Persistence of outmoded concepts

Concepts which have been demonstrated to be inappropriate, incorrect or discriminatory are not immediately eliminated from institutional and other systems. Partly because they are associated with well-tried procedures, traces of them may persist in legal, educational, scientific, religious and other systems.

1. Concepts defined by some constituencies as outmoded may be of continuing significance to others. The concepts by which they are supposedly to be replaced may have latent defects they will subsequently make such replacement questionable.

1. Outdated paradigms
2. Irrelevant institutions

1. Outmoded legal systems
2. Outdated religious forms
3. Lag in policy conceptualization
4. Failure of the zoo as an educational institution

1. Outdated regulations
2. Inadequate global consensus concerning problems and prospects of humanity
3. Inadequacy of prevailing learning systems

1. Preservation of obsolete systems
2. Outdated research
3. Defective reasoning

1. Dominating outmoded images

1. Reforming concepts
2. Reducing institutionalization of outmoded concepts

1. Persistence
2. Outmoded
3. Discrimination [D]
4. Identity-Difference
5. Broadmindedness-Narrowmindedness
6. Appropriateness-Inappropriateness
7. Taste-Vulgarity
8. Intelligence-Unintelligence
9. Desire-Avoidance
10. Discrimination-Indiscrimination
11. Justice-Injustice
12. Newness-Oldness
13. Uniformity-Nonuniformity
14. Choice-Necessity
15. Affirmation-Denial