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  2. Social reproduction - Wikipedia

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    The lower class is a class afflicted by a cycle of poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. This is seen as they suffer from the inability to pay bills some of which then find themselves living on the street, experiencing food insecurity as many families will find themselves going hungry least once a year, or lack of medical care where many ...

  3. Hunter versus farmer hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    It was also stated that the lack of "hyperfocus" should not be the only dichotomy of "farmers versus hunter-gatherers" that was identified in Hartmann's theory. [ citation needed ] Hartmann claims that most or all humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, but that this standard gradually changed as agriculture ...

  4. Social cycle theory - Wikipedia

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    Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism , which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history generally repeat themselves in cycles.

  5. Metabolic rift - Wikipedia

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    Metabolic rift is a theory of ecological crisis tendencies under the capitalist mode of production that sociologist John Bellamy Foster ascribes to Karl Marx.Quoting Marx, Foster defines this as the "irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism".

  6. Field theory (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, field theory examines how individuals construct social fields, and how they are affected by such fields. Social fields are environments in which competition between individuals and between groups takes place, such as markets , academic disciplines , musical genres , etc. [ 1 ]

  7. Theoretical psychology - Wikipedia

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    Theoretical psychology is concerned with theoretical and philosophical aspects of psychology.It is an interdisciplinary field with a wide scope of study.. It focuses on combining and incorporating existing and developing theories of psychology non-experimentally.

  8. Field theory (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The concept first made its appearance in psychology with roots in the holistic perspective of Gestalt theories. It was developed by Kurt Lewin, a Gestalt psychologist, in the 1940s. Lewin's field theory can be expressed by a formula: B = f(p,e), meaning that behavior (B) is a function of the person (p) and their cultural environment (e). [1]

  9. Agricultural cycle - Wikipedia

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    The agricultural cycle is the annual cycle of activities related to the growth and harvest of a crop (plant). These activities include loosening the soil, seeding, special watering, moving plants when they grow bigger, and harvesting, among others. Without these activities, a crop cannot be grown.