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| Analogy: | show 🗑
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| Archetypes: | show 🗑
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| show | originating in the place where found; native to the place inhabited; indigenous, aboriginal
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| show | network of processes which through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate the network that produced them. non-equilibrium systems that are continually self-creating where every process continues to help maintain the whole
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| show | philosophy founded in India during the fifth century B.C.E. by Siddhartha Gautama. It stresses the transcendence of self and of desire.
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| Capitalism: | show 🗑
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| Carbon footprint: | show 🗑
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| Coalition: | show 🗑
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| show | process involving settlement by which 1 society of people systematically destroys another & maintains continuing systems to exploit, control and oppress individuals of targeted society.
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| show | the process of turning people into things, or commodities, for sale; an example is the commodification of women’s bodies through advertising and media representations.
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| show | resources which all members of a community have rights or access to
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| Comparable worth: | show 🗑
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| Confucianism: | show 🗑
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| Compulsory heterosexuality: | show 🗑
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| show | legal entity distinct from that of its members requiring special legal framework & body of law that specifically grants it legal personality, typically views it as fictional person, legal person, or moral person (as opposed to a natural person)
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| Cosmology: | show 🗑
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| show | the ability to create; stage when imagination is encouraged to soar in a search for totally new and innovative ideas
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| show | the process of turning people’s circumstances or behaviors into a crime, such as the criminalization of homeless people
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| Cultural appropriation: | show 🗑
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| Cultural relativism: | show 🗑
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| Culture: | show 🗑
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| Deduction: | show 🗑
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| Deism: | show 🗑
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| Determinism: | show 🗑
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| show | movement back and forth between an idea and something that idea isn’t. This may involve thinking about an idea in terms of another idea or comparing and contrasting two or more ideas.
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| show | use of language as it is embedded in social practice. A site of power in that it constitutes both the sphere of knowledge and the community perceived to be in possession of it.
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| Discrimination: | show 🗑
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| show | depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, verifiable by experience, practical, firsthand, pragmatic.
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| show | position that we can be certain of knowledge acquired by testing ideas against the evidence of the ‘five’ senses. A view of reality composed of discrete, irreducible units. The parts are more real than the whole.
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| show | 18th intellectual movement which advocated reason as primary basis of authority with consequent political changes including nation-creation & decline of influence of nobility and church. encouraged individualism, reason and freedom.
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| show | tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity; inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society
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| Environmental racism: | show 🗑
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| show | study of knowing. Epistemologists want to know what we mean when we say we know something.
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| show | view that things&people have some inherent essence, or characteristic & quality, that defines them. Claims that is a Truth or an essence to everything and ‘scientists’ aspire to find it.
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| Ethnocentricity: | show 🗑
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| Eugenics: | show 🗑
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| show | philosophy espoused by Kierkeaard, Heidegger, and Sartre stressing responsibility of the individual for giving meaning to reality.
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| show | philosophies, theories and political movements that expose and resist systematic exclusion of women, women’s ideas and women’s interests from male-dominated thinking and society.
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| show | women and children constitute the vast majority of poor people in the world as a result of structural inequalities and discriminatory policies.
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| Feudalism: | show 🗑
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| Framing: | show 🗑
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| show | an ideological term used to describe a capitalist economic system with an emphasis on transnational trade and freedom from government regulation. In reality, this system has both government regulation of and support for businesses.
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| show | theory that living organisms and inorganic material are part of a dynamic system that shape Earth's biosphere in a "super organismic system". earth is a self-regulating environment; a single, unified, cooperating and living system
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| show | adopting clothing, body language, or behavior that challenges and undermines conventional gender norms and expectations
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| Genealogy: | show 🗑
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| show | a term used to describe the connections among people, institutions and issues as viewed from a worldwide perspective
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| Hegemony: | show 🗑
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| Hermeneutics: | show 🗑
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| show | attitudes, actions, and institutional practices that subordinate people on the basis of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender orientation and identification
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| Holotrope: | show 🗑
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| Humanism: | show 🗑
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| Hypocognition: | show 🗑
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| Imperialism: | show 🗑
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| Idealism: | show 🗑
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| Identity politics: | show 🗑
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| show | a system of beliefs, ideas, and attitudes that represent the interests of a particular group of people and reinforce their values
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| Individualism: | show 🗑
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| Inertia: | show 🗑
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| Institutions of society (social institutions): | show 🗑
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| show | attitudes and behaviors of some oppressed people that reflect the negative, harmful, stereotypical beliefs of the dominant group directed at them.
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| show | a division of work between rich and poor countries under which low-waged workers in the global South do assembly, manufacturing, and office work on contract to companies based in the global North
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| Intersectionality: | show 🗑
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| show | in Indian philosophy, the principle of action that determines what will happen to you in the future.
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| show | acquaintance/familiarity gained by sight, experience, or report; fact or state of knowing; perception of fact/truth; clear/certain mental apprehension; awareness; something that is/may be known; body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time
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| Knowledge system: | show 🗑
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| show | belief in social freedom and tolerance. Liberals are criticized by radicals because their “live-and-let-live” attitude doesn’t help bring about change.
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| Magic: | show 🗑
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| show | the situation in which a person has a deep connection to more than one culture, community, or social group but is not completely able to identify with or be accepted by any group as an insider
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| Marginalization: | show 🗑
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| Marxism: | show 🗑
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| Materialism: | show 🗑
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| show | interconnections among various forms of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexuality, ableness, nation, ect. Can be sources of disadvantage as well as privilege. Neg- ascriptions & experiences may be the source of people’s resistance 2 oppression.
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| show | the process of turning life (and other) processes into medical issues, with the consequence of perceiving them as illness to be treated by medical professionals with formal educational qualifications and accreditation
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| Metaphysics: | show 🗑
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| show | a term used to describe the connections among people and issues as seen from a personal or individual perspective
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| show | a system and worldview based on the objectification of ‘others’ as enemies; a culture that prepares for, invests in, and celebrates war and killing. This worldview operates through specific political, economic, and military institutions and actions.
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| Military/industrial/congressional complex: | show 🗑
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| Misogyny: | show 🗑
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| show | movements n science, philosophy & social organizations considered new/recent (beginning from somewhere between the 4th and 18th centuries) & breaking from pre-modern forms of society assumed to be based on mythological/metaphysical sets of beliefs.
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| show | It is a means by which a society or culture links together the events, people and ideas from its past so as to conceive of itself as breaking from that past and progressing towards a nominally more rational and just future.
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| Neo-liberalism: | show 🗑
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| show | a relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country
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| Objectification: | show 🗑
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| Objectivity: | show 🗑
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| Offshore production: | show 🗑
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| Ontology: | show 🗑
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| Oppression: | show 🗑
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| show | Everyone in an oppression-based society is socialized to participate in oppressive practices, either as direct and indirect perpetrators or passive beneficiaries.
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| show | a ‘not me’ that is produced by discursive practices of the ‘me’. Process of identifying people as different from the norm in order to reassure yourself that you are normal.
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| Orientalism: | show 🗑
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| show | drastic change in the way the human race lives and thinks as a result of an important new discovery or development.
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| Paradox: | show 🗑
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| show | process, strategies and style of teaching / instructing
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| Perfomativity: | show 🗑
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| show | Rather one’s identity, in this absence of any natural order, is constructed and based on enactment following culturally derived patterns of behavior.
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| show | a term often used to describe individuals and populations that are oppressed based on a dark hue to their skin
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| show | philosophy founded by Edmund Husserl that says that “intentionality”, or attitude, always goes along with consciousness
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| show | belief that the world is made up of lots of separate, independent things
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| show | theories about cultural legacy of colonial rule. about cultural identity n colonized societies:dilemmas of developing national id post colonial rule; ways writers articulate/celebrate id(reclaiming from & maintaining strong connections with colonizer)
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| Postmodernism: | show 🗑
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| show | tends 2 refer 2 cultural, int., or artistic state lacking clear central hierarchy/organizing principle & embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, and interconnectedness or interreferentiality.
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| show | Intellectual movement is closely related to postmodernism, but 2 concepts not synonymous. Post-struct. = difficult 2 define or summarize, can be broadly understood as body of distinct reactions to structuralism.
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| show | a rejection of metaphysics; a position that holds that the goal of knowledge is simply to describe the phenomena that we experience that we can observe and measure. Knowledge of anything beyond that, a positivist would hold, is impossible.
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| show | philosophy founded by C. S. Peirce and William James that says the meaning of anything depends on its practical effects
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| show | of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
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| show | a closed-minded prejudging of a person or group as negative or inferior, even without personal knowledge of that person or group, and often contrary to reason or facts; unreasonable, unfair, and hostile attitudes toward people
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| show | the interweaving of state and corporate interests that warehouses (incarcerates) increasing numbers of ‘surplus bodies’ whose labor creates profits for the prison owners / operators
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| Privilege: | show 🗑
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| show | racial prejudice and discrimination that are supported by institutional power and authority; the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance.
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| show | belief that universals, or idea about reality, exist in reality outside the mind
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| show | egree of interconnectedness of the various elements of a complex system. The more recursive the system, the more unpredictable it becomes.
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| show | idea that notions of truth and falsehood, or good and bad, are not universally true, but may be different in different societies. In other words, good and bad may be understood relative to the way society works.
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| show | knowledge; systems of knowledge congruent and co-developed with other aspects of a group’s culture; methodologies and methods by which knowledge is acquired
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| show | Baudrillard argues that the postmodern age is characterized by a proliferation of simulations, reproductions and images.
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| show | knowledge and ways of knowing that are specific to a particular historical and cultural context and life experiences
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| show | the view that concepts that appear to be immutable and often solely biological are defined by human beings and can vary, depending on cultural and historical contexts.
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| show | attitudes, behaviors and mechanisms that keep people in their place. Overt social controls include laws, fines, imprisonment, and violence. Subtle ones include ostracism and withdrawal of status, affection, and respect.
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| show | an economic system purporting that work should be organized for the collective benefits of workers rather than the profit of managers and corporate owners, and that the state should prioritize human needs
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| show | governmental institutions, authority, and control. This includes the machinery of electoral politics, lawmaking, government agencies that execute law and policy, law enforcement agencies, the prison system, and the military.
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| show | a form of understanding in which knowledge and meaning are grounded in people’s lived experiences; also being the subject rather than an object of theorizing. The idea that knowledge stems from personal characteristics and situations.
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| show | 1. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; “the statement ‘he is brave or he is not brave’ is a tautology”; 2. useless repetition; “to say that something is ‘adequate enough’ is a tautology
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