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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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The Science of Science in China: Report by a Specialist in Science Policy : An STS report from China 10-24 Sept 1980
- 1981
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In: Science, Technology, & Human Values. ; 6:35, s. 18-21
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Report of a two-week visit to China (10-24 Sept) in 1980, hosted by the Preparatory Committee of the Chinese Science of Science Association. At the time Chinese policy makers were interested in contemporary trends in research policy and foresight relating to priority setting in fields of science and technology. The paper describes initiatives taken to introduce what we call science and technology studies (STS) and ongoing efforts aimed at encouraging scholarly exchange with researchers in the West. Interviews were made with a number of senior scholars affiliated with the Chinese Social Sciences Academy to gain some understanding of the various changes taking place in science policy studies and the field’s relationship to policy makers at national and regional levels.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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’Science Studies’ in Sweden. Country report
- 1980
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In: Social Studies of Science. ; 10, s. 181-214
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper provides a rview of the development of science studies in Sweden. It identifies strneghts and weaknesses in this emerging field, relating them to structural contingencies in Swedish society and the organization of research and higher educational institutions.
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- Hene, Birgitta, 1948-
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"Den dyrkade Lasse och stackars lilla Lotta" : en syntaktisk-semantisk studie av personbeskrivande adjektiv och adverb i populära ungdomsböcker
- 1984
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The main aim of this study is to examine how characterizations of persons in books for children and adolescents relate to traditional sex role patterns and to determine if there is any difference in this respect between books for girls and books for boys as well as between popular books and quality books.Eight books for girls, eight books for boys, and four books for both girls and boys are examined. From these books 8,268 adjectives, adverbs, and participles which characterize persons or aspects of persons were excerpted. These excerpts have been categorized with regard to syntactic function into attributive adjectives, predicative adjectives, and adverbials, and with regard to meaning as to membership in semantic fields on different levels.The most frequent syntactic category in the material is "predicative" (42.8%), followed by "attributive" (33.4%). Female characters are more often described by predicative adjectives than are male characters, while the opposite is true of attributive adjectives. The choice of syntactic category seems to be determined more by what property or state the lexical item refers to, however, than by the sex of the character described.The semantic fields with the largest number of excerpts are MENTAL PROPERTIES AND STATES (32.9%), SOCIABILITY (15.0%), DRESS AND APPEARANCE (14.7%), and PACE AND MOVEMENTS (11.4%). These fields also dominate within the different categories of books and the descriptions of female and male characters respectively.Traditional sex role patterns are most obvious in characterizations of role characters with respect to their role in society and their relation to other people. Female characters are, e.g., almost exclusively described with respect to their private lives, while male characters are described in terms of their position in society. In the books for boys male characters are attributed a negative or rejecting attitude to their environment, while female characters are attributed a more positive or accepting attitude.The most traditional impression of the opposite sex is conveyed by the books for boys-to the extent that any such impression is conveyed at all by these books. The books for boys have very few female characters and very few descriptions of them. In general, male characters dominate in the books and it is clearly shown that to be a boy or man is more highly regarded than to be a girl or woman.No general differences between popular books and quality literature emerged from the analyses performed. Traditional sex role patterns are equally pronounced in the two types of books, even if there are differences between individual books.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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EvEvaluating the evaluation game : on the methodology of project evaluation, with special reference to development cooperation : SAREC Report: 1981:R1
- 1981
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Evaluation is a social activity that is often linked to a social process of legitimization and ratiionalization on the part of entrepreneurs and agencies who have to account - either to sharehoders or govervnments - for funds invested. The report comparers and analyzes three different ways of framing (or paradigms) that inform evaluation practices relating to development aid projects in Third World countries, viz., (1) cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in various guises; (2) a Marxist inspired dependencia approach; and (3) a framing based on the notion of self-reliance. The methdologies that follow from these three different framings are exemplified with reference to their implications for handbook manuals for project evluation in the field.
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