boys. Beginning in the 1870s, the philosophy of positivism, which outlined the tenets of economic development and centralization, was embraced by a new generation of educators in Mexico. In France, the philosophy of positivism was particularly embraced
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The Emotional Education of Boys in Mexico during the Early Porfiriato, 1876–1884
Carlos Zúñiga Nieto
Joost Beuving and Geert de Vries
sociology and psychology in particular) and later in semi-independent methodology departments. The first generation of chairs in social research methodology almost without exception embraced positivism as their guiding paradigm. Typically, they espoused
Teaching internationalisation?
Surveying the lack of pedagogical and theoretical diversity in American International Relations
Christopher R. Cook
. (2011: 437) argue ‘realist [as a specific school] research never made up more than 15 per cent of published articles in any time period’. They argue that while most articles ‘are non-paradigmatic’ the journals still favoured rationalism, positivism and
Girls with Disabilities in the Global South
Rethinking the Politics of Engagement
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
generalized across contexts. By taking for granted the stories being constructed in such images as truth, positivism ignores the social, historical, and political specificities that construct their standpoints and representations. In contrast, this
Becoming a Gentleman
Adolescence, Chivalry, and Turn-of-the-Century Youth Movements
Kent Baxter
both sides of the Atlantic, the fascination with medieval mentalities revealed the complexities of the revolt against positivism. Often perceived as displaying childlike traits, the peasants, saints, and seers of the Middle Ages focused reactions to the