Essays Tagged: "Objectivity"

A Comparison of Piaget, Freud, and Erikson

The field of psychology may have grown to be respected as a science.Objectivity and the scientific method are both part of the psychologist's modeof operation. However, ...

(6 pages) 980 6 4.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

3 components of the literary school of naturalism in Stephen Cranes "The Open Boat"

ion, a good example of the school of naturalism. These three of the eight features are determinism, objectivity, and pessimism. They show, some more than others, how Stephen Crane viewed the world and ... lose to land and no longer out in the open sea, nature still takes its role in determining his fate.Objectivity refers to how the author describes reality as it exists, that is, not glorifying somethi ...

(3 pages) 133 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

JOURNALISTIC PERSUASION An essay on journalism

rld by reporters. Reporters are named such due to their effort to objectively report the facts, and objectivity is the key. To remain completely impassive, to transmit occurrences in the world back to ...

(8 pages) 163 2 4.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

Political, Economic & Social effects of Accounting Standard Setters.

accounting standards and other generally accepted principles, will be neutral and objective'SYNOPSISObjectivity and neutrality are the ultimate goals of general purpose financial reporting. However th ... e influences spill over into everyday accounting, with personal gain often ahead of reliability and objectivity. Users of financial reports have demands that need to be satisfied, and regulatory board ...

(9 pages) 650 6 3.5 May/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

The Renaissance was the period of rebirth in Europe. The affects of Greek and China ideas on the Renaissaince.

and prosperity. The Renaissance brought about the rediscovery of the Greek classics, curiosity and objectivity about the world, and the assertion of the importance of individualism which lead to huma ... at the world in a whole different perspective. It was mainly the rise of science, the curiosity of objectivity in the world, and the desire for knowledge brought about the Renaissance. During the Ren ...

(5 pages) 161 0 4.7 Jun/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

Real Machiavelli

tood thinker and he is one of the most successful and genius philosophers ever lived because of his objectivity and his invaluable ideas as well as political and social reasons.Machiavelli was very pa ... ruelty. His doctrines are already in use, in both politics and business with success because of his objectivity and the realism of his thoughts. He was not the man, as believed the founder of the trad ...

(6 pages) 142 0 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Critically evaluate the impact Behaviourism has had on Psychology

with the conscious mind. The experiments carried out at this time were criticised for their lack of objectivity and by the 1920's a new brand of psychology emerged in the form of behaviourism.Psycholo ...

(6 pages) 169 0 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Voltaire's "Candide" is a satire on optimism.

eading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. Through Candide, Voltaire expressed the misleading notion of Gottfried William von Leib ...

(4 pages) 184 0 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Alcoholism.

ng websites is very useful when researching topics. Different criteria such as accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage of web documents must be used to evaluate the sites. Each one ca ... a site to give information. These sites are completely different from one another when it comes to objectivity. However, they are on the same "page" when it comes to information and details. Both sit ...

(4 pages) 71 1 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The implementation of English social policy.

Patton 1986:14).The quantitative approach to evaluating social policy emphasises the neutrality and objectivity of the researcher; conceptualises practice in terms of a clearly defined positivist mode ... d (Everitt and Hardiker 1996:46). The qualitative approach rejects the notion of the neutrality and objectivity of the researcher. Instead it seeks to identify participants' understandings of the mean ...

(13 pages) 236 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Feminist theory.

the social sciences. For example, feminists believe that the concepts of scientific neutrality, or objectivity, or the belief that we can achieve "pure" knowledge of the social world, have all contri ... oncepts, as well as research practices dominant in conventional epistemology (such as "empiricism" "objectivity" "positivism" and "scientific methodology"), and deconstruct them in order to challenge ...

(11 pages) 296 0 3.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Critically evaluate the impact behaviourism has had on psychology.

with the conscious mind. The experiments carried out at this time were criticised for their lack of objectivity and by the 1920's a new brand of psychology emerged in the form of behaviourism.Psycholo ...

(6 pages) 134 0 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Market research -a summary that i have compiled during studying malhotra's Basic Market Research book. summary of the most important (generally lectured) chapters.

mented, has a scientific basis that data are collected and documented.MR obtains its value from its objectivity. Companies sponsoring the research sometimes put pressure on the researcher to generate ... her to generate "support" for a certain desired outcome. Providing an unbiased "outsider opinion" (-objectivity) gives MR its value and the results can be trusted in making decisions.Classification of ...

(14 pages) 818 2 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The BCS is the collusion to attain more money-spelled out in game theory. (Purely Opinion)

by computer ranked number one and number two team in the nation no one would be able to refute the objectivity of an equation and take out all the subjectivity that the old system created. The five m ...

(2 pages) 47 1 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Can and Should Sociology be Value Free. this essay is about the aim of sociology that is to be value free and whether it can and should achieve that aim

The term value neutrality was used by Weber to indicate the necessary objectivity researchers need when investigating problems in the natural sciences. Weber even though ... ced the term and accepted a scientific in the study of sociology, he did not believed that absolute objectivity is attainable.Weber said that value neutrality should be the primary aim in sociology bu ... s been chosen, researchers should be objective in conducting experiments and proving their theories.Objectivity means that the conclusions arrived at as the result of inquiry and investigation are ind ...

(9 pages) 121 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

18th Century Sensibility and Classical Theory

s. The principle of sensibility, founded from the non-artist world, questioned the subjectivity vs. objectivity distinction in morality and beauty. Two writers on this discussion, Percy Bysshe Shelley ... eart and understanding" (Schiller, 23). The binding of morality and the theater is not through the objectivity that exists between laws and reasoning; instead it is an appeal to the sensibility of th ...

(6 pages) 67 0 3.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Discuss the value of unregulated corporate financial accounting disclosure to society from a classical political economy perspective.

ia annual reports governed by various accounting standards. These reports should aspire to maintain objectivity, neutrality and representational faithfulness. In addition to these reports, some compan ... , they do not view the state as a means for reform as it does not maintain the attributes of having objectivity, neutrality and representational faithfulness. The state "is not a passive repository of ...

(11 pages) 208 0 3.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Lack of Objectivity - an essay on Timothy Garton Ash's We The People

Lack of ObjectivityTimothy Garton Ash's We the People, takes an in depth look at the fall of communism durin ... He became involved in the events, thus forming some sort of emotional tie. By doing so he lost his objectivity and his ability to be an unquestionably reliable source in history. Though his witness t ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Promotion Strategies

e promotional mix, who pays for them, and how they are perceived by consumers with regards to their objectivity. I will also explain how traditional Word-of-Mouth works and round up the assignment di ... sful commercials can be paid for by consumer purchases.The court of public opinion considers the objectivity of advertising dependent upon the type of message. According to a 1990 survey conducted ...

(6 pages) 389 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"The role and stance of the narrator Nick Carraway"

le of Nick Carraway is soImportant to the book that the character of Jay Gatsby could notExist. His objectivity is reinforced throughout to us by his scorn ofGatsby which becomes known to the reader w ...

(3 pages) 22 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald