Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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in youth activities‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors. The literature on the internet and youth culture presents different views regarding the role of technology in society. Two major perspectives are technological determinism and the social construction of technologies. Technological Determinism The technological deterministic view presents the internet as an innovative force that has profound influence on children and youth; technology generates new patterns of expression‚ communication‚ and motivation
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time of action. That is why the intent should appear in consciousness at the time when we are moving‚ and beliefs‚ desires‚ and plans must serve as a benchmark for intent. It is precisely to us that the experience of a conscious will seems to be the causal workers of our
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of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly understood as a particular way of defining cases‚ not a way of analyzing cases or a way of modeling causal relations. I show that this understanding of the subject illuminates some of the persistent ambiguities of case study work‚ ambiguities that are‚ to some extent‚ intrinsic to the enterprise. The travails of the case study within the discipline of
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John Minton Philosophy 112 Professor Fox 11 April 2016 Hume Introduction In the Treatise of Nature‚ Hume raises the meaning of the basic principles of morality. He states‚ “reason is the slave of the passions”‚ meaning that since Hume was a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle. Hume believed that sentiment or emotion motivated us to obey rules to determine what is morally good. However‚ comparing it to Aristotle who argues
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The future of Criminology etc. Criminology is‚ as John Lea (1998) points out‚ not so much a discipline as a field‚ its distinctiveness is not its knowledge base but the form of its focus: theories of crime‚ criminal law and the relation between the two - in this it is a sub-category of the sociology of deviance. It can‚ and never should be‚ conceived of as a separate discipline‚ its categories and processes are social constructs‚ they have no separate ontological reality. It cannot‚ therefore
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PSYCH100-Module 1: The Science of Psychology Notes ------------------------------------------------- Textbook pg 2-27 Psychology * Scientific study on causes of behavior Causal Event * Event that causes another event to occur Different Fields of Psychology * Physiological Psychology * Studies the physiological basis of behavior * Mainly through the nervous system * Learning * Memory * Sensory process * Emotional behavior
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IAH 231C Final Exam Guide Unit 1:Pinker Chapter 1 How language is related to other components of Human Experience: Thoughts‚ reality‚ community‚ emotions‚ social relations Words and Community: Naming‚ certain words that become accepted Words and Emotions: Denotation( What they refer to is the same)/Connotation (different emotions associated with them)‚ Swear words Words and Social Relations: direct request vs indirect request Words and Thoughts: Conceptual semantics: discipline that studies the
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Carl Rogers – Client Centered Theory Carl Rogers theory grew out of his years of practice as a clinician. He was a firm believer in the potential of each person. Biography Grew up in the Midwest on a farm with very strict‚ religious parents Sick as a young man Was deeply religious Union Theological Seminary Took classes from John Dewey while at Columbia and graduated from there Worked at the Child Guidance Institute in New York Taught at the University of Rochester‚ Ohio State‚ University of Chicago
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Watson & Skinner Perspective Psychological perspectives will always change as long as psychology continues to move forward. Not one perspective or approach would be considered wrong or incorrect. It just adds to our understanding of human and animal behavior. Most psychologists would agree that not one perspective is correct‚ although in the past‚ early days of psychology‚ the behaviorist would have said their perspective was the only truly scientific one (McLeod‚ 2007). Two Psychologists who
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