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...]] processes that shift as much [[decision-making]] authority as practical to the organization's lowest geographic or social level of organization.<ref>{ ...l organizations that are run by all members, or by whichever member wishes to do something.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://next-nexus.info/writing/politics/g ...

==Connection to sociology== ...unit made of smaller parts, with the functioning family unit then going on to form the smaller parts of a wider community, society and so on.<ref>{{Cite ...

...ar of all against all'''", is the description that [[Thomas Hobbes]] gives to [[Human condition|human existence]] in the [[state of nature|state-of-natur ...s+a+war+of+all+against+all%2C+which+necessarily+adheres+to+such+a+state%2C+to+be+good+for+him%22 English translation] on Google Books.</ref>}} ...

...Eden]] that [[God]] commands mankind [[Taboo#In religion and mythology|not to eat]]. In the biblical story, [[Adam and Eve]] eat the fruit from the [[tre As a metaphor outside of the Abrahamic religions, the phrase typically refers to any indulgence or pleasure that is considered illegal or immoral. ...

...found in most cultures of the [[Mediterranean Basin]] and thence expanded to become an almost universally recognized peace symbol in the [[modern world] ...dition, a ''hiketeria'' (ἱκετηρία) was an olive branch held by supplicants to show their status as such when approaching persons of power or in temples w ...

..., where he studied for some time under [[Rabanus Maurus]] before returning to Reichenau, of which monastery he was made abbot in 838.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911} ..., however, restored to his monastery in 842, and died in 849 on an embassy to his former pupil. His epitaph was written by Rabanus Maurus, whose elegiacs ...

...ommonly used to refer to the plant growth replacing [[primeval forest]] or to the unkempt [[tropical vegetation]] that takes over abandoned areas.<ref>{{ ...ically forms along rainforest margins such as stream banks, once again due to the greater available light at ground level.<ref name=autogenerated5 /> ...

...w Qing dynasty. Fearing that he would also be purged and executed, he fled to a Buddhist temple and learned the teachings of [[Zen|Chan (Zen) Buddhism]], ...hart, 50.</ref> Most of the time, he painted simple subjects like flowers, plants, and animals and kept most of the given space empty.<ref name=":1" /> Towar ...

{{Short description|Phrase to describe the mechanism of natural selection}} ...nproject.ac.uk/entry-5145#mark-5145.f3 | title=Letter 5145 – Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 5 July (1866) | publisher=Darwin Correspondence Project | a ...

...avior or acknowledge the new idea. The behavior was said to propagate even to groups that are physically separated and have no apparent means of communic The 'hundredth monkey' effect was popularized in the mid-to-late 1970s by [[Lyall Watson]], who documented the findings of several Japa ...

...y common practice in American bars of offering a "[[free lunch]]" in order to entice drinking customers. ...y, 1975. {{ISBN|087548297X}}.</ref> it is used in [[economics]] literature to describe [[opportunity cost]].<ref name="Gwartney 2005 8–9">{{cite book|las ...

...organizations use collective action from [[volunteers]] at the local level to implement change at the local, regional, national, or international levels. ...e necessary in shaping progressive politics as they bring public attention to regional political concerns.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Black Popular Culture|la ...

...helle, killing his maternal grandmother and injuring his father, who tried to save her.<ref>Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind- The Authorized Biography ...hematics, but decided that he preferred the [[humanities]]. He transferred to [[Columbia University]], where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in [[E ...

...Internet Archive Wayback Machine: Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt. -->|quote=The United States–Mexico border historically has been ...amplified the issues, such as developers stripping topsoil from the ground to subdivide land, and the resulting plains then become breeding grounds for m ...

...s tree''', is a [[deciduous]] tree in the [[quassia family]]. It is native to northeast and central China, and [[Taiwan]]. Unlike other members of the ge ...parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odor that is often likened to peanuts, cashews,{{sfn|Miller|2006|p=3}} or rotting cashews.{{sfn|Davies|20 ...

...he [[Earth]]'s conditions, as the Earth is the only planet currently known to harbour life (''[[The Blue Marble]]'', 1972 [[Apollo 17]] photograph).]] ...gistic]] and [[Homeostasis|self-regulating]] [[complex system]] that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for [[life]] on the planet. ...

...addresses the relation between signs and their users. Semiotics is related to [[linguistics]] but has a broader scope that includes nonlinguistic signs, ...sign vehicle and referent is [[conventional]] or arbitrary, which applies to most [[Language|linguistic signs]]. Models of signs analyze the basic compo ...

...r" in the development of American sociology, with contemporaries referring to him as "the [[Nestor (mythology)|Nestor]] of American sociologists".<ref na ...1858) was of New England colonial descent and worked on farms in addition to being an itinerant mechanic.<ref name="auto4"/> Silence Ward was the daught ...

...st 140418-N-OX321-101.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|American students learning how to make and roll [[sushi]]]] ...last a lifetime, and it is hard to distinguish learned material that seems to be "lost" from that which cannot be retrieved.<ref name="Schacter">{{cite b ...

{{Short description|Organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition or a stimulus}} ...are exposed to.jpg|thumb|Schematic overview of the classes of stresses in plants]] ...