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Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies.^[1]

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Abdullah Senussi

Abdullah Senussi is a Libyan national who was the intelligence chief and brother-in-law of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

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Agency (philosophy)

Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.

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Alexander Wendt (born 12 June 1958) is an American political scientist who is one of the core social constructivist researchers in the field of international relations, and a key contributor to quantum social science.

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Alfred Schütz

Alfred Schutz (born Alfred Schütz,; 1899–1959) was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Benjamin Barber

Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World.

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Biometric device

A biometric device is a security identification and authentication device.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre and broadly conform with progressivism.

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Charles III

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.

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The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese state research institute and think tank.

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Chris Patten

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992.

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Class conflict

In political science, the term class conflict, or class struggle, refers to the political tension and economic antagonism that exist among the social classes of society, because of socioeconomic competition for resources among the social classes, between the rich and the poor.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. Anthony Giddens and Claude Lévi-Strauss are writers about globalization.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Colin J. McInnes

Colin John McInnes FLSW (born 18 June 1960) is Pro Vice Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation) at and holds a personal professorial chair in the there, where his research focuses on global health politics.

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Cornelius Castoriadis

Cornelius Castoriadis (Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was... Anthony Giddens and Cornelius Castoriadis are writers about globalization.

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Correlation does not imply causation

The phrase "correlation does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them.

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Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim (דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin.

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David Frost

Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British television host, journalist, comedian and writer.

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David Gauntlett

David Gauntlett (born 15 March 1971) is a British sociologist and media theorist, and the author of several books including Making is Connecting.

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David Held

David Jonathan Andrew Held (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019) was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations. Anthony Giddens and David Held are academics of the London School of Economics, modernity and writers about globalization.

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David Lockwood (sociologist)

David Lockwood (9 April 1929 – 6 June 2014) was a British sociologist.

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David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

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Demilitarisation

Demilitarisation or demilitarization may mean the reduction of state armed forces; it is the opposite of militarisation in many respects.

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Democratization

Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable.

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Detraditionalization

In social theory, detraditionalization refers to the erosion of tradition in religion (secularization, agnosticism, religious disaffiliation) and society in postmodernism.

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Diljit Rana, Baron Rana

Diljit Singh Rana, Baron Rana, (born 20 September 1938), is a British businessman and a former member of the House of Lords.

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Double hermeneutic

The double hermeneutic is the theory, expounded by sociologist Anthony Giddens, that everyday "lay" concepts and those from the social sciences have a two-way relationship.

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Duality of structure

Duality of structure is one of Anthony Giddens' coined phrases and main propositions in his explanation of structuration theory.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Edmonton, London

Edmonton is a town in north London, England within the London Borough of Enfield, a local government district of Greater London.

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Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.

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El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México, A.C. (commonly known as Colmex, English: The College of Mexico) is a Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in social sciences and humanities.

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El País

() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Enemy of the state

An enemy of the state is a person suspected of political crimes against the state, such as treason.

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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". Anthony Giddens and Erving Goffman are Medical sociologists.

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Euro

The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.

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European Book Prize

The European Book Prize (Le Prix du Livre Européen) is a European Union literary award established in 2007.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Eurozone

The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 20 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies.

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Eva Joly

Eva Joly (born Gro Eva Farseth; 5 December 1943) is a Norwegian-born French juge d'instruction (magistrate) and politician for Europe Écologie–The Greens.

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Evolutionism

Evolutionism is a term used (usually derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution.

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Exogeny

In a variety of contexts, exogeny or exogeneity is the fact of an action or object originating externally.

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Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, University of Cambridge

The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science at the University of Cambridge was created in 2011 out of a merger of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies.

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Family

Family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).

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Federalism

Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

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Fontana Modern Masters

The Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides on writers, philosophers, and other thinkers and theorists who shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century.

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Goldsmiths, University of London

Goldsmiths, University of London, legally the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London.

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Grand Cross

Grand Cross is the highest class in many orders, and manifested in its insignia.

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Greenhouse effect

The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.

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Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Brundtland (born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician (Arbeiderpartiet), who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–1989, and 1990–1996), as the leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1992, and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. Anthony Giddens and Gro Harlem Brundtland are Honorary Fellows of the London School of Economics.

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Helen A. Berger

Helen Alice Berger (born 1949) is an American sociologist known for her studies of the Pagan community in the United States.

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Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.

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Historical materialism

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history.

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Historicity (philosophy)

Historicity in philosophy is the idea or fact that something has a historical origin and developed through history: concepts, practices, values.

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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History of human sexuality

The social construction of human sexuality and sexual behavior—along with its taboos, regulation, and social and political impact—has had a profound effect on the various cultures of the world since prehistoric times.

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History of the European Union

The European Union is a geo-political entity, created in 1993, covering a large portion of the European continent.

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Holism

Holism is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Howard Davies (economist)

Sir Howard John Davies (born 12 February 1951) is a British historian and author, who is the chairman of NatWest Group and the former director of the London School of Economics.

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Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.

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Ibid.

Ibid. is an abbreviation for the Latin word ibīdem, meaning "in the same place", commonly used in an endnote, footnote, bibliography citation, or scholarly reference to refer to the source cited in the preceding note or list item.

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Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.

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Ideology

An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".

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Individual

An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.

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Information Age

The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.

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Institute for Public Policy Research

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a progressive think tank based in London.

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Institution

An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University (UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland.

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James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. Anthony Giddens and Jürgen Habermas are Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and scholars of nationalism.

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Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist)

Jeffrey Weeks (born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.

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Jihad vs. McWorld

Jihad vs.

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John Ashworth (biologist)

Sir John Ashworth (born 27 November 1938) is a British scientist and educationalist. Anthony Giddens and John Ashworth (biologist) are Honorary Fellows of the London School of Economics.

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John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

Edmund John Phillip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, (born 20 February 1948), is a British businessman.

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John Keegan

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist.

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John Thompson (sociologist)

John Brookshire Thompson is a British sociologist.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Anthony Giddens and Karl Marx are writers about globalization.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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La Repubblica

(English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023.

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Labour economics

Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Late modernity

Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societies as the continuation (or development) of modernity rather than as an element of the succeeding era known as postmodernity, or the postmodern. Anthony Giddens and Late modernity are modernity.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.

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Lingnan University

Lingnan University (Lingnan) is located in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is a London borough in Greater London, England.

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London Passenger Transport Board

The London Passenger Transport Board was the organisation responsible for local public transport in London and its environs from 1933 to 1948.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and amember institution of the University of London.

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Macrosociology

Macrosociology is a large-scale approach to sociology, emphasizing the analysis of social systems and populations at the structural level, often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction.

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Margaret Archer

Margaret Scotford Archer (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was an English sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. Anthony Giddens and Margaret Archer are academics of the London School of Economics and English sociologists.

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Market (economics)

In economics, a market is a composition of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations or infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange.

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Market fundamentalism

Market fundamentalism, also known as free-market fundamentalism, is a term applied to a strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free-market capitalist policies to solve most economic and social problems.

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Market socialism is a type of economic system involving social ownership of the means of production within the framework of a market economy.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.

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Member of the Academia Europaea

Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE) is an award conferred by the Academia Europaea to individuals that have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence".

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In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, often called the object language.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.

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Microsociology

Microsociology is one of the main levels of analysis (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face.

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Minchenden Grammar School

Minchenden School was a mixed secondary school situated in Southgate, North London, established in 1919 with 90 pupils.

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Modalities (sociology)

Modalities are fundamental to understanding the concept behind structuration.

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Modernity

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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Monitor Deloitte

Monitor Deloitte is the multinational strategy consulting practice of Deloitte Consulting.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.

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Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.

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National security

National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government.

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Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism, also neo-liberalism, is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism.

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New Labour

New Labour is the political philosophy that dominated the history of the British Labour Party from the mid- to late 1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.

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Nigel Dodd

Nigel B. Dodd (1965-2022) was a British sociologist. Anthony Giddens and Nigel Dodd are academics of the London School of Economics.

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Niklas Luhmann

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Anthony Giddens and Noam Chomsky are writers about globalization.

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Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias (22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a Jewish German sociologist who later became a British citizen. Anthony Giddens and Norbert Elias are academics of the London School of Economics and academics of the University of Leicester.

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Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of being.

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Open Syllabus Project

The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is an online open-source platform that catalogs and analyzes millions of college syllabi.

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Order of Prince Henry

The Order of Prince Henry (Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese infante Prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery.

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Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom

The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.

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Paradigm

In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Political science

Political science is the scientific study of politics.

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Political sociology

Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis.

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Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

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Polity (publisher)

Polity is an academic publisher in the social sciences and humanities.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning ''a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.

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Post-scarcity

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.

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Postmodernity

Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. Anthony Giddens and Postmodernity are modernity.

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Power (social and political)

In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.

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Princess of Asturias Awards

The Princess of Asturias Awards (Premios Princesa de Asturias, Premios Princesa d'Asturies), formerly the Prince of Asturias Awards from 1981 to 2014 (Premios Príncipe de Asturias), are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Princess of Asturias Foundation (previously the Prince of Asturias Foundation) to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs.

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Pro-Europeanism

Pro-Europeanism, sometimes called European Unionism, is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).

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Progressivism

Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.

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Proletariat

The proletariat is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work).

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Public opinion

Public opinion, or popular opinion, is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society.

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Quantum computing

A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena.

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Radical centrism

Radical centrism, also called the radical center, the radical centre, and the radical middle, is a concept that arose in Western nations in the late 20th century.

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Radicalization

Radicalization (or radicalisation) is the process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo.

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Rationality

Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason.

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Real-time computing

Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Reflexive modernization

The concept of reflexive modernization or reflexive modernity was launched by a joint effort of three of the leading European sociologists: Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Scott Lash. Anthony Giddens and reflexive modernization are modernity.

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In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures.

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Reith Lectures

The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Research design

Research design refers to the overall strategy utilized to answer research questions.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, biology, or tradition.

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Risk society

Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk. Anthony Giddens and risk society are modernity.

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Robert K. Merton

Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. Anthony Giddens and Robert K. Merton are Medical sociologists.

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Robert Menasse

Robert Menasse (born 21 June 1954) is an Austrian writer.

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Robotics

Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.

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Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno

John Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno (born 23 October 1935), is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, Methodist minister, and life peer.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Sage Publishing

Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.

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Satellite navigation device

A satellite navigation device, satnav device or satellite navigation receiver is a user equipment that uses one or more of several global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to calculate the device's geographical position and provide navigational advice.

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Scott Lash

Scott Lash (born December 23, 1945) is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Self-actualization

Self-actualization, in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, is the highest level of psychological development, where personal potential is fully realized after basic bodily and ego needs have been fulfilled.

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Sentence (linguistics)

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations.

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A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.

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A social construct is any category or thing that is made real by convention or collective agreement.

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Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology.

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The term social order can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of social structures and institutions.

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Social ownership is a type of property where an asset is recognized to be in the possession of society as a whole rather than individual members or groups within it.

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Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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A social relation is the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences, and describes any voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between two or more individuals within and/or between groups.

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Social Research: An International Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of the social sciences, published by The New School for Social Research, the graduate social science division of The New School.

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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

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In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions.

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Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.

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Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.

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Sociological theory

A sociological theory is a that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective,Macionis, John and Linda M. Gerber.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Solidarity

Solidarity or solidarism is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes.

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Southgate, London

Southgate is a suburban area of north London, England, in the London Borough of Enfield, north of Charing Cross.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spacetime

In physics, spacetime, also called the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum.

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State socialism is a political and economic ideology within the socialist movement that advocates state ownership of the means of production.

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Stephen R. Barley

Stephen R. Barley (born February 16, 1953) is an American organizational theorist and Christian A. Felipe Professor of Technology Management at the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

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Stjepan Meštrović

Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (born 1955) is a Croatian American sociologist.

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Structural functionalism

Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is "a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability".

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Structuration theory

The theory of structuration is a social theory of the creation and reproduction of social systems that is based on the analysis of both structure and agents (see structure and agency), without giving primacy to either.

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Structure and agency

In the social sciences there is a standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behaviour.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing.

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Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.

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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Anthony Giddens and Talcott Parsons are Medical sociologists.

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Teleology

Teleology (from, and)Partridge, Eric.

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The Forum (radio programme)

The Forum, the BBC World Service's flagship discussion programme, brings together prominent thinkers from different disciplines and different parts of the world with the aim of creating stimulating discussion informed by highly distinct academic, artistic, and cultural perspectives.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.

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The Transformation of Intimacy

The Transformation of Intimacy is a book by Anthony Giddens published in 1992.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Third Way

The Third Way, also known as Modernised Social Democracy, is a predominantly centrist political position that attempts to reconcile centre-right and centre-left politics by synthesising a combination of economically liberal and social democratic economic policies along with centre-left social policies.

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Thomas Lovejoy

Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III (August 22, 1941December 25, 2021) was an American ecologist who was President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a university professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.

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Tony Blair

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Anthony Giddens and Tony Blair are new Labour.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected.

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Ulrich Beck

Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck are academics of the London School of Economics, modernity and writers about globalization.

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Unintended consequences

In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Hull

The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.

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University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.

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University of South Australia

The University of South Australia is a public research university based in South Australia.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author.

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Verstehen

Verstehen, in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century – in English as in German – with the particular sense of the "interpretive or participatory" examination of social phenomena.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet.

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Wanda Orlikowski

Wanda J. Orlikowski is a US-based organizational theorist and Information Systems researcher, and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Welfare state

A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.

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Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey (19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin.

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Women's liberation movement

The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.

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World economy

The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.

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References

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