T. Paul Schultz. Economics o[ Population. Reading, Mass. (USA): Addison - Wesley Publishing Co. 1981.

1981 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-273
Author(s):  
Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Economic Demography ◽  
Advanced Students

Unfortunately this is not the long-awaited textbook in economic demography. Indeed, it is not so much a text - a survey and introduction to the area - as it is a collection of essays on particular topics, often quite advanced and difficult for all but advanced students to follow. Also, the volume should, in all fairness, be subtitled "A Chicago Approach" since the philosophical and theoretical orientation as well as the methodological framework presented is totally that of the Becker Nerlove Chicago School. Easterlin, Leibenstein and the other non Chicago writers are mentioned only in passing. Thus, a beginner to the field would gel no feeling for the enormous, far-ranging controversies which continue to rage.

An Introduction to Roman Retailing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. R. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
The One ◽  
Value Of It

This chapter introduces the topic of retailing in the Roman world and outlines some of the important developments in its study. It establishes why the focus of the book zooms in from retailing in general to the retailing of food and drink in particular; thus from shops to bars. Another aim is to demonstrate the scope of the study, which is an in-depth analysis of specific shops and bars at Pompeii on the one hand, and on the other a broader survey of the retail landscapes of cities throughout the Roman world. Essentially this chapter provides the theoretical and methodological framework for the book, while also arguing for the value of it in the first place.

Applying Bowen Theory to Psychiatric Assessment and Disposition in the ED

2021 ◽  
pp. 107839032098763
Author(s):  
Kathleen B. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Admission Rate ◽  
Hospitalization Rate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychiatric Evaluation ◽  
Bowen Theory ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Psychiatric Assessment ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalizations

BACKGROUND: A number of variables have been shown to influence whether an individual who experiences an emergency psychiatric assessment is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. This study focused on the theoretical orientation of the assessing clinician as a possibly influential variable. The theoretical orientation being studied was Bowen family systems theory or Bowen theory (Bt). Overall the Bt perspective looks at the family as the primary crucible that generates symptoms but at the same time as the natural unit and the best built-in resource to deal with those symptoms. AIMS: This study examined whether the theoretical orientation of the nurse psychiatric assessor would affect her inpatient admission rate of patients seen for psychiatric evaluation in an emergency department (ED). METHOD: A clinician/researcher with extensive experience applying Bt in clinical practice worked in a Crisis Management Service providing psychiatric evaluation and disposition in a busy community hospital ED. Given Bt’s emphasis on the system rather than individual pathology, the clinician researcher hypothesized that her psychiatric hospitalization rate would be lower than the other clinical nurse specialists. A retrospective chart review analyzed 1 year of cases from all referrals that might have resulted in psychiatric hospitalizations ( n = 1,801). RESULTS: The clinician/researcher’s psychiatric hospitalization rate was significantly lower ( p = .004) than the other clinicians. CONCLUSION: An approach to psychiatric assessment in the ED applied a Bt perspective in a way that significantly reduced psychiatric hospitalizations.

Internet Memes, Memory, and Orders of Repackaging

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
Julija Korostenskiene
Keyword(s):  
Human Memory ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Internal Dimension ◽  
External Dimension ◽  
The One ◽  
Taxonomic Relations

Abstract The present study explores the construction of humor in internet memes along two dimensions. The external dimension is concerned with humor in internet memes as opposed to verbal humor on the one hand and as opposed to humor in comics and caricatures on the other. The perceptive differences, stemming from the workings of the human memory, and the medium are posited as the two main differentiating factors. On the internal dimension, we explore manifestations of humor in light of the communicative situation and taxonomic relations at both the intermedial and intramedial levels of internet memes, taking as an example a family of You Wouldn’t Get It image macros. Our analysis employs elements of intertextuality theory and the notion of orders of indexicality. The study aims to contribute to the growing theoretical and methodological framework for multifactorial analyses of internet memes.

Requirement Specification and Conceptual Modeling for Data Warehouses

2009 ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Elzbieta Malinowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Data Warehouses ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
The One ◽  
Integrate Data

Data warehouses (DWs) integrate data from different source systems in order to provide historical information that supports the decision-making process. The design of a DW is a complex and costly task since the inclusion of different data items in a DW depends on both users’ needs and data availability in source systems. Currently, there is still a lack of a methodological framework that guides developers through the different stages of the DW design process. On the one hand, there are several proposals that informally describe the phases used for developing DWs based on the authors’ experience in building such systems (Inmon, 2002; Kimball, Reeves, Ross, & Thornthwaite, 1998). On the other hand, the scientific community proposes a variety of approaches for developing DWs, discussed in the next section. Nevertheless, they either include features that are meant for the specific conceptual model used by the authors, or they are very complex. This situation has occurred since the need to build DW systems that fulfill user expectations was ahead of methodological and formal approaches for DW development, just like the one we had for operational databases.

Information in the Welfare State: Problems and Approaches

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Yrjö Littunen
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
School Science ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
New Information ◽  
Partial Isolation

The most comprehensive approaches toward understanding information in modern ‘welfare states’ have been focussed on outlining state regulation in the monopoly stage of capitalism. This theoretical orientation has instigated a number of studies penetrating into the use of information for the purposes of state control and regulation, e.g. in income policies as well as in legislation. Less developed is the study of the other side of the dialectic: how do counter-processes manifest themselves in the course of increasing bureaucratic-corporativist regulation and control? Evidence on following tendencies in ‘welfare states’ in Western Europe and their accentuation in Scandinavia is discussed. (1) Fragmentation and partial isolation of the traditional information institutions (school, science, journalism) from contemporary information-steering processes, necessitated by increasing flows of raw information in the market of knowledge. (2) Emergence of new information-steering activities, often in organized, institutionalized forms. (3) New information-steering is developed for centralized, state-monopoly regulated information needs and, on the other hand, for democratic information needs: these trends and counter-trends depend not only on power changes in the class struggle but also on changes in the content and experience-coping of information available for the large majorities of the population.

scholarly journals Ekspressiv grammatik

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Hans Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Expressive Writing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Structural Flexibility ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
The One ◽  
Pedagogical Grammar ◽  
Point Of Departure

The aim of this paper is to consider how to present pedagogical grammar (PG) for advanced students. Taking its point of departure in the lack of structural flexibility often instantiated in student writing, the paper discusses the requirements for an advanced PG, compared to those for theoretical grammar on the one hand and for a beginner's PG on the other. It goes on to outline how an advanced PG can be formulated so as to support and enhance more expressive writing.

scholarly journals Projective Models of Giftedness Development under the Conditions of the Modern and the Future Society: the Subjectivity Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Sergey Borisov
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

The article argues for the key strategic line in giftedness development to be the support of a child’s formation as the subject of his/her own life. Therefore the fundamental research tasks are to be the development and testing of the projective giftedness formation models based on subjectivity practices and the subsequent evaluation of the effectiveness of these models. The author analyses available theoretic conceptions of giftedness to propose a general methodological framework opening the subjectivity perspective. The particular focus is on the abilities of philosophic substantialism, on the one hand, and personality oriented anthropologic conceptions, on the other, to solve the problem of giftedness conceived as a phenomenon of subjectivity.

scholarly journals Social representations of trust among teachers and principals in Cameroonian, Indian, and Finnish schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman ◽  
Rusten Menard ◽  
Jyoti Verma ◽  
Raul Kassea
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Workplace Trust

Quantitative studies on trust often attempt to measure levels of trust, while neglecting local meanings of trust. These studies are usually based on Eurocentric models in Western cultures, though the models may have limited ecological validity. As a result, this study sought to investigate trust as locally produced structures and practices in Cameroon, Finland and India. In each country, teachers and principals were interviewed individually, while nineteen focus groups among teachers were also conducted (N = 111). The theory of social representations provides the methodological framework for the study. Our analyses suggest that in Cameroon understandings of trust were anchored in complementarity, in Finland in contracts, and in India in social hierarchies. We suggest that the Cameroonian representations were more fluid than in the other two countries, which may be due in part to the working arrangements there. In all of the national contexts, numerous metaphors and imagery helped to solidify trust as phenomena built in everyday practices. Cooperation was an important element in the data from all of the country contexts, although it had particular and varying meanings in each. Finally, we interpret culturally embedded dichotomies, or themata, that participants draw upon to imbue workplace trust with meaning. We discuss the analyses and interpretations in terms of local practices and the concrete conditions in which the participants worked.

scholarly journals VOICES OF “THE UNHEARD” AND “NEW SINCERITY”: PRACTICES OF GERONTOLOGICAL, PENITENTIAL, ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS EXCLUSION AND THEIR CONCEPTION IN MODERN THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE (PROBLEM STATEMENT)

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
S. N. Ovodova
Keyword(s):  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse

The article examines the understanding of exclusion procedures in the theory and philosophy of culture. The methodological framework for studying the practices of gerontological, penitentiary, ethnic and religious exclusion in modern culture is determined. The heuristic potential of the decolonial optics and the metamodern approach in the study of exclusion practices in modern culture is revealed, which, in particular, manifests itself in changing the principles of representation of cultural traumas. Replacing the postmodern construction of the narrative about the experience of the traumatized and excluded on the principle of “shock and show” with a metamodern new sincerity allows us to move away from commodification and stigmatization. The article analyses the current trends in the construction of relationships with the Other in postcolonial discourse, decolonial optics, trauma studies, memory studies, and metamodernism.

scholarly journals Dynamic capabilities in strategic choice processes within organisations

Management ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Krzakiewicz ◽  
Szymon Cyfert
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
Choice Processes ◽  
Management Literature

SummaryDynamic capabilities are an essential theoretical construct that is useful for understanding the phenomenon of competition. Still, in spite of the apparent popularity of this subject, the existing management literature could do with more studies into processes that shape dynamic capabilities.The purpose of this article is to systematise different approaches to the dynamic capabilities concept as they are found in the existing literature, with a particular focus on its relevance to modern-day organisations as a tool to increase their competitiveness. The other goal is to discuss two issues that are critical to the dynamic capabilities concept. Firstly, what are the conditions for the predominant role of dynamic capabilities in the area of strategic management? Secondly, can the dynamic capabilities concept be treated as an underlying theoretical and methodological framework for strategic choices in modern-day organisations?

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