Ethics (from Greek ethikos) is the branch of axiology – one of the four major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics, epistemology, and logic – which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to define that which is right from that which is wrong. The Western tradition of ethics is sometimes called moral philosophy. Ethics - The first social science. Assumptions about ethical underpinnings of human behaviour are reflected in every social science, including: anthropology because ...

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A duel or duel of honour is a formalised type of armed combat in which two individuals participate. Duels represent a contrived combat situation designed to maximise fairness of combat. They usually develop out of a desire for one party (the challenger) to redress an insult to his honour. Typically, duels have been fought between members of the same social class; they are regarded as especially noteworthy when those partaking are of the upper class but occur at all social strata. In the modern United States, duels occur rarely ...

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Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas) is belief or doctrine held by a religion or any kind of organization to be authoritative and not to be disputed or doubted. Dogma - Dogma faith and logic. There are some conceptual similarities between dogma and the axioms used as the starting point for logical analysis. Axioms may be thought of as concepts or "givens" so fundamental that disputing them would be unimaginable; dogmata are also fundamental (e.g. "God exists") y ...

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Stuttering (known as stammering in parts of the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the normal flow of speech is frequently disrupted by repetitions (sounds, syllables, words or phrases), pauses and prolongations that differ both in frequency and severity from those of normally fluent individuals. The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to b ...

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• Stuttering - Childhood development
• Stuttering - Neurophysiology
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• Stuttering - Onset and development
• Stuttering - Characteristics
• Stuttering - Fluency
• Stuttering - Blocking
• Stuttering - Avoidance behavior
• Stuttering - Severity
• Stuttering - Treatments
• Stuttering - Behavioral and cognitive therapy
• Stuttering - Medication
• Stuttering - Electronic fluency aids
• Stuttering - Stuttering and society
• Stuttering - Stuttering in Music
• Stuttering - Resources
• Stuttering - Notes
• Stuttering - References
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A totem is any natural or supernatural object, being or animal which has personal symbolic meaning to an individual and to whose phenomena and energy one feels closely associated with during one's life. A simplified dramatic example of this belief in practice is in the Walt Disney Pictures animated film, Brother Bear. In the film, a boy from a proto-Inuit tribe receives a totem of the B ...

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The armed forces of a state are its government sponsored defense and fighting forces and organizations. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body. In some countries paramilitary forces are included in a nations armed forces. Armed force is the use of armed forces to achieve political objectives. The study of the use of Armed Forces is called military science. Broadly speaking, this involves considering offense and defense at three "levels": strategy, operational art, and tactics. All ...

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Atomism is the belief that society should be viewed in terms of the individual's importance and that society is artificially constructed. Other related archivessociety

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Events Cairo Conference Vietnam War Protests Afghanistan War Protests Iraq War Protests Organizations ANSWER Coalition Anti-War Coalition Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Not in Our Name Stop the War Coalition United for Peace and Justice Veterans for Peace Vietnam Veterans Against the War Other anti-war organizations Media/propaganda Books Films Peace symbol Protest song Chants and slog ...

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Antipositivism is the view in sociology that social sciences need to create and use different scientific methods than those used in the field of natural sciences. Antipositivism - Evolution of the concept. Antipositivism evolved in the 19th century, when sociological positivism and sociological naturalism begun to be questioned by scientists like Wilhelm Dilthey and Heinrich Rickert, who argued that the world of nature is not the same as the world of society, as human societies have unique aspects like mean ...

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Anti-intellectualism is a term that in one sense describes a hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits. This may be expressed in various ways, such as an attack on the merits of science, education, or literature. Anti-intellectuals often seek to frame themselves as champions of the self-styled 'ordinary people', and as advocates of egalitarianism against elitism, especially what they perceive as academic elitism. These critics argue from a perception that educated people form a social class by v ...

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• Anti-intellectualism - 19th Century culture
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• Anti-intellectualism - In American political discourse
• Anti-intellectualism - Anti-intellectualism in the former Soviet Union
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• Anti-intellectualism - Anti-intellectualism in the classical world
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Johan August Strindberg ▶ (help·info) (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright and painter. He is ranked among Sweden's most important authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater. His work falls into two major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism. Born in Stockholm, Strindberg was the third son of Carl Oscar Strindberg, a shipping agent from a bourgeois family, and Ulrika Eleonora (Nora) ...

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3. Zmaj ("the third dragon", a pun based on the name of the largest Croatian shipyard, "3. Maj") is a science fiction society from Rijeka, Croatia. It was founded in 2005 after the older Rijeka SF society, Aurora, ceased to exist. Other related archives3. Maj, Croatia, Rijeka, science fiction, society

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Social welfare may refer to: The overall welfare or well-being of a society. In economics, the utility of people considered in aggregate. (See Welfare economics and social welfare function.) The provision of a wide range of social services, for the benefit of individual citizens. This usage is closely related to the idea of the welfare state. In the United States, "welfare" is sometimes a synonym for the provision of financial aid through Social Security. Social ...

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The English Bill of Rights of 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full title An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown and known colloquially in the UK as the "Bill of Rights." It is one of the basic documents of English constitutional law, alongside Magna Carta, the Act of Settlement and the Parliament Acts. A separate but ...

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This article describes the beliefs and the faith of the new religious movement the Family formerly called the Children of God, that was founded by the American David Berg in 1968, and is as of 2005 led by Karen Zerby. The Children of God were part of the Jesus Movement of late the 1960s. Theologians have placed the Family's basic theology within the historical Christian tradition, along with some unorthodox beliefs. The Family International states they believe that the Bible to be the inspired Word of God and sacr ...

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Jean Baudrillard (born July 29, 1929) is a cultural theorist and philosopher. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism. Jean Baudrillard - Life. He was born in Reims, France. He studied German at the Sorbonne University in Paris and taught German in a lycée (1958-1966). He worked as a translator and critic and continued to study philosophy and sociology. In 1966 he completed his Ph.D. thesis: 'Thèse de troisième cycle: Le Système des objets' ('Third cycle thesis: The s ...

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• Jean Baudrillard - Baudrillard's Object Value System
• Jean Baudrillard - End of history and meaning
• Jean Baudrillard - Critiques of Baudrillard
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A Band Society is the simplest form of human society. A band generally consists of a small kin group, no larger than an extended family or clan. Bands have very informal leadership; the older members of the band generally are looked to for guidance and advice, but there are no laws and none of the coercion seen in more complex societies. Bands' customs are almost always transmitted orally. Formal social institutions are few or non-existent. Religion is generally based on family tradition, individual experience, or counsel from a shaman. All known band societies hunt ...

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Anonymity is derived from the greek word ανωνυμία, meaning without a name or name-less. In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the personal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known. More strictly, and in reference to an arbitrary element (e.g. a human, an object, a computer), within a well-defined set (called the "anonymity set"), "anonymity" of that element refers to the property of that element of not being identifiable within this set. If it is not identifia ...

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This is a List of Ancient Rome-related topics, that aims to include aspects of both the Ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire. For an overview of the subject, see Ancient Rome. For other articles not listed below, see Category:Ancient Rome and its subcategories. An index of important figures in Ancient Rome can be found in List of ancient Romans. The topics in this list cover the culture, society and history of the ancient Roman Republic and the ...

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Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University In the Integral theory of Ken Wilber, AQAL stands for "All quadrants, all levels", and equally connotes "all lines, all states, all types". An account or theory is said to be AQAL, and thus integral (inclusive or comprehensive), if it accounts for or makes reference to all four quadrants and four major levels in Wilber's ontological scheme, described below. AQAL - QuadrantsIncluding:

• AQAL - Quadrants
• AQAL - Eight indigenous perspectives
• AQAL - Lines streams or intelligences
• AQAL - Levels or stages
• AQAL - States
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The actus reus — sometimes called the external elements of a crime — is the Latin term for the "guilty act" which, when proved beyond a reasonable doubt in combination with the mens rea, i.e. the "guilty mind", produces criminal liability in common law-based criminal law jurisdictions such as the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Actus reus - Concepts. The terms actus reus and mens rea are derived from the principle stated by Edward Coke, namely ...

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The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (of Greek origin) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g., agoraphobia) and in biology to descibe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g., acidophobia). In common usage they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject. Many people apply the suffix "-phobia" inappropriately to mild or irrational fears with no serious substance; however, earl ...

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