Sentences with phrase «systems theory as»

In addition, the adoption of Family Systems Theory as the standard framework from which to study families in palliative care will provide consistency for future studies that is presently lacking.

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Theoretical and empirical work on relationships between teachers and children relies on developmental systems theory as the foundational conceptual model, drawing heavily from basic work in

Adopting systems theory as the primary organizer of knowledge solves the problem by making all academic disciplines and school subjects parts of a single, much simpler way of organizing information.

Understand the concepts of systems theories as foundational to the practice of marriage and family therapy.

Systems theories as applied to family or individual development (Cox & Paley, 1997; Sameroff, 1994) lead to a consideration of the mutual influence between family relationships.

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As has been reported, it will be a separate version of the network that can be accessed only from a company's internal IT systems, and in theory, subject to stricter corporate security and access rules.

One theory is that schools» justice systems are not subject to the same standards of evidence and burden of proof as the criminal - justice system.

So thinking of a particular shift within the system as «anti-capitalist» makes about as much sense as thinking that the discrediting of a particular scientist or the fall of a particular scientific theory amounts to the downfall of science, as a whole.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

Invoking history, physics, biology, climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on ethics and environmentalism as well as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.

In theory, the fee is supposed to act as both carrot and stick — smokers who want health insurance would either pay the higher premiums to help insurers cover their historically higher health care costs or quit smoking so they can save both themselves (and the broader medical system) money.

That a passing bird dropping stale bread can neutralize a multi-billion dollar scientific facility comes as no surprise to anyone who has experienced delay on the Toronto subway — where flakes of snow can shut down the system for months — but two scientists have come up with a novel alternative theory for the disruption: time traveling terrorists.

In theory, it's easier for patients, it's cheaper for healthcare systems, and the results (in early testing) seem just as good.

Just as an example, GRAVITY or at least our system of laws, rules, concepts, and equations explaining it is a THEORY.

«In essence, it is a synthesis of the results obtained by Greek astronomy... On the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, Ptolemy again extended the observations and conclusions of Hipparchus — this time to formulate his geocentric theory, which is popularly known as the Ptolemaic system» (15th edition, 1975, Macropaedia, Vol.

In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.

It really does nt matter what my beliefs system was, let's just say it was based on chaos theory and science as applied to occult arts, I have since moved on to more pragmatic beliefs but I clearly recall how oppressive they were and surprised at how much propaganda they spread that was based on their ignorance.

As an engineer and reluctant manager, I think the church would benefit from an education in systems theory and organisational behaviour.

It is true that many scientific theories have proven to be wrong but many have also been proven to be fact including many that religion had deemed as blasphemy such as the world is round and the sun is the center of our solar system.

I find that Whitehead's exposition is question - begging and seriously misleading.4 The exposition is misleading insofar as it suggests that belief in either a specific or generic causal nexus is adequately justified by a subject's experience of CE alone and not ultimately by systematic considerations, particularly those related to prehension.5 If Whitehead's theory of perception was intended to stand alone without support from the rest of his system, as Ford suggests (EWM 181 - 182), then I claim that it is insufficiently justified insofar as a part of it, the theory of CE, is inadequately justified.

or those who have been saying that science is another «belief system» what they don't understand is that while science has many theories, and not as many «laws» is that the rigors that are used to support theories are much more intense than «the man in the clouds spoke to me.»

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

What we have done here is (a) accept that mathematics arises from experience, (b) recognize that we can get a general idea of twoness from our experience, (c) accept constraints on our experience — what we can assert as existing and what we can construct — by accepting some formal system, in this case a system defining set theory, and (d) acknowledge that we can define precisely within that system what we mean by number, successor of a number and in the process twoness.

Rather than viewing each society as a separate entity moving along a track from less modern to more modern, the critics of modernization theory argue that societies interact with one another as parts of a larger system.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

At one extreme, world - system theory, as I have indicated, would at most regard religion as epiphenomenon subject to the more profound influences of political economy.

At the other extreme, many variants of world - system theory and some variants of the other perspectives regard economic development as inherently productive of conflict, oppression, and exploitation.

World - system theory has emerged over the past fifteen years as leading contender with modernization theory.6 As the name suggests, world - system theory emphasizes the larger set of social, economic, and political relations that link societies togetheas leading contender with modernization theory.6 As the name suggests, world - system theory emphasizes the larger set of social, economic, and political relations that link societies togetheAs the name suggests, world - system theory emphasizes the larger set of social, economic, and political relations that link societies together.

As far as I know, this last is not an explicit doctrine in Whitehead's system, but it seems to be a possible implication of the theory of «objective immortality.&raquAs far as I know, this last is not an explicit doctrine in Whitehead's system, but it seems to be a possible implication of the theory of «objective immortality.&raquas I know, this last is not an explicit doctrine in Whitehead's system, but it seems to be a possible implication of the theory of «objective immortality.»

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

Thus «x» is any propositional function with individuals for its arguments, «(x) x» means «there exists some individual in the universal domain that has the property».4 At the lowest level in the theory of types there are individuals — a, b, c, d,... n, but the precise identification of the individuals is left open since the system of logic was only to be used as a foundation for pure mathematics.

In Gestalt Therapy, the self is called «the system of contacts at any moment» (GT 235) and is a gestalt (as the dominant occasion is an actual occasion), though the theory does not emphasize this.The «self is spontaneous, middle in mode...» (GT 376).

Popper (1972) points out that, though we still believe in the repulsive forces as being electromagnetic and still hold Bohr's theory of the periodic system of elements in a modified form, everything else in this beautiful reduction of the universe to an electromagnetic universe with two particles of stable building blocks has by now disintegrated.

It is a problem that holistic approaches to biology such as general systems theory have been most interested in, and it is the problem that prompted C. Lloyd Morgan to speculate about forms of relatedness.

Included are varied specifics such as: economic theory; psychiatry; systems analysis; the growth of bureaucracies; the science of management; the development of the democratic ideal; striving for universal education; personalism (fulfilling the earlier promise of the Enlightenment); the rise and fall of colonialism; and modem liberation movements.

Most teachers have added to their repertoire the theories of more recent schools of psychology such as family systems and Heinz Kohut's self psychology.

But since the theory is presented authoritatively rather than as a tentative system of hypotheses, «theory» seems too weak, and «ideology,» better.

The second condition, coherence, is that the thought should be consistent with an established system of theories and generally accepted beliefs.2 Coherence, as I take it, is consistency or fittingness with more relations and a set of consequences.

Moreover, would we not be justified in distinguishing ontology, that is, the theory of being as such, from the theory of concreteness, since the system of all the basic types of entity must exhibit some commonality among those types, however formal and empty it may be?

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

Now, given any system of material objects that might be considered as a frame of reference in a theory of dynamics, that system is either at rest, or in motion with uniform velocity, or in accelerated motion relative to absolute space.

Neither Newton nor Whitehead ascribes to a purely relative theory of space and time structure, that is, a theory which would maintain that any selected system of material objects may serve as a suitable framework in terms of which to analyze physical reality.

For example, in one of the better chapters, entitled «Human Justice and Animal Fairness», the reader is introduced to Maasai systems of gift - giving, game theory as applied to chimpanzee behaviour, canine sensitivity to fairness, rules of play among wolves and rats, before a brief detour into Martha Nussbaum's development of Rawlsian justice theory leads us to an extended discussion of Aquinas» understanding of justice as a virtue, acquired and infused.

In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5

These are the ideas which were first brought forward in biology by thinkers such as Needham and Woodger (with myself acquiescing on the side - lines) under the name «Organizing Relations,» and by Bertalanffy, who conducted a vigorous propaganda campaign on their behalf, under the name of «Systems Theory, and finally by Norbert Wiener, with equal fervour, as «Cybernetics.»

The proposition in this second half of the theory can be stated as follows, therefore: The higher the level of religious pluralism in a society, the more will societal complexity depend upon, and thus be associated with, the presence of a universalistic legal system.

The term «internal consistency» is used advisedly in order to get away from popularly accepted genetic, causal theories, such as that Buddha rebelled against Brahmanism, therefore Buddhism rejects the caste system.

This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all of nature and all of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure of levels of interlocked subset systems in which the process of any particular subset system affects and is affected by other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»