burrell and morgan offered an analysis of paradigms in terms of four broad worldviews, characterized as functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. recently, interpretive paradigm has received major attention in the academic fields. the interpretive paradigm rests on a precarious, socially-constructed web of symbolic relationships. the interpretive theorist’s diffic...

A common view of early twentieth century philosophy correctly distinguishes three movements or tendencies, phenomenology, pragmatism and the beginnings of analytic philosophy, and claims that early phenomenology and pragmatism are two radically opposed philosophical positions. Early phenomenology, it is said, is in the tradition of the logical objectivisms of Bolzano and Frege. It is only with ...

Systemic psychological therapy takes place in a relational context, where the subjectivities of consultants and therapists interact. Traditional research has focused more on characteristics than subjectivity therapist. Hence, "third person" perspectives have been privileged. The few studies that investigate therapist resort to introspective, interpretive prescriptive methodologies. How access f...

In the introduction to the third and last volume of his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms of 1929, entitled " Phenomenology of Knowledge, " Ernst Cassirer remarks that the meaning in which he employs the term 'phenomenology' is Hegelian rather than according to " the modern usage of the term. " 1 What sense can it make, then, to invoke Edmund Husserl's phenomenology in this context? Yet if, roughly ...

Preliminary interpretive zone criteria were calculated for cefetamet (Ro 15-8074) and cefteram (Ro 19-5247) by using 10- and 30-micrograms disks and three possible MIC susceptibility breakpoints. Absolute interpretive agreement between MICs and zone size criteria ranged from 91.8 to 97.2%. Very major errors (false susceptibility) were less than or equal to 1.2% for both cephalosporin disk tests...