The opposite aim of theory would be the objectivity and detachment associated with positivism, where theory is a neutral, explanatory tool.

It uses the word observatory, from astronomy, to emphasize a degree of detachment and objectivity in measuring well-being.

Seeking to say something ' meaningful ' about the problems recognised through quantitative methods, to provide explanations rather than descriptions, to put forward alternatives and solutions and to be politically engaged, rather than the detachment associated with positivist methods.

Rejecting the emigrant detachment strategy for internal propaganda, Levski undertook his first tour of the Bulgarian lands to engage all layers of Bulgarian society for a successful revolution.

The calmness and detachment of his tone suggested unawareness of how implicit was his own guilt in the words he had used to defend Cromwell.

The detachment at Jerusalem, which apparently encamped all over the city ’ s western hill, was responsible for preventing Jews from returning to the city.

His troops were able to recover the coras ( provinces ) of Jaén and Elvira, while a cavalry detachment was sent to free Málaga from ibn Hafsun's siege.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

The term " ataraxy " was coined by the neurologist Howard Fabing and the classicist Alister Cameron to describe the observed effect of psychic indifference and detachment in patients treated with chlorpromazine.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

The name was given in 1927 and refers to the fact that a detachment of dragoons escorted the Prince Royal of Portugal, Pedro I, at the time when he declared Brazilian independence from Portugal, on September 7, 1822.

A small detachment of French troops led by Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, was discovered by Tanacharison and a few warriors east of present-day Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling Guns in. 30 Army made by Colt's Arms Company was formed into a separate detachment led by Lt. John " Gatling Gun " Parker.

Following on, a command and services detachment in Bamako was created, and the engineer company in Ségou, the first Saharan motorized company of Gao, the Saharan Motor Company of Kidal, the Arouane nomad group, nomadic group of Timetrine, the 1st Reconnaissance Company and Nioro 2nd Reconnaissance Company Tessalit.

A detachment of the Swedish fleet took the women over to Kalmar, where Gustavus Adolphus was impatiently awaiting them.

For decades, between World War II and the 1970s he was the leader of Partito Sardo d ' Azione ( PSdAz ), Sardinian autonomist party claiming for detachment from Italy and fiercely contesting the presence of NATO military bases in Sardinia.

Lieutenant King, who was sent with a detachment of marines and some convicts, to settle there, gives the most flattering portrayal of it.

The detachment along the weak layers was likely aided by the presence of high-pressure water in the sediment pore spaces.

However, after the first detachment of police arrived, Papua New Guinea's high court ruled that the arrangement was unconstitutional, and the police returned home.

In 1796, Grenada was suddenly attacked and taken by a detachment of the army under his orders.

Upon their return, Martok was assigned command of the Klingon detachment on Deep Space Nine and command of the IKS Rotaran.

This detachment ( which became today's Red Guard of Senegal ) was the cadre around which the " Colonial Gendarmerie " was formed.

Marshall was offered a personal security detachment after the incident, but declined it.

Two days later the French withdrew to a position near Guastalla in response to Austrian maneuvers, but one detachment of nearly 3, 000 men was surrounded and captured by the advancing Austrians.

Baum's detachment was a mixed force of 700 composed of dismounted Brunswick dragoons, Canadians, Loyalists, and Indians.

Solipsists assert that the lack of ability to prove the existence of other minds does not, in itself, cause the psychiatric condition of detachment from reality.

This may be one reason that this design of wheel has not been widely adopted, meaning that modern cars are still prone to tyre detachment, though tyre safety itself has improved dramatically in the last 30 years.

While this was going on, the right detachment under Keyes, having found itself on the wrong side of the river, made contact with an Australian battalion to the south which brought up a boat with which they could make a crossing.

Since the breakdown of the single-party system and its detachment from the state structure in c: a 1988-1990, the FLN has been in favor of multi-party democracy, whereas before that, it upheld itself as the only organization representing the Algerian people.

This commendation is awarded by the Navy Secretary to any ship, aircraft, detachment, or other unit of the United States Navy or Marine Corps which has since 6 December 1941 distinguished itself in action against the enemy with outstanding heroism but not sufficient to justify award of the Presidential Unit Citation ( United States ).

Such differentiation is important since retinal detachment almost always requires treatment while retinoschisis never itself requires treatment and leads to retinal detachment ( and hence to visual loss ) only occasionally.

There is no documented case in the literature of degenerative retinoschisis itself ( as opposed to the occasional situation of retinal detachment complicating retinoschisis ) in which the splitting of the retina has progressed through the fovea.

Only the threatened arrival of a detachment from Tipu's army prevented him from laying siege to Bednore itself.

This is caused by detachment of one or more pins of one of the SMD ( Surface Mounted Device ) chips in the display itself.

He sent a company to Hallsville the next day that fought a State Guard detachment under the command of Col. Caleb Dorsey and, in a 10 minute skirmish about one half mile north of Mount Zion Church, itself situated about 3 miles southeast of Hallsville and 15 miles northeast of Columbia.

A detachment of six men from the 701st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

The actions involved in operating the piece are collectively called " serving the gun " or " detachment " by the gun crew, constituting either direct or indirect artillery fire.

The first column of Cniva's army, a detachment likely led by the chieftains Argaith and Gunteric, besieged Marcianopolis, without success it seems.

Later philosophers believed that celibacy would be conducive to the detachment and equilibrium required by the philosopher's calling.

The island, garrisoned by a detachment from Réunion, has a weather station and is visited by scientists.

Their spirits were buoyed on Christmas Eve – when they chose to camp in the lush Dercervian valley near Ephesus, they were ambushed by a Turkish detachment ; the French proceeded to slaughter this detachment and appropriate their camp.

The main German detachment advanced northwards from Helsinki and took Hyvinkää and Riihimäki on 21 – 22 April, followed by Hämeenlinna on 26 April.

* 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

On June 10, 1215, a detachment of Genoese Ghibellines led by Fulco del Cassello began the construction of a fortress atop the Rock of Monaco.

* 1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

Members of a profession have also been defined as " workers whose qualities of detachment, autonomy, and group allegiance are more extensive than those found among other groups ... their attributes include a high degree of systematic knowledge ; strong community orientation and loyalty ; self-regulation ; and a system of rewards defined and administered by the community of workers.