Sentence examples for methodological stance from inspiring English sources

Despite Berger's sympathy in dealing with religious phenomena, the methodological stance adopted in this book seems to imply a reductionist position namely, one in which religious beliefs are explained by reference to basically nonreligious sentiments, sociopsychological circumstances, and other factors.

Her thesis work was considered unique in its philosophical and methodological stance, as well as for its "honest portrayal of the emotional side of organizational life, for extending the boundaries of theories of feminism and organizational change," according to a statement by organizers of a scholarship fund being set up to honor Segal.

They place great emphasis on the need to state arguments clearly and in a manner that optimizes the possibilities for rational discussion and critique, and they often characterize the methodological stance of other Marxists as being obscurantist or directed toward evading falsification.

Other recent contributors to the philosophical literature on innateness have adopted a similar methodological stance.

If one adopts his methodological stance, it is hardly possible to hold on to narrowly formalist, empiricist, and intuitionist views about mathematics.

This does not argue for any kind of methodological stance, only that programs are definitions and programming is the activity of creating them; programming is a definitional enterprise.

It's a stance that is methodological, but also deeply personal and political.

To this end, responding to several strands of the debate on assemblage urbanism that has unfolded in previous issues of City, here we clarify our meta-theoretical stance, address several methodological questions and reiterate our arguments regarding the importance of a reinvigorated geopolitical economy of planetary urbanization.

It takes a critical stance on the implicit methodological nationalism in transition studies' socio-technical regime concept and proposes an alternative 'global' regime perspective that embraces the increasingly multi-scalar actor networks and institutional rationalities, which influence transition dynamics beyond national or regional borders.

An attempt has been made to leave a "decision trail" so that verification strategies such as methodological coherence, transparency and an analytical stance can be identified [ 48, 53].

An attempt has been made to leave "a decision trail" so that verification strategies such as investigator responsiveness, methodological coherence, transparency and an analytic stance could be identified [ 61, 62].