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ZC_3_11 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_11 — Warfare and Conflict — Anthropological Perspectives

The anthropology of warfare and conflict addresses one of the most consequential and contested questions in the human sciences: is organized violence a universal feature of human societies, an evolutionary inheritance, o

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ZC_3_06 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_06 — Sociology of Law

Sociology of law examines law not as an autonomous system of rules but as a social institution — shaped by power, culture, and economic relations, and in turn shaping social life. Émile Durkheim (The Division of Labour i

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ZC_3_16 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_16 — The Gig Economy: Labor, Platforms, and Precarity

The gig economy — defined as a labor market characterized by short-term, task-based, platform-mediated work rather than permanent employment — has grown from a marginal phenomenon to a significant sector of advanced econ

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ZC_3_15 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_15 — Political Economy: Capitalism, Labor, and Institutional Structure

Political economy studies the interrelationship between political power and economic processes — how states, markets, classes, institutions, and ideologies shape the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. T

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ZC_3_18 Credible Social Science

ZC_3_18 — Surveillance Capitalism and the Digital Economy

Surveillance capitalism — a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2019) — describes an economic system in which human experience is unilaterally claimed as free raw

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ZC_3_23 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_23 — Commons Governance — Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington, became the first woman to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) for her groundbreaking work demonstratin

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ZC_3_02 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_02 — Sociology of Science and Knowledge

Sociology of knowledge examines how social conditions shape what counts as knowledge. Karl Mannheim (Ideology and Utopia, 1929/1936) argued that thought is "existentially determined" — shaped by the thinker's social posi

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ZC_3_13 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_13 — Human Rights: Universal Norms and Their Contested Foundations

Human rights — entitlements and protections considered inherent to all human beings regardless of nationality, ethnicity, sex, language, religion, or other status — constitute one of the most influential normative framew

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ZC_3_03 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_03 — Sociology of Work and Labor

Sociology of work examines how labor is organized, experienced, and transformed by economic, technological, and social forces. Karl Marx argued that under capitalism, workers experience alienation — estrangement from the

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ZC_3_05 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_05 — Sociology of Sport

Sociology of sport examines how sport reflects, reinforces, and occasionally challenges broader social structures of class, race, gender, and national identity. Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning (Quest for Excitement, 1986)

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ZC_5_04 Verified Social Science

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

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ZC_5_20 Credible Social Science

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

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ZC_5_17 Credible Social Science

ZC_5_17 — Ritual Efficacy Mechanisms: How Ritual Produces Real-World Effects

Ritual — formalized, repetitive, symbolic action that is culturally prescribed and often marked as distinct from ordinary behavior — is a universal feature of human societies, found in religious ceremonies, civic commemo

ritual ritual efficacy performance theory Rappaport Turner liminality
ZC_5_01 Verified Social Science

ZC_5_01 — Digital Anthropology and Online Communities

Digital anthropology — the study of human social life as it is mediated, shaped, and transformed by digital technologies — has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing subfields in the social sciences as online life ha

digital anthropology online community virtual ethnography internet social media avatar
ZC_1_08 Social Science

ZC_1_08 — Psycholinguistics & Language-Thought Relationship

Psycholinguistics investigates the cognitive processes underlying language comprehension, production, and acquisition — and the relationship between language and thought has been one of the most debated questions in cogn

psycholinguistics Sapir-Whorf hypothesis linguistic relativity linguistic determinism Boroditsky Pirahã
ZC_1_10 Social Science

ZC_1_10 — Environmental Psychology

Environmental psychology examines the transactions between individuals and their physical surroundings — how built and natural environments influence human behavior, cognition, emotion, and well-being, and reciprocally,

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ZC_1_05 Social Science

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

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ZC_1_01 Social Science

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

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ZC_1_15 Verified Social Science

ZC_1_15 — Sociology of Emotions

Sociology of emotions examines how emotions are socially shaped, managed, and structured — challenging the assumption that feelings are purely biological or individual. Arlie Russell Hochschild (The Managed Heart, 1983)

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ZC_1_09 Social Science

ZC_1_09 — Psychology of Leadership

Leadership psychology investigates the traits, behaviors, and situations that enable individuals to influence, motivate, and direct others toward collective goals — one of the most extensively studied and practically imp

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