning and delighting in picking up on a theme worthy of exploration. I will label this theme, observing the collective consciousness and the synergistic ener ...on is created over and over in your lives with your work groups, with your social groups, with your music groups. It was noted how potent and powerful the co
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• 2009-02-23-Individual Assessments
  ...hen I had sat in the love and comfort of many friends. In that aspect this social scene has not changed much. There is still food and drink, conversation of ...th, that would be part of the energy and vibration of whatever you want to label it.
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