Agent-based models (ABM) are an increasingly popular tool in the social sciences. This trend seems likely to continue, so that they will become widely used in geography and urban and regional planning. We present an overview of examples of these models in the life sciences, economics, planning, sociology, and archaeology. We conclude that agent-based models strongly tend towards an individualis...

Self-regulated Learning (SRL) skills have been argued to be among the most important determinants of academic achievement. It has observed that some cultural groups consistently exhibit higher achievement and variation in SRL also observed. Understanding this could provide insight into how promote development all children.This research examined components are influenced by variables, testing mo...

Integrating more than 40 years of studies on locus of control (LOC), this meta-analysis investigated whether (a) the magnitude of the relationship between LOC and psychological symptoms differed among cultures with distinct individualist orientations and (b) depression and anxiety symptoms yielded different patterns of cultural findings with LOC. We included studies that examined global self-ra...

ABSTRACT The attack of the traditions political economy upon orthodox economics is directed at pillars supporting its philosophy and core deductive individualist methodology. This criticism challenges current mainstream research frontier, which includes notions ‘new’ institutional economics, among others. Recalling tradition known as ‘Other Canon’, this article criticises these theories reclaim...

Criticisms of realism and liberalism, traditionally the two dominant fields within international relations (IR) and international political economy (IPE) theory, have been widespread for the past two decades. What unites these critical theorists is their claim that IR/IPE theory is both ahistorical and decontextualised. What is missing from this critical account is a sustained historical examin...

This paper argues that an individualist perspective is a crucial element of William James’s metaphilosophical outlook. In broad outline, the argument attributes to James can be characterized like this. Disputes among philosophers about optimal point view from which consider this or philosophical problem are themselves only adequately adjudicated perspective. That is, when it comes assortment im...

Despite Latin-American constitutionalism and Western share common origins, the characteristics of first one influenced on constitutional experimentalism. Indigenous roots characterized recent democratic reformism since they are basis for birth ‘Nuevo Constitucionalismo’ theory, differing from theory that is individualist liberalistic. From a cultural anthropological point view, new theories hav...