In recent years theorists have devoted considerable effort to precisely identifying particular contingent cognitive advantages that may be afforded by the adoption of a feminist standpoint.
Thus, standpoint theorists' focus on pluralism reflects a productive interaction with feminist postmodernism; their shift toward pragmatism, experience, and contingent epistemic advantages of the disadvantaged reflects a position convergent with feminist empiricism.
Or the shop-till-you-drop contingent that takes advantage of all the discounts (up to 30% off) extended to fashion journalists by assorted design houses.
According to this view, there is an inherent advantage contingent on the immaturity of the explicit memory system in children.
Even if there were some overall advantages to female sex, such advantages are contingent and not necessary.
I would hate for my children to feel that their worth is contingent on sustaining competitive advantage, but I'd also hate for them to fall short of their potential.
In Study 3, a laboratory experiment with a marketing task, the beneficiary source advantage was contingent on message content: beneficiaries motivated higher task and citizenship performance than leaders with prosocial messages but not achievement messages.
Instead, Wylie stresses how the social situation of "insider-outsiders" (members of disadvantaged groups who need accurate knowledge of the worlds of the privileged to navigate them successfully) can sometimes afford a contingent epistemic privilege or advantage in solving particular problems.
The femininist empiricist commitment to revealing the varieties of ways gender operates in particular domains has also converged with feminist standpoint theorists' recent emphasis on identifying local, contingent, empirically testable cognitive advantages supplied by various versions of a feminist standpoint.
This study is the first to examine the effects of HRM practices on MCC by taking full advantage of the contingent configurational perspective that is strongly advocated in the strategic HRM literature.
(Vending machines are built to take advantage of the contingent fact that objects with this intrinsic makeup are almost always quarters).
