breakdown of social order
81Puritan — A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more purity of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and group piety. Puritans felt that the English Reformation had not gone far… …
82Leviathan and the Air-Pump — Infobox Book name = Leviathan and the Air Pump title orig = translator = image caption = author = Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer illustrator = cover artist = country = USA language = English series = genre = publisher = Princeton University… …
83tragedy — /traj i dee/, n., pl. tragedies. 1. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society …
84anomie — anomie, anomy An absence, breakdown, confusion, or conflict in the norms of a society. The term anomia is scattered throughout classical Greek writings, where it may be linked to the adjective anomos, meaning ‘without law’. It has since assumed a …
85History of Germany — Despite the lack of a German nation state prior to 1871, the History of Germany dates back to the era of the Germanic tribes. Following the migration period, the Franks subsequently subdued the West Germanic tribes, who made up for most of East… …
86Political philosophy — Part of the Politics series Politics List of political topics Politics by country …
87land reform — any program, esp. when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * Deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its… …
88ethnomethodology — A sociological approach which emerged out of the breakdown of the so called orthodox consensus in the mid 1960s. The label was coined by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel, who laid the foundations of ethnomethodology as a theory, and as a …
89CHARITY — The obligation to help the poor and the needy and to give them gifts is stated many times in the Bible and was considered by the rabbis of all ages to be one of the cardinal mitzvot of Judaism. In the Bible The Bible itself legislates several… …
90Blindness (novel) — Infobox Book | name = Blindness title orig = Ensaio sobre a ceguera translator = Giovanni Pontiero image caption = 1999 Harvest paperback edition cover author = José Saramago cover artist = country = Portugal language = Portuguese series = genre …
