the aim of this study is to investigate iranian tefl graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 tefl graduates. gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was ado...

The aim of this study was to analyze scientific realism in the dichotomy between positivism and antipositivism and to position this analysis on the epistemological axis. The study also aimed to demonstrate that scientific realism provides a more comprehensive explanation regarding the legitimacy of social sciences compared with positivism and anti-positivism. The results of this study suggest t...

According to the standard account, logical positivism was the philosophical foundation of psychological neo-behaviorism. Smith (1986) has questioned this interpretation, suggesting that neo-behaviorism drew its philosophical inspiration from a different tradition, one more in keeping with naturalistic epistemology. Smith does not deny, however, the traditional interpretation of the philosophy o...

A collection like this is bound to be mixed in quality and range; the best, most testing essays here scrutinize particular case histories to expose the complexities of intersections between science and gender. Ornella Moscucci's study of hermaphroditism "as an attempt to reconcile the concept of sexual difference with the idea of human nature" (p. 178), or Roger Cooter's fascinating essay on th...

While logical positivism has been said to have had major influence on the development of nursing theory, whether this influence pervades other aspects of the discipline has not been discussed. One central aspect of logical positivism, the verificationist perspective, was used to examine texts, curricular guides and standards of practice that guided nursing practice in the decades in which logic...

mainstream sociology under positivism has sought to provide universal theory, in one hand, and the historiography has attempted to narrative description of events, in the other hand. pathological studies show that both are suffering from extremism; so that mainstream sociology have neglected to study of special affairs and historiography  has not been able to build and provide theoretical gener...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

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