What is functionalism? What is postmodern criminology? What is naturalism in sociology? What is neo-functionalism? What does functionalism emphasize? What did Michel Foucault contribute to postmodernism? What is positivist victimology? What is functionalism in linguistics?
What is a postpositivist paradigm? What is the opposite of rational choice theory? What are solidary incentives? What is the deterrence theory of punishment? What is classical political thought? What is a positivist approach? What is modern political thought? What is Western political thought? Wha...
What We Owe to the Futureopens with MacAskill’s fundamental claim: ‘Future people count’.[4]He suggests that while there is a common intuition that future people ‘matter’, it has not been taken seriously enough by ‘activists, researchers, policy makers’. In this first part, we...
Because of this, the easiest thing for philosophers for whom science is their only interest -- like positivists, logical postivists, and other reductionistic deconstructionist, analytic, or linguistic theorists -- has been to dismiss metaphysics and ethics as impossible or even meaningless. Since ...
“hard” sciences, let alone the soft ones. The debate has fallen into the same pattern of demented dualism that characterizes the culture wars in general, with positivists and postmodernists exchanging sneers and insults. But the recognition that scientific knowled...
'Reality' here refers to whatever it is in the universe (i.e., forces, structures, and so on) that causes the phenomena we perceive with our senses" (1997, p. 133). Such views were ignored or disparaged during much of the twentieth century, both by positivists and by constructivists ...
What is postmodern family therapy? What is positivist victimology? What is structural functionalism? What is contemporary sociological theory? What is cultural materialism anthropology? What is radical constructivism? What are semiotics in drama?