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Published: 10 November 2021
... divine and human) in Jeremiah, with special attention to trauma theory as a hermeneutical lens for thinking about the “wounding of the mind” wrought by the experience of exile. Further Reading Alexander, J. C.   2012 . Trauma: A Social Theory. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press...
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Published: 21 June 2022
...This chapter explores Du Bois’s thinking on agency and how it fits into the larger landscape of social theory regarding action and practice. Covering his early work at the turn of the twentieth century through his later work on Black Reconstruction and other writings, the chapter...
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Published: 16 August 2023
...This chapter highlights the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois to the animating assumptions and analytic focus of both Whiteness studies and critical race theory. As interdisciplinary approaches, both fields draw liberally from Du Bois’s vast analyses of the “race” concept but cohere around six...
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Published: 19 December 2022
... Achim business knowledge social competence human capital experience motivation McClelland David C France Likert scale performance artists Central Europe management marketing quality of life sustainability cultural entrepreneurship cultural management theory cultural work...
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Published: 21 March 2024
... theories: the declaratory theory of law, formalism, and positivism. The chapter traces the roots of simple legalism following a comparative approach across disciplines (empirical and doctrinal), within legal scholarship, and between the common law and civil law. It finds that except for a certain form...
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Published: 23 October 2023
... learnification of governing personalization profiling ideal China knowledge good society model populism social media experts educational certification listening to the science virtual communities world society theory education nation states globalization textbooks The triumphant diffusion...
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Published: 01 November 2024
... (or perceived) traumatic event is hidden somewhere in our subconscious. This simplification of the Freudian theory worked well and gave films a flashback structure in which sordid details could be revealed. Several iconic practicing movie psychiatrists have appeared, and although practice has changed...
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Published: 24 June 2011
...This chapter shows how classical architectural theory has provided Kant with a precise terminology to depict that thought that organizes experience—the architectonic. Kant defines the architectonic as the art of philosophical systems, emphasizing that the architectonic is associated...
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Published: 11 October 2012
...This chapter presents thirty problems covering the subject of crystal field theory, along with the corresponding solutions. structural inorganic chemistry atomic structure crystal field theory (i) For a tetrahedral complex, if the z-axis of the central atom is chosen as one...
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Published: 07 November 2018
... a discussion of leading relevant developmental theories; (b) describe important dimensions of social and emotional development from infancy through adolescence at the behavioral and biological levels and within the context of interpersonal relationships; (c) provide a selective review of the associations...
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Published: 06 July 2017
... campaign contributors contributions judicial elections judicial decision-making law influence evaluating judges legal theory Does the law play a role in judges’ decisions? Quite often, yes. The amount of intellectual effort that has gone into generating that answer to that question would...
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Published: 12 November 2015
... gender identity gender theory femininity masculinity homosexuality dress and adornment family structure burial evidence economic roles This chapter will explore how the concept and theory of gender have been treated within studies of Roman-period Britain. Gender theory is argued to have...
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Published: 01 December 2021
...Oxford University Press Level of personality organization refers to a system of classification of personality pathology based in object relations theory. Within this framework, personality disorders are characterized according to severity of pathology, ranging from mild to extreme, based...
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Published: 04 August 2014
... and agency Natural religion Empiricism Language Happiness Immortality Morality Motives and motivation strife Natural propensities natural beliefs human nature foundation in reason origin in nature sceptic design argument analogy theory of meaning What those [religious-belief-producing...
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Published: 18 March 2022
..., and through analysis of dancing that lives at the edges of ecstasy and incoherence, this chapter seeks to place the nameable alongside the unnameable, describing a dance practice that moves beyond settled categories of identity. An auto-theory of self-critique and destabilized affiliation, the chapter honors...
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Published: 29 July 2020
... on the 1519 map of the world attributed to Jorge Reinel. architecture of the continents cartographic literature Castile Columbus Christopher Indies maps metageography North America Ocean Sea Polo Marco Portugal South Sea Spain theory of American insularity theory of climates Treaty...
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Published: 06 September 2017
... be addressed by archaeoastronomers. Using object agency theory, we seek to contextualize these data as places where people communicated with their Bear and War Twin deities. American Southwest anthropomorphic imagery artefact agency approach images imagery object agency theory oral tradition Pueblo...
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Published: 08 October 2020
... filtered through the lens of political systems theory. Political systems theory was developed in the 1950s and 1960s by David Easton, an eminent political scientist. The core idea of Easton’s theory is that political systems can be understood as consisting of inputs from various actors that are aggregated...
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Published: 20 April 2022
...Many of the leading accounts of what makes a life meaningful are goal-based theories, according to which it is the pursuit of some specific goal (such as love for things that are worthy of love) that gives meaning to our lives. In this chapter, the author considers how these goal-based theories...
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Published: 20 January 2005
... the severe problems that are involved in establishing the relationship between international law and state action. It concludes by identifying an area of legal theory that has been neglected by scholars: the nature of legal justification in international affairs. international law conduct of states Second...