FACET THEORY ASSOCIATION
CALL FOR PAPERS
12th International Facet Theory Conference
June 21-24, 2009
Jerusalem, ISRAEL
New horizons in theory construction and data analysis: Facet Theory, Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), SSA, POSAC and related approaches
Organized by the FACET THEORY ASSOCIATION, and
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to attend the Twelfth International Facet Theory Conference, to take place in Jerusalem from the 21st to the 24th of June, 2009.
Facet Theory (FT) is a meta-theory for designing structural and other theories in the behavioral sciences. Basic assumptions of FT are that social and behavioral concepts are complex constructs and that their study, therefore, requires a systematic design for defining observations and for examining the correspondence between the observations and the theory. Because such a definitional design should facilitate the evaluation of systematic relations between the data and the theory, it should lead to cumulative results. In the above sense, FT is a systematic approach for coordinating theory and research. Thus, FT comprises the universe of observations, the population of respondents, and the range of observations. It stratifies these universes by facets and integrates the design by means of a mapping sentence which guides the construction of items and the formulation of hypotheses. Finally, particular multivariate data analysis methods (such as SSA, POSAC, MSA) have been developed to test these hypotheses.
Facet Theory has been successfully applied to a large number of research areas where it has significantly contributed to the discovery and refinement of empirical laws. Such discoveries and refinement, in turn, have been instrumental in further developing the principles and methods of FT.
Organizing Committee
Eyal Yaniv - Chair
Yafit Raphael
Gil Goldzweig
Scientific Committee
Dov Elizur, Israel: Chair,
Wolfgang Bilsky Germany
Ingwer Borg Germany
Michael Braun Germany
David Cairns Australia
David Canter UK
Arie Cohen Israel
Eric Cohen Israel
Murray Clark UK
Suzanne Dancer USA
Annemaria Silvana de Rosa, Italy
Issac Friedman. Israel
Sipko Huismans. The Netherlands
Shlomit Levy. Israel
Ruth Meyer Schweizer Switzerland
Marko Polic, Slovenia
Antonio Roazzi Brazil
Samuel Shye Israel
Shlomo Krawetz, Israel
Esther Solomon USA
Aharon Tziner, Israel
Wijbrant H. van Schuur The Netherlands
Informações: http://www.facet-theory.org/content.php?id=36
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