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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"objectivism"”.
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On Objectivism and Heuristic Emergence in Undergraduate Music Programs and Administration
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A Critical Exploration and Theological Critique of Michael Polanyi’s Structured Ontology
… has tended to focus on Polanyi’s critique of objectivism that led to his philosophical contributions, predominantly in epistemology - what Polanyi calls personal knowledge; however, Polanyi’s critique is equally tied to his ontology - which can be similarly referenced as personal existence. …
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Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
… and Husserl's critique of psychologism and objectivism. By contrast, I suggest that only with a robust theory of sensation can the integrity of the body and its relations be fully captured. I therefore develop--contra Kant and Husserl's idealism--a realist conception of sensation that is at …
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Distances
… of modern science. Furthermore, I contrast the objectivism of modern science to the subjectivism of creative writing. The four short stories in my thesis range from a semi-autobiographical story, to two short stories that stem out further and further from the subjective origin of the first …
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
… dichotomous modes of thinking: subjectivism vs. objectivism, agency vs. structure, micro vs. macro analysis. His model aims to subsume these divisions, by accounting for the generative ability of both mental and structural forces. Jameson on the other hand, as "America's leading Marxist critic", …
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The emotions of individuals during strategic and organisational change : A hermeneutic exploration.
… to influence the transformation of managerial objectivism, change practise, and behaviour, so that emotions are recognised, welcomed, respected, supported and embraced in the workplace. The research environment is one of constant strategic and organisational change. Within this context, the …
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Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy
… crisis of modernity, Macintosh moved to recover objectivism in theology, attempted to rehabilitate the apologetic arguments for the existence of God and the reasonableness of religious belief, employed the Radical Method in theology to define and to defend an essence of Christianity, and employed …
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"and silence" : Lorine Niedecker and the life of poetry.
… the Modernism of Pound or Williams, or the Objectivism of Louis Zukofsky. Firstly, I examine some of the choices Niedecker made as a practising poet, and suggest that these have affected not only the writing of her poetry but also its reception, especially with regard to her gender and …
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The effects of varying forms and degrees of government intervention upon the effective competitiveness of UK small businesses
… study research, thereby avoiding limitations of objectivism and brute inductivism. The major insights and issues highlighted by the `lq bootstrap, guide the researcher around the participant case studies. A novel attempt at contextualist (linked multi-level and processual) analysis was attempted …
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Class, gender and habitus : a ‘Bourdieuian’ perspective of social reproduction and change in the contemporary sports field with a focus on adventure climbing
… with previous understandings of action, agency, objectivism, subjectivism, the individual and society. Habitus becomes a main mechanism to explore and analyse the process of social change and reproduction in the contemporary climbing and mountaineering field.<br/><br/> Habitus makes it possible …
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Development of the Research Paradigm Inventory to Measure Views About Research Practices and Beliefs
… measuring: (1) Realism in Research, (2) Research Objectivism, (3) Quantitative Methodology, (4) Relativism in Research, (5) Research Interpretivism and (6) Qualitative Methodology. Given the evidence collected, these scales appear to provide reasonably reliable and defensible estimates of …
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CREATIVE NONFICTION ILLUMINATED: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SPOTLIGHTS
… In journalism I analyze the culture of objectivism from which literary journalism emerged. I argue literary journalists have developed definitions that identify the purpose of literary journalism and narrative form. I express concerns about the separation of journalism from composition …
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A Solution to "The Problem of Socrates" in Nietzsche's Thought: An Explanation of Nietzsche's Ambivalence Toward Socrates
… among which he includes Christianity, ethical objectivism, and Plato's metaphysics, as a misuse of reason. However, the appropriate use of reason involves experimenting with other modes of expression such as aphorisms, the performing arts, and poetry, which grant the individual as much moral …
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Narrativas intersexo: um nó nos mitos epistemológicos fundantes
… incursions that question the scientific objectivism and the impartiality that ratifies the control of bodies; they denounce biomedical practices that trivialize the right to autonomy in the personal sphere and oppose non-consensual surgeries. We advocate the timely discursive and …
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Examining factors affecting blockchain adoption for process improvement in the financial services industry
… in this study follow that of positivism and objectivism. Through factor analysis path, the research revealed that the combined effect of Institutional factors have a perfect positive correlation with blockchain technology adoption with the most influential factor being money laundering. …
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Improving alignment between Business and IT departments: towards an effective Enterprise Architecture and its role within the corporate organisation
… South African Oil and Gas Company. It follows an objectivism ontology, with a positivist philosophical approach as an epistemology. A mixed method approach was followed for data collection, and data analyses was done using quantitative methods. Six hypotheses are presented of which two of the six …
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Allocentric Design: Critical Practice in the Age of Radical Technological and Environmental Change
… part of this pluralism the notion of scientific objectivism – a paradigm that remains indispensable to investigating the causes of and acting upon the climate crisis. Finally, the concluding chapter elucidates why the allocentric reorientation in design practice requires that we actively …
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Non-technical factors that influence the implementation of a knowledge management system in a parastatal organisation in South Africa
… stances that were considered for this study were objectivism and positivism, respectively. Such stances were adopted because it was contended that the realism related to KM implementation could be estimated through objective endpoints. A mixed-method approach was undertaken to obtain the relevant …
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The impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure on remote work service delivery for Administrators in South African SMEs
… guide this study, and the research adopted the objectivism and positivism research philosophies. Quantitative research method was used to collect cross sectional data through an online survey involving administrators in South African SMEs. The study gathered data from 76 participants, accounting …
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