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Purpose, context, and synthesis: Can we avoid relativism?
Author(s) -
Petrie Hugh G.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.1021
Subject(s) - relativism , context (archaeology) , epistemology , computer science , management science , sociology , psychology , philosophy , history , economics , archaeology
Perceptual control theory of human behavior suggests to evaluators how to reach warranted syntheses legitimately even though their judgments are inevitably dependent on context and the purposes of the stakeholders.