“…But in the past decade, even its staunchest philosophical critics have come to realize that relativism is a legitimate option for explaining a variety of phenomena, including faultless disagreement, the utility of alternative logics, varieties of cross-cultural moralities, and differing ontological conceptual schemes. …”

“…The fifteen essays it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated"--…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reflections on social measurement: how social scientists generate, modify, and validate indicators and scales / How to get valid answers from survey questions: what we learned from asking about sexual behavior and the measurement of sexuality / The SAT®: design principles and innovations of a quintessential American social indicator / Measurement as cooperative communication: what research participants learn from questionnaires / Developing observation instruments and arriving at inter-rater reliability for a range of contexts and raters: the early childhood environment rating scales / Studying teacher effectiveness: the challenges of developing valid measures / Identifying consumers' compulsive buying tendencies: lessons learned for measuring consumer-related phenomena / Linguistic factors in the assessment of English language learners / Measurement issues in cross-cultural research / Conceptualizing and measuring culture: problems and solutions / International comparisons of educational attainment: purposes, processes, and problems / Reflections on measuring behavior: time and the grid / Approaches to measuring multi-dimension constructs across the life course: operationalizing depression over the lifespan / Description and discovery in socio-spatial analysis: the case of space syntax / Understanding the intangibles of measurement in the social sciences / Towards a more rigorous scientific approach to social measurement: considering a grounded indicator approach to developing measurement tools / Measuring conceptualisations of morality: or how to invent a construct and measure it too / The problem with poverty: definition, measurement and interpretation / Ethical issues in social measurement / Martin Bulmer ; Josephine Ocloo -- Measuring is more than assigning numbers / Is social measurement possible, and is it necessary? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The decisive criterion: A knowledge-affirming attitude -- The state of the art and suggested steps forward -- 2 Why Do Some Societal Processes and Phenomena Develop in a Circular or Repetitive Way Whereas Other Processes Evolve along a Cumulative Trajectory? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Generative interactions in organizations -- Summary and objectives -- Organizations as relational productions -- Organizations as relational phenomena -- Characterizing high-quality connections…”

“…With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services, bureaucracies, the media, and many other layers of society. …”
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“…For the first time, the ‘simultaneity’ of ‘non-simultaneous’ phenomena is scrutinized for Central Europe and for the cultural exchange with neighbouring territories of the Holy Roman Empire, of England, Bohemia and Northern Italy.Due to its specific urban profile and the geographical position, late-medieval Vienna offers an excellent starting point for the study of musical repertories in Central Europe and their appropriation as cultural practice in the first half of the fifteenth century. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Nanofluidics and Microfluidics; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Nomenclature List; Symbols; Common Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Length scales; 1.2 Scope and layout of the book; 1.3 Future outlook; References; Select Bibliography; 2 Fundamentals for Microscale and Nanoscale Flows; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Definition of a fluid; 2.3 Pressure-driven flows; 2.4 Low Reynolds number flows; 2.5 Electrokinetic phenomena; 2.6 The electric double layer; 2.7 Debye length; 2.8 Electrokinetic phenomena: revisited…”

“…"In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. …”
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“…Luhmann's innovative use of systems theory aims to provide a new framework for analyzing social phenomena, challenging traditional assumptions and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue. …”

“…"Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self presents, in a readily accessible form, the overall theoretical position adopted by Harry Guntrip in his two earlier books Personality Structure and Human Interaction (1961) and Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self (1968).Part One, addressing itself to theoretical issues in psychoanalysis, traces the changes which have occurred in psychodynamic thought since Freud's early conjectures, reflecting the physicality mode of scientific thought in which he had been trained and typified by the theory of instincts have been largely modified or superseded by the contributions of object-relations theory. …”

“…It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular social groups; the social dynamics involved in our coming to think of these phenomena as we do; and the factors that determine the political and policy responses to drug use…”

“…He brings together his iconoclastic views on such subjects as refuting the unconscious, creativity, mind manipulation, paranormal phenomena, sexuality & brainwashing…”

“…This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages to derive the syntactic phenomena object of investigation…”

“…The book investigates the field between media studies, film and the arts and attempts to consolidate the fruitful interaction we have witnessed between the disciplines during the last decade into a focused interdisciplinary program that combines theoretical argumentation with exemplification and analysis of individual artworks and media phenomena…”

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“…Through the use of the ethnographic method in design, this book shows how design researchers can question the certainties of the everyday world, deconstruct reality into singular aesthetic and semantic phenomena, and reconfigure them into new contexts of signification. …”

“…He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. …”

“…To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival research…”

“…Classical computer science is built on the notion of an “abstract” machine, which can be instantiated by software to any concrete problem-solving machine, changing its behavior in response to external and internal states, allowing for self-reflective and “intelligent” behavior. However, current phenomena such as the Web, cyber physical systems or the Internet of Things show us that we might already have gone beyond this idea, exemplifying a metamorphosis from a stand-alone calculator to the global operating system of our society. …”