Tag: Conceptualizing

Free Download What Do Children Need to Flourish?: Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development By Kristin Anderson Moore, Laura H. Lippman (auth.), Kristin Anderson Moore, Laura H. Lippman (eds.)
2005 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0387230610 | PDF | 23 MB
Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships-that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth.With children comprising roughly 30% of the global population-almost 2 billion children worldwide-understanding exactly what leads children to grow into confident, caring, responsible adults is an issue that belongs at the forefront of every nation’s agenda. Increasingly, it is understood that we need not only to prevent negative outcomes but to promote positive outcomes.What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development, part of the Search Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, focuses on how scholars and practitioners can begin to build rigorous measures of the healthy behaviors and attitudes that result in positive outcomes for children and youth. The volume is presented in five parts: – Introduction and conceptual framework. – Positive formation of the self-character, values, spirituality, life satisfaction, hope, and ethnic identity. – Healthy habits, positive behaviors, and time use. – Positive relationships with parents and siblings. – Positive attitudes and behaviors toward learning and school environments. – Enacting positive values and behaviors in communities.What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development is an important volume for researchers and practitioners-in fact, for anyone interested and involved in working with children and adolescents.

Free Download Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics By Ronald E. Anderson (auth.)
2014 | 105 Pages | ISBN: 9400776683 | PDF | 3 MB
This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering. ​

Free Download Carla Risseeuw, "Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place, "
English | ISBN: 9004311785 | 2017 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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Free Download Candace Forbes Bright, "Conceptualizing Deviance: A Cross-Cultural Social Network Approach to Comparing Relational and Attribute Data"
English | ISBN: 149853046X | 2016 | 154 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Deviance is both socially defined and influenced. While it is widely accepted that deviance is a social construction, this research revisits the conceptualization of deviance and advances the methods used to study deviance and social construction. This book presents and compares three methods for conceptualizing deviance within and across cultures. Comparing the United States to South Korea, perceptions of deviance are presented as how individuals define deviance and what acts are cited as deviant. Next, attribute data are used to assess differences in of conceptualizations of deviance by demographic factors. Finally, social network analysis is used to understand the social influences at work in how one perceives deviance. This book is unique in its reconceptualization of deviance and the application of social network analysis as a new tool for studying social influence and perceptions.

Free Download Ivan Mladenov, "Conceptualizing Metaphors: On Charles Peirce’s Marginalia "
English | ISBN: 0415759862 | 2014 | 200 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be the only useful approach to the riddle of reality.

Free Download Adam Pryor Bethany College, "Body of Christ Incarnate for You: Conceptualizing God’s Desire for the Flesh "
English | ISBN: 1498522688 | 2016 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Incarnation has always been an important concept within Christian theology. For centuries theologians have wrestled with how best to conceptualize the vexing problem of what it means that Jesus the Christ is fully God and fully human. In this book, Adam Pryor explores how the incarnation has intersected corresponding issues well beyond the familiar question of how any one person might have two natures. Beginning by identifying four critical themes that have historically shaped the development of this doctrine, Pryor goes on to offer a constructive account of the incarnation. His account seeks out the continued meaning of this doctrine given the increasing complexity that characterizes our understanding of human bodies-bodies that can no longer be understood as the locus of distinct subjects separated from the world of objects with the skin as an impenetrable boundary between the two. Making use of contemporary phenomenologies of the flesh and the erotic, Pryor develops an understanding of the incarnation that seeks to go beyond classical issues presented by two natures christologies. Incarnation, in guises as various as Jesus the Christ, cyborg bodies, and sacramental practices, becomes a way that God is diffused into the world, transforming how we are to be-with one another.