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- Agevall, Ola
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The career of mobbing : emergence, transformation, and utilisation of a new concept
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Concepts play a part in any scientific endeavour. They simultaneously serve as receptacles for previously attained knowledge, as vehicles of scientific and didactic communication, and as building blocks in the construction of new descriptive and explanatory schemes. In this sense, concepts are central to the cognitive organisation of scientific disciplines. But disciplines also differ from one another, and not just in terms of the stock of concepts deemed necessary for internal scientific communication but also, for example, in terms of the logic of conceptual change, the relative influx of connotations, and the degree of universal adherence to specific definitions.One crucial characteristic of the social sciences is that they share part of their vocabulary with the lay people they study. In some cases, social scientific terminology has trickled into everyday speech; in other cases the social sciences have proceeded by refining and redefining locutions found in natural languages. The aim of this book is to study empirically, by means of a detailed case study, the mechanisms that shape concept formation in the social sciences. It focuses on the history of the concept of ‘mobbing’, with special reference to the interaction between science and lay conceptions. This condensed conceptual history shows that the public discourse, that was instrumental in the diffusion and entrenchment of the notion of mobbing in the early 1970s, significantly shaped the career, contents, and uses of the corresponding scientific concept.
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- Haglund Morrissey, Anne
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Interregional Development Cooperation : A Focus on the EU and Latin America
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the end of the Cold War, regional cooperation and strengthened interregional relations have become a key foreign policy objective on the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy agenda and a preferential platform in its general development policy. When it comes to Latin America, despite being the leading donor of development aid to the region, Latin America has always taken a rather marginal position in the EU’s interregional development cooperation. Yet, the interregional development cooperation that currently exists between the two regions is of a rather complex nature since Latin American states do not represent one single regional organisation. Instead, the EU’s interregional cooperation takes place at both regional and sub-regional levels, and besides channelling development assistance to those two levels, EU financial aid is also distributed bilaterally to individual states of the region. The study at hand aims at exploring the nature of EU interregional development cooperation with Latin America by looking at its constituent levels. Is there a regional dimension in the EU’s development assistance to Latin American states and can the Union’s support for regional cooperation be considered a significant thread in its development activities in Latin America? Among the three levels involved in EU-Latin America development cooperation – the bilateral, sub-regional and regional one – is any of them more dominant than the others?
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