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And after Lee died, his parents released a statement in the Palo Alto Weekly questioning the prevailing wisdom in the community about the suicides.
Drawing on findings in astronomy, geology and paleontology, two leading scientists are questioning the prevailing notion that there is advanced life elsewhere in the cosmos.
There is pressure to go further.But some economists are questioning the prevailing view, not least because reductions in capital-tax rates appear to have delivered more inequality than growth.
The second theme, 'Marginality,' will focus on the questioning of prevailing paradigms in sociology that despite unreal claims display provincialism that is neither reflective nor representative of the experiences of women and minorities".
Such an approach includes the questioning of prevailing social norms such as the private sphere, power, gender roles, etc. [ 40].
The qualitative analysis shows the role the intervention played in getting women to a stage where they start questioning the normative smoking behavior prevailing in their community, how it enabled them to embrace the possibility of changing their smoking behavior, as well as their increased trust in the health care system.
This was Albert Einstein's brilliance, questioning and probing the prevailing beliefs of theoretical physics to prove them correct or to correct their errors.
As a former JP Morgan managing director, John is also questioning many core tenets of the prevailing Wall Street dogma (see his white paper on regenerative capitalism).
The papers we have introduced in this special issue make a contribution to redressing that balance and in doing so they demonstrate the valuable contribution that social sciences can make in questioning the taken-for‐granted assumptions of prevailing ideology, in developing illuminating theory, and in testing and modifying existing theory in the light of empirical situated data.
