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Jineology
Jineology (Jineolojî), the Kurdish "science of women," coined by Abdullah Öcalan in Sociology of Freedom (2008) and developed by the Kurdish women's freedom movement; underpins Rojava's women's revolution, its academies, and Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.
Jiroemon Kimura (木村次郎右衛門)
Jiroemon Kimura (木村次郎右衛門, 1897–2013), Japanese retired postal worker from Kyotango, is the verified oldest man ever at 116 years 54 days; age verified in 2017, died of heart failure.
JK business
JK business (JKビジネス), from joshi kosei (high school girls), is Japan's umbrella term for schoolgirl services like osanpo walks, JK cafes, and massages that often mask sexual exploitation of minors, regulated by prefectural ordinances.
Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell (Baroness Bakewell of Stockport, born 1933) is a British broadcaster and journalist famous as presenter of BBC Two's Late Night Line-Up (1965-1972), BBC Arts Correspondent, Heart of the Matter host, BAFTA Fellowship 2019 recipient, novelist, and Liberal Democrat peer.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, Parchman Penitentiary inmate, and first white student at Tougaloo College, subject of An Ordinary Hero.
João Marinho Neto
João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912, Maranguape, Ceará) is a Brazilian supercentenarian, validated by LongeviQuest and Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man since 25 November 2024, and the first Brazilian to hold that title.
Job (role)
Job (role): the set of tasks, duties, and expectations directing one person's work for an employer, distinct from an occupation. Covers job design, the Hackman-Oldham Job Characteristics Model, and AI-driven boundary changes.
Job analysis
Job analysis: the systematic HR procedure for gathering and documenting a job's tasks, competencies, and working conditions, used as the legal and validity foundation for selection, training, and appraisal.
Job demands-resources model
The job demands-resources model is an occupational psychology framework introduced in 2001 that explains employee burnout and work engagement through job demands and job resources, and is among the most cited well-being theories.
Job satisfaction
Job satisfaction is the positive emotional state from appraising one's job (Locke, 1976). Measured globally or by facets with instruments like the JDI and MSQ; linked to commitment, turnover, and performance.
Job's Daughters International
Job's Daughters International is a Masonic-affiliated leadership organization for girls ages 10-20, founded 1920 in Omaha by Ethel T. Wead Mick, named for Job 42:15, with Bethels in five countries and the HIKE Fund charity.
Jocasta complex
Jocasta complex: psychoanalytic term for an abnormally close or incestuous mother-son attachment, named for Oedipus's mother and wife; not a DSM or ICD diagnosis, used in clinical theory and literary criticism.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
Jocelyn Wildenstein, born Jocelyne Périsset, Swiss-born New York socialite nicknamed Catwoman for extreme plastic surgery; $2.5 billion 1999 divorce from Alec Wildenstein, 2018 bankruptcy, died Paris December 31, 2024.
Jock (stereotype)
Jock is a stereotype of the male athlete, especially in American high schools and colleges, as physically able but intellectually shallow and centered on sports above academics.
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
Johanna (Jo) van Gogh-Bonger (1862–1925), Dutch editor, translator, and wife of Theo van Gogh; inherited Vincent's letters and paintings after the brothers died, published his letters in 1914, organized exhibitions and sales, and built Vincent van Gogh's posthumous fame.
Johari window
The Johari window, also called the JoHarry Window, is a psychological model of interpersonal awareness with four panes, devised by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955.
John Alexander Dowie
John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish-born faith healer and Congregational minister, founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion and built Zion City, Illinois, a theocratic planned community, before his 1906 deposition.
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (1878–1958), American psychologist, launched behaviorism with his 1913 "behaviorist manifesto," ran the Little Albert conditioning study, was dismissed from Johns Hopkins in 1920, and later led advertising research at J. Walter Thompson.
John Bartholomew Gough
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) was an English-born American temperance lecturer who rose from destitute drunkard to international celebrity, delivering thousands of testimony lectures across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
John Bowlby
John Bowlby (1907–1990), British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Tavistock Clinic, founded attachment theory; wrote the 1951 WHO report Maternal Care and Mental Health and the Attachment–Separation–Loss trilogy.
John Carreyrou
John Carreyrou is an American investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer winner who exposed the Theranos fraud in The Wall Street Journal starting October 2015 and recounted it in his 2018 book Bad Blood.
John Edward
John Edward (John Edward McGee Jr.), American psychic medium born 1969, host of Crossing Over (2000-2004) and John Edward Cross Country, bestselling author; skeptics attribute his readings to cold reading.
John Froines
John Froines (1939–2022) was an American chemist and Chicago Seven defendant, acquitted of all charges in the 1969–70 trial, later OSHA Director of Toxic Substances and a UCLA public health professor.
John Humphrey Noyes
John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886), Vermont-born Perfectionist minister, founded the Putney and Oneida Communities; his Bible Communist utopia practiced complex marriage, male continence, and stirpiculture before becoming Oneida Ltd. silverware.
John Jacob Astor VI
John Jacob Astor VI (1912–1992), "Jakey", the Titanic Baby, was the posthumous son of John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Force; born August 14, 1912, he was half-brother to Vincent Astor, married four times, and died in Miami Beach.
John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (1940–2020), American civil rights leader and Georgia congressman: SNCC chairman, original Freedom Rider, Bloody Sunday marcher, 33-year House member known as the conscience of Congress.
John Money
John William Money (1921-2006), New Zealand-born Johns Hopkins psychologist and sexologist who coined "gender role," directed the first US Gender Identity Clinic, and whose failed David Reimer case discredited his rearing-based gender theory.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (1947-2018), Wyoming rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist, and EFF co-founder, wrote the 1996 Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the defining cyberlibertarian manifesto against government control of the internet.
John Pierre Burr
John Pierre Burr (1792-1864) was an African-American Philadelphia barber, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad conductor, son of Vice President Aaron Burr and Mary Emmons of Calcutta; recognized by the Burr family in 2018-2019.
John Saul (prostitute)
John (Jack) Saul, c.1857–c.1904, Irish-born Victorian London male prostitute, attributed author of The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881) and star witness in the 1889 Cleveland Street scandal and Euston libel trial.