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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.
1,433 results for "social determinants of health" — page 21 of 72
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
ZC_4_06 — Foucault — Power, Discourse, and Knowledge Control
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) — French philosopher, historian, and social theorist — is one of the most cited scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and his analyses of power, knowledge, and discourse have transfo
ZC_4_18 — Aboriginal Australian Kinship Systems
Aboriginal Australian kinship systems represent some of the most elaborate social classification frameworks ever documented by anthropology. Operating through moiety (2-part), section (4-part), and subsection (8-part) sy
ZC_4_09 — Visual Anthropology: Ethnographic Film and Image as Evidence
Visual anthropology — the study of human societies through visual media (photography, film, video, digital platforms) and the anthropological analysis of visual systems — occupies a unique position at the intersection of
ZC_4_01 — Gift Economy and Reciprocity
The gift economy — a system of exchange in which goods and services are transferred without explicit agreement for immediate return, yet create bonds of obligation, reciprocity, and social hierarchy — has been one of the
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_01 — Propaganda, Persuasion, and Information Warfare
Propaganda and persuasion studies span rhetoric, psychology, political science, and media studies. From Edward Bernays's Freudian public relations (1928) and Walter Lippmann's manufactured consent (1922), through Goebbel
ZC_2_05 — Criminology and Deviance
Criminology studies the nature, causes, consequences, and control of criminal behavior, while deviance encompasses behavior that violates social norms, whether or not it is legally criminal. Classical theories: Émile Dur
G_3_12 — Morphic Resonance and Formative Causation
Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by Rupert Sheldrake (1981, A New Science of Life) that posits the existence of morphic fields — non-local, non-energetic fields that carry information about the habits (forms an
G_2_09 — Network Analysis in Archaeology — Trade, Communication, Influence
Network analysis — rooted in graph theory and social network analysis (SNA) — provides formal mathematical tools for modeling and analyzing the structure of relationships between archaeological entities: sites, regions,
G_2_12 — Cultural Evolutionary Theory — Boyd, Richerson, and Henrich
Cultural evolutionary theory — developed primarily by Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, and Joseph Henrich — provides a rigorous, formally modeled framework for understanding how cultural traits (beliefs, practices, technolo
O_1_15 — Urban Heat Islands
The urban heat island (UHI) effect — the phenomenon whereby urban areas experience significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural landscapes — was first scientifically documented by amateur meteorologist Luke H
T_4_22 — Implicit Bias Research
Implicit bias refers to automatically activated attitudes and stereotypes that operate outside conscious awareness and control, influencing perception, judgment, and behavior toward members of social groups. The field wa
T_4_06 — Cross-Cultural Psychology
Cross-cultural psychology investigates how culture shapes human thought, emotion, and behavior — and which psychological processes are universal versus culturally specific. The field distinguishes between etic approaches
T_4_21 — Mass Formation Psychology
Mass formation describes a psychological phenomenon in which large populations become fixated on a single narrative, willing to sacrifice individual freedom and rational judgment for the perceived security of collective
T_4_11 — Propaganda and Persuasion: Techniques, Psychology, and Modern Information Warfare
Propaganda — the systematic dissemination of information (true, distorted, or fabricated) to shape public attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in service of a particular agenda — and persuasion — the art and science of chan
T_2_22 — Psychopathy Neuroscience
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, bold and disinhibited traits, and often superficial charm — affecting an estimated 1% of the general po
T_2_05 — Clinical Psychology: History and Foundations
Clinical psychology — the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders — evolved from ancient supernatural explanations of madness through institutional reform, the psychoanalytic revolution, behavioral and c
T_1_04 — Developmental Psychology — From Piaget to Attachment Theory
Developmental psychology traces psychological changes across the human lifespan, from prenatal development through aging. Jean Piaget's cognitive stage theory, Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural approach, John Bowlby's attachm
T_1_03 — Transpersonal Psychology — Beyond the Personal Self
Transpersonal psychology extends psychological inquiry beyond the individual ego to encompass states of consciousness, spirituality, and experiences transcending ordinary personal identity. Emerging in the late 1960s fro
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