Glossary

Glossary

Idea	Definition	Source
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creative class	demographic segment made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals and various types of artists e.g. science, engineering, education, computer programming, research, with arts, design, and media workers. About 30% of all US jobs.	Richard Florida
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innovation	?	?
field	Field is a setting in which agents and their social positions are located. The position of each particular agent in the field is a result of interaction between the specific rules of the field, agent's habitus and agent's capital (social, economic and cultural). Fields interact with each other, and are hierarchical (most are subordinate to the larger field of power and class relations).	French social scientist Pierre Bourdieu
bohemian	the non-traditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, journalists, musicians
moral agency	Human beings have free will, that is, distinctive causal powers or a special metaphysical status, that separate them from everything else in the universe; Human beings can act on the basis of reason(s); Human beings have a certain set of moral or proto-moral feelings.	Bruno Latour
ANT (actor-network-theory)	considers all surrounding factors	Bruno Latour /Michel Callon /John Law
habitus	The habitus is the subjective system of expectations and predispositions acquired through past experience	Pierre Bourdieu
ethics of responsibility (Verantwortungsethik)	the vocation of politics demands a calm attention to the facts of the situation and the consequences of actions – and not to lofty or abstract principles.	Max Weber
negentropy or negative entropy (also syntropy or extropy or entaxy	In a living system negentropy is the entropy that it exports to keep its own entropy low.	biology, Erwin Schrödinger, Bucky Fuller
Sensucht	intensely missing, longing, sort of like nostalgia, longing for a far-off country is very familiar and indicative of what we might otherwise call "home"	German
Weltschmerz	When understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. Modern usage compared with the concept of anomie, or a kind of alienation	German , Lord Byron, Herman Hesse, John Steinbeck
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