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What are the strengths and weaknesses to the social approach to psychology?
Strengths of the social approach to psychology include its emphasis on the impact of social factors on behavior and cognition, its focus on real-world applications, and its ability to explain phenomena such as conformity, obedience, and group behavior. Weaknesses include potential oversimplification of complex social interactions, the risk of overlooking individual differences, and the challenge of conducting experiments that accurately reflect real-life social settings.
What are the Classification of Theories in nursing?
Classification of Nursing Theorieson 1:46 PM A. Depending On Function (Polit et al 2001)Descriptive-to identify the properties and workings of a disciplineExplanatory-to examine how properties relate and thus affect the disciplinePredictive-to calculate relationships between properties and how they occurPrescriptive -to identify under which conditions relationships occurB. Depending on the Generalisability of their principlesMetatheory: the theory of theory. Identifies specific phenomena through abstract concepts.Grand theory: provides a conceptual framework under which the key concepts andC. Principles of the discipline can be identified.Middle range theory: is more precise and only analyses a particular situation with a limited number of variables.Practice theory: explores one particular situation found in nursing. It identifies explicit goals and details how these goals will be achieved.D. Based on the philosophical underpinnings of the theories"Needs "theories."Interaction" theories."Outcome "theories.Humanistic theories.
Why is political science not a science?
Most sciences, especially the hard sciences, pride themselves on generalisability of laws inferred from experimental conditions. In physics and chemistry, for example, great emphasis is placed on 'discovering' properties of the universe which operate directly via physical objects and have no major exceptions. Many people who are not knowledgeable in the philosophy of science assume that all meaningful scientific work involves experimentation and observation and so, to them, the social sciences often seem questionable because they invoke abstract ideas (e.g.) preferences, markets, the psyche) that are not easily observable and lack controllable initial conditions (e.g.) you can't simulate an entire political system easily). Some detractors, especially positivists, contend this invalidates the ability of politics to be studied scientifically. However, all sciences use abstractions (e.g.) physics uses gravity) in theoretical explanations and all experiments involve the isolation of the experiment from the real world. Laws can be generalised for subsystems, and the major issue of political science, in my opinion, is that politics is a very complex system and so generalisations are difficult to make, especially given that peoples' behaviours are variable. I would argue that politics is studied more like evolutionary biology, where seemingly objective facts about specifics under considered under a theoretical framework to isolate their behaviours.
