Metatheoretical Perspectives Research Articles

Book Review: Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives

Book Review: Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives

Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives

Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives

Book Review: The Oxford handbook of organization theory: Meta-theoretical perspectives

Book Review: The Oxford handbook of organization theory: Meta-theoretical perspectives

Perspektiewe vanuit die psigologie en sosiale wetenskappe vir kerklike bediening aan die adolossent. Deel 2: Ondersoek na die leefwêreld van die adolessent

In this article meta-theoretical perspectives for youth ministry are obtained specifically from the fields of psychology and sociology. In the first place, the various psychological development phases of the adolescent are determined, as well as how they have to be accounted for in youth ministry. In the second place, the characteristics of the world in which the adolescent lives are indicated together with their influence on the adolescents.

Perspektiewe vanuit die psigologie en sosiale wetenskappe vir kerklike bediening aan die adolessent. ‘n Ondersoek na die ontwikkeling van die adolessent

In this article meta-theoretical perspectives for youth ministry are presented from the fields of psychology and sociology. In the first place, it is determined what the various psychological development phases of the adolescent are, and how they have to be accounted for in youth ministry. In the second place, it is also determined what the characteristics of the world are in which the adolescent lives, and what their influences are on adolescents.

Book Review

Part I: Introduction. Corman, The Need for Common Ground. Part II: Three Essays. Cheney, interpreting Interpretive Research: Toward Perspectivism without Relativism. Miller, Common Ground from the Post-Positivist Perspective: From Straw Person Argument to Collaborative Coexistence. Mumby, Common Ground from the Critical Perspective: Overcoming Binary Oppositions. Part III: Commentary. Barnett, Commentary on Common Ground in Organizational Communication. Conrad, On the Destiny of Acceptance Frames: Organizational Communication Discourse. Deetz, The A Priori of the Communication Community and the Hope for Solving Real Problems. Eisenberg, The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship. Fairhurst, Skirmishes in the Review Process. Jackson, Disciplinary Controversies and Interdisciplinary Consequences. Krizek, A Case for a Different Kind of Dialogue: The After Action Review. Krone, Becoming Deeply Multipersonal: Commentary on Finding Common Ground in Organizational Communication Research. McPhee, Paradigm Critique: How to See Our Task as a Common One, and How to Work on It. Scott, Lewis, Challenges for the Professional Newcomer in Doing Common Ground Research. Seibold, Flanagin, Potential Sites for Building Common Ground Across Metatheoretical Perspectives on Organizational Communication. Stohl, Pedagogy and Paradigms: The Search for Common Ground. Taylor, A Common Ground, Common Grounds, or Footbridges? Trethewey, The Shifting Common Ground: Feminism(s), Organizational Communication, and Productive Paradigmatic Tensions. Part IV: Afterword. Poole, Lynch, Reflections on Finding Common Ground.

Systemic attachment theory and therapeutic practice: a proposal

AbstractThe fundamentals of attachment theory and family systems theory are outlined in this paper. Theoretical strengths and weaknesses of both approaches are discussed. First, the similarities of both approaches are analysed (focus on family relationships; focus on normal as well as disturbed development; status as metatheoretical perspectives). Then, the differences are outlined (empirical consolidation versus speculative theory development; integration versus abandonment of the concept of ‘personality’; normativity versus non‐normativity; deficit orientation versus resource orientation; dyadic versus triadic view; focus on past and present time versus focus on present and future). Finally, an integrative proposal of a systemic attachment theory is presented. It includes the following main positions: (1) Attachment needs are inborn and of vital importance for humans of all ages. (2) Relationship experiences are internalized and shape the personality. (3) Inner working models of attachment tend to remain stable, but it is possible to change them through new relationship experiences. (4) Attachment can be conceptualized as having an intrapsychic as well as an interpersonal dimension. (5) Internal models and interpersonal relationships influence each other. (6) Focus on normativity and resource orientation. (7) Focus on the present and future, with limited consideration of the past. (8) Sensitivity for losses and ‘inherited trauma’. (9) Triadic view. Research implications (focus on triadic interactions, on inner working models of attachment, and on interrelationships between both) and clinical‐psychotherapeutic implications are derived from this proposal. Bowlby's (1979) recommendations for individual therapy are extended to couples/family therapy and supplemented by a competence‐based basic attitude, flexibility of therapy setting, sensitivity for ‘inherited trauma’ and sensitivity for complex triadic relationships. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations

In this paper, we present three methodological frameworks for the geographic study of organizations. These are situated within three meta-theoretical perspectives in human geography: spatial science, critical realism, and post-structuralism. Each framework offers a different theorization of organizations, and each prompts different research questions that can be used to guide their geographic study. The research questions we offer are general, and are pertinent to all types of organizations. To supplement the methodological contributions of this paper, we suggest how each of these frameworks might inform empirical investigations of Appalshop, a media arts organization located in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

Control Judgements across the Lifespan

Given the inconsistent findings in the literature, we examined age-cohort differences in various personal control judgements over the lifespan ( N = 1623; ages 14-85). For three distinct life domains (personal, social, and societal), participants rated their amount of personal control, the goal importance, the degree of control striving, and, in comparison with same-aged peers, their relative control in each domain. Within this broad lifespan range, the developmental trends showed, as expected, different trajectories depending upon the type of control dimension and the nature of the life domain. The differential nature of these age-cohort trends have important implications for understanding the inconsistent findings reported in the literature, namely, that depending on the nature of the life domain, the type of control dimension, and the age range tested, the trajectories can either increase, decrease, or remain stable. These trends are discussed with reference to various metatheoretical perspectives on lifespan development and control-related judgements.

Psychological constructivisms : A metatheoretical differentiation

Abstract As the constructivist movement spreads throughout the contemporary psychological literature, the meaning of the term constructivism is loosening and has become permeable to rather different approaches. This excessive permeability is one of the reasons why in recent years there has been a proliferation of the reasons why in recent years there has been a proliferation of lables suggested by several authors to point out relevant differences under the umbrella of constructivism/constructionism. In this article, we attempt to contribute to a systematization of the field by using the knowledge/reality relationship as a metatheoretical criterion of differentiation among the several psychological perspectives on personal knowledge. In doing so we fix certain terms to the different views of knowledge, suggesting their discriminative use. Brief references to the psychotherapeutic approaches based on the metatheoretical perspectives considered make clear their different implications at the applied level.

The Legal Environments of Organizations

Sociology has recently witnessed a rapprochement between research on organizations and research on law. This essay reviews a number of central developments and tendencies in this emerging literature, with a particular emphasis on the characteristics of law as an element of the organizational environment. We begin by distinguishing two metatheoretical perspectives on law and organizations: the materialist perspective, which portrays organizations as rational wealth-maximizers and sees the law as a system of substantive incentives and penalties; and the cultural perspective, which portrays organizations as cultural rule-followers and sees the law as a system of moral principles, scripted roles, and sacred symbols. Within each of these traditions, we examine three distinct facets of organizations' legal environments: the facilitative environment, in which law passively provides an arena for organizational action; the regulatory environment, in which law actively seeks to control organizational behavior; and the constitutive environment, in which law defines the basic building blocks of organizational forms and interorganizational relations. Finally, we distinguish between literature that sees law as an independent variable, determining organizational behavior; literature that sees law as a dependent variable, determined by organizational behavior; and a growing literature that discusses the endogeneity between law and organizations. Although any taxonomy tends to depict clear lines where they are in fact murky, we think that this approach not only provides a means of categorizing the literature on law and organizations, it also calls attention to the many different ways in which law and organizations are dynamically intertwined.

What sort of terms ought theories of human action incorporate?

This essay advances a metatheoretical perspective on the nature of human action and the sort of theoretical terms appropriate for addressing phenomena in this domain. Central to this approach is the claim that human action is the product of the joint interplay of social, physiological, and psychological factors. Given this, the essential task is not simply to acknowledge the role of these factors in behavioral production, but instead to develop conceptual schemes capable of accommodating these factors in a rigorous and coherent fashion and of explicating the mechanisms which govern their interaction in the production of behavior. In keeping with this goal, an initial characterization of these mechanisms is developed. The position advanced here can be seen to stand in marked contrast to the metatheoretical perspectives that currently dominate thinking in the social and behavioral sciences. The current approach represents an alternative to: (a) social constructionist views, (b) appeals to physiological redu...

Meta-Theoretical Perspectives of Investigators Publishing Parent-Child Relations Studies in Child Development and Journal of Marriage and the Family

Meta-Theoretical Perspectives of Investigators Publishing Parent-Child Relations Studies in Child Development and Journal of Marriage and the Family

Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India

The role and impact of satellite television in the recent national development of India is explored from four metatheoretical viewpoints: the utopian view that technology is intrinsically good for humankind, the dystopian view that technology is an unmitigated curse, the neutral view that technology per se has no important effects on society, and the contingency view that the potentially desirable and undesirable impacts of a technology are differentially determined by the context in which the technology is introduced at a particular time. The contingency viewpoint is stressed and used to analyze the Kheda experimental communication project in rural India.

An Empirical Comparison of Ritzer's Paradigms and Similar Metatheories: A Research Note

Sociologists have long been interested in classifying their own theories, partly as a means to additional analysis, partly as a step toward comparisons between ideas and social groups. Current work in the philosophy of science has made our classification efforts even more compelling. Many authors, the best known being Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, have suggested that all sciences construct metatheoretical views, proselytize these views through colleague-student networks, and use their metatheory (or paradigm) to define the limits of acceptable truth. Recently philosophers have argued that a true cannot exist; the term is too ambiguous, the practice of science too fluid. But even if paradigms do not exist in extreme form, some of the problems inherent in paradigmrestricted science remain, most notably a tendency to choose and interpret data solely in terms of a limited theoretical view. My question, then, is whether there are empirically identifiable metatheoretical perspectives in sociology, and to what degree these perspectives, assuming they exist, form a closed theoretical world. In Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science, George Ritzer identified three possible metatheories in sociology organized into distinct views about the logic of science. These three sociological paradigms are broad units reflecting consensus about subject matter and scientific procedure clustered around social facts, social definitions, and social behavior. If these perspectives are true paradigms, then theorists within each live in incommensurable worlds, each separate, members blinded to possible contributions from another theory. Ritzer described paradigm quarrels in sociology: social factists often denigrate the soft methodology of participant observation and definitionists retaliate, disparaging the incompleteness of information in hard-data studies. But even as he points to the problems of blindness, Ritzer also claims that many sociologists develop less restricted theory. He names bridgers, most notably Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Parsons, who straddle two, or even three, perspectives with their theory building. I suspect that Ritzer's dilemma-arguing for blindness

External Validity in the Study of Human Development: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Methodological issues must be examined within the context of meta-theoretical perspectives. More specifically, at the level of drawing inferences from data, metatheory prescribes methodology. This arg

Relationships between Urbanization Levels and the Industrial Structure of the Labor Force

Previous articleNext article No AccessRelationships between Urbanization Levels and the Industrial Structure of the Labor ForceHazel MoirHazel Moir Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 25, Number 1Oct., 1976 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/450932 Views: 12Total views on this site Citations: 10Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1976 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Fang Wang, Ming-Hua Tian, Zhong-Hua Yin Modern urbanization and industrial upgrading in China: evidence from panel data, Quality & Quantity 55, no.22 (Jul 2020): 661–681.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-020-01022-5Naoki Murakami Changes in Japanese industrial structure and urbanization: evidence from prefectural data, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 20, no.33 (Jun 2015): 385–403.https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2015.1054166George Pomeroy A Spatio-Temporal, Functional Classification of Indian Cities, (Jan 2004): 137–167.https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2531-9_9Gavin W Jones Urbanization Issues in the Asian-Pacific Region, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 5, no.22 (Sep 1991): 5–33.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8411.1991.tb00047.xS.N. Eisenstadt Origins of the West, Cultural Dynamics 3, no.22 (Jun 1990): 119–153.https://doi.org/10.1177/092137409000300202Noshir S. Contractor, Arvind Singhal, Everett M. Rogers Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 32, no.22 (Mar 1988): 129–148.https://doi.org/10.1080/08838158809386690York W. Bradshaw Overurbanization and underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-national study, Studies In Comparative International Development 20, no.33 (Sep 1985): 74–101.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687083Henry Bienen Urbanization and third world stability, World Development 12, no.77 (Jul 1984): 661–691.https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(84)90081-0Michael Timberlake, Jeffrey Kentor Economic Dependence, Overurbanization, and Economic Growth: A Study of Less Developed Countries, The Sociological Quarterly 24, no.44 (Dec 2016): 489–507.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1983.tb00715.x G. Rodney Thompson , and Andrew J. Stollar An Empirical Test of an International Model of Relative Tertiary Employment, Economic Development and Cultural Change 31, no.44 (Oct 2015): 775–785.https://doi.org/10.1086/451357