... certain ideas may be characterized as pervading and dominant. A rational and scientific approach to religious, social, political, and economic issues promoted a secular view of the world and a general sense of progress and perfectibility. 2 The major champions of these concepts were the philosophes, who popularized and promulgated the new ideas for the general reading public. These proponents of the Enlightenment ... naturalist on H.M.S. Beagle, he was prompted by the submission (1858) of an almost identical theory by A. R. Wallace to present his evidence for the descent of all life fro...

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... freedom of coming and going." He is a part of the group because he lives among its members, but does not really belong to it in the sense of sharing universal qualities as the others do. Simmel states, "the state of being a stranger is of course a completely positive relation; it is ... certain qualities among them alike, which make them unique from other groups. However, in the case of the stranger, the only qualities he has in common with the group are general qualities as opposed to the more specific traits the group shares which differentiates them from other groups. In Simmel's word...

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... law??? The first thing that we must do in understanding the "internal" aspect of law is distinguish between social rules and habits. A social habit is common in social group, in other words it is a general and observable behavior of most of the group. For it to obtain habit status, it must be ... form of social control and conditioning to law abiding practices. A social habit is merely external though, it is the "external" aspect of law. It is the common and OBSERVABLE unified behavior of a social group. For example, we all wear a green colored tie on this day, every Thursday. A Social Ru...

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... As Christians and people of faith in the God of life, we are called to make some urgent ethical choices. A social conversion towards the common good of all in our society "locally and globally, and towards harmony with mother earth and the environment is necessary. What is becoming clear ... in religious or theological language. In dictionaries of Christian social thought, the term does not exist as a developed concept, and it is not identified as a common experience or praxis. We find in the social Christian literature of the recent years frequent reference to "social evil" and "sinfu...

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... Puritan predecessors. They wrote history for their own satisfaction and to explain to the enlightened world the success of men like themselves: free, bold, intelligent, and ambitious. Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia is a highly evolved product of this rationalist tradition. America is for Jefferson, as it was for the Puritans, a model for the world, but ... psychology shallow, their social analysis predictable, and their moral judgements superficial. They found the Progressive instance on explaining many events to be more hindrance than help in making sense of specific ...

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... itself as political or violent action leading to social changes. The model is based upon power from below, 'class', and Pahl questions the links of causality in this chain. Pahl notes the flexibility of the applications of this model, to minority groups such as gays, squatters, single parents and any other group which feels it is being oppressed. Furthermore it might ... attitude do not correlate empirically, effectively discrediting traditional class analysists. Classification according to 'lifestyle' might therefore be more appropriate in the current situation. Lifestyle categories are ...

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... do things. As a group, they tend to put aside personal pleasure, either because they believe in the ultimate rewards of an afterlife, or because they are motivated by guilt and a sense of duty that puts their obligations ahead of other things in their lives. The majority of them still are very old fashion, the only exception is a group referred to as ... self-fulfillment, have a strong belief in human rights and remain suspicious of people in positions of authority. Adams also comments on the differences between women and men. First off, he notes that there are differences between the s...

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... that there is a willingness to reverse roles, thus resulting in a mutual reinforcement of reversal and reciprocation. How do these practices observed during Holi relate to the mythology of Krishna? Marriott notes that the association of Krishna with the Holi festival might have been a relatively recent development. The description of the festival as the celebration of Krishna's killing of the demoness Putana ... to the villagers, particularly those of higher castes, to assume the roles of inferiors while celebrating Holi. The second aspect of Krishna's character which is emulated at Hol...

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