A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 treatise advocating education and moral agency for women, its arguments, context, reception, and influence on later movements for women's rights.
Ali Shariati — Iranian sociologist, religious thinker and political intellectual Ali Shariati Ali Shariati (1933–1977) was an influential Iranian sociologist and Islamic thinker who blended religious ideas with social critique and helped shape intellectual currents before t…
Authority: Concepts, Forms, History, and Social Role Authority Comprehensive overview of authority: definitions, major types and sources of legitimacy, how it operates in institutions and everyday life, limits and debates, and contemporary iss…
Civil disobedience: nonviolent refusal to obey laws deemed unjust Civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the deliberate, public, nonviolent refusal to follow laws or commands viewed as unjust, used historically to press moral and political change and to draw publ…
Civil religion Civil religion: the public set of beliefs, symbols and rituals that provide moral authority and social cohesion for a political community. Origins, major thinkers, functions, examp…
