Sökning: "make-believe"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade ordet make-believe.
1. God in the act of reference : A conceptual analysis of reference and reality and its consequences for the debate on religious realism and nonrealism
Sammanfattning : The dissertation addresses the problem of reference actualised in religiousrealism's claim that religious nonrealism is religiously inadequate since init "God" does not refer to a God existing independently of human conceptualisations. The study aims to show that the referential argument against religious nonrealism is not necessarily successful once the existential and referential presumptions of the argument are critically examined. LÄS MER
2. Power Games : Rules and Roles in Second Life
Sammanfattning : This study investigates how the members of four different role-playing communities on the online platform Second Life perform social as well as dramatic roles within their community. The trajectories of power influencing these roles are my main focus. LÄS MER
3. Gör som jag säger! igen och igen : om lojalitet och lek i marknadsföringen: en beskrivning av legitimeringssystematik
Sammanfattning : Marknadsföring bildar ett system av kompetenser baserade på kunskap om förfarande. Beroende på hur förfarandet är beskrivet så faller kunskapen ut. LÄS MER
4. "Kriget" och karriärsystemet. Försvarsmaktens organiserande i fred
Sammanfattning : Military organizations comprise two contradictory logics of action. The logic of conflict revolves around the use of organized violence against an enemy (at close range). The logic of cooperation characterises interaction with friendlydisposed parties, in order to secure legitimacy and working exchange relations. LÄS MER
5. Lock-in as make-believe – Exploring the role of myth in the lock-in of high mobility systems
Sammanfattning : All human practices are, ultimately, set and defined by limits; be they social, economic, physical, or environmental. Yet even in the face of such realities, practices which transgress the confines of possibility remain remarkably obdurate. This thesis addresses the issue of one such practice, i.e. LÄS MER