This paper seeks to clarify the distinction between positivist/scientific and interpretive approaches to public policy using the critical framework of Jacques Derrida. Derrida s deconstructive method helps to clarify the relationship among state power, public policy, and the cultural "text" of "subjectivity." It is asserted that the positivistic approaches to policy formation rely on a represen...

This essay criticises prevalent current sustainable architecture and proposes a conceptual framework for design practice. It argues that building standards, have failed to capture more multi-dimensional inclusive worldview, therefore many influential architects neglected implementing such principles. An analysis of literature shows large body research published in the field takes positivistic p...

This paper explores the two predominant theoretical approaches to the process of nurse decision making prevalent within the nursing research literature: systematic-positivistic approaches as exemplified by information processing theory, and the intuitive-humanistic approach of Patricia Benner. The two approaches' strengths and weaknesses are explored and as a result a third theoretical stance i...

With the introduction, by John Austin, of the command theory of law,1 a certain distinction among theories of law entered the jurisprudential landscape: the distinction between theories that seek to characterize obedience to law in terms of external motivations, such as sanctions for noncompliance, and those that characterize obedience to law in terms of internal motivations, such as a moral co...

transforming methodology from deduction to induction and finally its generalization from the realm of nature studies to the scope of human being one by a positivistic presupposition has led to modern humanities which have a charge to study human beings nature and behaviors scientifically. the main goal of the article is to show theoretical and practical insufficiency of this method in an islami...