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Record 1 2016-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Psychology
DEF

A problem dealing with content and not related to the life experience of the individual.

CONT

An abstract problem is defined as a general theoretical construct by making abstractions and explicit assumptions about a number of abstract objects, and it is solved in theory by finding an appropriate inference method.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie scolaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología educacional
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Record 2 2012-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
CONT

According to C. Wright Mills, abstracted empiricism is the practice of gathering sociological data for their own sake without developing a theoretical framework that would give those data meaning and value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des idéologies
CONT

Dans l'empirisme abstrait, l'objet de la vérification ne semble pas soulever de problème crucial. La procédure, elle, est directement fournie par les termes dans lesquels sont posés les problèmes; ceux-ci se ramènent à des procédures de corrélations et de statistiques.

Spanish

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