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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Human-Science"”.
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The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film
… traces the encounter between psychology as a human science and the viral zombie film genre using the collaborative works of Deleuze and Guattari in conjunction with the queer anti-humanist theories of Colebrook and Halberstam. I interwove thematic (i.e. plot, dialogue, character development) …
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The internal conflict experienced by public community college academic department chairs
… study used the methodology of phenomenological human science inquiry. Through analysis of organizational plans of Illinois public community colleges, department chairs representing the phenomenon of being faculty-colleagues elevated to the chair role were identified. Six participants were …
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On the Challenges of Measurement in the Human Sciences
Measurement practices are central to most sciences. In the human sciences, however, it remains controversial whether the measurement of human attributes—depression, happiness, intelligence, etc.—has been successful. Are, say, widely used depression questionnaires valid measuring instruments? Can we …
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Support of latency-sensitive space exploration applications in future space communication systems
… other hand, the second case study explores how human science operations on the surface of Mars dictate the end-to-end latency requirement that the infrastructure between Mars and Earth has to satisfy. In the first case study, return of satellite observations for weather prediction during the …
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The economics of crime prevention policy : with particular reference to various crime categories in South Africa
… variables from both sociology and political science. Data was obtained from the Human Science Research Council, Central Statistical Service (now Statistic South Africa) and departments comprising the criminal justice system. Two stage least squares estimation procedures are adopted to …
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Spirituality as a Validating Factor and Intrinsic Motivator to Persistence: A Study of Nontraditional Female Students in Community/Technical Colleges
… van Manens (1990) suggested activities for human science research were followed. Individual interviews, as well as two focus group interviews, were conducted to gather the data. A purposeful research sampling approach was used to select the participants from a community college and a …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… bereavement included six processes: (1) dehumanization; (2) ongoing shock; (3) diversity in bereavement responses; (4) spiritual and religious aspects; (5) construction of meaning; and (6) emerging self-transcendence. Mothers' bereavement responses were highly reflective of their own …
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Compassion in organizations: sensemaking and embodied experience in emergent relational capability. A phenomenological study in South African human service organizations
… Worline, Frost, & Lilius, 2006). South African human service organizations face resource limitations within a challenged socio-economic environment. Given these limitations, agents may experience personal distress limiting the capacity for compassion. This study examines agent capacities …
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Modelling religious signalling
The origins of human social cooperation confound simple evolutionary explanation. But from Darwin and Durkheim onwards, theorists (anthropologists and sociologists especially) have posited a potential link with another curious and distinctively human social trait that cries out for explanation: …
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Modelling religious signalling
The origins of human social cooperation confound simple evolutionary explanation. But from Darwin and Durkheim onwards, theorists (anthropologists and sociologists especially) have posited a potential link with another curious and distinctively human social trait that cries out for explanation: …
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The Visible and Invisible Aspects of Miscarriage: A Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal Study
… discussed vis-à-vis qualitative research and the human science tradition, and the method is re-considered as offering possible ways of working in a psychotherapy context.
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Street-level bureaucracy and occupational therapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. A genealogical critique.
As a human science that is also part of administering and supporting bureaucracy, occupational therapy functions in multi-layered networks of power that support many different social structures. Occupational therapists’ work often involves operationalising health, education and social services at …
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A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Analysis of Experimental Infant Research
… convergences between phenomenology and cognitive sciences, this project utilizes a combined phenomenological-hermeneutic method. This model of analysis is applied to three major areas in infant research: physical knowledge, memory-based learning, and social behaviors. The primary pool of data is …