... ways of investigating society - that is, the introduction of new subject-areas in social research, the placing of the researcher along with the research in the centre of research analysis, or the emphasis of the importance of locating experience and emotions in the research, challenge conventional epistemologies. Finally, in the end we will suggest that feminist epistemologies strongly challenge ... an existence of cleaning up and caring for others" (page 33). Another way of challenging conventional methodologies in social research is to encompass "emotions" and "experience" in the rese...

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... of historical figures, historical materials about the era of the social, artistic works, to help recreate the spirit of the time), the following methods: the study of archival materials, the analysis of biographical data, interviews collected material is often incomplete and distorted (for example, because of unintentional errors in translation from the original language into another language, or because of the ... the category of sources need to be processed. 2) At the stage of the organization of the collected material, the following methods of historical and theoretical reconstructio...

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... decision-making moments dedicated to the review of alternative concepts, technologies and selecting those that meet the requirements of users.The focus of this first research phase of the preliminary analysis, and search and review. The development phase consists of physical and laboratory research focused on improvement, development and adaptation of selected technologies from the research phase to the end user ... knowledge, promotion of self-employment as a modern trend in society, create a positive image of entrepreneurs and to create new jobs in the region, entrepreneurs provide in...

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... a conflict to arise with the Church. All references are made with respect to Drake Stillman's book and for convenience and brevity only the pages of interest will be referenced to. Analysis Drake divides up his book as follows: Early years, conflicts with philosophers, conflicts with astronomers and theologians, the Dialogue and the Inquisition and final years. Galileo was born in Pisa ... only God can do"(pg. 14). Drake convinces me through these words that Galileo provides an innovative approach with clear connections to how science is conducted today without any scientific analysis o...

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... become extinct, "so too are theories which do not make true observational predictions dropped" (Brown, p.134). A theory looms closer to approximating the truth through constant research, probing and analysis. Brown acknowledges the fact that theories sometimes get reworked and even discarded to achieve this scientific progress. Although not entirely wrong, Fraassen's rationalization accounts only for the first two features ... ...

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... activity, in which teams of students exchanged data via e-mail, the unit is now available for independent use by all teachers and their students. The project's 16 lessons involve data analysis, number relationships and graphing, patterns and functions, statistics, and measurement. Students access real weather data, learn about the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales, and find out how to convert from ... ...

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... , moral source in the light of which he can evaluate his thinking, willing and acting. The third argument for the existential nature of the ecological crisis is found in Jonas' analysis of the modern dialectic between freedom and dependence, power and powerlessness, autonomy and heteronomy. As the ecological crisis proceeds, mankind will be confronted with a decrease of its power. Human freedom ... ...

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... the hemophilia patient being converted into an AIDS patient was by sheer failure of the science in predicting the outcome of the experiments that were done on those patients. An analysis of narration given by hemophilia-AIDS patients show that they want to get attention by projecting themselves as innocence thus to separate themselves from the group of those AIDS sufferer ... ...

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