Paradigm

Walter Fisher the developer of the narrative paradigm entails that the approach is not a theory but rather a paradigm which means that the concept is much broader, looking at the fact that it is directed to understanding all human communication experiences (Koening-Kellis, 2008). These human communication experiences influence our need for communication. Take a look at a conversation between a guy who’s from the rural areas, who’s passionate about soccer but only played in the dusty streets.…

The last decades, many biblical scholars have studied the role of that honor/shame paradigm play in the understanding and living way of the Gospel. Even though people may have different conceptions about this paradigm its influence in their daily bases: they are influenced by honor and shame when they make decisions, regarding their personal life and the people in the in-group. In honor oriented societies, honor and shame affect the way people think, behave, and relate to others because, at the…

Weight-centered health paradigms puts a lot of emphasis on an individual’s caloric intake and energy output, and therefore focuses on behavioural changes to address weight related health issues (Bacon & Aphramor, 2011). This emphasis on weight as an indicator of health puts body weight as the central focus rather than health, resulting in a socially constructed “ideal” body type. This has led to individuals that are categorized as “obese” or “overweight” being subject to a great deal of…

The Marxist Paradigm Definition Marxism sees humans as communal, creative producers, who are conscious, autonomous, and have free will (Mullaly, 2007). Marxists value all individuals on the simple basis of being human, not on how ‘superior’ they appear to be (Mullaly, 2007). They consider production to be the nature of all societies, and the mode of the production alters the society it is in (Mullaly, 2007). They have the same view of the nation-state as the social democratic view, which is…

Advantages of using OOP as compared to using PP. Object oriented programming is the concept where objects that have data files are organized on such a way that procedures and instructions are incorporated into data fields that describe an object and procedures of similar nature which are called methods. These therefore integrate computer programming languages such as JavaScript, Smalltalk, and python, C++, Perl, PHP and Objective-C. Under the object oriented programming, data and codes are given…

different categories of paradigms in the nursing profession. However, there is one paradigm that I identify with the most and it belongs to Newman’s paradigm categories: the unitary- transformative paradigm. In this paper, I will be describing the nursing paradigm of unitary- transformative. Additionally, in my own words I will describe the metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health/healing and nursing. Furthermore, to better understand the unitary- transformative paradigm, I will be…

A. Corporate Social Responsibility Paradigm Toys is commented to corporate social responsibility, we take our rights and advantages as a corporation very seriously. With the power we are given by law to operate, we do so with respect in considerations for the environment, financial, and social impacts to the greater good of society. It is our great intent to behave and conduct our business in doing the right thing and to make sound decisions for creating good jobs and toys for a healthy…

The Qualitative Research Paradigm A qualitative research paradigm will be undertaken for this study. Qualitative researchers seek to “explore and understand individuals or groups ascribed to a social or human problem” (Creswell, 2014, p. 4) and rely on data typically obtained through words and other non-numerical symbols (Bryman, 2012). Based on an epistemological foundation of interpretivism and an ontological orientation of constructionism, the qualitative research paradigm is based on the…

occurred which caused a shift in the idea of “self’ “understanding of identity enables us to explore the way in which dominant cultural understanding are normalized in everyday texts and practices of interactions”. Benwell and Stokoe idea of the Paradigm Shift represents how society's overlook on the concept of “self” differentiated throughout the historic periods.…

developed she found that they were all rooted inconsistent concepts. She identified these repeating concepts as person, environment, health, and nursing. Fawcett labeled them central concepts to nursing and distinguished them as nursing’s meta-paradigm…