Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia - Politics
Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antonio Gramsci: Encyclopedia - Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician, leader and theorist of Socialism, Communism and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Culture Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Culture Studies - Contemporary Popular Culture Studies
If we forget precursors such as Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes for a moment, popular culture studies as we know them today were developed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Theories Of Power
The thought of Friedrich Nietzsche underlies much 20th century analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated ideas on the "will to power," wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Biological Analogies
In much the same way that the selfish gene concept offers a fruitful way of understanding and reasoning about aspects of biological evolu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Theories Of Power
The thought of Friedrich Nietzsche underlies much 20th century analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated ideas on the "will to power," wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Biological Analogies
In much the same way that the selfish gene concept offers a fruitful way of understanding and reasoning about aspects of biological evolu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - Political Power
Many questions surround the political notion of power with both positive and negative aspects attached to it. Generally, power is conside...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - The Analysis Of Ideology
Meta-ideology is the study of the structure, form, and manifestation of ideologies. Meta-ideology posits that ideology is a coherant syst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - The Analysis Of Ideology
Meta-ideology is the study of the structure, form, and manifestation of ideologies. Meta-ideology posits that ideology is a coherent syst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Political Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Political Power - Political Science Perspectives
Within normative political analysis, there are also various levels of power as described by academics that add depth into the understandi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - Political Power
Many questions surround the political notion of power with both positive and negative aspects attached to it. Generally, power is conside...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Geographic Distribution
English is the second or third most widely spoken language in the world today. A total of 600–700 million people use the various dialec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antonio Gramsci: Encyclopedia Ii - Antonio Gramsci - Thought
Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks of history and analysis during his imprisonment. These writings, known as the Prison Notebooks, cont...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - History Of The Concept Of Ideology
Perhaps the most accessible source for the original meaning of "ideology" is Hippolyte Taine's work on the Ancien Regime (first volume of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - Ideology In Everyday Society
In public discussions, some ideas seem to arise more commonly than others. Indeed, often completely separate people may be found to think...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - Political Ideologies
In social studies, a political ideology is a certain ethical, set of ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - Ideology In Everyday Society
In public discussions, some ideas seem to arise more commonly than others. Indeed, often completely separate people may be found to think...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Classification And Related Languages
The English language belongs to the western subbranch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Apart from English...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - Early History
V.G. Childe describes the transformation of human society that took place around 6000 BCE as an urban revolution. Among the features of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - Authority And Legitimacy
Max Weber identified three sources of legitimacy for authority known as (tripartite classification of authority). He proposed three reaso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - Authority And Legitimacy
Max Weber identified three sources of legitimacy for authority known as (tripartite classification of authority). He proposed three reaso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Introduction And Definitions
Though memeticists do not generally agree on a specific definition, one can roughly define 'meme' as any piece of information transferabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Memetics
Memetics, the study of memes, remains a controversial field among many scientists and skeptics. Memetics originated when Richard Dawkins ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Analysis And Operation Of Power
Power manifests itself in a relational manner: one cannot meaningfully say that a particular social actor "has power" without also specif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - A Natural State
In 1651, Thomas Hobbes published his most famous work, Leviathan, in which he proposed a model of early human development to justify the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Grammar
English grammar displays minimal inflection compared with some other Indo-European languages. For example, Modern English, unlike Modern ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Examples
Crudely-stated versions of some common memes include: Technology: cars, paper-clips, etc. Technology clearly demonstrates mutation as we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Forms Taken By Memes In The Brain
In 1981 biologists Charles J. Lumsden and Edward Osborne Wilson published a theory of gene-culture coevolution in the book Genes, Mind, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Memetic Evolution
Memetic evolution, like genetic evolution, cannot happen without mutation. Mutation produces the essential variations, whereupon those va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Memetic Engineering
Memetic engineering consists of the process of developing memes, through meme-splicing and memetic synthesis, with the intent of altering...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - Early History
V.G. Childe describes the transformation of human society that took place around 6000 BCE as an urban revolution. Among the features of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Politics - A Natural State
In 1651, Thomas Hobbes published his most famous work, Leviathan, in which he proposed a model of early human development to justify the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antonio Gramsci: Encyclopedia Ii - Antonio Gramsci - Life
Gramsci was born in Ales, Italy, on the island of Sardinia, a relatively remote region of Italy that was mostly ignored by the Italian go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Memetic Engineering
Memetic engineering consists of the process of developing memes, through meme-splicing and memetic synthesis, with the intent of altering...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Memetic Evolution
Memetic evolution, like genetic evolution, cannot happen without mutation. Mutation produces the essential variations, whereupon those va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Vocabulary
Almost without exception, Germanic words (which include all the basics such as pronouns and conjunctions) are shorter and more informal. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Memetics
Memetics, the study of memes, remains a controversial field among many scientists and skeptics. Memetics originated when Richard Dawkins ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Ideas Have A Life Of Their Own
The old saying "Ideas have a life of their own" clearly encapsulates the "meme about memes". Keith Henson has traced this quote back to 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - Political Ideologies
In social studies, a political ideology is a certain ethical, set of ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Basic Introduction
Though memeticists do not generally agree on a specific definition, one can roughly define 'meme' as any piece of information transferabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - History Of The Concept Of The Meme
The concept of the meme has a long history. Plato used the term eidos to speak of the immutable and eternal nature of an existing thing. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Forms Taken By Memes In The Brain
In 1981 biologists Charles J. Lumsden and Edward Osborne Wilson published a theory of gene-culture coevolution in the book Genes, Mind, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meme: Encyclopedia Ii - Meme - Examples Of Memes
Crudely-stated versions of some common memes include: Technology: cars, paper-clips, etc. Technology clearly demonstrates mutation as we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Power Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Power Sociology - Analysis And Operation Of Power
Power manifests itself in a relational manner: one cannot meaningfully say that a particular social actor "has power" without also specif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ideology - History Of The Concept Of Ideology
Perhaps the most accessible source for the original meaning of "ideology" is Hippolyte Taine's work on the Ancien Regime (first volume of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Writing System
English is written using the Latin alphabet. The spelling system or orthography of English is historical, not phonological. The spelling ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Culture Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Culture Studies - Recurring Issues In Popular Culture Studies
Popular culture studies - The interactions between popular and legitimized culture. The blurring of the boundaries between high and low...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Sounds
English language - Vowels. Notes: It is the vowels that differ most from region to region. Where symbols appear in pairs, the first cor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Intonation
English language - Tone groups. English is an Intonation language. This means that the pitch of the voice is used syntactically, for ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Culture Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Culture Studies - Traditional Theories Of Popular Culture
Popular culture studies - The theory of mass society. Mass society formed itself during the 19th-century industrialization process thro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - History
English originated from the Old Saxon language and related dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwe...   » Read the article