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materialism
materialism in philosophy, a widely held system of thought that explains the nature of the world as entirely dependent on matter, the fundamental and final reality beyond which nothing need be sought. Certain periods in history, usually those associated with scientific advance, are marked by strong... Read more
dialectical materialism
dialectical materialism official philosophy of Communism, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , as elaborated by G. V. Plekhanov , V. I. Lenin , and Joseph Stalin . In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for th... Read more
composite material
composite material or composite, any material made from at least two discrete substances, such as concrete. Many materials are produced as composites, such as the fiberglass -reinforced plastics used for automobile bodies and boat hulls, but the term usually is used to describe any of various ... Read more
ceramics
ceramics , materials made of nonmetallic minerals that have been permanently hardened by firing at a high temperature, or objects made of such materials. Most ceramics resist heat and chemicals and are poor conductors of heat and electricity. Traditional ceramics are made of clay and other natural o... Read more
leaf mold
leaf mold crumbly brown humus typical of forest floors. It is composed of decayed leaves and other plant material mixed with soil. ... Read more
dredging
dredging process of excavating materials underwater. It is used to deepen waterways, harbors, and docks and for mining alluvial mineral deposits, including tin, gold, and diamonds. The Dutch at an early period cleared their canals of silt with a pole to which was attached a bag held open by a ... Read more
fiberglass
fiberglass thread made from glass. It is made by forcing molten glass through a kind of sieve, thereby spinning it into threads. Fiberglass is strong, durable, and impervious to many caustics and to extreme temperatures. For those qualities, fabrics woven from the glass threads are widely used for ... Read more
Young's modulus
Young's modulus [for Thomas Young ], number representing (in pounds per square inch or dynes per square centimeter) the ratio of stress to strain for a wire or bar of a given substance. According to Hooke's law the strain is proportional to stress, and therefore the ratio of the two is a constant ... Read more
pinocytosis
pinocytosis A form of endocytosis in which the material enclosed is a liquid and there is no fusion with a lysosome. Pinocytosis may be a means by which macromolecules (e.g. hormones and proteins) are taken into a cell.... Read more
annealing
annealing , process in which glass, metals, and other materials are treated to render them less brittle and more workable. Annealing consists of heating the material and then cooling it very slowly and uniformly; the time and temperatures required in the process are set according to the properties d... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "materialism"

Materialism, Dialectical
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Materialism, Dialectical Dialectical materialism was the name given by the doctrinaires and political stalwarts...regarded it more as an ideology, but either way dialectical materialism was a constituent part of the major political innovation...
Materialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Materialism The term materialism, derived from the Latin word materia (timber, matter), was...distinguish between different versions of such theories: theoretical materialism, the philosophical doctrine according to which, in contrast...
dialectical materialism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition dialectical materialism official philosophy of Communism...Joseph Stalin . In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general...by their conformity to dialectical materialism (see Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich...
materialism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition materialism in philosophy, a widely held system...chiefly responsible. A reaction against materialism was felt in the later years of the 18th...Two of the modern developments of materialism are dialectical materialism and physicalism...
historical materialism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition historical materialism see dialectical materialism .
Dialectical Materialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM A concept in Soviet Marxist-Leninist ideology. Dialectical materialism was the underlying approach to the interpretation of history and society in Soviet Marxist-Leninist ideology. According to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich...
Scientific Materialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Scientific Materialism See ;
Soul
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...afterlife and did not embrace a thorough materialism. The early modern era was profoundly...the body, but increasingly a form of materialism or naturalism gained ground. Unease...other words, mechanical, reductive materialism faces the danger of undermining the...
Science and Religion, Models and Relations
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...theological spectrum: creation science and scientific materialism. Each gains a following partly by its opposition...rather than encourage further research. Scientific materialism. Materialism is the assertion that matter is the fundamental...
La Mettrie, Julien Offroy De (1709–1751)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...philosophes, he also applied a thoroughgoing materialism to human beings. Using evidence drawn...organic, and self-moving; his materialism did not distinguish between conscious...Mettrie examined the implications of materialism for moral values. He questioned whether...

Dictionary entries related to "materialism"

Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas HISTORICAL AND DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. Historical and dialectical materialism are doctrines in the philosophy of history and...While in the later twentieth century dialectical materialism all but faded away, historical materialism has...
Materialism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas MATERIALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN THOUGHT. Materialism is the generic name of a variety of doctrines that deny the existence of non-material substances. Materialism may be either a metaphysical or a methodological concept...
materialism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology materialism In sociology and related disciplines, the word materialism has three quite distinct meanings which are, however...moral or political controversy, according to which materialism refers to a prevailing pattern of desire for mere...
historical materialism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology historical materialism A term applied by Karl Marx himself to his theory of society and...state, religion, market, and so forth—were located. Materialism denoted the rejection of Hegelian idealism and the primacy of socio...
cultural materialism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology cultural materialism A macro-theory in anthropology which holds that most aspects of...approach to the study of culture shares the same characteristics as the materialism of Marx and Engels; namely, that as a concrete research strategy...
materialism, dialectical
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology materialism, dialectical See DIALECTIC .
Lenin (Ulyanov), Vladimir Ilyich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...subjective idealism, and directed a book, Materialism and Empiriocriticism (1909), against...defense and a development of dialectical materialism, the philosophical theory of Marx and...motion to be immaterial. Philosophical materialism, Lenin argued, does not presuppose...
dialectic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology dialectic, dialectical materialism See ENGELS , FRIEDRICH; GURVITCH , GEORGES; HEGEL , G. W. F.; HISTORICAL MATERIALISM ; MARX , KARL; MATERIALISM .
Engels, Friedrich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...1884) extended the range of historical materialism to engage with current work in anthropology...of those developments. Dialectical materialism was the term invented by Engels to encapsulate his attempt to sustain a form of materialism which was sufficiently open and flexible...
Philosophy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...growth of what is often thought to be realism's cousin, materialism — that monistic position opposed to idealism...scientific investigation could easily but erroneously combine with materialism, but they have usually argued that only some sort of idealism...

Thesaurus entries related to "materialism"

cupidity
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus cupidity • noun  he did not really see her cupidity until they'd been married for several years synonyms : greed, avarice, avariciousness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, Mammonism; informal money-grubbing. antonym: generosity.
avarice
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English avarice • noun  she turned to crime because of avarice synonyms : greed, acquisitiveness, covetousness, materialism; selfishness, self-interest, meanness, miserliness.
greed
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...greediness • noun   1. human greed synonyms : avarice, cupidity, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity; materialism, mercenariness; rare pleonexia, informal money-grubbing, affluenza. antonym: generosity.   2. her mouth...
acquisitiveness
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...children seem to possess none of the acquisitiveness so typical of Hollywood brats synonyms : greed, greediness, covetousness, cupidity, possessiveness, avarice, avidity, rapaciousness, rapacity, materialism; informal affluenza.

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"Materialism cometh"
Magazine article from: Baylor Business Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Racehorse Owners? Research on materialism has sought to understand the factors...be a significant relationship between materialism and status consumption, since one...mankind. The increasing presence of materialism among developed countries disturbs many...
Materialism and money spending disposition as predictors of economic and personality variables.
Magazine article from: North American Journal of Psychology; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...research explored the relationships between materialism and money spending attitudes on impulse...other adults (N = 266) completed a materialism scale, portions of two money conservation...multiple regression analyses revealed that materialism and money conservation were predictive...
MATERIALISM AND SOCIAL COMPARISON AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Materialism and social comparison are important...figures were both positive predictors of materialism. The implications are discussed, with...processes, cognitive development, materialism, social comparison, adolescents...
The salience of post-materialism in Canadian politics *.
Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...writings, Inglehart argued that post-materialism would replace the political cleavages...was historically contingent. Post-materialism did not become a major force in European...contemporary Canada to show that post-materialism had little lasting impact in at least...
The salience of post-materialism in Canadian politics
Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Salience of Post-materialism in Canadian Politics* Dans une...writings, Inglehart argued that post-materialism would replace the political cleavages...historically contingent. Post-materialism did not become a major force in...
Materialism in kids and adolescents linked to self-esteem
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/26/2007; 600 words ; ...that a young person's level of materialism is linked to their self-esteem. Factors responsible for increasing materialism in kids include peer pressure...to focus on the development of materialism among kids. Deborah Roedder John...
Five dangers of materialism.(mind-body problem)
Magazine article from: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...approaches offer counter-arguments to materialism (Vendler, 1994; Warner, 1994...five central dangers associated with materialism that ultimately result in (a) the...for psychic holism. The Spectrum of Materialism Beginning with Democritus and Epicurus...
Negativity and dialectical materialism: Zhang Shiying's reading of Hegel's dialectical logic.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Western descriptions of dialectical materialism in China make it appear to be an over...studies--when it came to dialectical materialism, with visions of it as a totalized...readers pause. Chinese dialectical materialism has been dismissed as irrelevant and...
The High Price of Materialism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; The High Price of Materialism, by Tim Kasser. Cambridge: The...Kasser's book, The High Price of Materialism. Is it possible that materialistic...that paints a frightening picture of materialism. Kasser demonstrates links between...
MATERIALISM BEGINNING TO LOSE ITS ONCE IRON GRIP ON SCIENCE AND CULTURE.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 5/23/1997; 700+ words ; ...avoid eye contact between faith and materialism that many seminaries and denominational...can't hide from the consequences. Materialism - the doctrine that nature is all there...consequences of such sentiments. Now materialism is under scholarly attack as never before...