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    cases. According to Wilson (2010) Nash (1999) tells us that there are five major areas of worldviews and there are corresponding that treats the major areas of worldview: 1. Philosophical Theology (God)‚ 2. Metaphysical (ultimate reality)‚ 3. Epistemology (theory of knowledge)‚ 4. Ethics (study of morality) and 5. Philosophical Anthropology (human nature). Philosophical Theology is the part of philosophy of religion and it develops and utilizes ways to understand doctrines or theological concepts

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    Grosz‚ Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press‚ 1994. In ‘’Refiguring bodies” published in 1994 by the Indian University Press‚ philosophical journal ‘Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism’‚ Elizabeth Grosz‚ examines ‘key features of the received history that we have inherited in our current conceptions of bodies’ (47). The significant term ‘somatophobia’ is used by Grosz to describe the philosophical foundations of our notion of

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    logic‚ and Epistemology have been proven to live on to this day. In “The Making of the West Peoples and Cultures‚ Volume 1‚ The Nature of Women and Marriage”‚ Socrates has a story written by his follower Xenophon‚ that discusses the gender roles in marriage in the late fifth century B.C.E. What Socrates tells his friend Ischomachus are the qualities a woman

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    recently‚ within the lifetime of my parents. It is sad hearing how much people hated races that they knew very little about but also encouraging that people have changed over recent years to be more understanding of them. The authors term of moral epistemology of imperialism is the original thinking that justified colonizing the Americas originally. The major historians of the time and for a great amount of time after were European. This made it easy to write books and shape history to make it look like

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    Sage Salkind‚ N.J. (2000) Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics‚ London: Sage. Silverman‚ D. (2001) Interpreting Qualitative Data‚ 2nd edn‚ London: Sage. Stanley‚ L. and Wise‚ S. (1993) Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology‚ London:

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    Truth Is Beauty‚ Beauty Is Truth Rationalist Epistemology Epistemology * Theory of knowledge; often provokes big questions on the meaning and justifications of conventional knowledge. * Ex; What is knowledge? Can we know anything for certain? What are the limitations of what we know? * Socrates began to question the usual perceptions of knowledge‚ advocating for a clearer picture than common sense allowed. The Philosophy of Plato * You cannot claim to know something

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    knowledge‚ that is crucial for clinical social work‚ is a compilation of methods and theories. But to be able to apply their knowledge and skills effectively clinical social workers need to follow a code of ethics. Ethics arise from metaphysics and epistemology‚ such as Plato’s Theory of Forms and Theory of the Divided Line that he explains in his dialogue‚ Republic. According to Plato‚ one must have knowledge of reality and a foundation built on reason to know how to live a righteous life. Ultimately

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    Introduction to Qualitative Research Qualitative research in psychology is rapidly emerging as an important focus for psychological research and theory. Although there is a long history of qualitative methods in psychology‚ it is only since the 1980s that qualitative methods have made significant inroads. Among the distinguishing features of qualitative research are its preferences for data rich in description‚ the belief that reality is constructed socially‚ and that reality is about interpretation

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    White‚ Metahistory 1973 : emplotment‚ argument‚ ideal; translates problem of historical explanation into problem of representation. -traces romance-tragedy-comedy- IRONY -search for multiple‚ openenended alternatives—that is a sophisticated EPISTEMOLOGY -focus not to study change in framework‚ but focus to study change itself INTERPRETIVE ANTHROPOLOGY Definition : doing and writing ethnography Anthropology contribution : 1. Capturing cultural diversity 2. cultural critique of ourselves

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    perspectives examine Apple’s organisational network and influence‚ and finally coming to a conclusion. Theoretical Framework The difference between a Modernist and Post Modernist within their meta-theoretical assumptions‚ both Ontology and Epistemology. Modernist Ontology is our conjecture about reality and what is real. The Modernist has an objectivism view in Ontology. “An ontological position that asserts that social phenomenon and their meanings have an existence that is independent of

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