Sentence examples for lay concept from inspiring English sources

This suggests that accounts of happiness must be somewhat revisionary, and that we must assess theories on grounds other than simple fidelity to the lay concept of happiness—"descriptive adequacy," in Sumner's (1996) terms.

To create the capital city, a new concept of the city need to be included, by that time, founders of Chiang Mai and Sukhothai was consulted to establish and lay concept of city shape that indicates as a symbolic and spiritual center of Lan Na kingdom (Guntang 1990; Tansukanun and Duangthima 2013).

This was a pilot study to explore the lay concepts of psychosis among the local people in the study.

To elicit lay concepts of psychosis in local community, focus group discussions using case vignettes were employed.

Study I used focus group discussions (FGDs) with case vignettes with local community members and traditional healers to explore the lay concepts of psychosis.

Alongside this development the simplistic presumption of lay and professional/expert views as necessarily polarized has given way to the accumulation of a 'richer, thicker description of lay concepts of health and illness'[ 16].

The paper examines how women contextualised and acted upon their risk perceptions, the influence of personal identity on alcohol consumption, lay concepts of 'drinking guidelines', and women's recollections of discussing alcohol use with their practitioners.

This study explored lay concepts of psychosis among people in the study area and investigated the profiles and treatment outcomes of traditional healing practices for severe mental illnesses as measured by standard instruments.

Qualitative studies in the field of health and illness have provided valuable insights into lay concepts of health maintenance and risk behaviour, however, the applicability of qualitative research findings beyond the sample is open to debate.

To borrow from one study, lay concepts of health and illness generally included theories that "describe how the characteristics of particular areas combine with wider macro-structural factors to damage health via complex pathways including material, lifestyle and stress-related factors" (Popay et al. 2003).

He intuited already 2500 years ago that behind the material things lie concepts, ideas, which are mathematically based.