Search results for "Sociology of knowledge" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... family. In keeping with the customs of the time, he spent terms at ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...
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  • Category:Sociology |American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social movements ...
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  • Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...
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  • Edmund Husserl introduced the concept of the life-world in his Crisis ... is, the correlation between the functions of mind ("noesis") such ...
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  • Category:Sociology charm, a "magnetic" quality of personality and/or appearance ...
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  • was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... 1919, after the war, the Marxist governments of Bavaria and Saxony employed ...
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  • 1858 - November 15, 1917) is known as one of the originators of modern sociology ... foundation for research on the structure of human society. ...
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  • employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...
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  • ) designates a cluster of concepts such as assumptions, values, practices ... Paradigm shift|Sociology of knowledge|Systemics|Commensurability ...
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  • developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... Manfred S. Frings. Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge ...
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  • Category:Sociology Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring ...
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  • and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...
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  • American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...
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  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...
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  • and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...
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  • but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...
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  • Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...
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  • as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...
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  • by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ...
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  • Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of three men ...
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  • total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...
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  • day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... a sociology of economics; and a sociology of knowledge. The work is based ...
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  • Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...
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  • Category:Sociology eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ...
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  • tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right ... A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ...
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  • Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...
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  • Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...
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  • Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...
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  • The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...
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  • for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...
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  • article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...
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  • that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...
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  • The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...
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  • method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...
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  • during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...
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  • theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy of ... on world religions, tackling the problem of how one can acknowledge their ...
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  • political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free ... 1899 in Vienna, Austria to a Catholic family of prominent intellectuals. He ...
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  • 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Law Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ...
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  • was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American studies. He ... in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta ...
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  • Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers ... on humans. Aging represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over ...
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  • Category:Sociology [[Image:Pyramid of Capitalist System.png|thumb|right|250px|An Industrial ...
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  • Gustav von Schmoller (June 24, 1838 – June 27, 1917) was the leader ... and mathematical approaches to economics of Classical and Neoclassical ...
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  • and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...
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  • Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ...
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  • to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ... The charge of scientism often is used as a counter-argument to appeals ...
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