Paradigm

approaches. Beyond this, there are suggestions that framing body weight as the source of health problems – known as the weight-centred health paradigm – is in itself a harmful approach. The range of harms includes body dissatisfaction, dieting, disordered eating, discrimination and death. Health promotion policies and programs that operate within the weight-centred paradigm have the potential to have a negative impact on the health and well-being of individuals and…

This can range from thought patterns to action. Paradigm is a way of examining social phenomena from which particular understandings of these phenomena can be gained and explanations attempted. In this chapter four paradigms for the analysis of social theory have been explained: functionalist, interpretive, radical structuralist and radical humanist. And these four paradigms are arranged to correspond to four conceptual dimensions: radical change and regulation…

Copernicus, science has been completely redefined and continues to grow as a result. Thomas Kuhn described particular scientific events, such as the transition from Aristotelian to Newtonian physics, as a paradigm shift that is realized when questioning the flaws of the then understood subject. The paradigm shift can be viewed…

Programming Programming paradigms offer a significant number of advantages over programming with no standard structure. Paradigms over the years have evolved into fleshed out procedures with only a handful of disadvantages, still overwhelmingly insignificant to the advantages. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) & Functional Programming (FP) are two of the more developed paradigms that people use, With significant followers in each. There are quite a few other well known paradigms such as…

legitimacy than any self-appointed strongmen (Abrams, 2012). The rationality paradigm does not appear as an independent category as often as the two others (structural and cultural) in explaining the divergent outcomes and trajectories of the Arab Spring. Rational choice theory is used by a number of scholars in explaining how people in urban areas opted to join the ant-regime protests…

underlying paradigms and ideologies. They are the embodiment of the contexts and values in which they manifest, and are used to teach and impart knowledge. These ideas can be seen clearly expressed within “Le Petite Chaperon Rouge” by Charles Perrault, “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter and “Tangled” by Disney. These texts explore social paradigms and values that were present at the time. Fairy tales are used as a didactic tool in order to transpose important social paradigms and values…

In simultaneity paradigm, the person is unitary and is in mutual process with the universe (Parse, 1981). ENVIRONMENT Environment is where a person or a patient is currently situated – it can be a home, hospital, clinic or community. Wherever it is, an environment is a…

Siberia by the authoritative regime of Slobodan Milosevic. The moral justification of this conflict has since been contested with the validity debated by a variety of theoretical schools of thought. This essay will use the revisions to the Legalist Paradigm presented by Walzer in conjunction with the conditions of jus ad bellum to prove the moral impermissibility of NATOs intervention in Kosovo. To assess the moral justification of the intervention,…

accordance with judicial rulings, and must follow the supreme law of the land, including anything expressed in the Constitution and international law. Serving the Constitution is done through following the four sequential principles of the Constitutional Paradigm: following the hierarchy of constitution, mission, service, command, shipmate, self; resolving conflicting loyalties; resigning if loyalties cannot be resolved; disobeying if the situation is egregiously offensive. Simply, the…

On these two questions, Kuhn was able to develop the concept of paradigm. In the view of Kuhn, a paradigm is basically a model which contains guiding principles of scientific research (Kuhn, 1998; Kuhn, 2012). However, it is not to be confused with a set of rules, regulations or even a formula, but it is simply a clear path aimed at guiding…