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111Church's thesis — The thesis that every effectively computable function is general recursive. A thesis rather than a theorem, because the notion of effective computability remains intuitive rather than mathematically defined. The thesis is generally believed,… …
112Embourgeoisement thesis — The Embourgeoisement Hypothesis is the argument that, contrary to the class conflict theory of Karl Marx (1818 1883), increasing numbers of what might traditionally be classified as working class people are coming to assume the lifestyle and… …
113The Zilsel Thesis — in the history and philosophy of science proposes an explanation for why modern science emerged in the early 17th century in Western Europe and not in other places or eras.Edgar Zilsel claims that science only emerged when capitalism emerged in… …
114arsis and thesis — ▪ prosody in prosody, respectively, the accented and unaccented parts of a poetic foot. Arsis, a term of Greek origin meaning “the act of raising or lifting” or “raising the foot in beating time,” refers in Greek, or quantitative… …
115TURNER’S FRONTIER THESIS — The foundational interpretation of Western history through most of the history of cinema Westerns was based upon Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis. Turner was a historian who made his reputation in 1893 with a paper delivered at the… …
116degradation-of-work thesis — The proposition that skilled work has declined in importance with the rise of capitalist industrialization most notably during the twentieth century and following the rise of the scientific management movement. The most notable proponents of this …
117end-of-ideology thesis — Although not originated by the American sociologist Daniel Bell, this very controversial thesis is commonly identified with him, thanks to the publication in 1960 of a book of his essays entitledThe End of Ideology. The central thrust of the… …
118protestant ethic thesis — protestant ethic, protestant ethic thesis The set of values embodied in early Protestantism, which has controversially been linked to the development of modern capitalism , most famously in Max Weber s classic essays on The Protestant Ethic and… …
119Weber Thesis — can refer to several concepts proposed by Max Weber, among them: * Monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force * The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism …
120Arsis and thesis — is a phrase in musical composition, where a point being inverted, is said to move per arsin et thesin ; that is, it rises in one part, and falls in another, or vice versa. In prosody, it refers to the accented and unaccented parts of a poetic… …
