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Creating a Dialectical Social Science

Author : I.I. Mitroff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400984693
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Dialectical Social Science written by I.I. Mitroff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The depth, intensity, and long-standing nature of the disagreements between differing schools of social thought renders more critical than ever the treatment of dialectical reasoning and its relationship to the social sciences. The nature of these disagreements are deeply rooted in fundamentally differing beliefs regarding, among many things: (1) the nature of man, (2) the role of theory versus data in constructing social theories, (3) the place and function of values versus facts in inquiry, etc. It has become more and more apparent that such fundamental differences cannot be resolved by surface appeals to rationality or to consensus. Such for it is precisely the definitions of appeals are doomed to failure 'rationality' and 'consensus' that are at odds. That is, different schools not only have different definitions of rationality and consensus but different notions regarding their place and function within a total system of inquiry. A dialectical treatment of conflicts is called for because such conflicts demand a method which is capable of recognizing first of all how deep they lie. Secondly, a method is demanded which is capable of appreciating that the various sides of the conflict fundamentally depend on one another for their very existence; they depend, in other words, on one another not 'in spite of' their opposition but precisely 'because of' it.

Marx's Scientific Dialectics

Author : Paul B. Paolucci
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047420977
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Marx's Scientific Dialectics written by Paul B. Paolucci and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Karl Marx's ideas remain influential in the social sciences, there is considerable disagreement and debate on the methodological principles that inform his work. Marx often aligned himself with both "scientific" and "dialectical" principles, at least once referring to his method as a "scientific dialectic," suggesting he believed dialectical reason could be incorporated into scientific method. By debunking several misconceptions about Marx’s work and examining how he brought scientific methods to bear on his general sociological thinking, his materialist historical perspective, and within his political economy, this book brings new insight to the methodological principles that animate Marx’s writings. What emerges from such a perspective is an approach to sociological inquiry that remains vital and useful for contemporary research on capitalist society and its possible futures.

Problems in Class Analysis

Author : Guglielmo Carchedi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000817547
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Problems in Class Analysis written by Guglielmo Carchedi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, Problems in Class Analysis presents a coherent theory of labour’s domination by capital, based upon the notion of the capitalist nature of both the product relations and of the productive forces themselves, including science and technology. The author demonstrates that all knowledges are a product, direct or indirect, of economic relations, so that different knowledges will be the product of different social classes as determined by their position within economic production relations. By posing and re-solving fundamental problems in class analysis, Dr. Carchedi forms a bridge between the theory of the production process and contemporary debates in economics, sociology and epistemology.

Public Policy Analysis

Author : William N. Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317344839
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy Analysis written by William N. Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides readers with a comprehensive methodology of public policy analysis. Starting from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice. It provides practical skills for conducting policy analysis and communicating findings through memos, position papers, and other forms of structured analytical writing. The book asks readers to critically anazlye the arguments of policy practitioners as well as political scientists, economists, and political philosophers.

Developing Social Science and Religion for Liberation and Growth

Author : Chris Adam-Bagley
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804411248
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Developing Social Science and Religion for Liberation and Growth by : Chris Adam-Bagley

Download or read book Developing Social Science and Religion for Liberation and Growth written by Chris Adam-Bagley and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates humanist approaches in enabling both spiritual growth and social science knowledge in advocating for the emancipation of exploited women, children and youth, based on critical realism. Through an autoethnographic account of the first author’s journey from being a secular Jew, through Anglicanism, to Quakerism and then Islam, a pacifist-based social science methodology is developed. This approach describes attempts to understand and liberate sexually exploited youths in Bangladesh; exploited women and girls in Pakistan; and struggling women in Gaza, Palestine. The model attempts to integrate moral goals of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in seeking peaceful co-operation. Secular humanism is added, creating a research model which seeks the enhancement of human welfare through the universal ethic of the social contract, in which humans and their welfare are both interesting and exciting. A review of research on child sexual exploitation elaborates the model of child-centred humanism.

Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine

Author : Stephen Lyng
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438411502
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine written by Stephen Lyng and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-08-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine outlines a new framework for social science research. Illustrated in an analysis of the American health care system, Lyng presents an empirical study of the relationship between medical knowledge and the social structure of medical practice in America. Through a synthesis of ideas from such diverse perspectives as classical Marxian theory and the medical model embraced by the holistic health movement, Lyng articulates a "medical countersystem" that is contrasted against the traditional biomedical model of medical practice. What results is an entirely unique Marxian analysis of the U.S. health care system, one that examines how the system evolved historically as well as describes several possibilities for the future of medicine in America.

Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm

Author : Jerome Schiele
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135409854
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm written by Jerome Schiele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how human services professionals can help to eliminate cultural oppression! Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm presents a new way of understanding human behavior, attacking social problems, and exploring social issues. This excellent guide shows that understanding the simultaneous forces of oppression and spiritual alienation in American society serves as a foundation for understanding the societal problems here. The first book to offer a comprehensive exposition of how the Afrocentric paradigm can be used by human service professionals and community advocates, Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm discusses why and how human service work is hampered by Eurocentric cultural values and will help you to offer fair and effective services to your clients. Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm provides you with a concrete discription of how the Afrocentric model can be applied in human services to help people of all races and ethnicities. You will expand and diversify your knowledge base in human services by understanding the cultural values, traditions, and experiences of people of African ancestry. Some of the issues and concepts in the Afrocentric paradigm that you will explore are: defining the Afrocentric worldview, complete with a discussion of its philosophical assumptions and its shortcomings understanding traditional helping assumptions and methods of West African societies and how these have influenced the helping strategies of African-Americans exploring the strengths and weaknesses of some early African-American human service scholars, with special concern placed on their rejection of traditional African methods in favor of Eurocentric ideas resolving youth violence and helping people with substance abuse problems examining Afrocentric assumptions about resource distribution, morality, and societal relationships identifying organizational and conceptual differences in Eurocentric and Afrocentric paradigms creating organizational empowerment and an enhanced work environment via the Afrocentric paradigm Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm will help you understand, solve, and prevent problems that are confronted by several races, especially individuals of African descent. This timely and relevant worldview is thoroughly explained to assist you in better serving people of color. The Afrocentric paradigm will help human services practitioners, administrators, policy advocates, analysts, educators, and black studies professors and students achieve educational and treatment objectives by showing you the importance of various cultural values and how to integrate them to make a difference!

Creating a Caring Science Curriculum, Second Edition

Author : Marcia Hills, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826136036
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Caring Science Curriculum, Second Edition written by Marcia Hills, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of caring science, Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing reflects the paramount scholarship of Caring Science educators. This second edition intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, exemplars, and dynamic direction for the application of fundamental principles. It goes beyond the conventional by offering a model that serves as an emancipatory, ethical-philosophical, educational, and pedagogical learning guide for both teachers and students. Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its powerful presence within nursing. Unit I lays the foundation for a Caring Science curriculum. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approaches for faculty–student relations, teaching/learning skills, pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. Unit III addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, caring in advanced practice education, and the development of caring consciousness in nurse leaders. It also features real-world exemplars of Caring Science curricula. Unit IV includes an alternative approach to clinical and course-based evaluation, and the text concludes with an exploration of the future of the Caring Science curriculum as a way of emancipating the human spirit. Each chapter is structured to maximize engagement with reflective exercises and learning activities that encourage the integration of theory and practice into the learning process. New to This Edition: Updated chapters, case studies, and learning activities Six new chapters that provide guidance on how to create a Caring Science curriculum Exemplars from institutions that have developed Caring Science curricula Key Features: Provides a broad application of Caring Science for teachers, students, and nursing leaders Features case studies of teacher/student lived learning experiences within a caring–loving pedagogical environment Encourages the integration of theory and practice into the learning process with learning activities and reflective exercises Distills the expertise of world-renowned Caring Science scholars

Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change – PURPLSOC

Author : Sickinger, Richard
Publisher : Edition Donau-Universität Krems
ISBN 13 : 3903150444
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change – PURPLSOC written by Sickinger, Richard and published by Edition Donau-Universität Krems. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of social and cultural change. Old patterns are losing their validity and relevance, new patterns are needed and in demand. We need a new approach which can formulate, generate and engage such patterns. The pattern language approach of Christopher Alexander serves this purpose – the interdisciplinary and participatory building blocks for societal change. The PURPLSOC 2017 conference contributions cover 25 domains – from anthropology and automation to political science and systems science – for a comprehensive perspective of current pattern research and practice.

Dialectical Social Science in the Age of Complexity

Author : Ian Trevor King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Dialectical Social Science in the Age of Complexity written by Ian Trevor King and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study places dialectical thinking, theory, and method on a solid scientific footing with respect to the contemporary sciences of holistic-relationism; and offers a competing, even superior, philosophy of social science to the mainstream version of positivistic-behaviourism. It also indicates ways in which a dialectical, holistic-relational social science will help to shape a more democratic, humane style of politics and public policy. It subjects mainstream social science to wholesale reorientation, and in doing so, offers a valid prescription for a post-positivistic, post-behaviourist social science that is scientifically grounded.

Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences

Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401714584
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised up the demons of relativism, subjectivism and sociologism to haunt the once calm precincts of objectivity and realism. Though these disturbances intruded upon what had seemed to be the logically well-ordered domain of the philoso phy of the natural sciences, they were no news to the social sciences. There, the messy business of human action, volition, decision, the considerations of practical purposes and social values, the role of ideology and the problem of rationality, had long conspired to defeat logical-reconstructionist programs. The attempt to tarne the social sciences to the harness of a strict hypothetico deductive model of explanation failed. Within the social sciences, phenome nological, Marxist, hermeneuticist, action-theoretical approaches vied in attempting to capture the distinctiveness of human phenomena. In fact, the philosophy of the natural sciences, even in its 'hard' forms, has itself become infected with the increasing reflection upon the role of such social-scientific categories, in the attempt to understand the nature of the scientific enterprise.

Organizational Literacy for Educators

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135684693
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Literacy for Educators written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Theatre Quarterly 63: Volume 16, Part 3

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789035
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 63: Volume 16, Part 3 written by Clive Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies needs a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Articles in volume 63 include: Ventriloquism: the Voices of the Dead; Bodies, Rest and Motion: from Shiva's Cosmic Dance to Chaos Theory's Biodance; Computer Intelligence in the Theatre; Burmese Nights: Myanmar's Pagoda Festival in the Age of the Hollywood Titanic; Censoring the Uncensored: the Case of Children in Uniform; Henry Irving and the Staging of Spiritualism; Boal and the Shifting Sands: Unpolitical Master Swimmer.

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships

Author : Barbara M. Montgomery
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 113545213X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships written by Barbara M. Montgomery and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes many different and useful ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective. It is written for scholars in higher education, both faculty and students, across many fields within the social sciences and the humanities who seek answers to questions about how people relate to one another. The book is valuable for all scholars who pursue new ideas because it models a form of scholarly communication in which: * multiple voices can be acknowledged as valid; * the worth of one perspective is not measured by the denigration of another; and * difference is celebrated as conducive to learning rather than threatening to it. The contributors emphasize the characteristics of their dialectical view that set them apart from other dialectical authors and describe their methods of studying relationships from a dialectical perspective. Following the Bakhtinian perspective, they honor the values of dialogism by respecting different and sometimes contradictory views, assuming that these views can be valid, and joining in a discussion with the editors and other contributors about their emerging work. They also acknowledge that the chapters in this text are part of an ongoing process to frame and reframe emerging ideas, and allow the dialogue that occurs within this frame the freedom to express creative, unique ideas.

Decision Making about Decision Making

Author : John P. Van Gigch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Decision Making about Decision Making written by John P. Van Gigch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environments in a Changing World

Author : John Huckle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881532
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Environments in a Changing World written by John Huckle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is no shortage of of books on the environment there are few introductory texts that outline the social theory that informs human geographical approaches to the interactions between ecology and society. Students arriving at university often lack the understanding of history, economics, politics, sociology and philosophy that contemporary human geography requires. Environments in a Changing World addresses this deficit, providing foundation knowledge in a form that is accessible to first year students and applied to the understanding of both contemporary environmental issues and the challenge of sustainability. Students are challenged to develop and defend their own ethical and political positions on sustainability and respond to the need for new forms of ecological citizenship.

Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science

Author : David Ludwig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000413810
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science written by David Ludwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to broaden agendas of academic philosophy by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as globally engaged fields that address heterogeneous forms of knowledge production and their interactions with local livelihoods, practices, and worldviews. This integrative ambition makes the book equally relevant for philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars who are concerned with methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society.