Cross-cultural research is marked by adopting one of two dominant epistemological paradigms: positivism or constructivism. By discussing strengths/weaknesses inherent in each paradigm, this paper argues that rather than contradictory and incommensurable; positivism and constructivism can be considered complementary epistemological orientations which correspond to two conceptual levels of cultur...

The article is devoted to the study of electoral choice. It proved that it a complex phenomenon requires comprehensive in framework different approaches, which are formed behaviorism, postmodernism, cognitivism, moral and communicative philosophy. has been shown choice related analysis thought processes. Given unrestricted dissemination information growing role irrational aspects, political beh...

In recent years, much of the hope for the basic project of materialism, that of explaining mentality in purely physical terms, has been vested in materialist varieties of functionalism (Kim 1998, 73). 1 Instead of identifying mentality with either behavior or brain states as the failed approaches of behaviorism and physicalism do, functionalism identifies mental states as “consisting of a dispo...

Despite John B. Watson's considerable importance in the history of psychology and his celebrity status during the first part of the twentieth century, substantive discussions of his life, work, and views are now relatively rare. Passing references to Watson still appear in scholarly and popular works (e.g., Koch & Leary, 1985; M. Levin, 1987), but in-depth analyses, when they can be found, are ...

Epistemological holism is usually associated with linguistic holism, and sometimes the latter is inferred from the former. In this chapter I shall show how the view that the sense of a sentence be its immediate argumental role, though it conforms to the requirement of compositionality and hence involves a denial of linguistic holism, is perfectly compatible with epistemological holism. Thus, by...

This explorative pilot-study investigated the relationship between epistemological beliefs, prior knowledge and selfregulated learning with a hierarchical hypertext. Students who varied in their epistemological beliefs and prior knowledge learned about the topic of genetic fingerprinting. Logfiles and questionnaire data were collected. Results indicate that both epistemological beliefs and prio...