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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
392 results for "new social movements" — page 1 of 20
ZC_5_04 — Social Movements: Collective Action, Mobilization, and Protest
Social movements are sustained, organized collective efforts by non-institutional actors to promote or resist social, political, economic, or cultural change through unconventional means — including protest, civil disobe
U_1_07 — Music and Social Movements
Music and social movements have been inseparable throughout history — music serves as a vehicle for collective identity, emotional mobilization, coded communication, and cultural memory in struggles for justice, labor ri
ZE_4_11 — Philosophy of Resistance: Civil Disobedience and Dissent
The philosophy of resistance — the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of civil disobedience, conscientious objection, nonviolent direct action, and revolutionary dissent — addresses one of the most fundamental
N_5_09 — Modern Esoteric Movements: New Age to Chaos Magick
The modern esoteric landscape — from the mid-20th century to the present — represents a dramatic transformation of the Western occult tradition from hierarchical, lodge-based secret societies operating within stable init
ZC_1_05 — Psychology of Religion & Spiritual Experience
The psychology of religion — the empirical study of religious and spiritual experience, belief, and behavior — was inaugurated by William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), which established that relig
ZC_2_10 — Political Sociology and Power
Political sociology examines the social bases of political power — how authority is produced, maintained, legitimated, and contested. Max Weber (1864–1920) defined the state as the institution that successfully claims a
ZC_2_11 — Sociology of Religion
The sociology of religion examines religion as a social phenomenon — how religious beliefs, practices, and institutions shape and are shaped by social structures. Foundational approaches: Émile Durkheim (The Elementary F
C_1_14 — Dumézil's Trifunctional Hypothesis: Indo-European Social Structure in Myth
Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) was a French comparative mythologist and philologist who proposed that the mythologies, religions, and social institutions of Indo-European-speaking peoples share a common tripartite ideologic
K_4_13 — Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition
Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, first discovered in the early 1990s in the premotor cortex (area F5) of macaque monkeys by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, and colleagues at the University of Parma, that fire
J_2_13 — Egyptian Stone Vases: Precision Stonework
Among the most technically impressive and under-discussed artifacts of ancient Egypt are the hard-stone vessels — vases, bowls, jars, and containers carved from some of the hardest stones available: granite, diorite, bas
Q_4_13 — Classical Mechanics: Newton, Lagrange, Hamilton, and the Action Principle
Classical mechanics — the study of the motion of bodies under the action of forces — is the oldest and most mature branch of physics, tracing from Galileo's kinematics (1638) and Newton's three laws and universal gravita
ZB_1_09 — Tool Use in Animals
Tool use — defined as the deployment of an external object to alter the form, position, or condition of another object or organism — was once considered uniquely human. Since Jane Goodall's 1960 observation of chimpanzee
ZC_5_10 — Sociology of Disaster: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Social Amplification of Risk
The sociology of disaster studies the social dimensions of catastrophic events — earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pandemics, industrial accidents, nuclear meltdowns, wildfires, and increasingly, climate-driven extreme ev
ZC_5_07 — Sociology of Knowledge: Social Construction, Paradigms, and Epistemic Communities
The sociology of knowledge investigates how social conditions — class position, institutional setting, cultural context, historical period, and power relations — shape the production, content, validation, and distributio
ZC_5_20 — Post-Truth & Misinformation
"Post-truth" — named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2016 and defined as "relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal be
ZC_5_02 — Sociology of Technology: Social Shaping, Actor-Networks, and Technological Determinism
The sociology of technology (a core subfield of Science and Technology Studies — STS) investigates how social, economic, political, and cultural factors shape the development, design, adoption, and consequences of techno
ZC_5_16 — Computational Social Science: Big Data, Agent-Based Models, and Digital Behavioral Analysis
Computational social science (CSS) is the interdisciplinary field that applies computational methods — machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis, agent-based modeling, and large-scale data mining —
ZC_5_19 — Network Society — Castells
Manuel Castells (born 1942 in Hellín, Spain), professor at the University of Southern California and emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, produced one of the most ambitious sociological analyses of the lat
ZC_1_01 — Social Psychology — Conformity, Obedience, and Group Dynamics
Social psychology examines how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. Landmark experiments by Milgram (obedience to authority), Asch (conformity to majority opinion), and Zimbardo (situational power of r
ZC_1_14 — Social Media Psychology
Social media usage is now near-universal among adolescents and young adults in developed nations (95% of US teens, Pew 2023), making its psychological effects one of the most debated topics in contemporary psychology. Th
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