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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 328 avhandlingar innehållade ordet rationality.

1. 6. Den rationella inbrottstjuven? : En studie om rationalitet och rationellt handlande i brott

   Författare :Lottie Wahlin; Sociologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; burglary; purposive action; reasoning; risk; drugs; ethnographical studies; narratives; interviews; bounded rationality; situational; Rationality; Sociology; cultural context.; Rational Choice Theory; Criminology; Sociologi; Kriminologi;

   Sammanfattning : Rationality as purposive action among burglars is the theme of this study. Various theories concerning rationality, Rational Choice Theory especially, are discussed. The first purpose of this thesis is to highlight the concept of rationality. Rationality is a complex concept and it is defined in various ways in the literature. LÄS MER

3. 7. Testing for Rationality, Separability and Efficiency

   Författare :Per Hjertstrand; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Revealed preference; Regional convergence; Rationality; Nonparametric; NONPAR test; LP test; GARP; Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis DEA ; Afriat’s Theorem; Bootstrap; Swofford and Whitney test; Weak separability;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to propose, evaluate and apply test procedures for rationality, weak separability and efficiency. In particular, it focuses on nonparametric revealed preference procedures. LÄS MER

4. 8. Risk and Rationality : Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives

   Författare :Andréa Mannberg; Karl-Gustaf Löfgren; Magnus Johannesson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HIV AIDS; Health risk; Uncertainty; Risk aversion; Self-Control; Time-inconsistency; Cognitive dissonance; Regret; Norms; Social identity; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important factor driving unsafe sex practices and support the empirical finding of a weak link between sexual behavior, HIV prevalence, and HIV knowledge in poor countries; therefore suggesting that AIDS policy needs to be calibrated in order to fit within different social contexts. LÄS MER

5. 9. Naturen, vetenskapen och förnuftet : upplysningens dialektik och det andra moderna

   Författare :Per Nilsson; Gunnar Andersson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modernity; enlightenment; postmodernism; instrumental rationality; value rationality; communicative rationality; discourse ethics; truth; fallibilism; claims to Tightness; revisability; von Wright; Adorno; Horkheimer; Marcuse; Apel; Habermas; Popper; Foucault;

   Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is one specific area where the tension between instrumental rationality and value rationality becomes prominent: the question whether we have a rational responsibility for nature or not. Such a responsibility cannot be derived from instrumental reason, but it is argued that it can be derived from discourse ethics and communicative rationality. LÄS MER

7. 10. Ideology, Rationality, and Revolution : An Essay on the Persistence of Oppression

   Författare :Nicolas Olsson-Yaouzis; Gustaf Arrhenius; Torbjörn Tännsjö; Geoffrey Brennan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Oppression; ideology; revolution; rational choice theory; analytical Marxism; functional explanations; Gerald Cohen; Gordon Tullock; praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : This essay is concerned with two explanations of why oppressive social orders persist. According to the first, the so-called gunman theory of oppression (GT), these social orders persist because the oppressed are afraid being punished if they participated in a revolt. LÄS MER