Key Terms

  • appropriateness
  • audience reception
  • causation
  • critical theories
  • cultural studies
  • empirical laws
  • explain
  • feminist theories
  • generalization
  • heuristic value
  • homeostasis
  • human rules
  • Marxism
  • openness
  • paradigm
  • paradigm shift
  • parsimony
  • political economy
  • postmodernism
  • praxis
  • prediction
  • probability
  • rhetoric
  • rhetorical criticism
  • rhetorical theories
  • scope
  • social criticism
  • social exchange theory
  • systems theory
  • teleological
  • textual analysis
  • theory
  • Toulmin's model
  • trait theory
  • validity