10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSITIVIST»
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positivist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
positivist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Positivist Organization Theory
This stimulating volume challenges these views, arguing instead that managerial decisions are determined by the situation and serve the interests of the whole organization.
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Criminal Justice in America
... asked about how factors such as the economy, government policy, family, and
education affect crime (Messner and Rosenfeld, 1994:45–47). In this section we
look at the two major schools of criminological thought—classical and positivist.
George Cole, Christopher Smith, 2007
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Nursing Research: Principles and Methods
This section describes the two alternative paradigms and outlines their
associated methodologies. The Positivist Paradigm One paradigm for nursing
research is known as positivism. Positivism is rooted in 19th century thought,
guided by such ...
Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck, 2004
A leader of the positivist worldview was Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), an
Italian physician who studied the brains of criminals. Lombroso maintained that
criminals were born with a predisposition to crime and needed exceptionally
favorable ...
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Positivist Republic: Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of ...
Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1920 Gillis
J. Harp. shift in historical consciousness, or the Mendel- Weis man revolution in
biology (that destroyed Lamarckian evolutionary theories); all these factors were
...
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International Theory: Positivism and Beyond
what might such theories look like; or, perhaps, whether there can now only be
post-positivist theory? Positivism and beyond At the outset I want to claim that
there is really no such thing as a post- positivist approach, only post-positivist ...
Steve Smith, Ken Booth, Marysia Zalewski, 1996
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The Equality of the Human Races (
positivist Anthropology)
Joseph-Anténor Firmin. cal and international events that determine the destiny of
nations and their ruling institutions. An eloquent phrase or a generous and noble
ae- tion sometimes has more bearing on the life of a nation than the greatest ...
Joseph-Anténor Firmin, 2000
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Research Methods for Political Science
Positivist researchers emphasize “precise quantitative data” that are gathered
and analyzed using experiments, surveys, and statistics; they employ “rigorous,
exact measures by carefully analyzing numbers from the measures” (Neuman
2000, ...
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Research Made Real: A Guide for Students
investigation. You can adopt either a positivist approach or a naturalistic
approach. The theoretical approach that you choose will link your ideas and
beliefs about 'knowledge' and how it's possible to best understand the world to
the practical ...
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Classical Sociological Theory: A
Positivist's Perspective
The theme of this collection of articles by Jonathan Turner is that sociology can be a true science, and it can develop abstract laws explaining the operative dynamics of the social universe.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSITIVIST»
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positivist is used in the context of the following news items.
The Pope and Civic Studies
Positivist philosophers argue that a particular view of science, resting on the discovery of permanent, atemporal standards of rationality that can ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
A new paradigm of Muslim politics?
Obviously this entails the rejection of rationalist and positivist thought derived from the Enlightenment. The Islamists articulate an Islamic ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
A battle without winners
Yet, at another level , he is almost positivist in the Western interpretation of data. One wishes that both sides had curbed their anger and ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Saraki's Senate "Presidency" - When Illegality Deepens Immorality
This moral concept of "bad" as applicable to a law is the interface that joins those who will interpret the law from a strict legal positivist angle ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Time for Socialism: the Perils of Fortune-Tellers
Fortune-telling and positivist theory might easily be thought to be two strictly antithetical activities, the proverbial oil and water of mental tasks. «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
Learning from our failure at weaponizing anthropology
Guiding such methods are “neo-positivist notions that social control…can be achieved by the recording of, and then manipulation of key ... «Fabius Maximus website, Jul 15»
Alamon: Silence of the lambs
I used not to mind this thinking that any assumed inferiority of the soft sciences could be brushed off as a case of positivist-penis envy. «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
Usquebaugh towards a Genealogy of BABIP
... father of contemporary legal positivism, and his then star mentee, Joseph Raz, who is now the foremost legal positivist. Raz is known for his ... «The Good Phight, Jul 15»
Much Ado About Plagiarism: Fox vs. Malhotra
This perhaps explains their tendency to see the positivist, scientific ''fact'' as the basic unit of currency in academic discourse. Had their training ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»
The Pope's Unsettling Message
Over time, outside expert claims to unique authority based on positivist views of science and technology reshaped fields from education and ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
