Neuropsychological assessment methodology revisited: metatheoretical reflections [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Theory building in neuropsychology, similar to other disciplines, rests on metatheoretical assumptions of philosophical origin. Such assumptions regarding the relation of psychological and physiological variables influence research methodologies as well ...
Josh Joseph Ramminger +4 more
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Toward a Science of Metatheory [PDF]
Integral Review, 2010 In this article, I explore the field of metatheory with two goals. My first goal is to present a clear understanding of what metatheory “is” based on a collection of over twenty definitions of the term.
Steven E. Wallis
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Integrating Metatheory to Enhance Qualitative Interviewing: A Safety Campaign Exemplar
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, The, 2014 This article examines the ways in which integrating a metatheory to guide qualitative interviews supports health theory and the research methodology of interviewing.
Emily J. Haas, Marifran Mattson
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Advaita (Non-dualism) as Metatheory: A Constellation of Ontology, Epistemology, and Praxis [PDF]
Integral Review, 2010 Integrating contradictory and mutually exclusive positions is a challenge in building a metatheory. In this paper, I examine how advaita (non-dualism) philosophy is a metatheory.
Latha Poonamallee
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Primacy of theory? Exploring perspectives on validity in conceptual psychometrics [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologySeveral conceptions of validity have emphasized the contingency of validity on theory. Here we revisit several contributions to the discourse on the concept of validity, which we consider particularly influential or insightful.
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Necessary Metatheory for the Critique of Sociological Theories [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2021 Sociological theories are diverse and this science needs rethinking and critique. If so, far sociological critiques have not had a clear framework. Therefore, a specific method and framework are needed to critique sociological theories.
Hamid Masoudi, Ali Yousofi
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RELATED CONCEPTS: CULTURAL MATERIALISM, NEW HISTORICISM, CULTURAL STUDIES [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2023 Until 1988 Stephen Greenblatt practiced a kind of criticism which was closer to Cultural Materialism in its emphasis on ideology, on the exercise of state power in creating narratives supporting its desired self-image.
Maria Mureșan
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Theorizing in sociology: postpositivist typology of J. Berger, M. Zelditch Jr. and D. Wagner [PDF]
Соціологія, 2023 The article presents an explication of the post-positivist typology of theoretical activity in sociology. J. Berger, M. Zelditch and D. Wagner argued for this typology in a set of their publications. They distinguished such types: unit theories of social
Volodymyr Reznik
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A Search in Metatheories of Humanities and Social Sciences; Necessities of Proceeding towards Islamic Metatheorizing [PDF]
Religion & Communication, 2013 There is no such thing as impartiality in the theories of social sciences and humanities. We can recognize their metatheories by studying various pretheoretical bases they are founded on.
Ebrahim Fayyaz, Mohsen Badreh
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