Film theory is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.

Feminist theory, which emerged from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women's social roles and lived experience ; it has developed theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender.

Quantum information theory aims to investigate the following question:

Pioneered by the philosopher Donald Davidson, another formalized theory, which aims to associate each natural language sentence with a meta-language description of the conditions under which it is true, for example: ` Snow is white ' is true if and only if snow is white.

However, the existence of God is viewed as any large-scale hypothesis or explanatory theory that aims to make sense of some pertinent facts.

Adorno's theory proceeds from an understanding of this primitive quality of reality which seeks to counteract whatever aims to either repress this primitive aspect or further those systems of domination set in place by this return to barbarism.

For Aristotle, both practice and theory involve thinking, but the aims are different.

It is a political theory and political project that aims for direct democracy in all fields of social life: political democracy in the form of face-to-face assemblies which are confederated, economic democracy in a stateless, moneyless and marketless economy, democracy in the social realm, i. e., self-management in places of work and education, and ecological democracy which aims to reintegrate society and nature.

The " Minimalist Program " aims at the further development of ideas involving economy of derivation and economy of representation, which had started to become significant in the early 1990s, but were still rather peripheral aspects of Transformational-generative grammar theory.

Schenker's primary theoretic aims were to prove the superiority of music of the common practice period ( especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Fryderyk Chopin, and Johannes Brahms ) over more modern music such as that of Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, and to show that most of the established music theory teaching of the time, with an emphasis on the theories of his contemporary Hugo Riemann, was misleading and useless for an understanding of the " masterworks.

The author aims to " re-think " Senge's The Fifth Discipline through systems theory.

The Frankfurt School's work cannot be fully comprehended without equally understanding the aims and objectives of critical theory.

He was a co-founder of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture ( CSC ) and is credited with establishing the wedge Strategy, which aims to change public opinion and scientific consensus, and seeks to convince the scientific community to allow a role for God in scientific theory.

First, it is a set of claims about the features of an ideal scientific theory ; an ideal theory is the sort of theory science aims to produce.

PAS positions itself as a political party that aims to establish Malaysia as a country based on Islamic legal theory derived from the primary sources of Islam, the Quran, Sunnah as well as Hadiths, as opposed to Barisan Nasional's Islam Hadhari, which PAS sees as based on a watered-down understanding of Islam.

Psychobiography aims to understand historical individuals such as artists or political leaders, through the application of psychological theory and research.

It is a location wherein the praxis of U. S. third-world feminism links with the aims of white feminism, studies of race, ethnicity, and marginality, and with post-modern theories of culture as they crosscut and join together in new relationships through a shared comprehension of an emerging theory and method of oppositional consciousness.

In this account he develops a theory of cooperation, to show how people of different intellectual positions can nevertheless cooperate to achieve common practical aims.

In MTE, this relationship is considered to be the single constraint that defines biological processes at all levels of organization ( from individual up to ecosystem level ), and is a macroecological theory that aims to be universal in scope and application.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

However it is important to note that the objects of a category need not be sets nor the arrows functions ; any way of formalising a mathematical concept such that it meets the basic conditions on the behaviour of objects and arrows is a valid category, and all the results of category theory will apply to it.

Applied ethics is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply ethical theory to real-life situations.

Any theory in which these principles apply produces the inequalities.

As an interpretation, it is not in conflict with the mathematical axiomatization of probability theory ; rather, it provides guidance for how to apply mathematical probability theory to real-world situations.

It essentially explores how rational investors would apply decision theory to the problem of investment.

* Lie groups — Many important Lie groups are compact, so the results of compact representation theory apply to them.

Graves argues that not only is r / K selection theory considered to be virtually useless when applied to human life history evolution, but Rushton does not apply the theory correctly, and displays a lack of understanding of evolutionary theory in general.

: This theory regards international and municipal law as separate systems so that the municipal courts can only apply international law either when it has been incorporated into municipal law or when the courts incorporate international law on their own motion.

As an approach to the unification of the forces, it is straightforward to apply the Kaluza – Klein theory in an attempt to unify gravity with the strong and electroweak forces by using the symmetry group of the Standard Model, SU ( 3 ) × SU ( 2 ) × U ( 1 ).

Writing in the 1920s, Kondratiev proposed to apply the theory to the 19th century:

Many biologists also dismissed the theory because they were not sure it would apply to all species.

The same equations of electromagnetic theory apply at all frequencies.

Because classes do not have any formal status in the theory of ZF, the axioms of ZF do not immediately apply to classes.

Both these approaches apply to other areas of mathematics beyond analysis, including number theory, algebra and topology.

Scholars have recently attempted to apply network theory to precedent in order to establish which precedent is most important or authoritative, and how the court's interpretations and priorities have changed over time.

Much academic debate regarded one or both of two pragmatic topics: how ( or whether ) to apply utilitarianism to problems of political policy, or how ( or whether ) to apply economic models ( such as rational choice theory ) to political issues.

Methods of probability theory also apply to descriptions of complex systems given only partial knowledge of their state, as in statistical mechanics.

Such arguments typically claim that the relationship between a particular and its form is very intelligible and easily grasped ; that people unproblematically apply Platonic theory in everyday life ; and that the inherence criticism is only created by the artificial demand to explain the normal understanding of inherence as if it were highly problematic.

In theory this could also apply to the 4x and 8x, but most rowing clubs cannot afford to have a dedicated large hull which might be rarely used and instead generally opt for versatility in their fleet by using stronger shells which can be rigged for either sweep rowing or sculling.

The part lexicon-type layout ( with a marginal " dictionary " composed by Jennifer Sigler, who also edited the book ) spawned a number of concepts that have become common in later architectural theory, in particular " Bigness ": ' old ' architectural principles ( composition, scale, proportion, detail ) no longer apply when a building acquires Bigness.

Anthropology has been used in Britain to provide an alternative explanation for the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 to the technical explanations rooted in economic and political theory.

He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of " Direct Credits ", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour.

This has largely replaced adaptive expectations in macroeconomic theory since its assumption of optimality of expectations is consistent with economic theory.

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

Although the perception by the public may be that the " central bank " controls some or all interest rates and currency rates, economic theory ( and substantial empirical evidence ) shows that it is impossible to do both at once in an open economy.

Most proxies for " grievance "-the theory that civil wars begin because of issues of identity, rather than economics-were statistically insignificant, including economic equality, political rights, ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.

Specifically, neocolonialism refers to the theory that former or existing economic relationships, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post – World War II period.

In recent years dependency theory has been used to examine the situation of the Maritimes, and while it rejects most traditional economic models it does correspond with the evidence.

* Mutualism ( economic theory )

Other broad distinctions include those between positive economics ( describing " what is ") and normative economics ( advocating " what ought to be "); between economic theory and applied economics ; between rational and behavioral economics ; and between mainstream economics ( more " orthodox " and dealing with the " rationality-individualism-equilibrium nexus ") and heterodox economics ( more " radical " and dealing with the " institutions-history-social structure nexus ").

From the 1960s, however, such comments abated as the economic theory of maximizing behavior and rational-choice modeling expanded the domain of the subject to areas previously treated in other fields.

Philosophers identify independent, logical reasoning as a precondition to most western science, engineering, economic and political theory.

" More precisely, it is " the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

Econometrics add empirical content to economic theory allowing theories to be tested and used for forecasting and policy evaluation.

Monetary policy of the Federal Reserve System is based partially on the theory that it is best overall to expand or contract the money supply as economic conditions change.

* Growth Fetish, the pursuit of economic growth in politics and economic theory as a universal cure for all society's problems

In the interpretation of the currently dominant view of classical economic theory developed by neoclassical economists, the term " factors " did not exist until after the classical period and is not to be found in any of the literature of that time.

But this debate is more about basic economic theory ( the role of the factors in the economy ) than it is about the definition of the factors of production.

Human capital is important in modern economic theory.

According to economic theory, a " factor of production " is used to create value and allow economic performance.