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    Associate Level Material Appendix C Fill in the table below by classifying each philosophy as either teacher-centered or student-centered authority. Next‚ identify the main characteristics of that philosophy. (The first one is completed for you as an example.) Once you have completed the table‚ answer the questions below. Educational Philosophies Table |Philosophy |Teacher- or Student-Centered |Characteristics |

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    the idea that there are rational objective limits to the power of legislative rulers. The foundations of law are accessible through human reason and it is from these laws of nature that human-created laws gain whatever force they have.[2] Legal positivism‚ by contrast to natural law‚ holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from some basic social facts. Legal positivists differ on what those facts are.[3] Legal realism is a third theory

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    events that have occurred over the past 50 years and the specific experiences of his own life. By doing so‚ what sociological process has Frank undertaken? A) social determinism B) the sociological imagination C) the social imperative D) positivism 5) What two events most inspired people to rethink social life that led to an uprooting of what had been traditional social arrangements and the development of sociology as a science? A) World War I and the Great Depression B) the discovery

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    (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) Two themes in the development of humanism in geography Philosophical underpinnings The need for critique Liberalism and the origins of humanism The critique of positivism The behavioural revolution The rise of epistemological 1 1 2 4 4 7 8 10 12 13 16 problems 17 19 21 21 24 26 26 27 28 29 30 30 32 34 34 37 39 41 43 43 45 45 47 48 53 CATMOG has been created to fill in a teaching need in the field of quantitative

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    given and transmitted from the past.” How is this similar to the definition of sociology given by Howard Becker? 13. Unlike earlier religious traditions‚ which attempted to determine the ultimate cause or source of reality‚ Auguste Comte developed positivism in order to what? 14. Who coined the phrase “the survival of the fittest”? 15. Soon after college‚ Michael Jordan was made enormously wealthy by Nike and the Chicago Bulls. He has since purchased his own NBA team. Michael Jordan controls what

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    Sociology overlaps with a variety of disciplines that study society‚ in particular anthropology‚ political science‚ economics‚ and social philosophy. Many comparatively new fields such as communication studies‚ cultural studies‚ demographyand literary theory‚ draw upon methods that originated in sociology. The terms "social science" and "social research" have both gained a degree of autonomy since their origination in classical sociology. The distinct field of social psychology emerged from the many

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    INTRODUCTION Without public administration‚ the government cannot operate and manage own activities effectively and efficiently. The administration plays a vital role for delivering and distributing the public services to all corner of the country. Administration spreads all over the country for supplying the governmental and public goods and services up to the villages and door to door. The administration is not operating and managing the activities properly and smoothly in developing countries

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    Journal Article Analysis tgkoontz University of Phoenix Abstract A Week 3 assignment in the class‚ PHL/717 Constructing Meaning‚ required a philosophical analysis of an article in the Journal of Psychology. The article investigated how the connection between knowledge and learning influenced individuals to think about controversial everyday issues. The analysis included identifying philosophical assumptions‚ explaining practical significance and applicability‚ and relating assumptions and

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    and history. Research in mathematical sciences such as physics is also ’quantitative ’ by definition‚ though this use of the term differs in context. In the social sciences‚ the term relates to empirical methods‚ originating in both philosophical positivism and the history of statistics‚ which contrast qualitative research methods. Qualitative methods produce information only on the particular cases studied‚ and any more general conclusions are only hypotheses. Quantitative methods can be used to

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    As Giddens points out‚ to speak of "relative autonomy" is redundant since in society and politics all autonomy is "relative." If such is the case‚ why not approach state and politics first as "autonomous" realms and then focus on their relations with other spheres? The only theory of the state which explicitly postulates the autonomy of the state and politics is Max Weber’s‚ as formulated in "Intermediate Reflections." (Bolsinger‚ 1996) Like Marx‚ however‚ Weber did not develop a systematic theory

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