Concept information
Preferred term
theories
Definition
- Theory, from the Greek word for viewing or contemplation, has played a significant role in the understanding of science since the early 19th century but was not considered central before then. Instead, philosophers and scientists spoke more often of (Natural) Law and of hypothesis, defined by Mill as “any supposition which we make (either without actual evidence, or on evidence avowedly insufficient)in order to endeavor to deduce from it conclusions in accordance with facts which are known to be real.” As philosophical interpretation became more language based and conceptually analytical, however, theory became more important in the analytical tradition of science, and in the Marxist tradition, theory (theoria) was often contrasted with practice (praxis), following Marx in the Theses on Feuerbach. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Theories]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- active vs. passive models of information processing
- Africana womanism
- African worldview theory
- Africology
- agenda cutting
- agenda setting
- aggressive schemas
- appreciation index
- arousal theories
- behavior theories
- black existentialism
- black nationalism
- black philosophy
- black politics
- black theology
- catharsis theory
- child-centered vs. media-centered perspectives
- cognitive script theory
- consciencism
- counseling theories
- cuing and priming
- cultivation theory
- desensitization effects
- displacement effect
- education and black studies
- excitation-transfer theory
- externalizing behavior
- forbidden fruit hypothesis
- formal features
- gender schemas/scripts
- general aggression model
- generalizability theory
- grounded theory
- information theory
- interactivity
- intertextuality
- Kawaida
- learning theories
- mean world syndrome
- media practice model
- melanin theory
- message interpretation process model
- music theory
- personality theories
- physiological arousal
- Piagetian theory
- priming theory
- rhetorical theory
- role theory
- schema theory
- selective exposure
- selectivity
- sexual schemas/scripts
- socialization and media
- social learning theory/social cognitive theory
- social theories
- super-peer theory
- test theory
- third-person effect
- uses and gratifications theory
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