Saturday, December 03, 2005

isms

vitalism
fatalism
positivism
nominalism
naturalism
empiricism
idealism
rationalism
evolutionism
determinism
romanticism
atheism
pantheism
capitalism
communism
socialism
marxism
materialism
structure functionalism
conflict functionalism
intuitionism
behaviorism
instrumentalism
symbolic interactionism
reductionism
realism
pragmatism
utilitarianism
operationalism
quantitativism
pluralism
neonominalism
neopositivism
neofunctionalism
neomarxism
neoevolutionism
creationism
informationalism
structuralism
poststructuralism
modernism
postmodernism

so many more isms…
what are isms really?

facets of reality?
perspectives?
frames of reference
to understand the universe?

beliefs to hold
defend
desperately
when all else is uncertain?