Sökning: "instrumentality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet instrumentality.

  1. 1. The Instrumentality of Talk : On the Creation of Sustainable Organizations Through Social Interactions

    Författare :Jens Hemphälä; Jan Forslin; Tomas Backström; Manfred Moldaschl; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; social interaction; sustainable competitive advantage; knowledge exchange; social network; feedback; sustainable work systems; Work sciences and ergonomics; Arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Working conditions are increasingly unpredictable, complex, and ungovernable creating severe health risks for employees and potential negative economic consequences for both corporations and society. Considering the growth in understanding human psychology and sociology, and the progression in measuring working conditions and health, this phenomenon is most perplexing. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Det lokala möter världen. Kulturpolitiskt förändringsarbete i 1990-talets Göteborg : The Local Meets the World: Cultural Policy (Re)construction in the City of Göteborg during the 1990s

    Författare :Jenny Johannisson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cultural policy; cultural policy rationale; discourse; globalization; Göteborg; instrumentality; model of governance; neo-pragmatism; policymaking; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims at producing knowledge about a cultural policy (re)construction process in the City of Göteborg, Sweden. Cultural policy is understood as public interventions in the cultural field, with the term public referring mainly to the democratic political-administrative organisation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Människans mått : Om statistik, sociologi och världen som socialt vara

    Författare :Sverre Wide; Kaj Håkanson; Mats Beronius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; statistics; methods; causation; instrumentality; sociality; play; game; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation should be understood as an effort to provide a kind of critique of statistical reason. “A kind”, since it has another focus as well: the question of sociality. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Architecture’s Poetic Instrumentality. Developing the Critical, Political, and Ethical Capacities of Architectural Artifacts

    Författare :Johan Liekens; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; dynamics of dissensus; critical architecture; ethical architecture; political architecture; architectural agency; agonistic staging;

    Sammanfattning : The PhD thesis Architecture’s Poetic Instrumentality is rooted in and driven by an enthusiasm of architectural practice—an enthusiasm for conceiving, constructing and deploying architectural artifacts that, as poetic instruments, intend to have an agency within urban environments. The title puts in tension the two notions of instrument and poesis (from the Greek poiesis, referring to a making activity but moreover to an activity of making up , situated here in those encountering architecture). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Kön, kropp, begär och teknik: Passion och instrumentalitet på två tekniska högskoleprogram : Gender, body, desire, and technology: Passion and instrumentality in two technical university programs

    Författare :Andreas Ottemo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Genus; teknik; begär; högre teknisk utbildning; kön; maskulinitet; heterosexualitet; kropp; diskursteori; etnografi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the co-production of gender and technology as articulated in two programs at a Swedish university of technology: Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Chemical Engineering (CE). It builds on the assumption that the articulation of gender in these programs relates to how technology is articulated. LÄS MER