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ZC_1_14 Social Science

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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ZC_1_17 Credible Social Science

ZC_1_17 — Conspiracy Theory Epidemiology: Why People Believe and How Conspiracism Spreads

Conspiracy theories — explanatory frameworks that attribute significant events to the secret machinations of powerful, malevolent groups — are not a modern pathology but a recurring feature of human cognitive and social

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ZC_1_02 Social Science

ZC_1_02 — Cult Psychology — Manipulation, Totalism, and Recovery

Cult psychology examines how high-demand groups employ systematic influence techniques to recruit, retain, and control members. Key frameworks include Robert Jay Lifton's eight criteria of thought reform, Steven Hassan's

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ZC_4_19 Credible Social Science

ZC_4_19 — Disaster Resilience Anthropology: Cultural Adaptation to Catastrophe

Disaster anthropology — the study of how human societies prepare for, experience, respond to, and recover from catastrophic events — emerged as a distinct subfield through the work of Anthony Oliver-Smith (University of

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ZC_4_10 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_10 — Mesoamerican Social Organization: City-States, Lineages, and Cosmological Order

Mesoamerican social organization — spanning the Classic Maya (~250–900 CE), Aztec/Mexica (~1325–1521 CE), Zapotec, Mixtec, and other civilizations across central Mexico through Honduras — represents one of humanity's mos

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ZC_4_05 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_05 — Tourism, Heritage, and the Anthropology of Sacred Sites

The anthropology of tourism and heritage examines how places, objects, and practices are designated as culturally significant, how they are consumed by visitors, and who controls the narratives, profits, and meanings at

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ZC_4_20 Credible Social Science

ZC_4_20 — Ecological Anthropology: Human-Environment Interaction Beyond Subsistence

Ecological anthropology — the study of how human cultures interact with, adapt to, transform, and are shaped by their environments — has evolved from deterministic models ("environment shapes culture") through cultural e

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ZC_4_04 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_04 — Medical Anthropology — Culture, Healing, and the Body

Medical anthropology — the study of how health, illness, healing, and the body are experienced, understood, and managed across cultures — is one of anthropology's most productive subfields, bridging biological and social

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ZC_4_11 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_11 — Anthropology of Death: Mortuary Practices, Grief, and the Afterlife

The anthropology of death examines how human societies construct, perform, and give meaning to dying, death, the disposal of the dead, mourning, and beliefs about postmortem existence — revealing that mortuary practices

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ZC_2_06 Verified Social Science

ZC_2_06 — Urban Sociology and City Planning

Urban sociology examines the social life, structures, and problems of cities, while city planning addresses the intentional design of urban spaces. By 2007, more than half of humanity lived in cities for the first time i

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ZC_2_04 Verified Social Science

ZC_2_04 — Sociology of Education

The sociology of education examines how educational institutions produce, reproduce, and sometimes challenge social inequalities — investigating the relationship between schooling, social class, race, gender, and economi

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ZC_2_08 Verified Social Science

ZC_2_08 — Demography and Population Studies

Demography is the scientific study of human population — its size, structure, distribution, and change through births, deaths, and migration. World population reached ~8 billion in November 2022 (UN), having grown from ~

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ZC_2_11 Verified Social Science

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

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ZC_2_14 Verified Social Science

ZC_2_14 — Sociology of the Family

Sociology of the family examines how families are structured, how they function as social institutions, and how they have transformed historically. Talcott Parsons (1955) theorized the mid-20th-century American nuclear f

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ZC_2_02 Social Science

ZC_2_02 — Collective Memory and Cultural Transmission of Myth

Collective memory — the shared pool of knowledge and information held by a group — is the mechanism by which myths, traditions, and historical narratives are transmitted across generations. This document surveys the scho

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G_4_27 Verified Modern Frameworks

G_4_27 — Schumann Resonance and Human Physiology: Evidence Assessment

The Schumann resonance — a global electromagnetic phenomenon at ~7.83 Hz fundamental and harmonics ~14.3, 20.8, 27.3, 33.8 Hz — is real, well-measured, and physically explained by lightning-driven oscillations in the Ear

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G_4_06 Modern Frameworks

G_4_06 — Sound Healing — Evidence, Pseudoscience, and Ancient Practice

Sound healing occupies a uniquely contested space where genuine medical science, ancient spiritual practice, and modern pseudoscience coexist and often blur together. On one end, music therapy is FDA-recognized for pain

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G_4_13 Verified Modern Frameworks

G_4_13 — HADD and Agency Detection — Why We See Beings Everywhere

The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) — a term coined by cognitive scientist Justin Barrett (2000) building on work by Stewart Guthrie (1993) and Pascal Boyer (2001) — refers to the proposed cognitive mechanism

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G_4_04 Modern Frameworks

G_4_04 — Cognitive Science of Religion and the Anthropology of Belief

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is an interdisciplinary field that explains religious belief and practice as natural products of evolved cognitive mechanisms rather than supernatural revelation or cultural invent

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G_4_08 Modern Frameworks

G_4_08 — Graham Hancock — Data-Driven Evaluation of Claims

Graham Hancock (b. 1950, Edinburgh) is a British journalist and author who has become the most prominent advocate of the "lost civilization" hypothesis — the idea that an advanced civilization existed before the end of t

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