What's the difference between lawgiver and nomothete?
Lawgiver
Definition:
(n.) One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Art is not yet in so high an estimation with us, as to obtain so great a sacrifice as the ancients made, especially the Grecians; who suffered themselves to be represented naked, whether they were generals, lawgivers, or kings."
Nomothete
Definition:
(n.) A lawgiver.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nomothetic approach is the selection of the most unbiased scale tailored to the disorder under investigation.
(2) This previously unknown syndrome presented by the use of the idiographic method may contribute to the widening of nomothetic nosological research.
(3) The paper presented here is a contribution to the debate on the methodological dualism of hermeneutical and nomothetical procedures in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research.
(4) Recent developments in Rorschach psychology, including nomothetic approaches focused on scores, ratios, and indices and idiographic approaches focused on content emerging from psychoanalytic theory, offer the Rorschach clinician a rich and potent interpretive methodology.
(5) These conditions involve both nomothetic and idiographic processes.
(6) This highlights the well-known discrepancy between idiographic and nomothetic methods.
(7) The emphasis here is on both more recent studies and the value of subject replication in creating a confluence of idiographic and nomothetic approaches to the study of behavior and behavioral development across the lifespan.
(8) Nomothetic and idiographic content analytic approaches to the Rorschach are used in complementary fashion to explore the psychotic personality structure and primitive interpersonal models in a 37-year-old biologically normal male, who was a gynemimetic, that is, a transvestite who aspired to have the genetalia of a woman.
(9) Outcome assessment was obtained from three sources: patient, therapist, and independent judge, using both nomothetic and ideographic measures.
(10) Experiment 2 replicated this effect and demonstrated that there are systematic individual differences that are consistent with the general nomothetic model proposed.
(11) It elicits patients' idiographic accounts of their current concerns and patients' nomothetic ratings of them on variables related to commitment, active participation in goal striving, and goal valence, value, expectancy, and imminence.
(12) The psychometric aspects of these dimensions are analysed with reference to nomothetic and idiographic methods.
(13) Utilizing a combination of idiographic and nomothetic research designs with repeated measures in several breeds of dogs, we discovered stable constitutional differences in psychophysiologic reactions to repeated exposure to psychologically stressful situations.
(14) These findings are in contrast to those utilizing more standardized, nomothetic measures of personality functioning that suggest stability of personality in adulthood.
(15) Clinical medicine is the application of scientific principles, rules of thumb, and a store of practical wisdom embodied in narratives of individual cases to the care of a person who is ill. Physicians are taught to observe and report the individual case both as a means of fitting nomothetic generalizations to the given circumstances and as a way of refining those generalizations.
(16) An objective and nomothetic approach to quality of life has been demonstrated in this review when referring to the instrumental use of rating scales, e.g.
(17) Under a nomothetic perspective we apply a survival analysis and supplement this by a comparison of two single cases.
(18) Nomothetic comparisons are made between groups with higher base rates for violence with mixed results, although the sado-masochism frequency was significantly higher in severe psychopaths than in moderate psychopaths.
(19) Research must be conducted within a coherent field-theoretical conceptual framework, directed toward the formulation of nomothetic laws concerning patterns of drug use.
(20) A case history of an imagery client who improved during the course of therapy is discussed to show these relationships and the utility of a combined nomothetic and idiographic research design.