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Kommentar till Hegels Andens fenomenologi
No full textAndens fenomenologi av Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel från 1807 är en milstolpe i det filosofiska tänkandets historia. Dess skildring av det mänskliga medvetandets dialektiska utveckling, genom vetenskap, politik och religion, etablerar en ny form av historiskt grundad kulturanalys med systematiska mål. Dess inflytande på efterföljande filosofiskt, antropologiskt och sociologiskt tänkande går inte att överskatta. Boken inleds med en översiktlig inledning till Hegels liv och tänkande. Framför allt är den dock en kommentar till huvudverket, som nära följer dess argument och som hjälper läsaren att själv navigera genom den bitvis svårlästa texten. Den lyfter fram Hegel som modernitetens filosofiska vittne, som sammanfattar människans utveckling och position i ljuset av upplysningen, den franska revolutionen, vetenskapernas och religionskritikens genombrott. Den tecknar på så vis ett porträtt av hans projekt som visar upp dess betydelse och relevans för en filosofisk situation i vilken vi fortfarande befinner oss idag
Att mötas genom dans : Förkroppsligat lärande och upplevelser av samhörighet i ett interkulturellt dansmöte
No full textArtikeln utforskar förkroppsligade dimensioner av interkulturellt lärande, genom gruppintervjuer med sju svenska gymnasieelever som deltagit i ett dansutbyte med en kenyansk kulturskola. Med begreppet ”förkroppsligat lärande” betonas att interkulturellt lärande i dansutbytet sker i mötet mellan kroppsliga erfarenheter och diskursiva inramningar. I studien analyseras hur eleverna tillsammans navigerar, förhandlar och skapar mening kring olika samexisterande lager av skillnader och likheter i berättelserna om dansmötet. I berättelserna framträder betydelsen av det gemensamma intresset för dans för att konstruera en gemensam tillhörighet som ”dansare”. Samtidigt lyfter eleverna fram skillnader i dansstilar och i inställningen till koreografi som påtagliga. Genom att dansa tillsammans har de även fått en konkret, kroppslig upplevelse av dansens olika rumsliga och materiella förutsättningar. Slutligen visar analysen hur erfarenheten att dansa tillsammans skapar förutsättningar för upplevelser av samhörighet och visar hur unga människors förkroppsligade dansmöten rör sig längs med, över och bortom ”vi” och ”dom”-gränser.The article explores embodied dimensions of intercultural learning, through group interviews with seven Swedish upper secondary school students who participated in a dance exchange with a Kenyan cultural school. The concept of ‘embodied learning’ emphasizes that intercultural learning in the dance exchange takes place in the encounter between embodied experiences and discursive framings. The study analyses how the participants together navigate, negotiate and create meaning around coexisting layers of differences and similarities in the narratives of the dance encounter. In their narratives, the importance of a common interest in dance for constructing a common belonging as ‘dancers’ is evident. At the same time, the participants also underline differences in dance styles and attitudes towards choreography as significant. Through the dance encounters, they have also gained a concrete, embodied experience of the different spatial and material conditions of dance. Finally, the analysis shows how the experience of dancing together creates conditions for experiences of affinities, and how young people’s embodied dance encounters move along, across and beyond boundaries of ‘us’ and ‘them’
The Child and Religious Studies (RS) for a Sustainable Future : The Transformation of Religious Studies: Towards the Incorporation of Sustainable Development Ideas in Swedish Primary Schools from the Late Twentieth Century Onwards
No full textThis investigation aims to determine the historical and pedagogical foundations of students’ sustainable development formation in Swedish primary schools during their Religious Studies (RS) as a part of social and cultural education from 1900 onwards. The aim is to deal with important questions about the history of RS – general points of education for sustainable development; RS for implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Sweden (focusing on the history of the issue); educational RS potential in Swedish primary schools for implementation of ESD (focusing on the current stage of development); the ways to improve implementation of ESD during RS in Swedish primary school (authors’ opinions)
Young people who commit crimes : A qualitative study on what social workers view as risk factors for juvenile delinquency, the work with these young people and cooperation with other actors
No full textSyftet med denna studie var att undersöka socionomers yrkeserfarenheter med ungdomar som begår brott och vilka faktorer de uppfattar kan påverka ungdomarna till att begå brott. Studien har även som syfte att undersöka hur socionomerna arbetar med dessa ungdomar och hur samarbetet med andra aktörer ser ut. För att besvara detta har kvalitativ metod använts och fyra socionomer varav tre fältassistenter och en socialsekreterare har intervjuats. Teorierna som använts till denna studie var teorier om sociala band, systemteori, liberala förklaringar, och konsumtionssamhället. I resultatet av studien framkom teman om social miljö och skola, utanförskap och statusjakt, sociala medier och musik, och hemförhållanden som faktorer som socionomerna uppfattade som riskfaktorer för att ungdomar begår brott. Teman som uppkom om socionomernas arbete med detta var socionomernas arbete med ungdomarna och samarbetet med andra aktörer, och samarbete och stöd till föräldrar. Det framkom vidare av resultatet att det ibland finns svårigheter i arbetet och att barnets bästa inte alltid kom i första hand, samt att samarbetet med andra aktörer ibland inte fungerade som tänkt.The purpose of this study was to examine social workers' professional experiences with young people who commit crimes and what factors they perceive can influence the young people to commit crimes. The study also aims to investigate how the social workers work with these young people and what the collaboration with other actors looks like. To answer this, a qualitative method has been used and four social workers, three of whom are field assistants and one social secretary, have been interviewed. The theories used for this study were theories of social ties, systems theory, liberal explanations and the consumer society. The results of the study revealed themes of social environment and school, exclusion and status hunting, social media and music, and home conditions as factors that the social workers perceived as risk factors for young people committing crimes. The themes that arose about the social workers' work in this area were the social workers' work with young people and cooperation with other actors, and cooperation and support for parents. It also emerged from the results that there are sometimes difficulties in the work and that the best interests of the child did not always come first, and that the collaboration with other actors sometimes did not work as intended
Entering the grey zone of aging between health and disease : a critical phenomenological account
No full textPhenomenological analyses of ageing and old age have examined themes such as alterity, finitude, and time, not seldom from the perspective of “healthy” aging. Phenomenologists have also offered detailed analyses of lived experiences of illness including lived experiences of dementia. This article offers a phenomenological account of what we label as entering the grey zone of aging between “healthy” aging and aging with a disease. This account is developed through a qualitative phenomenological philosophy analysis of elderly persons’ lived experiences of being tested for dementia through primary care in Sweden, i.e., within a cultural context where dementia commonly is understood as a frightening a loss of self even though this understanding also is questioned. To enter this grey zone of aging, we argue, does not dissolve dynamic self-becoming but can involve an experience of oneself as being old. Further, in the grey zone, the self experiences itself as neither fully healthy nor as having a disease, and as needing to negotiate and live this ambiguity. To enter this grey zone is to enter an affectively charged, sociocultural and medicalized zone, and while the self can still act in different ways within it, staying in the grey zone can result in a re-orientation in the self’s mode of being, in ways that are thoroughly beyond its control. To stay in the grey zone can have detrimental effects on the self, even though the self does not have a disease: the self can become “stuck” in a reflective mode of attending to embodiment, aging, health, and disease
"Barn behöver trygghet" : En korpusassisterad diskursstudie om den mediala konstruktionen av den svenska förorten
No full textDenna studie undersöker den mediala konstruktionen av den svenska förorten och dess sociala aktörer. Genom att använda såväl korpuslingvistiska som diskursanalytiska teorier och metoder har en specialiserad korpus bestående av 1 546 digitalt publicerade tidningstexter från Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet konstruerats, analyserats, studerats och undersökts med syftet att kartlägga de lexikogrammatiska val som göder förortens utanförskap och sociala exkludering. Studien har i sin tur dividerats i två separata men ändå tätt sammanlänkade delar: en undersökning av den mediala konstruktionen av förorten som geografisk plats och en undersökning av den mediala konstruktionen av dess sociala aktörer. Resultatet indikerar att den mediala förortsdiskursen vidmakthåller den dominerande diskursen, som till övervägande stor del tenderar att utmåla området i sig och dess sociala aktörer som orsaken tillderas egen stigmatisering. Detta vidmakthållande äger rum genom frekventa teman som tillsammans skapar en negativt konnoterande uppfattning av de underordnade områdena, samtidigt som dess mest centrala sociala aktörer utmålas som både passiva och hjälplösa
Does early childhood multilingualism lead to enhanced executive functioning in early adulthood? : A study examining inhibitory control (Stroop effect) in Swedish university students
No full textAims and objectives: The paper describes a study whose objective was to find whether there are any differences in inhibitory control measured with the Stroop test between Swedish early childhood (EC) monolingual and EC (bi-) multilingual university students in the language which is not their EC language and whether one can observe a relationship between the perceived proficiency in the subjects’ mother tongues and their Stroop Effect. Methodology: The analyses were conducted on a cohort of 105 students (41 EC monolinguals and 64 EC multilinguals) who took the Stroop test, the results of which (Stroop Effect) were compared for both the groups. A comparison was also made for multilinguals’ perceived proficiency in their mother tongues. Data and analysis: The data obtained via questionnaires and from a computerized version of the Stroop test were compared for EC monolinguals/EC multilinguals and evaluated statistically. Findings/conclusion: The results show no statistically significant difference in the inhibitory control measured by the Stroop test between the EC monolinguals and EC multilinguals. The only significant difference the analysis found between the groups is in reaction times, as the EC multilinguals reacted faster in both congruent and incongruent conditions. The analysis conducted among the EC multilinguals does not indicate any relationship between the perceived proficiency in their mother tongues and Stroop effect. Originality and implication: The findings contribute to a recent debate questioning cognitive early adulthood advantages of being an EC multilingual. Unlike the majority of other studies investigating inhibitory control, the Stroop test in this study was conducted in young adults and in the language (learnt at school and through extracurricular activities) in which all the students were on approximately the same proficiency level. The findings also bear relevance to future research on the relationship between inhibitory control and academic performance in young adults
Effekten av digitalisering och automatisering på revisorns roll och revisionsprocessen : En kvalitativ studie om hur digitalisering och automatisering påverkar revisorns arbete inom stora och små revisionsbolag verksamma i Sverige
No full textThis study examines how digitalization and automation affect the role of the auditor in auditfirms operating in Sweden, with a particular focus on the differences between larger firmssuch as the Big 4 and smaller audit firms. This is observed through qualitative interviewswith certified public accountants and is based on a TAM and RBT analysis.For larger audit firms with advanced digital tools that include data analytics and real-timeauditing, efficiency and precision are enabled. This has transformed the auditor's role intostrategic advice along with proactive risk management. Automation has reduced the numberof manual and repetitive tasks, freeing up time to focus on more value-creating activities suchas strategic work, problem solving and client relationships.For small audit firms, however, the challenges are different. Their limited resources and lackof technology create obstacles to the implementation of advanced technology, whichnegatively affects their competitiveness. However, they have opportunities to combine thebenefits of digitalization with personal contact with clients, thereby maintaining theirrelevance in the market.The study also addresses other ethical and social issues related to digitalization, such as datasecurity, and the balance between automation and human judgment. Finally, it addresses thenecessity of continuous professional development to enable auditors to adapt to a digitalizedwork environment. The final section of the study discusses suggestions for further researchinto technologies such as AI and blockchain, and their impact on the audit profession in the long term.Denna studie undersöker hur digitalisering och automatisering påverkar revisorns roll irevisionsbyråer som är verksamma i Sverige med särskild fokus på skillnaderna mellan störrebolag som Big 4 och mindre revisionsbyråer. Detta observeras genom kvalitativa intervjuermed certifierade revisorer och är baserat på en TAM- och RBT-analys.För större revisionsbolag med avancerade digitala verktyg där dataanalysprogram ochrealtidsrevision inkluderas så möjliggörs effektivitet samt precision. Detta har omvandlatrevisorns roll till strategisk rådgivning tillsammans med proaktiv riskhantering. Automatisering har minskat antalet manuella och repetitiva uppgifter, vilket frigör tid för attfokusera på mer värdeskapande aktiviteter såsom strategiskt arbete, problemlösning ochkundrelationer.För små revisionsbyråer är utmaningarna dock annorlunda. Deras begränsade resurser ochbrist på teknologi skapar hinder för implementering av avancerad teknik vilket påverkar deraskonkurrenskraft negativt. Däremot har de möjligheter att föra samman digitaliseringensfördelar med personlig kontakt med kunderna vilket därmed bevarar deras relevans imarknaden.Studien tar också upp andra etiska och sociala frågor relaterade till digitaliseringen somexempelvis datasäkerhet, och balansen mellan automatisering och mänskligt omdöme.Slutligen tas det upp angående nödvändigheten av kontinuerlig kompetensutveckling för attgöra det möjligt för revisorer att anpassa sig till en digitaliserad arbetsmiljö. Det sistaavsnittet i studien behandlar förslag på vidare forskning kring teknologier som AI ochblockchain, och deras inverkan på revisionsyrket på lång sikt
Hur kreativitet påverkar attityden till standardisering
No full textThis study explores the paradox between creativity and standardization, particularly withincreative industries, in this study the architecture industry, and other industries with a specificfocus on ISO 9001 certification. While standardization is associated with traits such as efficiencyand legitimacy, it can conflict with the creative freedom, flexibility, and autonomy highly valuedin cultural and creative work. Drawing on theories of creativity and institutional frameworks, theresearch examines how attitudes toward standardization vary across roles and industries withdiffering levels of creativity. Through a quantitative approach using survey methodology, thestudy evaluates, besides creativity, the impact of factors such as incitements and implementationprocesses on these attitudes. Results indicate a nuanced relationship, with more negativeperceptions observed among individuals in creative roles compared to those in less creative roles.This research also contributes to understanding how organizations navigate in the paradox offostering creativity while maintaining structured operations. By using an institutional theory lens,this study discovers and explains decoupling strategies used by organizations to handle theconflict between formal and informal routines connected to ISO 9001