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Jenkins, Kathleen E. – Social Forces, 2007
In this article I develop heuristic types for understanding how the U.S. evangelical Christian subculture engages the newer science of molecular biology as it works to legitimate and enchant religious worldview: 1.) "symbolic engagement," employing genes and DNA as sacred icon; 2.) "disputatious engagement," debating genetic essentialism and…
Descriptors: Subcultures, Audiences, Genetics, Molecular Biology
Maxcy, Spencer J. – 1986
What is deemed to be socially relevant knowledge as it comes from social educational theorists and inquirers is not a singular conception. The prevailing notion that only pluralistic and relativist, or positivist epistemological concepts of truth adequately capture social education inquiry and products, and that claims to human action based on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Epistemology, Liberalism, Marxian Analysis
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Elsworth, Gerald R. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1994
Discusses the importance of field methods in education and social research. Highlights include the argument against antinaturalism; scientific realism and social science; challenges to the validity of inferences from field studies; and threats to the validity of field research. (Contains 52 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Field Studies, Naturalism, Realism