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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Comte"”.
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The Comte connection : George Eliot, positivism and poetry
… ideas derived from the philosophy of Auguste Comte. An understanding of the relationship between the poetry and Comtean Positivism is an essential preparation for adequate critical assessment. After a brief exploration of the critical disinheritance, the question of George Eliot's Positivism …
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Rediscovering the classical roots in the sociology of emotion: Comte, Pareto, and Durkheim
… the extent to which classical scholars -- Comte, Pareto, and Durkheim -- conceptualized emotion as reflected in their respective works. This interpretive work seeks to further substantiate a classical grounding for the sociology of emotions, that is, to show that there is a breadth of …
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The Loss of the Philosophic Tradition and the Rise of the Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
… originator of the Positive Philosophy, Auguste Comte. I analyze the author's several volumes, these dedicated to establishing a new foundation of political thought, one in which scientific inquiry would serve as the ground for seeking truth and knowledge and as a basis for methodologically …
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Les Acadiens et la politique: participation et comportement électoral dans un comté du Nouveau-Brunswick, Gloucester, 1850-1866
… électoral aux scrutins qui ont eu ieu dans le comte de Gloucester pendant les années 1850-1866.
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The Extended Deliberation: Definitions of Sociology
… early European conceptions of sociology, from Comte through Pareto. The extent of agreement among these conceptions is examined. Part B is concerned with the extent of agreement of the early American Conceptions of sociology. Part C examines definitions found in Introductory texts from 1921 …
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Asymptotic Expansion for the Time Evolution of the Probability Distribution Given by the Brownian Motion on Semialgebraic Sets
… function. This work is motivated by the work of Comte, Lion and Rolin, which considered parameterized integrals of globally subanalytic functions, of Cluckers and Miller, which examined parameterized integrals of constructible functions, and by the work of Cluckers, Comte, Miller, Rolin and …
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
… and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined along side art to discuss not only the similarities but, the differences.</p><p>Major similarities—narrative …
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Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola
… early 1840s, the progressive theories of Auguste Comte (collected, in particular, in his Cours de philosophie positive from 1830-1842) promulgated a scientific, observational approach to the study of society. Throughout the five chapters of this project, I will posit that authors of urban novels, …
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The question of method in social science
… was popularized through the writings of Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill and found its final expression in the doctrines of logical positivism. The positivist ideal of a social scientific method based on observation, experimentation and verification gained dominance through the behaviorist …
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Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
… to the Natural Laws identified by Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, and, in particular, Herbert Spencer. Positivist progress was, however, contingent upon the elimination of the pathological, amorphous 'savage lower races. Non-white degeneration in Brazil, especially amongst its substantial …
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Système d'aide à la planification et à la conception d'une stratégie d'évaluation formative instrumentée
Le logiciel SysML (Système Mastery Learning) est le prototype d'un logiciel pour enseignants qui désirent implanter le Mastery Learning dans leurs cours. Appartenant à la famille des APO (Applications Pédagogiques de l'Ordinateur), ce logiciel de GPAQ (Génie Pédagogique Assisté par Ordinateur) …
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Bio-inspired optimization & sampling technique for side-chain packing in MCCE
The prediction of proteins' conformation helps to understand their exhibited functions, allows for modeling and allows for the possible synthesis of the studied protein. Our research is focused on a sub-problem of protein folding known as side-chain packing. Its computational complexity has been …
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South African social theory : Steve Biko
… social theory. It is widely acknowledged that Comte, Marx, Durkheim and Weber were the founding fathers of sociology. I consider the contributions of Ntsikana, Tiyo Soga, Anton Lembede, Pixley Seme and finally Steve Biko as a means of demonstrating the potential local intellectual to inform a …
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The subject between texts in Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry
… Chants de Maldoror (1864) by Isidore Ducasse, Le comte de Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(1865) and A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. I argue that the palimpsestic technique goes hand in hand with Pizarnik’s implementation of nonsensical methods of writing, …
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The differential calculus as the model of desire in French fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… and Les Lettres de la Marquise de M*** au Comte de R***, Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise, and Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses. The model of the integral calculus offers justification for the localization of a point as part of a description of the totality of matter in the …
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The Structural Role of Idolatry in The Works of Marcel Proust
… individuals he knows (Ruskin, of course, and the Comte de Montesquiou) and of characters from fiction (Balzac's Princesse de Cadignan, for example) who either manifest the deleterious effects of idolatry or represent, as a kind of sign, the singular pursuit of one activity or ambition. Prior to …
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Opératrice dans les coulisses: Re-evaluating filles de l’Opéra Through the Case of Élisabeth-Claire Le Duc (1721-1793)
… broker at the society theatres of her lover, the comte de Clermont (1709-1771), and her influence in their output. The material realities of Le Duc’s life as a fille de l’Opéra ultimately demonstrate that each woman’s experience of social and financial mobility was unique, and that further …
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A restricted image of man
… la pensée mystique, magique et imaginaire. Avec Comte, l'homme est devenu le sujet de la science sociale. Mais la méthode employée a éliminé tout ce qui le caractérise pour faire ressortir sa seule rationalité. Les fondements de son existence (l'ontologie) se virent remplacés par une insistance …
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