scholarly journals Zombies in the German-Speaking Space. Review of the Collective Monograph “The Undead – Zombie Film Theory” Edited by M. Fürst, F. Krautkrämer and S. Wiemer

Corpus Mundi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Elina A. Sarakaeva
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Original Title ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Scientific Significance ◽  
Main Ideas

This article reviews a collection of scholarly works edited by Michael Fürst, Florian Krautkrämer, and Serjoscha Wiemer “The Undead - Zombie Film Theory” (original title “Untot – Zombie Film Theorie”), Munich, Belleville Publishers, 2010, 301 pages, ISBN 978-3-933510-55-6. The reviewer lists the main ideas discussed by the researchers who have contributed to the monograph, briefly summarizes the content and evaluates the scientific significance of the analyzed edition. Three representative essays of the monograph (by W. Fuhrmann, A. Grilli and M. Benecke) receive a closer inspection, as they demonstrate the scope of ideas and methodological approach characteristic of the volume.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Rollins
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Judicial Opinions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Main Ideas

This chapter introduces the main ideas of the book by placing the LGBT marriage debate in a wider context. It offers an unscientific survey of books published about marriage, weddings, and divorce in order to highlight the cultural value of marriage. The chapter briefly surveys the wedding industry, as well as lesbian and gay marriage as a global movement, emphasizing the role that children and childhood have played throughout the debate. The chapter also introduces the methodological approach of the book, one that relies on key judicial opinions in order to trace the fractures and realignments that opened in our understanding of heterosexuality as it was subjected to increased scrutiny. In these texts we can see that what was once characterized as an elusive object of analysis was brought into the spotlight. As we looked closer, it seemed that marriage was becoming tarnished, and the trouble appeared to center around one very specific issue: reproduction.The chapter concludes with an overview of what is to come in subsequent chapters.

Intelligent DSS Under Verbal Decision Analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 514-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Ashikhmin ◽  
Eugenia Furems ◽  
Alexey Petrovsky ◽  
Michael Sternin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Problem Description ◽  
Verbal Decision Analysis ◽  
Main Ideas

Verbal decision analysis (VDA) is a relatively new term introduced in Larichev and Moshkovich (1997) for a methodological approach to discrete multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems that was under elaboration by Russian researchers since the 1970s. Its main ideas, principles, and strength in comparison with other approaches to MCDM problems are summarized in Moshkovich, Mechitov, and Olson (2005) and in posthumous book (Larichev, 2006) as follows: problem description (alternatives, criteria, and alternatives’ estimates upon criteria) with natural language without any conversion to numerical form; usage of only those operations of eliciting information from a decision maker (DM) that deems to be psychologically reliable; control of DM’s judgments consistency, and traceability of results, that is, the intermediate and final results of a problem solution have to be explainable to DM. The main objective of this chapter is to provide an analysis of the methods and models of VDA for implementing them in intellectual decision support systems. We start with an overview of existing approaches to VDA methods and model representation. In the next three sections we present examples of implementing the methods and models of VDA for intellectual decision support systems designed for such problems solving as discrete multi-criteria choice, construction of expert knowledge base, and multi-criteria assignment problem. Finally, we analyze some perspective of VDA-based methods to implement them for intellectual decision support systems.

scholarly journals Mittendrin statt nur dabei: Ethnographie als Methodologie in der Humangeographie

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Key Issues

Abstract. Interest in the lived mundane practices and embodied experience of subjects has seen a tremendous upsurge in human geography in the past years. With its focus on social interaction and concern with subjects' lifeworlds, ethnography suggests itself as a suitable methodological approach to match this interest. Against the lack of a sustained debate in German-speaking human geography, this special issue seeks to illustrate the potential of ethnography for different conceptual approaches with the help of empirical examples. It is the task of this editorial to review key issues associated with ethnographic research. In so doing, it does not equate ethnography with the method of participant observation, but rather understands it as a methodology with specific implications for the responsibility and position of the researcher, the interpretation of the material and the construction of a narrative.

Product Assortment Policy in Business Entities: Tactics and Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
B. Bobokhujaev
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Range Management ◽  
Matrix Methods ◽  
Product Range ◽  
Product Assortment ◽  
Profitability Analysis ◽  
Alternative Product ◽  
Scientific Significance ◽  
Business Entities

This article examines the choice of strategic options in the formation of the product range in the activities of business entities. Today, the country does not have a comprehensive and universal methodological approach to business management, which allows you to make quick decisions in the field of product range management. In this regard, the development of scientifically based proposals and recommendations for improving the marketing management of the product range of business entities is one of the most critical and compelling issues today. Solving the problem requires marketing approaches, in particular, selective observation of marketing, matrix methods and statistical methods. The solution is to compare the Sales Analysis Matrix and the Profitability Analysis Matrix. The scientific significance of the research is in the methodological recommendations, scientifically based recommendations and conclusions provided, as they serve to improve the scientific and methodological framework for enhancing the efficiency of product range management. The practical significance of businesses competing based on the alternative product range, is that it can be used in the development and implementation of upgrade programs.

scholarly journals From the science foundation program to its research and methodology of science

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
V.M. Rozin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foundation Program ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Evolution Of Science ◽  
Methodology Of Science

The article proposes a reconstruction of the evolution of the concepts of philosophy of science, including the author's concept of science. The basis for such a reconstruction is the distinction between three concepts – justification, study and methodology. Is it possible to assume, the author asks, that the first stage of the formation of the philosophy of science (the concept of positivists and neopositivists) was characterized by a substantiation approach, the second (concepts of T. Kuhn and S. Toulmin) – the point of view of scientific research, the third – the methodology of science. It is the ideas of the concept of substantiation of science, coming from F. Bacon, differently understood in the works of D. Hilbert and L. Wittgenstein, that make it possible to understand the negative attitude of positivists to philosophy, and also why logic was taken to determine the rigor of scientific constructions, and theory was made the central subject of consideration. The transition to the scientific study of science in the works of T. Kuhn and S. Toulmin forced to change this subject (not theory, but the paradigm and evolution of science). The author discusses the conditions for the study of science, showing that the representatives of the second direction relied on social science and the activity approach. The methodological approach to the study of science is analyzed on the example of the ideas of the concept of research programs by I. Lakatos and the implementation of this concept in the study of ancient philosophy by P.P. Gaidenko. The a thor also positions himself as a representative of the methodological approach. He presents the main stages of his own methodological research of science. The main ideas of his concept of science include: the cultural and historical reconstruction of science, thehypothesis of two starts of the formation of science – in antiquity and in the culture of the New Age, characteristics of the “‘genome of science’ that developed in ancient philosophy and re-established in the following cultures, features of “science as social institution of modernity”. The author considers all his constructions ideal-typical and methodological.

scholarly journals Von Fall zu Fall

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-114
Author(s):  
Stefan Gärtner ◽  
Jacques Körver ◽  
Martin Walton
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Research Scholar ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Speaking

Abstract In 2016, the Dutch Case Studies Project in Chaplaincy Care (CSP) was launched, an interdenominational and interuniversity empirical research project on case studies from different fields of chaplaincy. The article presents the methodological approach and the procedure of description and evaluation. The CSP works with research communities composed of chaplains working in a similar context under supervision by a research scholar. The article also analyzes the social and institutional framework of pastoral and spiritual care in a secular setting and its influence on the orientation of the CSP. In conclusion, a comparison to the situation in German speaking countries is drawn.

scholarly journals Issues Of Artistic Concept In Contemporary Uzbek Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Berdiyeva Zulayxo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Scientific Significance ◽  
Main Ideas

This scientific article focuses on the importance of the concept of art in modern Uzbek poetry. This article is about the works of our talented poets Zebo Mirzo and Halima Ahmedova, who are currently working in the field of our literature. The scientific significance of the article is that it focuses on the main ideas and goals of contemporary poetry.

scholarly journals Beyond antiquarianism. A review of current theoretical issues in German-speaking prehistoric archaeology

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin P. Hofmann ◽  
Philipp W. Stockhammer
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
General Decline ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Interesting Development

AbstractWhereas German-speaking archaeology (GSA) has long been understood as generally uninterested in theoretical debates, the situation has taken a most interesting development since the year 2000. Archaeologists tried to escape the general decline of the small university disciplines by getting more and more involved in the overarching research questions of cultural studies and in large-scale collaborative projects. The necessity of integrating a clear theoretical and methodological approach for a successful proposal and the subsequent research changed the significance of theoretical discussions. As a consequence, theme-oriented research has developed which aims at addressing overarching themes in the cultural and social sciences. We have chosen five of the most prominent themes in German-speaking archaeology – self-reflexivity, identities, space, cultural encounter and knowledge transfer – as well as material culture, and shed light on their theoretical conceptualization and methodological implementation in recent publications. Despite the lack of dominant schools of thinking, its strong rootedness in the evaluation of empirical sources, and its close link to the discipline of history, current GSA can contribute to the overall theoretical discourse of the discipline.

Psychometrical Properties of a French Version of the General Self-Efficacy Short Scale (ASKU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Jean Philippe Décieux ◽  
Philipp Emanuel Sischka ◽  
Anette Schumacher ◽  
Helmut Willems
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
German Version ◽  
French Version ◽  
Context Variable ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Valid Instrument ◽  
General Self Efficacy

Abstract. General self-efficacy is a central personality trait often evaluated in surveys as context variable. It can be interpreted as a personal coping resource reflecting individual belief in one’s overall competence to perform across a variety of situations. The German-language Allgemeine-Selbstwirksamkeit-Kurzskala (ASKU) is a reliable and valid instrument to assess this disposition in the German-speaking countries based on a three-item equation. This study develops a French version of the ASKU and tests this French version for measurement invariance compared to the original ASKU. A reliable and valid French instrument would make it easy to collect data in the French-speaking countries and allow comparisons between the French and German results. Data were collected on a sample of 1,716 adolescents. Confirmatory factor analysis resulted in a good fit for a single-factor model of the data (in total, French, and German version). Additionally, construct validity was assessed by elucidating intercorrelations between the ASKU and different factors that should theoretically be related to ASKU. Furthermore, we confirmed configural and metric as well as scalar invariance between the different language versions, meaning that all forms of statistical comparison between the developed French version and the original German version are allowed.

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