Considered the "father of needs assessment," Roger Kaufman first developed a model for determining needs defined as a gap in results. This particular emphasis in results focuses on the outcomes (or en ...
In psychology, preferences could be conceived of as an individual’s attitude towards a set of objects, typically reflected in an explicit decision-making process (Lichtenstein Slovic, 2006). Alterna ...
There are various methods of categorizing natural resources, these include source of origin, stage of development, and by their renewability. These classifications are described below. On the basis of ...
Folk psychology explains human behavior on the basis of mental states, including beliefs, desires, and intentions. Mental mechanisms, including intention, explain behavior in that individuals are seen ...
"The international community" is a phrase used in international relations to refer to a broad group of peoples and governments of the world. The term is typically used to imply the existence of a comm ...
The word nation came to English from the Old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the Latin word natio (nāt?ō) literally meaning "birth".The word "nation" is sometimes used as synonym ...
According to Morris Massey, values form during three significant periods:imprint period - from birth to 7 yearsmodelling period - from 8 to 13 yearssocialization period - from 13 to 21 yearsPersonal v ...
Ritzer was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in upper Manhattan, New York City. His father and mother were employed as a taxi cab driver and secretary, respectively, in order to support him and his youn ...
Microsociology exists both as an umbrella term for perspectives which focus on agency, such as Max Weber's theory of social action, and as a body of distinct techniques, particularly in American socio ...
Auguste Comte; who coined the term "sociology" and believed society could be studied like any other science.?mile Durkheim; who viewed individual issues as reflective of greater social patterns, comp ...
Criticisms of mainstream psychology consistent with current critical psychology usage have existed since psychology's modern development in the late 19th century. Use of the term "critical psychology ...
Wilkinson was born in London. He attended the Trinity Grammar School, Wood Green in north London on a scholarship. He left school at the age of sixteen in 1928, and worked for the publishing house, Ca ...
Margaret Archer argues that much social theory suffers from the generic defect of conflation where, due to a reluctance or inability to theorize emergent relationships between social phenomena, causal ...
Modern social theory contains a tension between the realization of human freedom and the necessity of social rules. Liberal political theorists of the seventeenth century, such as Hobbes and Locke, sa ...
John Keats used the term negative capability to describe the artist's receptiveness to the world and its natural marvel, and to reject those who tried to formulate theories or categorical knowledge. I ...
