Schools of thought

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There are many different schools of thought that have arisen during development of ideas in Critical Theory, Philosophy and other related fields. Here are just a few:

Constructionism and Constructivism: Building worlds in your head.
Conventionalism: We tend to conform to conventions.
Deconstruction: Dismantling binary opposites.
Ethnicity: And the full panoply of variation.
Empiricism: Truth comes only from direct experience.
Hermeneutics: The exploration of meaning
Idealism: Our experience of the world is, for us, the world.
Feminism: Challenging the source of female identity.
Phenomenology: Objective exploration of experience.
Positivism: Only provable fact is valid knowledge.
Postmodernism: Holistic, anti-deconstructionist viewpoint.
Post-structuralism: Structuralism is seen as too simplistic.
Postmodernism: Things are not as simple as they seem.
Rationalism: The use of pure thought.
Realism: Things exist, whether or not anyone is thinking of them.
Semiotics: The study of signs.
Structuralism: A thing is the sum of its parts and their relationships.
Utilitarianism: People seek to optimize value.

Schools of thought

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