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‘As we speak, so we are. As our speech changes, so too, do we’ (Ball 1988, 1)

Define the following terms. 

When, Where and Who coined them? Who used them? How did they develop? How are they related? How have they changed? What terms need to be added to the list. Find and cite examples of scholarly papers that define, describe or contrast them. Note, different disciplines ignore each other's contributions so look at literature from philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political science, history, psychology and geography.

 

Science

History of Science

Philosophy of Science

Scientific Method

Social Science

Social Science Methodology

induction

problem of induction

deduction

laws

theory

model

observation

data

experiment

explanation

hypothesis

hypothetico-deductive method

falsifyability

probability

statistics

design of experiment

knowledge

logic

cogency

causality

conceptual metaphor

empirical method

quasi-empirical methods

instrumentalism

peer review

System

Measurement

Qualitative methods

Philosophy

Epistemology

ontology

Metaphysics

natural philosophy

Phenomenology

Pragmatism

Ordinary language philosophy 

philosophy of perception

Analytic philosophy

Continental philosophy

Realism

Idealism (German)

Empiricism

Rationalism

Positivism (logical)

Skepticism

Existentialism

Renaissance

Humanism

Reformation

Enlightenment

Encyclopedie

Deism

Theism

Counter-Enlightenment

Sturm und Drang

Romanticism

Liberalism

Conservatism

Marxism

Marxist

Marxian

Cultural materialism

Darwinism

Hegelianism

socialism

Industrial Revolution

Owenism

anarchism

communism

Historicism

Philology

Anthropology

Ethnology

Ethnography

Redfield-Lewis controversy

Geography

Sociology

Psychology

Intellectual History

Political economy

gender studies

Functional linguistic tradition 

unilinear evolution

multilinear evolution

Functionalism

Structuralism

Semiotics

Structural-functionalism

Culture and Personality

Psychoanalysis

Social ecology

Cultural ecology

Human ecology

Chicago School

Frankfurt School

Modern

Post Modernism

Post Structuralism

Historical particularism

Ethnoscience

socio linguistics

Structure - Agency

Structuration Theory

Critical Theory

Critical Realism

Ethnomethodology 

Cognitive Anthropology

Sociobiology

Rational Choice Theory

Symbolic Interaction

Discourse Theory

Set theory

Game Theory

Social Contract theory

Hermeneutics


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