Critical naturalism therefore prescribes social scientific method which seeks to identify the mechanisms producing social events, but with a recognition that these are in a much greater state of flux than those of the physical world ( as human structures change much more readily than those of, say, a leaf ).

Critical scholarship generally holds to the two-source hypothesis as most probable, which argues that the author used the Gospel of Mark and the hypothetical Q document in addition to unique material, as sources for the gospel.

Müller argues against the existence of such a system and claims that Critical Theory provides no practical solution for societal change.

Marxist approaches have also inspired Critical Theorists such as Robert W. Cox who argues that " Theory is always for someone and for some purpose ".

Luis Suarez-Villa, in his 2009 book Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism argues that it is a new version of capitalism that generates new forms of corporate organization designed to exploit intangibles such as creativity and new knowledge.

In Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion, Cooke argues that the characters of Peter, Lucy, and Mrs. Sims were drawn from people in Atwood's life – Peter being a fictionalized version of Atwood's boyfriend ( also an amateur photographer ) and later fiancé.

The relationship between critical realist philosophy and Marxism has also been discussed in an article co-authored by Bhaskar and Callinicos and published in the Journal of Critical Realism

: Critical Discussions & Evidence on the Ongoing Relevance of the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model ( 15 – 17 May 2007 ) conference at the University of Windsor, Canada, Herman and Chomsky summarized developments to the propaganda model, followed by the publication of the proceedings of a commemoration of the twentieth publication anniversary of Manufacturing Consent in 2008.

The Critical Events in Supervision model focuses on important moments that occur between the supervisor and supervisee.

The university employs a unique outcomes-based model of education whereby students learn and master six competencies by graduation: Citizenship, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Ethical Practice, and Science.

Mechanical ventilation is a rapidly expanding science and has been recognized as a complex technology by the respiratory therapy credentialing agency ( NBRC ) who in 2011 added the speciality credential called the " Adult Critical Care Specialist ", available only to those respiratory therapists certified as registered respiratory therapists ( RRT-ACCS ).

Published science and theory proves that the current specifications fail to show a consistency with the coefficient of retroreflection ( RA ) for Entrance Angles and Observation Angles in relation to the Critical Detection Distance.

Critical realism has become an influential movement in British sociology and social science in general as a reaction to, and reconciliation of, so-called " postmodern " critiques.

Langford wrote the science fiction and fantasy book review column for White Dwarf from 1983 to 1988, continuing in other British role-playing game magazines until 1991 ; the columns are collected as The Complete Critical Assembly ( 2001 ).

The Critical Fluid Light Scattering Experiment, or ZENO, science team reported that they expect to locate the critical temperature of xenon at " any time.

Since he believed criticism an art, not a science, and regarded Critical Theory as " largely pseudo-scientific bubble-blowing ", his criticism is now out of fashion and mostly out of print.

The result of the hearings was the adoption by the Republican-dominated board of new science standards that relied upon the Discovery Institute's Critical Analysis of Evolution lesson plan employing the institute's Teach the Controversy approach, despite these having been rejected by the State Board Science Hearing Committee.

* Critical Mass ( short story ), a science fiction story by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth.

* Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another, a science book investigating the role of power law distributions in human organisation by Philip Ball

Critical race theory is taught and innovated in the fields of education, political science, women's studies, ethnic studies, and American studies.

Critical evaluation of all data compiled is not a primary aim of this project.

" Critical philosophy " is also used as another name for Kant's philosophy itself.

Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of critical and democratic theory and successor of Praxis International.

Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse.

In fact, the purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city streets.

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the examination and the critique of society and culture, by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

Critical social theory is, in contrast, a form of self-reflective knowledge involving both understanding and theoretical explanation to reduce entrapment in systems of domination or dependence, obeying the emancipatory interest in expanding the scope of autonomy and reducing the scope of domination.

Critical theory was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory: Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.

* A survey of and introduction to the current state of critical social theory is Craig Calhoun's Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference ( Blackwell, 1995 ) ISBN 1-55786-288-5

Critical psychology is a perspective on psychology that draws extensively on critical theory.

The German Critical Psychology movement is rooted in the post-war babyboomers ' student revolt of the late ' 60s ; see German student movement.

Critical psychology is currently the preferred term for the discipline of psychology keen to find alternatives to the way the discipline of psychology reduces human experience to the level of the individual and thereby strips away possibilities for radical social change.

He adumbrated a school of thought that is known as Critical Rationalism with a central tenet being the rejection of the idea that knowledge can ever be justified in the strong form that is sought by most schools of thought.

A major source of on-line material is the Critical Rationalist website and also the Rathouse of Rafe Champion.

Critical state soil mechanics is the basis for many contemporary advanced constitutive models describing the behavior of soil.

The Wilhelm Busch Museum is the German Museum of Caricature and Critical Graphic Arts.

One well-known qualitative technique employed in I – O psychology is John Flanagan's Critical Incident Technique, which requires " qualified observers " ( e. g., pilots in studies of aviation, construction workers in studies of construction projects ) to describe a work situation that resulted in a good or bad outcome.

* Critical legal studies is a younger theory of jurisprudence that has developed since the 1970s which is primarily a negative thesis that the law is largely contradictory and can be best analyzed as an expression of the policy goals of the dominant social group.

The Disney Corporation is notorious among cultural study scholars for “ reinventing ” traditional childhood myths ( Koven, “ Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey ”, 176-195 ).

Critical chain project management ( CCPM ) is a method of planning and managing project execution designed to deal with uncertainties inherent in managing projects, while taking into consideration limited availability of resources ( physical, human skills, as well as management & support capacity ) needed to execute projects.

Critical reaction to the work was mixed: the canard that the work was not so much for violin as " against the violin " is attributed equally to conductor Hans von Bülow and to Joseph Hellmesberger, to whom Brahms entrusted the Vienna premiere, which was however rapturously received by the public.