Sökning: "invisible agency"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden invisible agency.
1. Varieties of Supernatural Experience : the Case of High-Functioning Autism
Sammanfattning : It is argued in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) that the empathic ability to ‘mindread’ others underpins the experience of supernatural communication with gods, ghosts, and spirits. As autism is characterized by mentalizing difficulties, CSR scholars have expected autistic individuals would find supernatural agency incomprehensible. LÄS MER
2. Organisationens mänskliga insida : om det sociala arbetets utvecklingsmöjligheter
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to develop such theoretical perspectives as will increase our understanding of social work organizations, and help us improve them. Consequently, the research approach is longterm and primarily theoretical in character: What demand must be made of an organization where people deal with people?One important assumption is that the relationships between the actors in an enterprise constitute the organization. LÄS MER
3. The labour of infrastructuring : An inquiry into participatory design in the public sector
Sammanfattning : Every organisation, cooperation, project or social movement is quintessentially a cluster of alignments between people, places and things. Through these alignments, networks are made, and through these networks action can be made possible or be constricted. LÄS MER
4. Utan given hemvist : Barnperspektiv i den svenska asylprocessen
Sammanfattning : The thesis examines accompanied asylum-seeking children’s position in Swedish asylum reception management and in the determination of their claims. The three articles of the thesis focus on children’s own experiences of seeking asylum, on the experiences and practices of the civil servants at the Migration Board, as well as those of the legal representatives that assist asylum-seekers in the application process. LÄS MER
5. Inside the Guru's Gate : Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi
Sammanfattning : Summary: For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. LÄS MER