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Greenfeld
__NOTOC__ Greenfeld ( yi, גרינפעלד, russian: Гринфельд) is a surname, which may refer to: * Alon Greenfeld, an Israeli chess grandmaster * Boruch Greenfeld, a rabbi and Torah scholar * Josh Greenfeld (1928–2018), an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film ''Harry and Tonto'' * Karl Taro Greenfeld, a journalist and author known primarily for his articles on life in modern Asia * Liah Greenfeld, director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at Boston University * Sherman Greenfeld, Canadian racquetball player * Tzvia Greenfeld, Israeli politician * Yehuda Gruenfeld (Greenfeld) Grinfeld * Alla Grinfeld (born 1953), Russian-American woman grandmaster chess player:pl:Ałła Grinfeld * Nadejda Grinfeld (1887–1918), a Bessarabian politician * Pavel Grinfeld, an applied mathematician Grynfeld * Izaak Grynfeld (1912–?), a Polish–Israeli chess master See also * Grünfeld * Greenfield (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liah Greenfeld
Liah Greenfeld is an Israeli-American Russian-Jewish interdisciplinary scholar engaged in the scientific explanation of human social reality on various levels, beginning with the individual mind and ending with the level of civilization. She has been called "the most iconoclastic" of contemporary sociologists and her approach represents the major alternative to the mainstream approaches in social science. Throughout her analyses, she emphasizes the empirical foundation of claims that she makes about human thought and action, underlining the importance of logical consistency between different sources of evidence as well as between the many interrelated hypotheses that come together to help us explain complex human phenomena. Because our thought and action are rarely limited to one, conveniently isolated sphere of human existence but rather occur within the context of more than one area of our reality at the same time (e.g. the political, the religious, the economic, the artistic, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |