Modality - Humanities

Humanities

  • In theology: Modality (theology): the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations
  • In music, the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes (e.g., Ionian)
  • In sociology, Modalities (sociology) is a concept in Anthony Giddens structuration theory

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