That postmodernists openly respond to Habermas is due to the fact that he takes postmodernism seriously and does not, like other critics, reject it as mere nonsense.
"We have roundtable discussions where executives, including our CEO meet with a random group of 10 employees at a time and openly respond to whatever the employees want to talk about," says Craig Schneier, executive vice president of human resources at Biogen Idec.
"We don't sin any more than other people, but we probably sin more openly," responded an irate Swedish baker, when approached by a journalist.
And more than that, we saw reactions to it like none we had seen before, with candidates like Ball and Whitman and Norton openly responding to the smears and calling them sexism — something that for decades, female candidates have been coached not to do.
In rebalancing the criminal justice system towards victims (at the expense of ancient civil liberties such as jury trials, double jeopardy rules and other constraints) it was openly responding to consumer (sorry, voter) demand and shifted the emphasis towards the safety of the community and away from the protection of individuals from miscarriages of justice.
For example, the focus group context is important to consider because it affects the comfort level of participants and, consequently, how openly they respond to questions.
These are serious allegations and, as such, the government has an obligation to respond openly.
"You have to respond openly and honestly with the public, and work through this with N.H.T.S.A.," said Jason Vines, an industry consultant who was head of communications at the Ford Motor Company when its Explorer S.U.V.'s equipped with Firestone tires became prone to disastrous rollovers.
Consequently, flexibility was maintained with respect to who interviewed the pregnant women so that they would be inclined to respond openly and honestly and remain in the study.
The unstructured formulation of the request was important as it gave the participants the opportunity to respond openly and to explore the things of importance in their lives without restrictions.
The topic guides were loosely structured around Normalization Process Theory (NPT), but with ample scope for interviewees to respond openly about factors that they themselves saw as important to making the developing intervention effective and useful.
