As a group of occupational therapists committed to develoring culturally safe occurational therap)' practice in New Zealand, we wish to express our deer concerns about the American Occupational Therapy Association's ['ecenely published statement of Core Values and AI/iludes CJ( Occuparional Tberapl' Practice (AJOr, 47, December 1993, rJP 1085-1086). While applauding the Association's intene in ...

1. The first relates to our criterion for when a theory is scientifice. John says that “the falsification standard that he then puts forward for scientific socialism curiously appears to have been borrowed from Karl Popper. American and British philosophy of science have largely moved away such positivist standards and the focus has instead shifted to the explanatory power of theories and other...

This paper explores contemporary metaphoric usage invoked to describe interactions with digital media. The authors argue that such descriptions are indicative of positivist attempts to contain such interactions within the constraints of a reality bound by experiential knowledge outside of cyberspace or the virtual worlds it seeks to describe. Thus the authors suggest a metaphoric system or semi...

Abstract: Personal construct psychology is a theory of individual and group psychological and social processes that takes a constructivist position in modeling human knowledge but bases this on a positivist scientific position that characterizes conceptual structures in axiomatic terms. It provides a fundamental framework for both theoretical and applied studies of knowledge acquisition and rep...

Purpose This paper aims to introduce the extended qualitative content analysis (EQCA) method integrate data-reducing and data-complicating research steps when conducting on United Nations other international institutions. Design/methodology/approach EQCA supplements of analysis, which enables researchers deal with large amounts data, two elements from grounded theory, allow detailed interpretat...

This paper examines the role played by context and subjectivity in the epistemology of information systems research. Different assumptional frameworks underlying the opposing worldviews of positivism and interpretivism explain the differing treatments of context and subjectivity within these two frames of reference and thus the different criteria for quality that can be applied to each. The dis...

This paper discusses adequacy as to the application of Brazilian guidelines, Resolution 196/ 96 and complementaries to qualitative health researches, considering that these are based on nonpositivistic paradigms. Frequently, decisions about the research are made together with the studied community. There is a concern with justice and social change. And, since subjectivity can be considered thei...