Freud devised an influential theory of personality structure.
The most influential theory of this type has been Marxism, or historical materialism.
Mr. Crompton offers a very different interpretation from the influential theory outlined by the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
This was awarded for an influential theory called cobordism, described as lying on the margins between algebra and geometry.
He visited India regularly, developing an influential theory on what caused large numbers of people to shift west.
Anyone who's ever had a brush with cultural studies will be familiar with Laura Mulvey's influential theory of the male gaze in film and fine art and photography.
I don't see that the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's influential theory of cultural capital, for example, has any obvious contribution to make there.
His art re-proves Roland Barthes's influential theory of the punctum — a Proustian quantum of lost time — as intrinsic to photography's emotional power.
At least one influential theory of poverty contends that the poor are too mutually dependent, and that this is one of their problems.
(According to one influential theory, art arrived 50,000 years ago with a kind of creative big bang. If that's true, how did that happen?) We don't even have a good definition, in truth, of what art is.
American jazz artist who composed works teeming with melodic and rhythmic vitality and created the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (LCCOTO), an influential theory of musical structure that he first unveiled in a 1953 pamphlet.
