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Grounded Theory and Its Application in a Research Question

the challenges that have emerged in the last decade in seeking out and retaining highly professional college presidents, and have ...

The Relationship between Theory and Research

theory with grand theoretical systems, when talking of psychology cites psychoanalysis and behavorism as grand theories. Here ther...

Major Theories of Family Crisis and Adaptation

stressors that are present at any given time are more than can be mitigated for through the general adaptations and minor changes ...

Applying Learning Theories to Personal Experience

bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which ha...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...

Criminology and Risk Theory

institutional influence and power) and the emergence of a risk-fixated consciousness (Beck, 2006). Under such conditions, it becom...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Overview of Erickson's Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling

persons, who are the focus of care "know more about themselves than health providers do" (Parker and Smith, 2010, p. 203). The ess...

Piaget and Vygotsky/Theories of Child Development

goes forward when its pedals are rotated, until around age eight or nine (Harris, 2009). However, there are numerous instances rec...

Integration Theories

education, young professionals generally enter the job market in their mid to late twenties and these recent graduates typically a...

PEAK OIL THEORY AND OIL PRODUCTION

that "prices will rise unless demand declines commensurately" (Campbell and Laherrere, 1998; p. 61). Whats interesting is that Cam...

Film and Communication Theory

instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...

Family Theory Individuation

fusion. The study concluded that younger men who had all male siblings had more intimacy to parents and more intimidation by paren...

LEADERSHIP THEORY AND HOUSE’S PATH GOAL MODEL

some boards of directors are not focusing just on total returns but rather, are thinking about metrics such as executive-developme...

Social Work and Attachment Theory

be in any other type of danger. The question is: how to properly address this situation through the instrument of social work. T...

Domestic Violence, Attachment and Narrative Theories

parents" and this factor has tremendous influence on whether or not a child feels safe and secure (Gewitz and Edleson, 2004, p. 3)...

Leadership - Skills and Traits Theories

meaningful research question. For the skills theory study, the research question might best be expressed as "how [do] individual d...

RESOURCE DEPENDENCE THEORY AND AUTOMAKERS

consumers for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. The problem, however, is that GM didnt seem to get it; and it continued to manufa...

Child Development Learning Theories

This paper reports four sets of theories, Piaget, behaviorism, nativism Vygotsky, and neo-Vygotsky. The major tenets of each are d...

Skinner Theory

changed Pavlovs original classical conditioning proposal to operant conditioning. Skinners model includes how the environment infl...

The Theories of Carl Rogers

relationship (Capuzzi & Gross, 2006). Rogers defined a method for achieving an atmosphere that was conducive to healing ...

Economic Theory in News Articles

offshore companies (Klie, 2012, p15). The legislation proposes measures to deter companies from pursuing offshoring arrangements b...

Social Cognitive Personality Theory

reinforced to continue a behavior. He and a collaborator discovered that if a child came from a home where hostility was demonstra...

Impacts of Dispositional Theories on Personality and Interpersonal Relationships

not simply reflective of a given culture (Feist & Feist, 2009). Both Eysenck and McCrae and Costa maintained the importance of ge...

Major Theories in Psychology

Though Freud focused a considerable amount of research on the way in which biological and psychological motivations determined spe...

New Classical Theory of Economics

thought which developed in the eighteenth and ninetieth centuries. The major thrust of this work is the way in which markets actua...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Sociology and Theory

and only five rapes. There is an absence of true fear and so the petty crimes, the drug offenses and so forth serve a function in ...

Chuang Tzu, Confucius, and the Theories of Ethics

because to do so promotes safety, but it is also a most efficient way to move large numbers of people from point A to point B. Li ...

Effective Communication and Theory

Many potential barrier exist, such as trying to communicate too much information that cannot be absorbed by the receiver, misjudgi...