Sökning: "social scientific meta-theory"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden social scientific meta-theory.
1. Pluripotent Circulations: Analyzing Articulations of Stem Cells in the USA, prior to 2001
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, stem cell research and politics in the USA are analyzed by using actor-network theory (ANT). Here ANT is put to work on largely textual materials, often directly from US political settings, such as Congressional debates and national panels. LÄS MER
2. Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors
Sammanfattning : The book has two interrelated objectives. One objective is meta-theoretical and concerns the exploration of theoretical debates connected to issues of studying society and environmental problems; another objective is empirical/analytical, referring to the analysis of "green" public participation in the electricity and waste sectors in Sweden, and partly in the Netherlands as well as the UK. LÄS MER
3. The Case for Causal Individualism in Social Science
Sammanfattning : Social science has, from its very beginnings, been characterized by debates over the true nature of society and about how to best understand and explain it. At the heart of these discussions lies the question of the causal structure of the social world. LÄS MER
4. Online Education in Universities : Moving from Individual Adoption to Institutionalisation of an Information Technology Innovation
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes and analyses the move from individual adoption to institutionalisation of an information technology innovation: online education in universities. The study focuses on the processes that took place within two universities, one in Sweden and the other in Argentina, regarding online education adoption and the organisational changes developed. LÄS MER
5. What do students’ feel about mathematics? : Compulsory school students’ emotions and motivation towards mathematics
Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis deals with compulsory school students’ expressed emotions and motivation towards mathematics. Theoretically, it has been guided by Hannula’s meta-theory on affect (e.g., 2012), of which emotion and motivation are part. LÄS MER