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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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A. Leo Oppenheim
Assyriologist portraying Mesopotamian civilization through texts, institutions, and everyday practice.
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A. Leo Oppenheim
Assyriologist portraying Mesopotamian civilization through texts, institutions, and everyday practice.
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Adolf A. Berle Jr.
Economists who analyzed the separation of corporate ownership and control in modern capitalism.
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Adolf A. Berle Jr.
Economists who analyzed the separation of corporate ownership and control in modern capitalism.
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Akihiko Murata
Education researcher on lesson study and research-practice partnerships in instructional improvement.
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Akihiko Murata
Education researcher on lesson study and research-practice partnerships in instructional improvement.
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Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral philosopher of virtue ethics, tradition-constituted practice, and critique of emotivist modern morality.
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Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral philosopher of virtue ethics, tradition-constituted practice, and critique of emotivist modern morality.
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Albert Bandura
Psychologist of social learning, self-efficacy, and how observation and modeling shape behavior.
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Albert Bandura
Psychologist of social learning, self-efficacy, and how observation and modeling shape behavior.
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Albert O Hirschman
Economist and social theorist of exit, voice, and loyalty—how people respond when institutions disappoint.
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Albert O Hirschman
Economist and social theorist of exit, voice, and loyalty—how people respond when institutions disappoint.
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Aldon D. Morris
Sociologist of the civil rights movement who traces how Black communities built organizing capacity before national leaders arrived.
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Aldon D. Morris
Sociologist of the civil rights movement who traces how Black communities built organizing capacity before national leaders arrived.
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Alex Rosenblat
Researcher of platform labor, algorithmic management, and how gig work reshapes employer-employee trust.
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Alex Rosenblat
Researcher of platform labor, algorithmic management, and how gig work reshapes employer-employee trust.
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Alexander Weisler
Urban researcher on platform-mediated housing and gentrification through the sharing economy.
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Alexander Weisler
Urban researcher on platform-mediated housing and gentrification through the sharing economy.
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Alice H. Eagly
Psychologists of gender and leadership, labyrinth metaphors, and bias in authority evaluation.
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Alice H. Eagly
Psychologists of gender and leadership, labyrinth metaphors, and bias in authority evaluation.
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Alistair Cockburn
Software methodologist (Agile, Crystal, hexagonal architecture) and writer on cooperative knowledge work.
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Alistair Cockburn
Software methodologist (Agile, Crystal, hexagonal architecture) and writer on cooperative knowledge work.
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Allister Sparks
South African journalist who chronicled the negotiated end of apartheid from close political range.
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Allister Sparks
South African journalist who chronicled the negotiated end of apartheid from close political range.
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American College of Emergency Physicians
Professional body publishing clinical and policy guidance on emergency-care practice, including boarding.
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American College of Emergency Physicians
Professional body publishing clinical and policy guidance on emergency-care practice, including boarding.
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Amy C Edmondson
Organizational scholar known for psychological safety, teaming, and learning under uncertainty in high-stakes work.
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Amy C Edmondson
Organizational scholar known for psychological safety, teaming, and learning under uncertainty in high-stakes work.
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Amy-Jill Levine
New Testament scholar reading Jesus's parables as confrontational short stories that unsettle rather than settle meaning.
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Amy-Jill Levine
New Testament scholar reading Jesus's parables as confrontational short stories that unsettle rather than settle meaning.
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Andrew Abbott
Sociologist of professions, jurisdictional boundaries, and how expert communities claim authority.
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Andrew Abbott
Sociologist of professions, jurisdictional boundaries, and how expert communities claim authority.
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Andrew Hunt
Software author and Pragmatic Programmer co-author, writing on craft, continuous learning, and the habits of effective developers.
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Andrew Hunt
Software author and Pragmatic Programmer co-author, writing on craft, continuous learning, and the habits of effective developers.
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Andrew Jameton
Nurse ethicist who named moral distress—knowing the right action while being constrained from taking it.
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Andrew Jameton
Nurse ethicist who named moral distress—knowing the right action while being constrained from taking it.
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Andrew S Grove
Intel executive and management writer on high-output management, metrics, and operational discipline.
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Andrew S Grove
Intel executive and management writer on high-output management, metrics, and operational discipline.
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Andrew Walker
Colts.com reporter whose Andrew Luck retirement coverage records how an athlete framed exit against franchise expectation.
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Andrew Walker
Colts.com reporter whose Andrew Luck retirement coverage records how an athlete framed exit against franchise expectation.
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Andrew Ward
Social psychologists of naive realism and how people overestimate agreement between their views and others'.
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Andrew Ward
Social psychologists of naive realism and how people overestimate agreement between their views and others'.
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Andrew Zaldivar
Researcher on model cards and responsible AI documentation at Google.
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Andrew Zaldivar
Researcher on model cards and responsible AI documentation at Google.
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Andscape
Sports and culture outlet examining how athlete speech and gesture travel beyond game outcomes.
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Andscape
Sports and culture outlet examining how athlete speech and gesture travel beyond game outcomes.
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Angelina McMillan-Major
AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.
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Angelina McMillan-Major
AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.