BACKGROUND: This paper is motivated by the theory that developmental idealism has been disseminated globally and has become an international force for family and demographic change. Developmental idealism is a set of cultural beliefs and values about development and how development relates to family and demographic behavior. It holds that modern societies are causal forces producing modern fami...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent that ordinary people in Argentina understand and believe the ideas of development, progress and modernity and use these ideas in evaluating the world in general, and family behaviour in particular. We ask whether the concept of development and modernity is known and understood by ordinary people and the extent to which ordinary people use deve...

This paper extends theory and research concerning cultural models of development beyond family and demographic matters to a broad range of additional factors, including government, education, human rights, daily social conventions, and religion. Developmental idealism is a cultural model-a set of beliefs and values-that identifies the appropriate goals of development and the ends for achieving ...

Many scholars have offered structural and ideational explanations for the fertility changes occurring around the world. This paper focuses on the influence of developmental idealism-a schema or set of beliefs endorsing development, fertility change, and causal connections between development and fertility. Developmental idealism is argued to be an important force affecting both population polic...

The importance of service has been a central topic of study regarding consumer behavior and market research. Good services make customers optimistic; subsequently, measuring the pros and cons of consumer vis-a-vis service to form the degree of customer idealism. Service idealism indicates a particular service measured via the degree of optimistic based on personalities. Service idealism is asso...

An ethical ideologies model based on relativism and idealism was tested. Subjects judged the morality of an individual who produced a mildly or extremely positive or negative consequence by conforming to or violating a common moral norm. As predicted, an averaging model with differential weights accounted for situationists' (high relativism and idealism) and absolutists' (low relativism and hig...

The Pancasila Idealism Development Agency is a body that under and responsible to the President, determines policy direction for development of idealism, assists, harmonizes, advances idealism. Carry out standardization, prepare education training, organize training in comprehensive sustainable manner, develop research results on policies or regulations are not accordance with Pancasila, minist...

Contents 1. Introduction 426 2. G ¨ odel's position in the 1950's—a stalemate 428 2.1. Inconclusive arguments 428 2.2. Realism and rationalism 430 2.3. Epistemological parity 434 2.4. A way out? 437 3. G ¨ odel's turn to Husserl's transcendental idealism 439 3.1. Varieties of idealism 439 3.2. G ¨ odel and German Idealism 440 3.3. The turn to Husserl's transcendental idealism 443 3.4. G ¨ odel'...

Since the publication of Montgomery Furth’s groundbreaking 1967 essay, ‘Monadology’, discussions of Leibniz’s phenomenalism have been one of the main staples of Anglo-American Leibniz-scholarship. By no means, however, has any consensus been reached with regard to this issue. I think one important reason for this failure in agreement has to do with how one goes about understanding a related con...