Ideas

‘As we speak, so we are. As our speech changes, so too, do we’ (Ball 1988, 1)

Define the following terms. 

When, Where and Who coined them? Who used them? How did they develop? How are they related? How have they changed? What terms need to be added to the list. Find and cite examples of scholarly papers that define, describe or contrast them. Note, different disciplines ignore each other's contributions so look at literature from anthropology, sociology, political science, history psychology and geography.

 

Enlightenment

Counter-Enlightenment

Realism

Idealism

Empiricism

Rationalism

Positivism

Liberalism

Conservatism

Marxism

Darwinism

Hegelianism

socialism

Owenism

anarchism

communism

Romanticism

Historicism

Philology

Anthropology

Ethnology

Ethnography

Redfield-Lewis controversy

Sociology

Psychology

Intellectual History

Hermeneutics

Phenomenology

Pragmatism

Ordinary language philosophy 

Analytic philosophy

Continental philosophy

Functional linguistic tradition 

unilinear evolution

multilinear evolution

Marxist

Marxian

Cultural materialism

Political economy

Functionalism

Structuralism

Semiotics

Structural-functionalism

Culture and Personality

Psychoanalysis

Social ecology

Cultural ecology

Human ecology

Chicago School

Frankfurt School

Modern

Post Modernism

Post Structuralism

Historical particularism

Symbolic Interactionism 

Ethnoscience

socio linguistics

neo structuralism

Structure - Agency

Critical Realism

Critical Theory

Ethnomethodology 

Cognitive Anthropology

Sociobiology

Rational Choice Theory

Symbolic Interaction

Discourse Theory

 

 

 


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