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  2. Social identity threat - Wikipedia

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    Social identity threat is a theory in social psychology derived from social identity theory to explain the different types of threats that arise from group identity being threatened as opposed to personal identity. [1]

  3. Social dominance theory - Wikipedia

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    Males are more dominant than females, and they possess more political power and occupy higher status positions illustrating the iron law of androcracy. [18] As a role gets more powerful, Putnam ’s law of increasing disproportion [ 19 ] becomes applicable and the probability the role is occupied by a hegemonic group member increases.

  4. Technological singularity - Wikipedia

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    Oft-cited dangers include those commonly associated with molecular nanotechnology and genetic engineering. These threats are major issues for both singularity advocates and critics, and were the subject of Bill Joy 's April 2000 Wired magazine article " Why The Future Doesn't Need Us ".

  5. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of British descent (sometimes more broadly of Northwestern European descent), who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often ...

  6. Structural functionalism - Wikipedia

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    Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is "a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability".

  7. Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) - Wikipedia

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    Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.

  8. Weight (representation theory) - Wikipedia

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    In the case, the dominant integral elements live in a 60-degree sector. The notion of being dominant is not the same as being higher than zero. Note the grey area in the picture on the right is a 120-degree sector, strictly containing the 60-degree sector corresponding to the dominant integral elements.

  9. Intelligent design - Wikipedia

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    [29] [n 4] [n 5] Whether this lack of specificity about the designer's identity in public discussions is a genuine feature of the concept – or just a posture taken to avoid alienating those who would separate religion from the teaching of science – has been a matter of great debate between supporters and critics of intelligent design. The ...