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English translation: how they apply/are used in the (particular) context


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Spanish term or phrase:articulación instrumental
English translation:how they apply/are used in the (particular) context
Entered by: Dr. Andrew Frankland
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11:31 Sep 29, 2008
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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / qualitative health research
Spanish term or phrase: articulación instrumental
Context: Sin embargo, dichas propuestas, así como la concreción de las técnicas y procedimientos de validación y mejora de las distintas actividades, se corresponden con una dimensión diferenciada, y que por tanto denominamos como proceso. Dimensión sustentada en el desarrollo del trabajo de investigación y que requiere de normas y orientaciones que promuevan su calidad pero que difieren de los criterios en su finalidad y en su ****articulación instrumental****.

To be completely honest I have absolutely no idea about this. I doubt it's "instrumental articulation" and I haven't been able to come up with anything that even sounds convincing.

Thanks, as ever, for any and all suggestions.

Andy
Dr. Andrew Frankland
Spain
Local time: 07:29
how they apply/are used in the (particular) context
Explanation:
There are lots of ways to say this, but the idea is "how they fit in (articulación) and how they are applied (instrumental)" - which can be covered with the single word "apply." What's missing, for it to make sense in English, is "the (particular) context."

The larger phrase would be:

"...that depart from the criteria in terms of their purpose or how they apply in the particular context."


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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:29
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Thanks Muriel. What a terrible text this was!!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1how they apply/are used in the (particular) context
Muriel Vasconcellos
3organisational flexibilityDavid Brown
3instrumentalityliz askew
3underlying expressionLangSolutions
3mission statement
telefpro


  

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mission statement


Explanation:
I would try this.

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underlying expression


Explanation:
my contribution

LangSolutions
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instrumentality


Explanation:
Sorry about all the refs:

I am offering a translation of the phrase "articulación instrumental"...
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Scandinavian Journal of Management : Ethics, morality and the ...
At the end of a century dominated by instrumentality and rationality, ethics and ... But, ethics and morality have been the concern of social scientists and ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S095652219900038X - Similar pages
by M Kelemen - 2001 - Cited by 10 - Related articles - All 2 versions
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Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory: Between Critical ... - Google Books Result
by Mark Devenney - 2004 - Political Science - 193 pages
The critique of instrumentality, of the reduction of humans to objects in an ... The assumption is that all social conflict is reducible to a struggle for ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0415237378...
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On the limits of sexual ethics: The phenomenology of ...
Instrumentality: The objectifier treats the object as a tool of his or her ... how final is finality. She screams and then her throat gurgles while he stabs ...
www.springerlink.com/index/FFPQWLY85TDX1C1A.pdf - Similar pages
by L Downing - 2004 - Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 2 versions
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According to Yoder, racial and ethnic reconciliation is not a question of social ethics but that of the Gospel: ?it is about the meaning of the death of ...
www.goshen.edu/mqr/pastissues/july04park.html - 73k - Cached - Similar pages
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Another Modernity, a Different Rationality: A Different Rationality - Google Books Result
by Scott Lash - 1999 - Social Science - 400 pages
But as we saw in the previous chapter, it does so in an age in which the distinction, the dualism, the aporia of instrumentality and finality has been ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0631164995...

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Partes de un trabajo de investigación

Básicamente, toda investigación consta de cuatro partes principales las cuales son: introducción, desarrollo, conclusión y bibliografía. En algunos casos, dependiendo del tipo de trabajo, se hace necesario incluir una selección adicional llamada anexos, la cual puede contener mapas, gráficos, cuadros estadísticos, glosario o cualquier otra información que apoya el desarrollo del trabajo.


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MÓDULO III: SISTEMAS AGRARIOS, MEDIO AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO TERRITORIAL RURAL: 96 horas



Curso 3a: Sistemas de producción. 36 horas



Abordajes en sistemas de producción a nivel de la explotación agropecuaria. Organización social de la producción, sistema familia-explotación. Articulación conceptual e instrumental de la visión sistémica y el de cadenas agroalimentarias. La articulación de estos enfoques y el desarrollo territorial. Análisis del proceso de transferencia de tecnología y la formación de los agentes.

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Evaluation Use

“Evaluation use (or evaluation utilization) refers to the way in which an evaluation and the information from the evaluation impacts the program that is being evaluated. … It is important to make clear that evaluation use can occur as a function of the evaluation process [process use] as well as due to its findings [findings use], and in both cases either conceptually, instrumentally, or symbolically / legitimatively. … An awareness of evaluation’s intended and unintended impacts is another defining characteristic of use. (Alkin & Taut, 2003, Unbundling Evaluation Use, 2, 13.)

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Initially I was going to suggest "instrumentally", but then came across "instrumentality" on sites re ethics...

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liz askew
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organisational flexibility


Explanation:
Well, Andrew, I'll stick my neck out, get the ball rolling and only because it seems to fit articulacion? flexibility


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I got my idea from.....
articulacion- organisation, coordination
instrumental- documentary, documental, subscribing.....
but maybe it means--- documentary coordination

David Brown
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how they apply/are used in the (particular) context


Explanation:
There are lots of ways to say this, but the idea is "how they fit in (articulación) and how they are applied (instrumental)" - which can be covered with the single word "apply." What's missing, for it to make sense in English, is "the (particular) context."

The larger phrase would be:

"...that depart from the criteria in terms of their purpose or how they apply in the particular context."


"

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 249
Grading comment
Thanks Muriel. What a terrible text this was!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marina Menendez
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  -> Thanks, Marina!
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