Literature about OB and the illustrations of internalist and externalist balancers present two conceptualizations of OB: as a state of balance, comprised of a certain combination of different occupations and the person seeking to attain or maintain that state or as an intermittent state within the process of balancing. On the other hand OB can be seen as an act of balancing whereby a person juggles various occupations to feel balanced. While the connections between an externalist balancer and a perception
Theories of comparative politics analyse the domestic politics of individual nations in an attempt to explain how and why certain political outcomes occur. These theories are concerned with the inner-workings of political institutions and the long-term patterns of political behaviour within the state boundary. Ultimately, theories of comparative politics aim to explain how and why a political system functions in the way that it does. However, owing to the multitudes of conceptions that have been
Introduction Attempts to identify what word meaning is have been at the forefront of the philosophy of language for decades. The dominant theories put forward can generally be separated into two schools of thought, internalism and externalism. Internalists, such as Noam Chomsky, argue that the meaning of any given word exists in the form of an internal word concept that is present in every individual’s mind for every word they know. Furthermore, in her prototype theory, Eleanor Rosch argues that