Search results for "Explanation"

The power of the economic outlook : an ideational explanation of the distinct pattern of Finnish wage setting within the Nordic context

2022

Industrial relations scholars are paying increasing attention to the role of ideas in explaining shifts in bargaining systems and wage policies. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by conducting a meso-level analysis of the uses and impacts of ideas in wage regulation policy processes in coordinated market economies. Through our in-depth case study of the Finnish policy process leading to the Competitiveness Pact of 2016, we argue that certain ideas – which we call the ‘economic outlook’ – prescribed and legitimized exhausting institutional resources in wage regulation and enabled temporary consensus among divergent interests regarding wage policy. The economic outlo…

Mechanistic Explanations and Deliberate Misrepresentations

2020

The philosophy of mechanisms has developed rapidly during the last 30 years. As mechanisms-based explanations (MBEs) are often seen as an alternative to nomological, law-based explanations, MBEs could be relevant in IS. We begin by offering a short history of mechanistic philosophy and set out to clarify the contemporary landscape. We then suggest that mechanistic models provide an alternative to variance and process models in IS. Finally, we highlight how MBEs typically contain deliberate misrepresentations. Although MBEs have recently been advocated as critical realist (CR) accounts in IS, idealizations (deliberate misrepresentations) seem to violate some fundamental tenets of CR and rese…

Study of the benzene⋅N2 intermolecular potential-energy surface

2003

The intermolecular potential-energy surface pertaining to the interaction between benzene and N2 is investigated theoretically and experimentally. Accurate intermolecular interaction energies are evaluated for the benzene–N2 van der Waals complex using the coupled cluster singles and doubles including connected triples [CCSD(T)] method and the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set extended with a set of 3s3p2d1f1g midbond functions. After fitting the energies to an analytic function, the intermolecular Schrödinger equation is solved to yield energies, rotational constants, and Raman-scattering coefficients for the lowest intermolecular levels of several benzene–N2 isotopomers. Experimentally, intermolecula…

Diego Papayannis. Spiegazione funzionale e analisi concettuale.Sul'incidenza dei modelli economici nello studio della pratica giuridica.

2013

Adaptative memory and animacy effect

2017

According to the adaptive memory view, human memory was shaped in the distant past to remember fitness relevant information (e.g., finding food, protecting ourselves from predators). An increasing number of studies favor this view, by showing that information related to to survival is memorized better than information not related to survival (Nairne, Thompson, & Pandeirada, 2007). Recently, a new type of findings further supports this functional approach of memory: animacy effects, that is to say the observation that animates (living things able of independent movements; e.g., baby, grasshopper) are remembered better than inanimates (non-living things e.g., teakettle, rope). One account of …

A discursive study of Hard-of-Hearing learners' explanations for failure and success in learning English as a foreign language

2003

A discourse analysis of success and failure accounts in learning English as a foreign language

1999

Iz opyta raboty nad učebnym kompleksom "Vsë prosto!"

2016

The article presents the comments of the authors of the textbook series "Vsye Prosto!" ("Everything Is Easy!") on ways of meeting the challenges related to teaching the Russian language at the initial stage. In particular, it involves the introduction of the Russian alphabet, ways of explaining assignments, monitoring achievements and evaluation, as well as the presentation of cross-cultural materials.

SOME POINTS OF VIEW REGARDING THE DEFINITIONS OF THE CONCEPTS OF EXPLANATION, UNDERSTANDING AND CAUSALITY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

2015

Not every description of our subjective representations of the reality necessarily generates knowledge about the truths of the moment. Our paper presents the conditions a description of the representations of the social reality should meet to be regarded as scientific from a logical perspective.

Experiences of arbitrary management among Finnish academics in an era of academic capitalism

2020

For the last two decades, Finnish universities have faced the implementation of new systems of control and undergone dramatic changes that have worsened academic working conditions–such as corporatisation and budget cuts. This article explores Finnish academics’ experiences of university reforms with a special focus on the consequences it has had in terms of organisational socio-dynamics. We adapt Glynos and Howarth’s logics of critical explanation and apply this theoretical framework to analyse the interviews of academics who, against their own will, did not have their contracts renewed. This approach describes, explains, and criticises the logics–which are social, political and fantasmati…