Scholars have engaged in studies of careers, individuals’ work experiences over time, since the early 20 century. Although much has been written about the need for interdisciplinary research, limited work exists. This paper presents a comparative technique that facilitates interdisciplinary thinking. Using data from a large organization, three stories are applied to the associations between soc...

IT is easy to be aware of Lawrence's great effect on our thinking about social values, but it is difficult, for a number of reasons, to give any exact account of his actual contribution. It is not only that the public projection of him is very different from his actual work, and that this has led to important misunderstandings (that he believed that "sex solves everything"; that he was "a precu...

This study aimed to understand the meaning of nursing care as a social practice based on interactions and associations with complex-systemic thinking. Grounded Theory was the methodological framework used and 35 health professionals distributed in different sample groups were interviewed through a semi-structured questionnaire. Simultaneous data codification and analysis permitted the identific...

To appreciate, understand, and tackle chronic global social and environmental problems, greater appreciation of the importance of higher order thinking is required. Such thinking includes personal epistemological beliefs (PEBs), i.e., the beliefs people hold about the nature of knowledge and how something is known. These beliefs have profound implications for the way individuals relate to each ...

Drawing on more than a decade of research on the social implications of systems thinking, as well as practical experience in integrative, community-based approaches to education, this paper is an inquiry into philosophical and ethical considerations growing out of recent developments in systems thinking. In his foundational work on general system theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy distinguishes bet...

Today, there are several interventions that can be implemented with individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Most of these interventions have limited to no empirical evidence demonstrating their effectiveness, yet they are widely implemented in home, school, university, and community settings. In 1996, Green wrote a chapter in which she outlined three levels of science: evidence sci...

The table of numbers or statistics is such a common way to organize information that we scarcely if ever think about its significance. Tables are used to organize information about states from the decennial census; to report the comparative performance of national economies; to summarize the performance of individual schools in a state; and for a host of other purposes. In most cases a simple c...

extended abstract 1. introduction so far, different strategies have been proposed for rural development in different periods of time. based on international experiences and the current conditions in iran, this country needs to use a new approach to rural development. in this regard, rural entrepreneurship development strategy can be pointed out. there is a growing consensus that entrepreneurshi...

Social media is everywhere; its use has grown exponentially over recent years. The prevalence of these outlets for communication raises some interesting and potentially risky issues for physicians. On the one hand, some believe that physicians should have a strong social media presence and can benefit greatly from access to a global community of peers and leaders through blogs, online forums, F...

Marketers leverage multiple media outlets to promote products. There are three media types: paid (e.g., advertising on TV), owned (e.g., company website), and earned (e.g., consumers’ word-of-mouth) media. The effects of individual media channels and the interrelationships within paid media have been examined by prior literature. However, little is known about interplay across different types o...