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- Hultén, Gunilla, et al.
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Makt, kultur och kontroll över invandrares livsvillkor : Multidimensionella perspektiv på strukturell diskriminering i Sverige
- 2007
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Med sitt breda spektrum av perspektiv på diskrimineringens strukturella dimensioner avser denna antologi att bidra till en ökad förståelse av problemets karaktär och ett mer nyanserat samtal om orsaker och möjliga åtgärder emot etnisk ojämlikhet. En analys av så komplexa fenomen som etnisk diskriminering och social exkludering fordrar en mångfald teorier och metoder. I den här antologin finner vi prov på ett flertal olika samhällsvetenskapliga metoder. Ett strukturellt och maktorienterat perspektiv har väglett valet av artiklar om “invandrarproblematiken” och de samhälleliga maktförhållandena och demokratin i Sverige. Särskilda mekanismer som verkar inom samhällets institutioner och kulturella formationer som diskriminerar, exkluderar och omyndigförklarar invandrare har identifierats. Boken består av tre delar. Del I presenterar diskrimineringens kognitiva och diskursiva former, och syftar till att ge en mer generell bild av hur uppfattningar om människors olikheter skapas, normaliseras och legitimeras. Del II visar hur diskrimineringen verkar på en institutionell nivå, och hur maktutövning, beslut och praktiker i olika institutionella kontexter drabbar utsatta invandrade grupper i det svenska samhället. Del III fokuserar på diskriminerande krafter och motkrafter i civilsamhället och på den politiska arenan. Vidare diskuteras vad för slags antidiskriminerande och ”antirasifierande” krafter som finns i samhället och hur de fungerar. Några av antologins centrala slutsatser är:(1) Det är en ganska dyster bild av det mångkulturella Sverige som framträder i de olika artiklarna. Etnisk diskriminering och exkludering är robusta eftersom de består av många ömsesidigt förstärkande mekanismer.(2) Det svenska samhällets respons till invandrarna framstår som en komplex blandning av välvilja, solidariska åsikter och ideal, samt inskränkta, protektionistiska eller till och med xenofobiska ståndpunkter.(3) Det Sverige som träder fram genom antologins analyser är inte genomgående ett samhälle som präglas av exkludering – det finns många positiva krafter och utvecklingar i motstånd till rasism och diskriminering.(4) Däremot finns det en viss tendens för en rasifierad politik att breda ut sig. Goda intentioner räcker inte. Det behövs en systematisk kamp grundad på mänskliga värderingar och kunskap om strukturella mekanismer för att åstadkomma jämlikhet och allas välstånd i ett demokratiskt mångkulturellt samhälle.
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- Glasbey, JC, et al.
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- Burns, Tom, 1937-, et al.
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation : A Sustainable Development Systems Perspective
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 9:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development in relation to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. We conceptualize sustainability from a social systemic perspective, that is, from a perspective that encompasses the multiple functionalities of a social system and their interrelationships in particular environmental contexts. The systems perspective is applied in our consideration and analysis of disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA), and sustainable development (SD). Section “Sustainability and Sustainable Development” introduces briefly sustainability and sustainable development, followed by a brief presentation of the theory of complex social systems (Section “Social System Model”). The theory conceptualizes interdependent subsystems, their multiple functionalities, and the agential and systemic responses to internal and external stressors on a social system. Section “Case Studies of Response to Stressors” considers disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), emerging in response to one or more systemic stressors. It illustrates these with disaster risk reduction in the cases of food and chemical security regulation in the EU. CCA is illustrated by initiatives and developments on the island of Gotland, Sweden and in the Gothenburg Metropolitan area, which go beyond a limited CCA perspective, taking into account long-term sustainability issues. Section “Sustainable Development as a Societal Development System” discusses the limitations of DRR and CCA, not only their technical limitations but economic, socio-cultural, and political limitations, as informed from a sustainability perspective. It is argued that DRRs are only partial subsystems and must be considered and assessed in the context of a more encompassing systemic perspective. Part of the discussion is focused on the distinction between sustainable and non-sustainable DRRs and CCAs. Section “Concluding Remarks” presents a few concluding remarks about the importance of a systemic perspective in analyzing DRR and CCA as well as other similar subsystems in terms of sustainable development.
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- Burns, Tom, et al.
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Distributive Justice, Legitimizing Collective Choice Procedures, and the Production of Normative Equilibria in Social Groups : Towards a Theory of Social Order
- 2015
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Ingår i: Outlooks And Insights On Group Decision And Negotiation, Gdn 2015. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783319195155 - 9783319195148 ; , s. 87-98
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focuses on group normative procedures and distributional norms that are utilized in functioning groups in the production/generation of normative equilibria, that is, the major basis of social order in groups and communities. The group is an organizational arrangement with some degree of division of labor and characterized by group purposes and goals, a normative order and patterns of interaction and output. We identified three patterns of particular interest: (1) legitimation procedures in groups to resolve conflicts and make collective choices; (2) patterns of just outcomes satisfying the normatively prescribed group outcomes/outputs of a principle of distributive justice's; (3) normative equilibria, which are group patterns of interaction or collective decision that tend to stability because they satisfy or realize one or more key group norms.
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- Burns, Tom, et al.
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Paradigm Shift in Game Theory : Sociological Re-Conceptualization of Human Agency,Social Structure, and Agents' Cognitive-Normative Frameworks and Action Determination Modalities
- 2018
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to present some of the initial work of developing a social science grounded game theory—as a clear alternative to classical game theory. Two distinct independent initiatives in Sociology are presented: One, a systems approach, social systems game theory (SGT),and the other, Erving Goffman's interactionist approach (IGT). These approaches are presented and contrasted with classical theory. They focus on the social rules, norms, roles, role relationships,and institutional arrangements, which structure and regulate human behavior. While strategic judgment and instrumental rationality play an important part in the sociological approaches, they are not a universal or dominant modality of social action determination. Rule following is considered, generally speaking, more characteristic and more general. Sociological approaches, such as those outlined in this article provide a language and conceptual tools to more adequately and effectively than the classical theory describe, model, and analyze the diversity and complexity of human interaction conditions and processes: (1) complex cognitive rule based models of the interaction situation with which actors understand and analyze their situations; (2) value complex(es) with which actors operate, often with multiple values and norms applying in interaction situations;(3) action repertoires (rule complexes) with simple and complex action alternatives—plans, programs,established (sometimes highly elaborated) algorithms, and rituals; (4) a rule complex of action determination modalities for actors to generate and/or select actions in game situations; three actionmodalities are considered here; each modality consists of one or more procedures or algorithms for action determination: (I) following or implementing a rule or rule complex, norm, role, ritual,or social relation; (II) selecting or choosing among given or institutionalized alternatives according toa rule or principle; and (III) constructing or adopting one or more alternatives according to a value,guideline, or set of criteria. Such determinations are often carried out collectively. The paper identifies and illustrates in a concluding table several of the key differences between classical theory and the sociological approaches on a number of dimensions relating to human agency; social structure, norms, institutions, and cultural forms; patterns of game interaction and outcomes,the conditions of cooperation and conflict, game restructuring and transformation, and empirical relevance. Sociologically based game theory, such as the contributions outlined in this article suggest a language and conceptual tools to more adequately and effectively than the classical theory describe,model, and analyze the diversity, complexity, and dynamics of human interaction conditions and processes and, therefore, promises greater empirical relevance and scientific power. An Appendix provides an elaboration of SGT, concluding that one of SGT's major contributions is the rule based conceptualization of games as socially embedded with agents in social roles and role relationships and subject to cognitive-normative and agential regulation. SGT rules and rule complexes are based on contemporary developments relating to granular computing and Artificial Intelligence in general.
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- Burns, Tom R, 1937-, et al.
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A Sustainable Development Perspective
- 2017
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. - London : Routledge. - 9781138924567 - 9781315684260
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- Burns, Tom R, et al.
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Avslutande reflektioner
- 2007
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Ingår i: Makt, kultur och kontroll över invandrares livsvillkor. - Uppsala : ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS (Uppsala University Publications).
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