... on "making sense of the conceptual muddle"(Watts 2014: p9), illustrating that evidence-based-policy is not a scientifically empirical, apolitical process, devoid of ideology. It notes, in the social sciences arena (as distinct from the fields of applied sciences), that each endeavour to understand reality is contingent on the "sociological viewpoint" of the ... 2003, Solesbury 2002). Therefore, although evidence has the potential to be utilised to drive solutions to social problems, it can also be utilised tactically to extenuate strategic control. In a study of the Pathways to Preventio...

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... of the emerging Western philosophers and human scientists; that is, humans not belonging to their known European culture. The author contends that it is only with the emergence of travel, literature, and history that a new formation towards this "Other' begins to find a place within these theories. The concept of culture and later the emergence of what will become ... from other animals in that we have a consciousness of morality and religion. During the scientific revolution, where the separation from religion and the study of humanity began and new developments in physics and astrono...

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