This article reviews the state of the discipline of international relations. It starts from statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal. The editors noted that there seemed to have been less adherence to positivism in international relations than in other areas of political science and that there was both more opposition to positivism and more ...

The motivating thought behind this volume is that " if one wants to " make up the rules " of the game of life, one has to start from a realistic view of its players " (Engelen 2008, 2). This may seem self evident but it is an idea that rarely achieves the prominence which it deserves—not least in methodological debates. For example, much ink has been spilled around Friedman's famous 1953 essay ...

The concept of reification is used by Marx to describe a form of social consciousness in which human relations come to be identified with the physical properties of things, thereby acquiring an appearance of naturalness and inevitability. This essay presents a systematic reconstruction of Marx's theory of reification, with an emphasis on the social-structural dimensions of the concept. This rec...

ABSTRACTThis study aims to investigate the dominance of research with paradigm positivism in accounting, especially related internal function audit. The dominant accounting date is positivist paradigm. In audit, all things are not only seen from facts that on surface and concluded directly existing data, but also must understand meaning contained it. Therefore, it necessary have another contrad...

throughout the years, philosophers and psychologists have striven to solve the mind-boggling question of learning by juxtaposing the two competing theories, namely, empiricism and rationalism. they have usually opted for one and ruled out the other on the grounds that it cannot account for learning because theoretical and empirical evidence discredits it. since 1965, with the publication of cho...