Essays about: "instrumental rationality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words instrumental rationality.
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1. Gångbar stad? : en fallstudie om Göteborgs Stads fotgängarprioritering – från strategi till planeringspraktik
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : Trots att fotgängare har en grundläggande betydelse för stadslivet, förpassas de inte sällan till trånga trottoarer eller tvingas ta omvägar för att korsa trafikerade vägar i dagens bilberoende städer. Detta försämrar inte bara tillgängligheten till fots utan påverkar också möjligheten att skapa hållbara transportsystem och levande stadsmiljöer. READ MORE
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2. The Engineering Person : Arendt and an Anthropology of Engineering Ethics
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : In this thesis Hannah Arendt’s theories of science and technology are applied in an ethnographic study of engineering ethics. Seeking to gain further understanding of Arendt’s thoughts, her concepts of The Archimedean Point and Earth Alienation is applied in interviews with engineering students in Sweden’s Uppsala University. READ MORE
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3. Conflicting interests in European Union copyright law: A socio-legal analysis of what problem representations Article 17 DSMD is grounded in
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : For many years, critics of the European Union copyright framework have raised concerns about the lack of legal recognition of exceptions and limitations to copyright-protected works and other protected subject matter, and argued that the European Union copyright framework favours the protection of intellectual property over fundamental rights. The debate about this imbalance reached new heights when the European Commission enacted a proposal, which after much controversy passed legislation as the Directive on Copyrights in the Digital Single Market (DSMD). READ MORE
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4. The power of hydrology in the Omo-Gibe River Basin : Gibe III and flood retreat agriculture on the river omo
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : My work discusses how Gibe III is a Sustainable Development but is not sustainable. Along the river Omo are tribes and, unlike Gibe III which utilizes instrumental rationality to harness the flow of the River Omo for the production of hydroelectricity, they plant crops after the flow from the hydrological cycle floods the riverbanks with water and nutrients. READ MORE
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5. Gotta go fast: Measured rationalities and rational measurements in the context of speedrunning
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis studies the Weberian notion of rationality in the context of speedrunning and the speedrunning community. By contrasting the instrumental rationality of the speedrunning practice with the value-oriented rationality of the community, it crystallizes the difference between "performing the metrics" as an extension of community values and as a function of externally imposed constraints. READ MORE
