scholarly journals Applied philosophy and psychotherapy: Heraclitus as case study

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Beukes
Keyword(s):  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Philosophical Counselling ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Applied Philosophy

This article investigates a recent attempt to apply philosophy within the discipline of psychotherapy and to investigate the somewhat undefined realm of philosophical counselling. After introducing the claims of this interdisciplinary exercise and after addressing the problems involved in crossing the boundaries between philosophy and psychotherapy, the article elaborates on  Alex Howard’s (2000) [Philosophy for counselling and psychotherapy: Pythagoras to post-modernism. London: Macmillan] attempt to make explicit use of philosophy in psychotherapy, using his interpretation and application of Heraclitus’ philosophy as case study.

scholarly journals A Review of Anti-Corruption Wars in Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nnamdi Nwaodu ◽  
David Adam ◽  
Okechukwu Okereke
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Efficient Performance ◽  
Financial Crimes

Corruption still subsists as one of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria. The existence of this phenomenon in virtually all aspects of the nation’s socio-economic life is said to be one reason why poverty level remains high irrespective of her position as the six highest suppliers of oil to the whole wide world, and a possessor of numerous other human and natural resources. A recent attempt by the Federal Government of Nigeria to curb this societal ill led to the establishment of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices & Related Offences Commission (ICPC) among others bodies. This paper historically explores the anti-corruption war in Nigeria and specifically zeros itself to review EFCC’s role in this war. The methodology adopted in this paper is the narrative-textual case study (NTCS), a research method that sources the required quantitative and qualitative secondary data on the phenomenon of study from secondary sources like the internet, World Wide Web, online databases, e-libraries  et cetera. On the strength of the qualitative data sourced, it was discovered that the agency has made some successes but is being hindered by political, administrative and judicial bureaucracy from efficient performance. The paper therefore boldly recommends that transparency be enshrined into all aspect Nigerian political and administrative life and extant anti-graft laws be reviewed, harmonized and strengthened to enhance the effectiveness of fight against corruption and breach of corporate governance ethics by those holding political and non-political positions in Nigeria.

scholarly journals WHAT IT TAKES TO INNOVATE: THE EXPERIENCE OF PRODUCING AN ONLINE, REAL-TIME CASE STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Theroux
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Business Courses ◽  
New Type ◽  
The One ◽  
Instantaneous Distribution

The case method can be classified as a type of experiential learning because students treat the problem in the case as if it were real and immediate. Until the Internet there was no practical way for cases to actually be real and immediate. The Internet makes possible instantaneous distribution of cases, and it makes possible their creation in real time. This article describes a recent attempt to use the Internet to bring business reality to business courses, and to facilitate communication among instructors, students, and the case company. It explores the challenges and difficulties involved in producing a new type of case study, and it assesses the feasibility of doing so on a regular basis. The goal of the author is to stimulate a dialog about how the Internet can be used to move forward all of our teaching methods, but especially the one that is prominent in schools of business: the case method.

Disrupting polarized discourses: Can we get out of the ruts of environmental conflicts?

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 987-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Lucas ◽  
Russell Warman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
Definition Of

Polarization in environmental conflicts obstructs decision making at all scales. The Australian state of Tasmania has a history of intense polarization around environmental issues. This article uses a social study of citizens of the capital, Hobart, and a case study of a recent attempt to disrupt polarization about forestry in Tasmania, to develop a novel conceptualization of ‘ruts’ in environmental conflicts. Ruts are formed when polarizing social constructs gain a momentum that perpetuates entrenched discourse coalitions and storylines into subsequent issues. This is evidenced in attitudinal survey results, and in interviews that show how storylines from the forestry debate frame people’s responses to climate change. The case study describes negotiations in the forestry conflict that had some success in disrupting these polarized discourses. After the long-term failure of the traditional authorities of government and science to resolve conflict over Tasmania’s forests, a sub-political process emerged to directly renegotiate a shared definition of risk. The study shows that new coalitions of players from outside traditional systems of authority have the potential to disrupt polarized discourses, through the creation of shared storylines. The challenge is to be prepared to acknowledge the legitimacy of divergent values, and to seek framings that sidestep, rather than confront strongly held conflicting values. Insights from this article are likely to be of value for other environmental conflicts, including climate change.

Rationalizing the Irrational: A Case Study in User Group Participation in Pacific Salmon Management

1987 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1796-1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Hilborn ◽  
Wilf Luedke
Keyword(s):  
Chum Salmon ◽  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Oncorhynchus Keta ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
User Group ◽  
Salmon Fisheries ◽  
Insight Into

Acrimony between industry and government managers is commonplace in the management of many Pacific salmon fisheries. A case study of the chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) fisheries in southern British Columbia provides insight into the prevailing distrust between fishermen and managers. A recent attempt to bring planned management into what had often been an irrational and highly political activity is described. A management system called the "clockwork" provides all fishermen an opportunity for greater understanding of the management rationale and greater input into the decision-making process. The results of this attempt and implications for achieving management goals are discussed.

Rethinking Women's Political Participation and Protest: Chile 1970–1990

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Waylen
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Women's Political Participation

Much of women's political activity cannot be accommodated within traditional political science so new ways of analysing it are needed. In order to create a new framework, using case study material from Chile, some of the concepts employed by socialist feminists, particularly the patriarchal bargain and strategic and practical gender interests, are explored. These shed light on why women mobilize, both for conservative and for more ‘progressive’ causes. However, this framework alone cannot provide answers about the form and representation of these activities. An attempt is made to use the insights of post-modernism to do this. The conclusion is that it is possible to unite the most helpful aspects of the two perspectives.

CRIME STUDY IN POSTMODERNISM PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Herry Fernandes Butar Butar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Study ◽  
New Thought ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Conceptual Meaning ◽  
Modern Perspective

This research answers how Postmodernism criminology explains about conceptual meaning of crime that differed from modern perspective. With the development of criminology and the rise of new thought in criminology gave us chance at renewing the approach in doing research needed to explain crime and how crime occurred. In post-modernism criminology that has been critically question that modern perspective had not been explained crime as how crime defined empirically. The research is using qualitative perspective with literature study and case study of crime such as environment crime, womanizing, the rise of sentencing in Indonesia and other cases and analysing it with the perspective of post-modern criminology. The case study goals are how to see crime from postmodern and modern criminology and gave the option how to create policy to handle crime

Institutional Amphibiousness and the Transition from Communism: The Case of China

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. L. Ding
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Conceptual Schema

In the practice of social science, the most conspicuous recent attempt at theorizing about nonconformity and protest in late communism rests on the conceptual schema of ‘civil society versus the state’. Based on a case study of the institutional basis of criticism of, and dissent against, communism in China, I contend that the dichotomous concept ‘civil society versus the state’. when used to explain the transition from communism, is applicable only in rare, extreme cases and misleading in most cases. Instead, I introduce the concept of ‘institutional amphibiousness’, stressing institutional parasitism and institutional manipulation and conversion. In most cases, institutional amphibiousness more adequately accounts for the dynamics of the erosion of communism than the concept of ‘civil society versus the state’.

scholarly journals Reflexivity and the Sociology of Science and Technology: The Invention of "Eryc" the Antibiotic

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Collyer
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The One

Until recently, the social-technical process of invention has fallen between sociological investigation of the genesis of a new idea (an ideational phenomenon) and the production of a new technology (a material phenomenon). The advent of post-modernism and post-structuralism offered new avenues for theorising invention, accounting for, on the one hand, its material nature, and, on the other, its ideational nature, through the notion of socio-technical ensembles: phenomena constructed through the co-producing, mutually constitutive action of actants (both human and otherwise). This paper argues that despite its potential, theorising within the sociology of science and technology is hampered by insufficient attention to the role of the researcher and the concept and practice of reflexivity. Reflexive practices within this field of knowledge are explored, and drawing on an empirical case study of an antibiotic preparation, a case is made for the necessity of reflexivity in the production of knowledge about invention.

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