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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.
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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
ZC_1_12 — Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology applies psychological principles to workplace behavior — encompassing personnel selection, performance evaluation, motivation, leadership, organizational culture, team dynamics,
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_1_13 — Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination
Prejudice — negative attitudes toward a group and its members — operates through cognitive (stereotypes), affective (prejudice), and behavioral (discrimination) components. Research reveals both overt and subtle forms of
ZC_4_07 — Childhood and the Anthropology of Growing Up
The anthropology of childhood — the cross-cultural study of how children are conceived of, raised, taught, disciplined, initiated, and transformed into culturally competent adults — challenges the assumption that childho
ZC_4_02 — Kinship Systems and Social Organization Across Cultures
Kinship — the system of social relationships and categories through which human societies classify relatives, define obligations, regulate marriage, organize inheritance, and structure political authority — is the founda
ZC_4_17 — Food Anthropology: Culture, Identity, and Power at the Table
Food anthropology examines how the production, preparation, distribution, and consumption of food encode cultural meaning, reinforce social hierarchies, and express identity. Claude Lévi-Strauss proposed the "culinary tr
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_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
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_09 — Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
The sociology of gender and sexuality examines how societies construct, enforce, and contest gender categories and sexual norms. The sex-gender distinction (introduced to sociology by Ann Oakley, Sex, Gender and Society,
ZC_2_17 — Institutional Change Theory: How Organizations, States, and Systems Transform
Institutional change theory — the study of how formal and informal rules, norms, and organizations originate, persist, transform, and collapse — is central to understanding political, economic, and social development. Th
ZC_2_15 — Media Studies and Communication Theory
Media studies and communication theory examine how media technologies and institutions produce, distribute, and shape public meaning. Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media, 1964) argued "the medium is the message" — the
ZC_2_20 — Social Capital Theory — Putnam
Social capital — the networks of relationships, norms of reciprocity, and trust that facilitate cooperation among individuals and groups — became one of the most influential and contested concepts in social science follo
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
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
G_4_18 — Biogeography and Ancient Distribution Patterns
Biogeography — the study of the spatial distribution of organisms across the planet, both present and past — is one of the most powerful frameworks for understanding Earth history, evolutionary processes, and the mechani
G_4_22 — Emergence and Self-Organization: From Physics to Biology
Emergence — the appearance of macroscopic properties that are not reducible to the behavior of individual components — is one of the most important and contested concepts in modern science and philosophy. From Bénard con
G_4_03 — Ball Lightning, Earthquake Lights, and Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena
Ball lightning — glowing, roughly spherical objects that float through the air, pass through walls, and sometimes explode — has been reported for centuries by thousands of witnesses, including scientists, airline pilots,
G_4_25 — Space Settlement and Interplanetary Civilization
Space settlement theory addresses the technical, biological, and sociological requirements for establishing permanent self-sustaining human communities beyond Earth. The modern framework was established by physicist Gera
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