PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Theoretical approaches in the social sciences – for example‚ behaviorism‚ functionalism‚ hermeneutics – have a perspectival nature. Perspectives have their own way of describing social sciences and may be dangerous for any social institution (Blinov‚ 2010:21). Philosophy’s aim is to question beliefs and opinions in the social science disciplines but also these disciplines can be politically innocent and neutral institutions by not favouring any particular practices or
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religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance. Max Weber described this process as the "disenchantment of the world". One of the most significant sociologists who wrote about the Secularization Theory‚ Jose Casanova‚ spoke of three major approaches to secularization‚ referring mostly to Western Christian cultures (Casanova‚ 2007‚ p. 8). His works generally referred to the process of secularization as it took place in Europe‚ sparked by the Age of Enlightenment‚ and later
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rigorous courtship practice that is well supervised by guardians is different from the west and one of these significant differences is dating. Dating is an art developed in western countries which is not original in itself but part of the courtship system in the Philippines. Unlike in the founded practice of chaperonage‚ the aim of dating from the western perspective is to “provide an occasion where a man and woman can be alone”. It can be a series of meetings where it would be best for them to develop
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A reflection on two approaches Both psychodynamic and Focusing-oriented therapies regard trauma as a painful and challenging experience. They understand trauma as something that can alter a person’s sense of self. They both acknowledge the survivor’s attempts to avoid the pain. Also‚ both approaches note that there is an adaptive aspect to the survivor’s responses (as they attempt to avoid the pain) (see Mackay‚ 2002; Vantarakis‚ 2014). These approaches aim to help the clients to integrate their
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the ways in which laws and social policies affect family life Currently‚ in the UK‚ the family is a fairly unregulated sphere of life‚ compared with different societies such as China. Laws and social policies in Britain today tend to encourage or discourage certain types of families‚ rather than actively enforcing them like China’s one child policy. Government agencies and institutions only seem to take an active role on policing areas of family life when things are perceived to have gone wrong
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The main argument of this essay is to compare and contrast the liberal and radical approaches to social change. Accompanied by practical examples‚ I will state and re-enforce the theoretical approach that plausibly explains the prevailing circumstances in Zambia. This essay will begin by defining briefly what the liberal and radical approaches are; also it will explain what is understood by the term social change. It is also necessary to point out that I have taken a stand on agreeing that the liberal
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FAMILY HEALTH CARE The family is the basic unit of care in community health nursing. It is an important social structure needed for reproduction and socialization. A family refers to a number of persons joined together by bonds of marriage‚ blood or adoption (Burgess‚ 1963). Freeman (1992) defined family as two or more persons who are joined together by bonds sharing emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of the family. REASONS FOR HAVING THE FAMILY AS THE UNIT
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NAME: EVELYN NGARAKANA REG NO: R123188C COURSE: Answer: If I were searching for Earth like life else where in the Universes ‚ I would first check to see if it’s a habitable planet. This planet should orbit a star that remains stable in output for billions of years. The star shoud provide brightness and warmth to the planet‚ be the energy source that lets plants make food to feed organisms. It is also important in that it will create seasons‚ weather patterns‚ oceanic currents
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Running head: BIOLOGICAL AND HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY Henderson Norris University of Phoenix PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY 250 CHRIS BOLING November 10‚ 2009 Abstract The following paper will explain the differences in the biological and humanistic approaches to personality. Hans Eysenck’s theory will be explained‚ also it make clear that a complete understanding of human personality requires us to go beyond some of the traditional boundaries of the discipline.
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Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality A person biological and Humanistic traits can be considered some element of an individual Individuum and assessing the personality of that individual. The sympathetic knowledge of the human mind and the human psychological makeup‚ what makes a person tick‚ have greatly improved over the years. With the need to examine to an extent how the human growth influence personality from childhood to adulthood. While biological and humanistic varies from
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