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... basic objectives — educate its students and allow its professors to do the basic research needed to continue to enhance knowledge . Interestingly , the university , like all other systems , cannot simply define its goals once and for ...
... basic objectives — educate its students and allow its professors to do the basic research needed to continue to enhance knowledge . Interestingly , the university , like all other systems , cannot simply define its goals once and for ...
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... basic elements that make up the system . This may seem paradoxical . How can a system produce its own elements , the very things out of which it is made ? Think of a modern economic system and its basic element , money . We say money is a ...
... basic elements that make up the system . This may seem paradoxical . How can a system produce its own elements , the very things out of which it is made ? Think of a modern economic system and its basic element , money . We say money is a ...
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... BASIC THEORETICAL QUESTIONS The impetus for contemporary feminist theory begins in a deceptively simple question : And what about the women ? In other words : Where are the women in any situation being investigated ? If they are not ...
... BASIC THEORETICAL QUESTIONS The impetus for contemporary feminist theory begins in a deceptively simple question : And what about the women ? In other words : Where are the women in any situation being investigated ? If they are not ...
Contents
Classical Grand Theories | 13 |
Classical Theories of Everyday Life | 42 |
Contemporary Theoretical Portraits of the Social World 1755 | 75 |
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