Many instances of new media have difficulty controlling authorship, though, and new media theory does not always view this as a bad thing.

Other theories view aging as a predetermined, genetically-controlled process.

Rationalistic theories of institutions view institutions as affecting patterns of costs.

These theories view crime at a larger level, and in a larger viewing area.

These theories view developing countries as being economically and politically dependent on more powerful, developed countries which have an interest in maintaining their dominant position.

As such, cognitive theories view second-language acquisition as a special case of more general learning mechanisms in the brain.

Example: the theory of the integers viewed as an abelian group.

Some recent linguistic theories view language as by its nature all metaphorical; or that language in essence is metaphorical.

Evolutionary theories view religion as either an adaptation or a byproduct.

Adaptationist theories view religion as being of adaptive value to the survival of Pleistocene humans.