Sentences with phrase «particular social theories»

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Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.

Practice refers to any action that applies a particular theory Praxis is practice associated with a total dynamic of historical vision and social transformation.

What Whitehead offers to effect this particular translation of cosmology and sociology is the reintroduction of a theory of «social custom» to serve as the founding principle of order in human society.

«If a proposed action is perceived as contrary to middle - class interests, even some persons who favor «social action» in theory will begin to oppose that particular action.

There is a determined attempt to impose gender theories in many countries — with attempts to change language or to castigate parents for bringing up children as male or female, as if the structures of language and grammar bore no necessary relation to human biology and were just a social construct of a patriarchal or «straight» society — and forgetting that «non-binary» language is itself a construct and an attempt to ideologically cleanse language to suit a particular theory.

The most important tenet of attachment theory is that an infant needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for the child's successful social and emotional development, and in particular for learning how to effectively regulate their feelings [4].

[4] Scottish social thought, and Adam Smith's political economy in particular, thus appear as: `... a theory of a pluralisation of human personality -LSB-...] presented as an ideological alternative to the classical ideal of the personality unified by civic virtue and by a relatively static economy.»

That's also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society's scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu.

Students learn how theory and practice inform each other through coursework that investigates adolescent development; race and power in urban classrooms; social - emotional learning; and methods of teaching particular subject matter, special education students, and English - language learners.

Here's a closer look at a few: The Broken Windows Theory In 1982, social scientists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling proposed the broken windows theory to explain why particular neighborhoods become prone to Theory In 1982, social scientists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling proposed the broken windows theory to explain why particular neighborhoods become prone to theory to explain why particular neighborhoods become prone to crime.

I am a sociologist and social researcher with particular interests in social theory, health and technologies.

In Chapter 12 Dawkins is making a point about the development of Evolutionarily Stable Strategies (ESS) in a social context, and the role of game theory in illuminating the development of cooperation and selfishness, in particular a game called the «prisoner's dilemma» which highlights the development and subsequent stability of cooperation and selfish strategies for how we socially relate to each other.

According to social comparison theory, if we want to know where we stand on a particular behavior, we compare ourselves to our peers.4 So if you want to know if your faithfulness to your partner is typical, you can compare yourself to others.

The movement received an important boost starting in the early 1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues — Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Ivan Boszormenyi - Nagy, Paul Watzlawick and others — at Palo Alto in the United States, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication (see Bateson Project).