Becker and his colleagues (1961:34) define a perspective as a coordinated set of ideas and actions a person uses in dealing with some problematic situation, to refer to a person's ordinary way of thinking and feeling about and acting in such a situation. Making the Grade: The Academic Side of College Life - Page 6by Howard Saul Becker, Everett Cherrington Hughes - 1995 - 150 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Howard Saul Becker - Social Science - 472 pages
...co-ordinated set of ideas and actions a person uses in dealing with some problematic situation, to refer to a person's ordinary way of thinking and feeling about and acting in such a situation.3 These thoughts and actions are co-ordinated in the sense that the actions flow reasonably,... | |
| Jesse Goodman, Jeff Kuzmic, Xiaoyang Wu - Education - 1992 - 240 pages
...coordinated set of ideas and actions a person uses in dealing with some problematic situation, to refer to a person's ordinary way of thinking and feeling about...that the actions flow reasonably, from the actor's point of view, from the ideas contained in the perspective. Similarly, the ideas can be seen by an... | |
| Donald Freeman, Jack C. Richards - Education - 1996 - 406 pages
...set of ideas and actions [which] a person uses in dealing with some problematic situations. ... It is a person's ordinary way of thinking and feeling about and acting in such a situation" (p. 34). They referred to earlier work 224 by Shibutani (1955), who defined perspective as "an ordered... | |
| Vieda Skultans, John Lee Cox - Medical - 2000 - 308 pages
...'co-ordinated set of ideas and actions a person uses in dealing with some problematic situation, to refer to a person's ordinary way of thinking and feeling about and acting in such a situation'. Perspectives, then, are situationally specific; they have an active or practical as well as a cognitive... | |
| Zhiyong Zhu - Education - 2007 - 382 pages
...Tibetan students, in addition to my observations on the street. I use the term "perspective" to refer to "a person's ordinary way of thinking and feeling about and acting" in a context, with the perspectives also assisting in "defining the context, and identifying and locating... | |
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