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How to Design a Research Plan for a Thesis in Social Sciences
This chapter presents the process of how a research work should be conceived in the mind of a novice researcher who wishes to do a doctoral thesis in social sciences. A logical-deductive scheme is followed, which guides the...
Risky Jews
Roy Schwartzman
Jun 04, 2021
Focusing on many previously untranslated articles in popular national magazines and newspapers, as well as works by prominent racial theorists, this chapter traces how outrage was systematically fomented against Jews in Nazi-era...
Ubuntu as Reflected in the Kgotla System of the Government in Botswana
Josiah Tlou
May 28, 2021
The chapter illustrates the application of Ubuntu to governance through a democratic system called “Kgotla.” The chapter places and defines Ubuntu as a unique African philosophy and worldview. The author explains how it is...
The Collision of the Experiential and Existential in the Brain/Heart-Mind/Soul Continuum
David Bennet
Feb 11, 2022
Focused in the physical, people are primarily experiential learners. Yet with the creation and sophistication of measurement techniques at the turn of the century, an understanding of experiential learning from the inside-out...
COVIDiots and Cogency
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both...
A Question of Trust
Tobias Eberwein
Feb 16, 2018
Narrative forms of journalistic reporting are traded as a sheet anchor in many newsrooms, as editors hope that they could brave the never-ending storm of the media crisis. But how does journalistic storytelling evolve from...
Growing Up in a Society Practicing Ubuntu
Joseph Mukuni
May 28, 2021
In this chapter, the author looks back at his life as a child growing up among a Bantu-speaking society in which life is guided by Ubuntu values. Ubuntu refers to a philosophy that teaches the interconnectedness of humans and...
Trumping Reason
Roy Schwartzman
Jun 04, 2021
Why does support for Donald Trump remain resilient despite the preponderance of arguments and evidence that should refute so many of his claims? The answer lies in how Trump's rhetoric fully embraces intuitively based rationales...
Seeking Global Coherence
Alex Bennet
Feb 11, 2022
The historical focus on relationships based on the trust and respect of people—initially family and then moving into business associates—has become idea focused, with value built on respect for and resonance with ideas....