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*  Basic beliefs  /  Beliefs 
*  Collective consciousness  /  Collective unconscious 
*  Conceptual system 
*  Context  "Context \(linguistics\)")
*  Conventional wisdom 
*  Conventions  "Convention \(norm\)")
*  Cultural movement 
*  Epic poetry  /  National epics  /  World folk-epics 
*  Facts  and  factoids 
*  Framing  "Framing \(social sciences\)")
*  Ideology 
*  Life stance 
*  Lifestyle  "Lifestyle \(social sciences\)")
*  Memes  /  Memeplex 
*  Mental model 
*  Metanarrative 
*  Mindset 
*  Norms 
*  Paradigm 
*  Philosophical theory 
*  Point of view  "Point of view \(philosophy\)")
*  Presuppositions 
*  Primal world beliefs 
*  Reality tunnel 
*  Schemata  "Schema \(psychology\)")
*  School of thought 
*  Set  "Set \(psychology\)")
*  Social reality 
*  Theory of everything 
*  Umwelt 
*  Value system 

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Aspects

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|   Biases  |

*  Academic 
*  Attentional 
*  Attitude polarization 
*  Belief 
*  Cognitive 
*  list 
*  Collective narcissism 
*  Confirmation 
*  Congruence 
*  Cryptomnesia 
*  Cultural 
*  Ethnocentrism 
*  Filter bubble 
* Homophily
*  In-group favoritism 
*  Magical thinking 
*  Media 
*  Observational error 
*  Observer-expectancy 
*  Selective exposure 
*  Selective perception 
*  Self-deception 
*  Self-fulfilling prophecy 
*  Clever Hans effect 
*  placebo effect 
*  wishful thinking 
*  Status quo 
*  Stereotyping 
*  ethnic 

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Change and
maintenance  |

*  Activism 
*  Argument 
*  Argumentum ad populum 
*  Attitude change 
*  Brainwashing 
*  Censorship 
*  Charisma 
*  Circular reporting 
*  Cognitive dissonance 
*  Critical thinking 
*  Crowd manipulation 
*  Cultural dissonance 
*  Deprogramming 
*  Echo chamber  "Echo chamber \(media\)")
*  Education 
*  religious 
*  values 
*  Euphemism 
*  Excommunication 
*  Fearmongering 
*  Historical revisionism 
*  negationism 
*  Ideological repression 
*  Indoctrination 
*  Manipulation (psychology)  "Manipulation \(psychology\)")
*  Media manipulation 
*  Media regulation 
*  Missionaries 
*  Moral entrepreneurship 
*  Persuasion 
*  Polite fiction 
*  Political engineering 
*  Propaganda 
*  Propaganda model 
*  Proselytism 
*  Psychological warfare 
*  Religious conversion 
*  forced 
*  Religious persecution 
*  Religious uniformity 
*  Revolutions 
*  Rhetoric 
*  Self-censorship 
*  Social change 
*  Social control 
*  Social engineering  "Social engineering \(political science\)")
*  Social influence 
*  Social progress 
*  Suppression of dissent 
*  Systemic bias 
*  Woozle effect 

 Culture  |

*  Anthropology 
*  cultural 
*  social 
*  Calendars 
*  Ceremonies 
*  Coronations 
*  Cross-cultural psychology 
*  Cultural psychology 
*  Doctrine 
*  Employment  /  Serfdom  /  Slavery 
*  Families 
*  Funerals  /  Burial 
*  Games 
*  Holidays 
*  Hygiene 
*  ritual 
*  Identity (philosophy)  "Identity \(philosophy\)")
*  cultural 
*  Institutions 
*  Liminality 
*  Liturgy 
*  Marriage 
*  Myth and ritual 
*  Oaths 
*  Pilgrimages 
*  Play  "Play \(activity\)")
*  Rites of passage 
*  secular 
*  Rituals 
*  Social class  /  Social status  /  Caste 
*  Symbols 
*  Symbolic boundaries 
*  Worship 

 Groupthink  |

*  Abilene paradox 
*  Bandwagon effect 
*  Collectives 
*  Collective behavior 
*  animal 
*  Collective effervescence 
*  Collective intelligence 
*  Conformity 
*  Consensus theory 
*  Crowd psychology 
*  Cults 
*  Culture-bound syndromes 
*  Deindividuation 
*  Doublethink 
*  Emergence 
*  Emotional contagion 
*  Entitativity 
*  False consensus effect 
*  Folie à deux 
*  Group action  "Group action \(sociology\)")
*  Group cohesiveness 
*  Group dynamics 
*  Group emotion 
*  Group polarization 
*  Groupshift 
*  Herd behavior 
*  Holism 
*  Hysterical contagion 
*  Information cascade 
*  In-group and out-group 
*  Invisible hand 
*  Lynching 
*  Majoritarianism  /  Mob rule 
*  Mass action  "Mass action \(sociology\)")
*  Mass psychogenic illness 
*  Milieu control 
*  Mobbing 
*  Moral panic 
*  Peer pressure 
*  Pluralistic ignorance 
*  Political correctness 
*  Pseudoconsensus 
*  Scapegoating 
*  Self-organization 
*  Social action 
*  Social behavior 
*  Social emotions 
*  Social exclusion 
*  Social facilitation 
*  animal 
*  Social group 
*  Social proof 
*  Social psychology 
*  Sociology 
*  Spontaneous order 
*  Status quo 
*  Stigmergy 
*  Swarm behaviour 
*  System justification 
*  Viral phenomena 

 Knowledge  |

*  Axioms 
*  tacit assumptions 
*  Conceptual framework 
*  Epistemology 
*  outline 
*  Evidence 
*  anecdotal 
*  scientific 
*  Explanations 
*  Faith 
*  fideism 
*  Gnosis 
*  Intuition 
*  Meaning-making 
*  Memory 
*  Meta-knowledge 
*  Methodology 
*  Observation 
*  Observational learning 
*  Perception 
*  Reasoning 
*  fallacious 
*  logic 
*  Revelation 
*  Testimony 
*  Tradition 
*  folklore 
*  Truth 
*  consensus theory 
*  criteria 
*  World disclosure 

 Metaphysics  |

*  Ætiology 
*  Afterlife 
*  Anima mundi 
*  Causality 
*  Concepts 
*  Consciousness 
*  mind–body problem 
*  Cosmogony 
*  Cosmology 
*  religious 
*  Creation myth 
*  Deities 
*  existence 
*  Destiny 
*  Eschatology 
*  Everything  /  Nothing 
*  Evolution 
*  Existence 
*  Fiction  /  Nonfiction 
*  Free will 
*  Future 
*  History 
*  Ideas 
*  Idios kosmos 
*  Illusions 
*  Incarnation 
*  Information 
*  Intelligence 
*  Magic  "Magic \(supernatural\)")
*  Matter  "Matter \(philosophy\)")
*  Miracles 
*  Mythology 
*  comparative 
*  National mythoi 
*  Nature 
*  philosophical  "Nature \(philosophy\)")
*  Ontology 
*  Origin myths 
*  political 
*  Otherworlds 
*  axes mundi 
*  Physics 
*  natural philosophy 
*  Problem of evil 
*  Reality 
*  Souls 
*  Spirit 
*  Supernature 
*  Teleology 
*  Theology 
*  Time 
*  Unobservables 

 Value  |

*  Aesthetic taste 
*  Aesthetic 
*  Almsgiving  /  Charity  "Charity \(practice\)")
*  Altruism 
*  Autonomy 
*  Beauty 
*  Codes of conduct 
*  Comedy 
*  Common good 
*  Conscience 
*  Consent 
*  Creativity 
*  Disgust 
*  Duty 
*  Economics 
*  Ecstasy  "Ecstasy \(philosophy\)")
*  emotional  "Ecstasy \(emotion\)")
*  religious 
*  Elegance 
*  Emotions 
*  Aesthetic 
*  Entertainment 
*  Eroticism 
*  Ethics 
*  Étiquette 
*  Family values 
*  Food and drink prohibitions 
*  unclean animals 
*  Golden Rule 
*  Guilt  "Guilt \(emotion\)") /  Culpability 
*  Happiness 
*  Harmony 
*  Honour 
*  Human rights 
*  Judgement 
*  Justice 
*  Law 
*  jurisprudence 
*  religious 
*  Liberty 
*  political freedom 
*  Love 
*  Magnificence  "Magnificence \(history of ideas\)")
*  Maxims  "Maxim \(philosophy\)")
*  Meaning of life 
*  Morality 
*  public 
*  Obligations 
*  Peace 
*  Piety 
*  Praxeology 
*  Principles 
*  Punishment 
*  Qualities  "Quality \(philosophy\)")
*  Repentance 
*  Reverence  "Reverence \(emotion\)")
*  Rights 
*  Sexuality 
*  ethics 
*  Sin 
*  Social stigma 
*  Stewardship 
*  Styles  "Style \(visual arts\)")
*  Sublime, The  "Sublime \(philosophy\)")
*  Suffering 
*  Sympathy 
*  Taboo 
*  Theodicy 
*  Trust  "Trust \(social science\)")
*  Unspoken rules 
*  Virtues  and  Vices 
*  Works of art 
*  Wrongdoing 

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Examples

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|   Attitudes  "Attitude \(psychology\)") |

*  Optimism 
*  Pessimism 
*  Reclusion 
*  Weltschmerz 

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Economic and
political  ideologies  |

*  Anarchism 
*  Authoritarianism 
*  Capitalism 
*  Christian democracy 
* [ Collectivism ](/wiki/Social_organization