Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;

The major weakness of vocational training programs in labor surplus areas is their focus on serving solely local job demands.

State governments have been taking the lead in establishing area vocational schools, but their focus is still on area job opportunities.

In order to focus clearly upon the operation of this one force, which we may call the effect of `` public-limit pricing '' on `` key '' wage bargains, we deliberately simplify the model by abstracting from other forces, such as union power, which may be relevant in an actual situation.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

Let us focus on an atom of calcium from the tip of the bone of my finger and let us suppose that I swallow a magic Alice In Wonderland growing pill.

The moment I walked in, the whole miserable feeling of the day seemed to focus on the woman in the bed.

A study on the relationship happiness to various character strengths showed that “ a conscious focus on gratitude led to reductions in negative affect and increases in optimistic appraisals, positive affect, offering emotional support, sleep quality, and well-being .”

In practical terms, however, since most of us are spontaneously self-centered, Buddhism encourages us to focus love and compassion on others, and thus can be characterized as " altruistic.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).

Kroeber and Sapir's focus on Native American languages helped establish linguistics as a truly general science and free it from its historical focus on Indo-European languages.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that " Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs " in Afghanistan, under the Human Terrain System ( HTS ) program ; in addition, HTS teams are working with the US military in Iraq.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

Wittowsky argues that not enough critics have taken the time to focus directly on the mercantilism and theories of labor in 18th century England.

Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering activities focus on implementation of control systems mainly derived by mathematical modeling of systems of a diverse range.

With professional focus on a wide variety of problems, theoretical systems, and localized constructs, applied mathematicians work regularly in the study and formulation of mathematical models.

Because of its empirical roots and its focus on applications, statistics is usually considered to be a distinct mathematical science rather than a branch of mathematics.

From this point on, Condorcet shifted his focus from the purely mathematical to philosophy and political matters.

Rather than focus on narrow debates about the true nature of mathematical truth, or even on practices unique to mathematicians such as the proof, a growing movement from the 1960s to the 1990s began to question the idea of seeking foundations or finding any one right answer to why mathematics works.

Edward Witten ( born August 26, 1951 ) is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is a professor of mathematical physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey.

Some theories tend to focus on mathematical practice, and aim to describe and analyze the actual working of mathematicians as a social group.

Metamathematical metatheorems about mathematics itself were originally differentiated from ordinary mathematical theorems in the 19th century, to focus on what was then called the foundational crisis of mathematics.

The principle remains central in modern physics and mathematics, being applied in the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and a focus of modern mathematical investigation in Morse theory.

The focus of this area is to introduce the mathematical ideas of people who have generally been excluded from discussions of formal, academic mathematics.

Because of technology, simple mathematical computation is important as employers focus on an employee's ability to compute at higher levels of sophistication.

Studies of mathematical practice and quasi-empiricism in mathematics are also rightly part of the sociology of knowledge, since they focus on the community of those who practice mathematics and their common assumptions.

A general definition of Systemic Risk which is not limited by its mathematical approaches, model assumptions or focus on one institution ; and which is also the first operationalizable definition of Systemic Risk encompassing the systemic character of financial, political, environmental, and many other risks is available since 2010.

The themes of the working groups may differ very much, from theoretical ( where the focus is on the mathematical and physical side of astronomy and astrophysics ) to practical ( where the focus on observational astronomy and the use of telescopes cannot be ignored ).

This work did not satisfy him, so he enrolled at Birkbeck College, London where he joined the weekly seminar of Professor Paul Dienes which was then a focus for mathematical activity in London.

It had extended string handling capabilities to augment JOSS's mathematical focus.

His primary focus has been on books and tools for learning theoretical concepts in computer science, such as concurrency and mathematical logic.

After 1907 the focus of Sheppard's work moved from statistics to interpolation and graduation and he published in mathematical and actuarial journals.

Curricular activities focus on the arts and technology, with programs in computer-assisted design, and mathematical analysis.

The main focus of his research is on the application of noncommutative geometry and index theory to mathematical physics, with particular emphasis on string theory.

The main focus lies on developing mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques.

The focus can be as diverse as the analysis of Homer or Freud.

Academics tend to either focus on new applications and discoveries or on new methods of analysis.

In the 1960s and 1970s the term radical psychology was used by psychologists to denote a branch of the field which rejected conventional psychology's focus on the individual as the basic unit of analysis and sole source of psychopathology.

Qualitative analysis is most often applied to verbal data from sources such as conversations, interviews, focus groups, and personal journals.

Conversation analysis and discourse analysis, sociolinguistic methods that focus more specifically on the structure of conversational interchange ( e. g., between a teacher and student ), have been used to assess the process of conceptual change in science learning.

Again in second-wave feminism in the U. S., as well as in many European and other countries, religion became the focus of some feminist analysis in Judaism, Christianity, and other religions, and some women turned to ancient goddess religions as an alternative to Abrahamic religions ( Womanspirit Rising 1979 ; Weaving the Visions 1989 ).

Another area of focus in the study of hadith is biographical analysis (‘ ilm al-rijāl, lit.

Qualitative methods employed in I – O psychology include content analysis, focus groups, interviews, case studies, and several other observational techniques.

The focus of the analysis is directly on the personal characteristics of the suspect.

Because of its focus on historical development ( diachronic analysis ), philology came to be used as a term contrasting with linguistics.

In later centuries, focus partially shifted from direct Talmudic interpretation to the analysis of previously written Talmudic commentaries.

Such phantasies would prove the main focus of Bion's interest after his second ( Kleinian ) analysis.

Bion has been criticised, for example by Yalom, for his technical approach which had an exclusive focus on analysis of whole-group processes to the exclusion of any exploration of individual group members ' issues.

Ruth Faden and Madison Powers of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics focus their analysis of social justice on which inequalities matter the most.

In both types of analysis, focus is on the actions of end user and asks whether there is an explicit or implicit acceptance of the additional licensing terms.

In 2008, former editor of Newsweek Jon Meacham, a self described " fan ", criticised The Economists focus on analysis over original reporting.

In an analysis of the programme by the Overseas Development Institute, CABDA's focus on individual and community capacity-building is highlighted.

The shift in the intellectual priorities within the SI resulted in more focus on the theoretical, such as the theory of the spectacle and Marxist critical analysis, spending much less time on the more artistic and tangible concepts like unitary urbanism, détournement, and situgraphy.

While closed-source practitioners also promote stringent, independent code analysis during a software project's development, they focus on in-depth review by a few and not primarily the number of " eyeballs ".

In particular, his focus is not on analysis but generation: not how to write criticism about existing plots, but how to create one.

While most techniques focus on increases in lateral resolution there are also some techniques which aim to allow analysis of extremely thin samples.

Freud ceased his analysis of the brain and his physiological studies in order to turn his focus to the study of the mind and the related psychological attributes making up the mind, something not many psychologists were willing to do.

The division of focus and methodologies has produced several subfields, in particular: general positive psychology, focusing primarily on the study of psychological phenomenon and effects ; and personal effectiveness, focusing primarily on analysis, design and implementation of qualitative personal growth.

They use cross-cultural anthropological studies to set the general background, narrow in on the history and society of first-century Palestine, and use textual analysis ( along with more anthropology and history ) to focus on Jesus himself.