nomothetic , także: nomothetical

Explanations in social theories can be idiographic or nomothetic.

A nomothetic view of personal construct processes.

He saw sociology as a nomothetic science that should be able to use a similar methodology as natural sciences.

Windelband is now mainly remembered for the terms nomothetic and idiographic, which he introduced.

Gordon Allport (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic and the idiographic.

Nomothetic explanations tend to be more general with scientists trying to identify a few causal factors that impact a wide class of conditions or events.

Nomothetic explanations are probabilistic and usually incomplete.

Idiographic, nomothetic, and related perspectives in behavioral assessment.

"Moving beyond nomothetic category: Diversity as symmetry".

Within geography the replacement of an idiographic by a nomothetic approach produced an atmosphere in which process measurement was very germane.

Stochastic simulation and evolution of morphologytowards a nomothetic paleontology.

In law, nomothetic propositions are law strictu sensu.

Allport called these two emphases "nomothetic" and "idiographic," respectively.

The term idiothetic is also used in psychology to describe what distinguishes members of a species from one another and is contrasted with nomothetic.

In sociology, the nomothetic model tries to find independent variables that account for the variations in a given phenomenon (e.g.

Nomothetic psychology seeks general laws that can be applied to many different people, such as the principle of self-actualization or the trait of extraversion.

Steward is notable for moving anthropology away from this more particularist approach and developing a more nomothetic, social-scientific direction.

Empirical or actuarial assessment relies on structured questionnaires and standardized scoring procedures to measure predetermined variables (a nomothetic approach).

The main claim for the quantitative revolution is that it led to a shift from a descriptive (idiographic) geography to an empirical law-making (nomothetic) geography.

In 1884, Kantian philosopher Wilhelm Windelband coined the terms nomothetic and idiographic to describe these two divergent approaches.

Empiricists see empiricism as a pragmatic compromise between philosophical skepticism and nomothetic science; philosophical skepticism is in turn sometimes referred to as "radical empiricism."

The terms idiographic and nomothetic were introduced to American psychology by Gordon Allport in 1937, who borrowed them from the German philosopher Wilhelm Windelband.

He observed that most scientists employ some mix of both, but in differing proportions; he considered physics a perfect example of a nomothetic science, and history, an idiographic science.

However, it is also true that legal positivism contributes to improve the way(chain) of legal reasoning in terms of a more nomothetic (rule-making) approach to a case in turn.

In sociology, nomothetic explanation presents a generalized understanding of a given case, and is contrasted with idiographic explanation, which presents a full description of a given case.