behavioralism
- noun
- /bɪˈheɪvjərəlɪzəm/
- Specialized
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conductismo
- Behavioralism focuses on observable actions and reactions rather than internal feelings or thoughts.
- critics of behavioralism
- political behavioralism
- behavioralism within science
Examples
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For this reason, American critics of behavioralism do not name or emphasize the supposed inevitability of nihilism.
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After World War II came the first shift to behavioralism—which became ascendant in the 1950s.
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The shift to public choice did not mean that behavioralism was left behind, but that, for the sophisticated, the focus became public choice.
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A theoretical child of modern natural science, behavioralism is founded, like the natural sciences, on modern mathematics.
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There appears to be an inverse relationship between the increase of behavioralism within political science and the decreasing influence of political science on politics.
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In 1969, however, David Easton, the "father" of behavioralism, joined its critics by calling for a new, post-behavioral political science.
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Nevertheless, neither behavioralism nor postbehavioralism has proven to be persuasive to their numerous detractors.
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Although formally value neutral, behavioralism favors the material world, as it is scientifically and liberally understood.
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Behavioralism is the political science of mass societies and mass men (Graham and Carey 1972, 223ff).
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While noting the affinity between the behavioral revolution and the Enlightenment, one sees a tension between behavioralism's affinity for liberalism and its negative effect on liberal politics.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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A way of studying people that looks only at actions you can see and measure
A way of studying people and animals that focuses on actions you can see and measure, not thoughts or feelings
How Biological
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2
7.5
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5.7
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4.4
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
behavioralism = behavioral (transparent) = behavior + al + ism
Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ism' to the clearly derived adjective 'behavioral', indicating a doctrine or approach.
Etymology
Behavioralism comes from behavior 'the way someone acts' and the ending -ism 'a system or school of thought', so it names a school that studies people's actions and focuses on what can be seen rather than inner thoughts.