Methodology category: 1297 books

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Reductionism

A Beginner's Guide

by Alastair Rae
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Ever since the ancient Greeks conceived of the atom, humans have sought the smallest ingredients of our existence. In the past century, the use of reductionism to understand behavior has gained steam as the quantum universe and the workings of the human mind have been uncovered; still there are those...
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by J.D. Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

In 1975, John Waters had a brainstorm. A simple enquiry into career prediction led to fascinating and disturbing insights, with the potential for profound consequences. After a varied career in surveying, mining, and transportation, the author has decided to publish his second book. This work was...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

In light of the expensive nature of quantitative research, such as experiments, researchers must seek other methods of understanding the world around them. As such, new qualitative methods are gaining ground in the modern research community. Enhancing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research with Technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

First published in 1975. How do men come to perceive and evaluate a world in which marked inequalities of class and status exist? This book considers the nature of class images and their underlying work and community structures. Beginning with the argument that the perception of society varies according...
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Cutting Cosmos

Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

by Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018

For the first time in over 30 years, a new ethnographic study emerges on the Bugkalot tribe, more widely known as the Ilongot of the northern Philippines. Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around...
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Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial...
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Sanskrit Debate

Vasubandhus "Vīmśatik" versus Kumrilas "Nirlambanavda"

by William Cully Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015

Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu’s ‘Vīmśatikā’ versus Kumārila’s ‘Nirālambanavāda’ illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramānaśāstra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other’s tradition of...
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by Alfred Schutz
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011

This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz's theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It begins with Schutz's appraisal of how Husserl influenced him, and continues with exchanges between...
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Networks of Echoes

Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders

by Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska, Paolo Grigolini
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws. The...
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The Philosophy of Mathematics

"A True Definition of Mathematics"

by Auguste Comte
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016

In The philosophy of mathematics, mathematics employee classification efforts to understand the philosophy is the branch.  The main question is related to the source of the object that is the subject of mathematics and mathematics. In particular examine the characteris-tics of a true proposition:    •...
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Revelation, History, and Truth

A Hermeneutics of Dogma

by Eduardo J. Echeverria
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017

The general topic of this book concerns the ontology, epistemology, and teleology of the hermeneutics of dogma. In particular, the author addresses contemporary challenges faced by the necessity of maintaining the integrity of dogmatic truth of the Christian faith, of divine revelation and its transmission...
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Why Not Her?

A Form and Literary-Critical Interpretation of the Named and Unnamed Women in the Elijah and Elisha Narratives

by Hye Kyung Park
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015

In this book, Hye Kyung Park examines the functions and roles of the women who appear in the Elijah and Elisha narratives. The named and unnamed female characters in the Elijah and Elisha cycles frequently drive the plot of these narratives, giving a voice to important theological, historical, and...
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Language and the Ineffable

A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications

by Louis S. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011

One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines....
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Logoi and Pathêmata

Aristotle and the modal/amodal distinction in modern theories of concepts

by Lars Inderelst
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017

«Concept» is a central notion in modern philosophy that also influences other disciplines like psychology and linguistics. The author compares modern theories to the work of Aristotle as the first philosopher with an extensive corpus and one of the predecessors both of classical theory and of modal...
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