As noted above, social structure has been identified asthe relationship of definite entities or groups to each other,enduring patterns of behaviour by participants in a social system in relation to ea ...
Biorobotics has made many appearances in works of fiction, often in the form of synthetic biological organisms.The robots featured in Rossum's Universal Robots, the play that originally coined the ter ...
Parahumans have been referred to as "human-animal hybrids" in a vernacular sense that also encompasses human-animal chimeras. The term parahuman is not used in scientific publications. The term is som ...
Although the possibility of cloning humans had been the subject of speculation for much of the twentieth century, scientists and policy makers began to take the prospect seriously in the 1960s.Nobel P ...
Among newborn young and embryos of humans and most species of animals are found occasional individuals who are malformed in whole or in part (cf. Teratology). The most grossly abnormal of these have b ...
The idea of modernization is relatively new. Its basic principles can be derived from the Idea of Progress, which emerged in the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment with the idea that people themselves ...
Cultural artifact (or social artifact) is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology, and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information about the cultu ...
The term "organism" (from Greek ?ργανισμ??, organismos, from ?ργανον, organon, i.e. "instrument, implement, tool, organ of sense or apprehension") first appeared in the English langua ...
In Kjellén's organicist view, the state was quasi-biological organism, a "super-individual creature". Kjellén sought to study "the civil war between social groups" (comprising the state) from a biol ...
The alarmist person is subject to the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing – of always expecting the worst of possible futures.They may also be seeking to preserve feelings of omnipotence by gener ...
Since the late 1970s in the United States, the term "traditional values" has become synonymous with "family values" and imply a congruence with mainstream Christianity. However "family values" is argu ...
As a fiction writer, Blackford specialises in science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. His work includes four novels published by iBooks, three of them forming an original trilogy (The New John Co ...
The word tolerance was first used in the 15th century.The word is derived from endurance and fortitude, used in the 14th century. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word was first used ...
The term "Enlightenment" did not come into use in English until the latter part of the 19th century, with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of the French term 'Lumières' (u ...
Words such as liberal, liberty, libertarian, and libertine all trace their history to the Latin liber, which means "free". One of the first recorded instances of the word liberal occurs in 1375, when ...
