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| For Hegel, the experience of part of oneself as separate and alien. Most pronounced in societies with a complex division of labor and a high degree of structural differentiation. |
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| The real social and economic relations among subjects. Especially pronounced in liberal bourgeois society. The rights of egoistic atomized individuals are held to be absolute. |
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| Associations that help to link particular subjects with the larger society (for example, occupational associations) |
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| Being that is qualified by certain determinable and particular characteristics. The external world that we experience as a result of meditative categories. |
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| Probably no other term is used with imprecision by sociologist. For Hegel the dialectic was, above all, the process by which humans strive to become more reasonable. This involves an emancipatory interest in critical theory. |
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| The inner world of being. For Hegel, pure spirit. |
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| That which make s objectification possible. The means by which subjects can reflect on themselves and come to identify themselves as particular kinds of beings. For Hegel, the most important medium is labor. |
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| Inter subjectively defined categories of reality construction that serve to organize human experience. |
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| The only agency in the universe that can ground itself-that is, be self-positing and self-determining. That which enables the human subject to be reflective. |
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| The dissolution of mediative categories that are alienating. |
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| Exclusive or special devotion to something particular. |
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| An abstraction or idea that is treated as if it is a concrete thing. |
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| The point of view that best expresses the general will of all within a community or totality. |
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| In Spencer's usage, the development of a systematic theory to guide the organization of data. |
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| One of the three major parts of society. It is concerned with transportation and communication, and links regulating and subsystems. |
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| In Spencer's usage, a state in which parts of a system are in constant adaptive readjustment to one another. |
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| For Spencer, the starting point of evolutionary change, where a phenomenon is in a state of unintegrated and disorganized likeness of substance |
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| For Spencer, the direction in which evolutionary change develops. Involves an integrated system composed of unlike and functionally distinct parts |
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| In Spencer's usage, involves the organization of data in terms of an a priori theoretical model. |
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| Society organized for the production of goods, where the sustaining system dominates the regulating system. |
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| Archaic theory of biological evolution based on the inheritance of traits acquired and lost through use and disuse. |
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| A society organized for warfare where the regulating system dominates the sustaining system. |
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| One of the three major parts of society. It is concerned with governmental regulation and military organization. Dominant part of the society in a militant society. |
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| One of the three major parts of society. Concerned with the production of goods. Dominant part of society in a n industrial society. |
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