Three theories of dialectic.

Conceptual Links between Three Theories of Information Behavior

Background and Aim: There seems to be a conceptual link between some theories of human information behavior. These links exist because some of these theories have been derived from same theories in similar fields or have a same approach in theorizing. Method: In this paper 3 theories of information behavior (information poverty, information overload and social capital) have been discussed and c...

Dialectic Search

We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it tightly integrates and yet clearly marks off of one another the two most important aspects of local search algorithms, search space exploration and exploitation. We believe that this makes dialectic search easy to use ...

Dance of the Dialectic

ing vantage points that bring out the differences between two or more aspects of an interactive system also highlights the asymmetry in their reciprocal effect. Granted such reciprocal effect, production was said to play the dominant role on all five levels of generality on which Marx operates. But it is only by abstracting production as a vantage point that its special influence on other econo...

Three Theories of Child Development

Henry W. Maier is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Washlngton, and the reviewer had the privilege of working with him when he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in this c?untry. He has made many contributions to the study of the 'helping Process'?a phrase used to describe ^hat takes place when a practitioner lr*tervenes in order to bring some sPecifically structured means of preVenting...

Dialectic of Malandrotsm