Study Time
Study of Values
Axiology
Study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism
Postcolonialism
Analysis of objective observable and quantifiable behavioral events
Behaviorism
Theory denying that an event or object has a supernatural significance
Naturalism
Equality of the sexes
Feminism
Study of knowledge / nature
Epistemology
Practical understanding; wisdom, prudence
Phronesis
Knowledge/society is constructed by the knowers/members
Constructivism
Belief that there is no purpose, existence is meaningless
Nihilism
Break from classical and traditional forms
Self-expression
Modernism
Study of historic perspectives
Historiography
Study of human action and conduct
Praxeology
Reason is itself a source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions
Rationalism
We're shaped through ______ _________ with others over our lifetime
Symbolic interaction
Create social change, emancipation from oppression
Critical theory
Study of self and awareness of others
Phenomenology
Law of knowing what is true and certain through concrete facts and research
OR
What can't be expressed in words, isn't worth talking about
Positivism
OR
Logical Positivism
Concern for fact and rejection of impractical and visionary
Realism
Examine every aspect - text has no fixed meaning
Deconstruction
All knowledge is derived from sense-experience
Empiricism
Study / nature of being
Ontology
Study both object and system of knowledge that produced an object
Poststructuralism
BONUS: What is postmodernism?
Resolution of the mind into structural elements - importance of pattern over substance
Structuralism
Study methodological principles of interpretation
Hermeneutics
BONUS: What is double hermeneutics?
It's what determines the position of each element of the whole - categorize everything in the mind
Early Structuralism