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| Feudalization | To break up into many political groupings: it is also sometimes called Balkanization. |
| Free Agency | A practice in professional sports of permitting players from time to time to go on the open market and offer their services to the highest bidder. |
| Glasnost | A Russian term which came into international use during the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Indoctrination | The practice of teaching doctrine or principles. |
| Irrationalism | The view that reality is basically irrational, that it is not reasonable.... |
| Martial Law | Imposed usually when local law enforcement is inadequate to the task of maintaining the peace. |
| Materialism | A philosophy or ideology that is based upon the belief that reality is primarily material, that it is composed of matter, its combinatins and motions. |
| Misogyny | The hatred of women. |
| Multi-culturalism | The position that the U.S. has diverse cultures which should all be considered equal. |
| Ontology | A branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of being, and how beings specifically differ from one another. |
| Denizen | Refers to anyone residing in or inhabiting an area. |
| Dissident | One who disagrees with the prevailing authorities in a country. Applied to opponents of Communist regimes in 1970s and 1980s. |
| Elite | Persons who rule or dominate on the basis of their assumed superiority. |
| Environmentalism | An ideology which supports the preservation of the integrity of natural environments. |
| Epistemology | That branch of philosophy which deals with the nature and grounds of knowledge, its limits and validity. |
| Ethnic Group | Refers to groupings of people, racially or culturally related to one another. |
| Ethnocetric | A focus upon one's own ethnic group, its ways, beliefs, language and outlook to the extent that other ethnic groups are ignored, excluded, or avoided. |
| Feminism | A doctrine or ideology which holds that women are or should be equals with men. |
