Sökning: "epistemic practice"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade orden epistemic practice.
1. Flyktiga möten : Fågelskådning, epistemisk gemenskap och icke-mänsklig karisma
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates birdwatching and focuses on the knowledges, skills and ideas that are obtained and acknowledged among birdwatchers. The aim is to explore how these ways of relating to birds are constituted. Birdwatching is considered as an epistemic practice, which produce and maintain knowledge. LÄS MER
2. Thick Concepts in Practice : Normative Aspects of Risk and Safety
Sammanfattning : The thesis aims at analyzing the concepts of risk and safety as well as the class of concepts to which they belong, thick concepts, focusing in particular on the normative aspects involved. Essay I analyzes thick concepts, i.e. concepts such as cruelty and kindness that seem to combine descriptive and evaluative features. LÄS MER
3. Making Possible by Making Visible : Learning through Visual Representations in Social Science
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses upon the relationship between teaching and learning of dynamic phenomena and processes in social science and the use of visual representations in social science teaching. Teaching in social science uses many visual representations, such as models, flowcharts and diagrams, in order to help students to grasp phenomena, structures and processes in society. LÄS MER
4. Paranormal Sweden? : Paranormal beliefs and practices in contemporary Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to study the contemporary occurrence of paranormal beliefs, activities and experiences in Sweden as well as a paraculture of practices dedicated to these issues, with a particular focus on issues of knowledge and authority. The study is placed against the backdrop of academic and popular claims that paranormal beliefs, activities and experiences are not only common but are also on the rise. LÄS MER
5. The Quantification of Society. A Study of a Swedish Research Institute and Survey-Based Social Science
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the contemporary history of quantitative surveys in Sweden. The core epistemic practice of constructing surveys is examined empirically through a case study of the SOM Institute (Samhälle, Opinion, Medier) at University of Gothenburg. The SOM Institute has performed surveys in Sweden since 1986. LÄS MER