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  2. Maurice Anthony Gale - Wikipedia

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    Gale's principal research was the use of EEG to measure brain activity during information processing and during social interaction. He also studied personality correlates of brain function. He also studied personality correlates of brain function.

  3. Gale (publisher) - Wikipedia

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    Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan , United States, [ 2 ] west of Detroit . It has been a division of Cengage since 2007.

  4. Trust (social science) - Wikipedia

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    This is known as "therapeutic trust" [75] and gives both the trustee a reason to be trustworthy, and the trustor a reason to believe they are trustworthy. The definition of trust as a belief in something or a confident expectation about something [76] eliminates the notion of risk because it does not include whether the expectation or belief is ...

  5. Social philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Social philosophy is the study and interpretation of society and social institutions in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations. [1] Social philosophers emphasize understanding the social contexts for political, legal, moral and cultural questions, and the development of novel theoretical frameworks, from social ontology to care ethics to cosmopolitan theories of democracy ...

  6. Academic study of new religious movements - Wikipedia

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    Among the disciplines that NRS uses are anthropology, history, psychology, religious studies, and sociology. [7] Of these approaches, sociology played a particularly prominent role in the development of the field, [7] resulting in it being initially confined largely to a narrow array of sociological questions. [8]

  7. Philosophy of social science - Wikipedia

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    The early sociology of Herbert Spencer came about broadly as a reaction to Comte. Writing after various developments in evolutionary biology, Spencer attempted (in vain) to reformulate the discipline in what we might now describe as socially Darwinistic terms (although Spencer was a proponent of Lamarckism rather than Darwinism).

  8. Value theory - Wikipedia

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    Value theory is the systematic study of values.Also called axiology, it examines the nature, sources, and types of values.As a branch of philosophy, it has interdisciplinary applications in fields such as economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology.

  9. Social theory - Wikipedia

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    Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.