Sökning: "instrumental reason"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden instrumental reason.

  1. 1. Förnuftets brytpunkt : om teknikkritiken i P C Jersilds författarskap

    Författare :Jonas Anshelm; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technology criticism; Technological society; Rationality; Reason; Morality; Narratives; Swedish literature; P C Jersild; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Modern technology has enabled us to realise objectives our forebearers could only dream of. Our capacity to do both good and evil has grown dramatically. With these new capacities ensue extremely weighty moral responsibilities.P C Jersild is a Swedish author who has dedicated his work to the investigation of morality in the technological society. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Empty Labor : Subjectivity and Idleness at Work

    Författare :Roland Paulsen; Patrik Aspers; Mats Alvesson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organizational misbehavior; workplace resistance; slacking; simulation; cyberloafing; critical theory; sabotage; time waste; instrumental reason; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about how and why employees spend large proportions of their working hours on empty labor, i.e. private activities on the job. It is written against the backdrop of a highly debated subject within critical theory, namely the possibility of individuals resisting taken-for-granted power asymmetries. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Om reformer : En studie av Kvalitetsreformen, Politireform 2000 og Kunnskapsløftet

    Författare :Jan Moren; Birgitta Eriksson; Mats Lindberg; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reforms; organisation theory; political theory; democracy; public policy; public administration; new public management; institutional complexity; individual autonomy; political authority; instrumental tools; institutional adaptations; myths and ymbols; standardization; flexibility; effectiveness; formal structures; informal structures; decoupling; institutional environments; Working Life Science; Arbetsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies three major reforms in the public sector of Norway. The sectors studied are the police, higher education, and primary schools. The main motive for studying these reforms are of a theoretical nature, the reason to study them is to produce general knowledge about reforms. The study aims to answer two main questions. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Teatermusikaliska ljudhändelser. Ett bidrag till studiet av musik och angränsande ljudobjekt i talteater och opera

    Författare :Frithjof Lund; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ”Trennung der Elemente“; illusions; fiction; communication; semiotics; cognition; perception; multimedial art-works; melodramas; musicals; epic music-theatre; opera; paralinguistic; speech-song; instrumental signals; sound effects; overtures; Zwischenaktsmusik; entr’actes; incidental music; fictional music; diegetic music; Theatre-music; functional music; music and emotions.; Dramatic art; Teatervetenskap; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses primarily on the following aspects concerning music in theatre: 1) its experienced peculiarity – ontologically grounded, 2) its sounding scope, and 3) its various kinds of functions. I argue that the difference between spoken theatre and opera is a question of degree rather than essence, and consider such an assertion being especially valid for the music of these genres. LÄS MER