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  2. Abraham Joshua Heschel - Wikipedia

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    [4] Heschel arrived in New York City in March 1940. [4] He soon left for Cincinnati, serving on the faculty of Hebrew Union College (HUC), the main seminary of Reform Judaism, for five years. In 1946 he returned to New York, taking a position with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the main seminary of Conservative Judaism.

  3. Social experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment depends on a particular social approach where the main source of information is the participants' point of view and knowledge. To carry out a social experiment, specialists usually split participants into two groups — active participants (people who take action in particular events) and respondents (people who react to the action).

  4. Sokal affair - Wikipedia

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    Sokal in 2011. In an interview on the U.S. radio program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known leftist thinkers.

  5. Herzl's Mauschel and Zionist antisemitism - Wikipedia

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    Herzl's 1897 article "Mauschel" Mauschel is an article written and published by Theodor Herzl in 1897. [1] [2] [3] The text appeared in his newspaper, Die Welt, which was to become the principal outlet for the Zionist movement down to 1914, [4] and was published roughly a month after the conclusion of the First Zionist Congress.

  6. History of sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.

  7. John Herschel - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl, ˈ h ɛər-/; [2] 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) [1] was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint [3] [4] [5] and did botanical work.

  8. Strong programme - Wikipedia

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    The strong programme or strong sociology is a variety of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) particularly associated with David Bloor, [1] Barry Barnes, Harry Collins, Donald A. MacKenzie, [2] and John Henry. The strong programme's influence on science and technology studies is credited as being unparalleled (Latour 1999).

  9. Microsociology - Wikipedia

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    Microsociology is one of the main levels of analysis (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face. [ 1 ] : 5 Microsociology is based on subjective interpretative analysis rather than statistical or empirical observation, [ 2 ] : 18–21 and shares close ...