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Idealism
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reality is a form of the conciousness , scholars in this field fous on the boundaries
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materialism
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seeking out structure, everything can be explained by physical laws scholars focus on structure
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religion
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a cultural system, looks at the ultimate significance of our relationship with each...
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universal religions versus ethnic religions
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islam versus hinduism
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globalization
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social and cultural globalization not all relationships are economic migration and...
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modernity
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progress
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secular
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the assumption in this modern age, society become secularized with the rise of state democratic...
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religion
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a system which confers identity marks out social and ethnic boundaries, whose rituals mark...
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identity
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socially constructed, quality or condition of being the essential ( language, religion, ethnicity,...
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identity politics
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the adherence by a group of people that share that certain features which united them ( huge...
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agency
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limited by social structure, ability to exercise some sort of power, power is rarely distributed...
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free will versus agency
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open concept versus delimited
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Fundamentalism
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strict religion " our way is right, be our cause" demands only highly
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Epistemology
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theories of knowledge and a search for certainty (judging certain truth claims as weak...
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modern society
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industrial civilization, set with the ideas of human ability to transform the world, influences...
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Vertificationism
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a proposition is cognitively meaningful only if there is a finite procedure for conclusively...
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logical positivism
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only empirical observation and formal logical propositions are meaningful
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falsification
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the criteria for trustworthy knowledge ( moves from observations to laws)
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Karl Popper
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highly interested in theories of the times which claimed to be scientific ( psychoanalysis,...
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Thomas Kuhn
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paradigms and normal sciencenormal science proceeds according to rules with the aim of solving...
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Flood control act
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use public money to employ people who dont have jobs, spend their time for the public...
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risk assessment
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the process by which we attempt to determine the likelihood and extent of harm that...
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risk management
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combines info about risk with economic, political legal and ethical to make public/ private decisions...
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risk communication
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the two way exchange of info about risks between decision makers and the public
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