Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

Influenced by Keynes, economics texts in the immediate post-war period put a significant emphasis on balance in trade.

Influenced by Buddhist teachings, the document focuses more on social morality than institutions of government per se and remains a notable early attempt at a government constitution.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

Influenced perhaps by his experience as a state governor, Hughes authored a series of decisions that upheld state laws that affected — and, it might be argued, infringed on — congressional authority over interstate commerce.

Influenced like Pound by German social and legal thinkers, Ely in 1903 had ascribed " the coercion of economic forces " in American society " to the unequal strength of those who make a contract.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

Influenced by the doctrine of " natural right ", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the views of Brentano's pupil Alexius Meinong, and by Edmund Husserl, Germanophone and Francophone philosophy took a different direction regarding the question of existence.

Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.

Influenced by his dreams, he wrote his first novel, A Goddess Arrives, over the next few years.

Influenced by Jones's psychoanalytic approach, several productions have portrayed the " closet scene ", where Hamlet confronts his mother in her private quarters, in a sexual light.

Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, these rights were deemed universal and valid in all times and places, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah (), he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten tribes ; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon.

* René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators ( Amsterdam, 2007 )

Influenced by the constructivist theories of Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, Seymour Papert developed his constructionist theory ( Sefton-Green 2004 ).

Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers ’ culture should not be ‘ hamstrung from above ’, and opposed the Proletkult ( 1917 – 25 ) organisational control of the national culture.

Influenced by Henry Salt's writing, he joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected to its executive committee, and started a local Bayswater chapter.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

Influenced by Godard, Jean-Marie Straub and the theories of Brecht, these films are austere and minimalist in style.

Influenced by the indigenous church mission theories of Anglican Henry Venn ( 1796 – 1873 ) and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions secretary Rufus Anderson ( 1796 – 1880 ), from the beginning of the global expansion of the Church of the Nazarene ( including its antecedent groups ), there was a commitment to the development of indigenous churches and districts within the framework of a unitary global denomination under the authority of the Manual.

Influenced by the revolutionary theories of Sun Yat-sen, he later decided to dedicate himself to the cause of establishing a democratic and modern China.

Influenced by the work of Erich von Däniken, Anderson researched von Däniken's theories on how he believed early civilizations were able to construct massive pyramids with the help of aliens, an idea drawn from Aztec mythology.

Influenced by Isaac Newton, he considered social systems as analogous to physical systems.

Influenced by his childhood interest in the social realism of 1960s " kitchen sink " television plays, Morrissey wrote about ordinary people and their experiences with despair, rejection and death.

Influenced by Downing and his own observations regarding social class in England, China, and the American South, Olmsted believed that the common green space must always be equally accessible to all citizens.

Influenced by the Marxist view of history, Childe used the work to argue that the usual distinction between ( pre-literate ) prehistory and ( literate ) history was a false dichotomy and that human society has progressed through a series of technological, economic and social revolutions.

Influenced by Thomas Kuhn ’ s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1962 ), Ritzer has long advocated the view that social theory is improved by systematic, comparative and reflexive attention to implicit conceptual structures and oft-hidden assumptions.

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “ Planet People ”, and gathering at prehistoric sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

Influenced by his University of Kentucky professors, who were mostly of Midwestern origin and of social democratic inclinations, and by the crisis of the Great Depression, Weaver believed that industrial capitalism had led the United States to a general moral, economic, and intellectual failure.

Influenced by Robert Owen, he wrote Voyage et aventures de lord William Carisdall en Icarie (" Travel and Adventures of Lord William Carisdall in Icaria ") ( 1840 ), which depicted a utopia in which an elected government controlled all economic activity and supervised social affairs, the family remaining the only other independent unit.

Influenced by the student revolts of May 1968, he painted large format tiles with social issues and made exhibitions from 1972 to 1977.

Influenced by Charles Sanders Peirce, Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz, his work has included research in the topics of milieu and life-world (" Lebenswelt ") and contemporary social theory.

Influenced most by Dixon Hall Lewis, Yancey fell into a social and political circle that included political leaders of the state such as Thomas Mays, J. L. M. Curry, John A. Campbell, and John Gill Shorter.

Influenced by the Beastie Boys, their lyrics did not have any specific political or social message and were mostly party lyrics.

Influenced by the work of Max Stirner and by the Marxist Situationist International, post-left anarchy is marked by a focus on social insurrection and a rejection of leftist social organisation.

Influenced by accounts of economic hardship by depression-era Americans that his mother had seen first hand as a social worker, Grubb produced a dark tale that mixed the plight of poor children and adults with that of the evil inflicted by others.

Influenced by the Greek Neoterics, the Latin Neoterics or poetae novi ( writing in the 1st century BC ) rejected traditional social and literary norms.

Influenced by structuralism and centered on novels by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Stendhal, Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel ( 1981 ) considered the novel form ’ s fraught relationship to the social and ethical principles that it purports to convey.

Influenced by the English 2 Tone movement, Desorden Público's embraces different languages and promotes racial and social tolerance.