Sökning: "Technocracy"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Technocracy.

  1. 1. Arkitektur och social ingenjörskonst : Studier i svensk arkitektur- och bostadsforskning

    Författare :Ulf Sandström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Architecture; Town Planning; Housing Research; Technocracy; Social Engineering; Technology Studies; Politics; Functionalism; Bibliographies; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Artefacts are by definition artificial objects: human creations whose form and function are the result of planned actions. It would appear reasonable to assert that our attitude towards artefacts reveals specific sides of our personality and social organization. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Nödvändighetens väg : Världsbildande gränsarbete i skildringar av informationssamhället

    Författare :Stefan Karlsson; Gerd Lindgren; Göran Sundqvist; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ideology; Boundary Work; World View; Information Society; Technocracy; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims at describing the worldview and the ontological boundary work that descriptions of ”the information society” presuppose as well as understanding how these relate to technocratic descriptions of the world. The theoretical point of origin of this work is that worldviews are communicated, and that when this transpires, three worlds are related to (the objective, the social, and the subjective) which contain ideological components that make them plausible. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Technocracy within Representative Democracy. Technocratic Reasoning and Justification among Bureaucrats and Politicians

    Författare :Christina Ribbhagen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; de-politicisation; politicisation; attitudes; political communication; expertise; knowledge utilization; policy type; institutional context; Government Offices; parliamentary debate; survey; hypothetical scenarios; content analysis; risk; values; interests; economic and social steering;

    Sammanfattning : The terms ‘technocracy’ and ‘technocrat’ are becoming part of common usage and it is frequently argued that technocratic decision-making is increasing due to the growing complexity of political matters. However, there is a lack of research into this matter and the concept is underdeveloped. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Constructing Invisible Hands : Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880–2000

    Författare :Gabriel Söderberg; Maths Isacson; Lars Magnusson; Janken Myrdal; Deirdre McCloskey; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Markets; technocrats; central banks; agricultural science; Nobel prize; economics and society; asymmetric information; Social Democracy; neoliberalism; social engineering; market history; market engineering; market design; performativity; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : Dominant market theories analyze markets as ahistorical entities without the need for professional groups that manage crucial functions within them. This thesis, in contrast, approaches markets as historical systems that develop over time and that can be constituted in many different ways because of different historical trajectories. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Demokrati på delegation. Lokaliseringen av det svenska kärnavfallet

    Författare :Hanna Sofia Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kärnavfall; Demokrati; Samrådsmöten; Studieresor; Subpolitik; Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB; Gränsarbete;

    Sammanfattning : The present study concerns the siting of Swedish nuclear waste. Four cases are examined: the feasibility studies in Nyköping and Tierp (cases 1 and 2), as well as three public consultation meetings with conservationist and environmental organisations, and two study visits to nuclear facilities in Oskarshamn and Östhammar, which were held during what is called the site-investigation phase (cases 3 and 4). LÄS MER