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The factors responsible for continuity and change in traditional pottery production can be better explained and understood through modernisation and functionalist theory.

The Functionalist Thesis: Professions as a Response to Both Market and Government Failure in the Provision of Necessary Specialized Knowledge 1.

Key words: Values, Colombia, functionalist theory of values.

Constructionist approaches in general and the notion of construction in particular always find their way to the surface in this volume, modifying earlier cognitivist proposals and maximizing functionalist models, although they are also sometimes alluded to in critical terms.

The critical approach in HR includes at least three arguments: (a) the Human Resources area is predominantly functionalist and/or positivist; (b) the Human Resources area represents the essence of the power and control exercised by organizations; and (c) the International Human Resources' approach explains, in practice, the neo-colonialist movements of the multinationals.

But it is not clear that non-perceptual Conceptual artworks satisfy the functionalist's requirement of being aesthetic, and it may be that Davies thinks that they qualify as art only according to the proceduralist's requirement that they are recognized as art by the artworld.

Browning is a leading advocate and reviser of this debate, and in subsequent chapters, particularly from three to nine, he provides examples of functionalist approaches to the protracted path in Jewish policy that, as late as September 1939, remained without a concrete direction or form.

We can choose to continue to use a Westphalian paradigm that assumes that the state is the exclusive source of authority, that assumes and institutionalizes a weak form of international law, and that fails to provide tools to address our most pressing international problems, or we can choose a more scientific and open-minded functionalist paradigm.

A fourth tenet of the functionalist perspective was that access to a civic minimum should be conditional on the individual's willingness to make a productive contribution.

Most illuminating in this chapter are Harvey's readings of Marie and her fellow Ursulines situating a functionalist understanding of the body as it intersects with religious and communal life.

it, then one's worldview is that of a functionalist. Traditional