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The McDonaldization of the Danish Police
No full textPå baggrund af en kritisk diskussion af Ritzers McDonaldiseringsteori argumenterer artiklen for, at de bærende tendenser i dansk politis udvikling i de senere årtier har været idealerne om effektivitet, beregnelighed, forudsigelighed og kontrol. Samtidig er det tydeligt, at spørgsmålet om politisk magt er det centrale, når vi taler om McDonaldisering af netop politiet, givet politiets centrale rolle i statens magtudøvelse. Som konklusion viser artiklen således, at McDonaldisering først og fremmest må forstås som en form for herredømme, der er kendetegnet ved et konsekvent skifte fra en juridisk til en økonomisk tolkning af bureaukratiets centrale kendetegn.Using Ritzer’s McDonaldization theory, this article argues that the dominant trend in recent Danish police history has been ideals of efficiency, computability, predictability and control. However, it is clear that the question of political power is important when analyzing the McDonaldization of the Danish police, given its central role in the exercise of state power. I therefore argue that the McDonaldization of the Danish police marks a transformation of bureaucratic rule characterized by a shift from a legal to an economic interpretation of the central ideals of bureaucracy
Online development in the Nordic countries
Get PDFEn anmeldelse: A history of online information from the 1960s to the '00s and NORDINFO's role in its development
On the Ways of Writing the History of the State
Get PDFFoucault’s governmentality lectures at the Collège de France analyze the history of the state through the lens of governmental reason. However, these lectures largely omit consideration of the relationship between discipline and the state, prioritizing instead raison d’État and liberalism as dominant state technologies. To remedy this omission, I turn to Foucault’s early studies of discipline and argue that they provide materials for the reconstruction of a genealogy of the “disciplinary state.” In reconstructing this genealogy, I demonstrate that the disciplinary state marks the “dark side” of the liberal state, a dark side which is, more-over, largely obscured in the governmentality lectures. I further construe the difference be-tween this early genealogy of the state and the later governmental studies in methodologi-cal terms. At stake in this difference is the historiographic status of capitalism and social conflict. Foucault’s governmentality lectures employ what I term an “idealist disavowal,” thereby treating capitalism and social conflict as irrelevant to the history of the state. The early disciplinary studies, on the other hand, enact a “materialist avowal,” by which these objects are avowed as central to the explanation of how and why the state develops. Final-ly, I argue that Foucault’s governmental genealogy of the liberal state is explanatorily and analytically incomplete, while the genealogy of the disciplinary state contributes to its completion on both fronts
Strategies of action among young people on the edge of Danish society
No full textStigningen i antallet af unge, som er udsatte, kalder ikke blot på flere politiskeinitiativer, men også på mere forskningsmæssig viden. Meget af den eksisterende viden om udsatte unge er præget af, at der igennem længere tid harværet fokus på risikofaktorer og tiltag, der kan afhjælpe eller virke forebyggende for udsathed blandt børn og unge. Det har som konsekvens, at vi vednoget om de unge i forhold til misbrug, hjemløshed, psykisk mistrivsel etc.,mens der mangler viden om, hvordan de unge skaber sammenhæng og mening i deres liv med og på tværs af disse faktorer. Ungdomsforskningen tilbyder tværgående teoretisk, metodisk og analytisk tilgang til unge, ungdom ogungdomsliv med fokus på de unges perspektiver. I denne artikel vil vi præsentere en analyse af udsatte unge og deres hverdagsliv på kanten af det danske samfund. Til dette vil vi benytte et analytisk begreb om handlestrategier,som muliggør analyser, der undersøger de unges individuelle handlemønstreog samtidig indtænker en bredere forståelse af deres livssituation. I analysen fremkommer tre overordnede strategityper: Mistillidsstrategien, Isolationsstrategien og Værdistrategien. Således har ungdomsforskningens tilgangtil analyser af udsatte unge til formål at nuancere og differentiere billedet afunge på kanten af det danske samfund.The increase in marginalised young people in Denmark points to a need notonly for political initiatives, but also for more knowledge. Most of the knowledge that we have about this group of young people is characterised by its focus on risk factors and its focus on measures to prevent or alleviate marginalisation. This means that we have information about marginalised youth in relation to substance abuse, to homelessness, mental health issues, etc. while welack knowledge of how young people create coherence and meaning in theirlives despite or with these factors. Youth research offers an interdisciplinary,theoretical and methodological approach to young peoples’ lives, focusingon their perspectives. In this article, we present an analysis of marginalisedyouth and their everyday life at the margins of Danish society. We employ theconcept of ‘action strategies’ to enable analyses examining the individual’spatterns of action, while situating these in their life situations. In the analysis, we find three strategies: mistrust strategy, isolation strategy and valuestrategy. Using insights from youth research, we are able to develop a moredetailed, nuanced picture of young people at the margins of Danish society
Struggle for Recognition versus Communicative Action – A Comparative analysis of the concept of praxis in Honneths and Habermas’ political philosophy and political sociology
No full textAristoteles grundlægger et praksisbegreb, som bliver et af de fundamentale begreber i den politiske filosofi og den politiske sociologi. Hegel giver dette praksisbegreb en ny skikkelse med sit begreb om praksis som sædelighed. Habermas og Honneth tager begge udgangspunkt i den unge Hegels skrifter, når de skal forsøge at formulere det væsentlige i Hegels praksisfilosofi i et nyt begreb, som kan være aktuelt for vor tids politiske filosofi og politiske sociologi. Habermas sætter i en smart hermeneutisk manøvre sproget ind som erstatning for Hegels åndsbegreb. Med dette nye grundlag lykkes det Habermas at formulere en praktisk filosofi, i hvilken både praksis og sædelighed sammenfattes i den kommunikative handlen. Habermas’ politiske filosofi fører direkte over i den politiske sociologi, hvor den kan indgå i en empirisk orienteret politisk-sociologisk udforskning af det moderne samfunds institutioner. Honneth er kritisk over for Habermas’ sprogliggørelse af den politiske-sociologi. Honneth ønsker at holde fast i den klassiske kritiske teoris substantielle perspektiv. Honneth lægger vægt på den unge Hegels begreb om kamp om anerkendelse, som han sætter ind i et moderne demokratisk perspektiv. Honneths politiske sociologi har vist sig empirisk relevant i udforskningen af konfliktforhold og krænkelser i samfundets institutioner. The concept of praxis is one of the most fundamental concepts in political philosophy and political sociology from Antiquity to our time. Aristotle creates a concept of praxis, which is one of the fundamental concepts in political philosophy and political sociology. Hegel gives the concept a new formation with his concept of praxis as Sittlichkeit or Ethical Life. Both Habermas and Honneth take their point of departure in the young Hegel’s scriptures, when they try to formulate a new concept of praxis, which can be relevant for our time. In a smart maneuver, Habermas places language as a substitute for Hegel’s concept of the spirit. On this basis, Habermas succeeds in formulating a practical political philosophy, which can unite praxis and Ethical Life in a theory of communicative action. Habermas’ political philosophy leads immediately to a political sociology, which can be the basis for an empirical sociological exploration of the institutions of modern society. Honneth is critical towards Habermas’ linguistic form of political sociology. Honneth wants to sustain classical critical theory’s substantial perspective. He focusses on Hegel’s concept of struggle for recognition, which he places in a modern democratic perspective. Honneths political sociology forms the basis for an empirical research in conflicts and violations in the institutions of society. 
Finnerne satser stort på kunstig intelligens
Get PDFNår man kigger på det internationale bibliotekslandskab, står især ét land særligt skarpt for tiden, og det er Finland. Med store satsninger inden for Open Science, virtual reality og kunstig intelligens på tværs af bibliotekssektoren - og ikke mindst publikumssuccesser som Helsinkis storslåede nye hovedbibliotek, Oodi, - har finnerne positioneret sig som en frontløber, og et land vi andre kan lade os inspirere af. I december 2019 sendte Det Kgl. Bibliotek derfor en delegation afsted til det kolde nord for at undersøge, hvad vi kan lære af vores biblioteksglade naboer mod nordøst
En oplyst anerkendelsesrejse – et nyt perspektiv på stress
Get PDFHvordan kan ledere og medarbejdere i fællesskab tage højde for stress i et moderne arbejdsliv? Dette spørgsmål er undersøgt i forskningsprojektet: ”Ledelse, kerneopgave, arbejdsfællesskaber og stress”, som er finansieret af parterne på det kommunale arbejdsmarked i regi af Fremfærd, CBS og 3 kommuner. Under navnet: ”En oplyst anerkendelsesrejse” er der udviklet forskningsbaserede dialogværktøjer, der giver et nyt sprog og perspektiv på stress-håndtering i arbejdsfællesskabet. I denne artikel vil jeg fortælle om erfaringerne fra projektet samt præsentere de nye forebyggelsesværktøjer, der bl.a. skal hjælpe til at forstå forskellige reaktionsmønstre på højt arbejdspres og give input til dialoger herom. Forskningen bidrager til en praktisk ledelsesteori med særlig fokus på forebyggelse af stressrelateret sygefravær, som forøger ledere såvel som medarbejderes evne til at sætte sig i hinandens sted og skaber handlemuligheder
Sugar Island Finns: Introducing Historical Network Analysis to Study an American Immigrant Community
Get PDFThis article will provide a preliminary overview of Finnish migration toSugar Island, Michigan, which occurred primarily between 1915 and 1940, based onnarrative sources and census documents. It will introduce and apply social networkanalysis (SNA) methods and network visualizations to this community and sets thestage for a future, in-depth study of the Finns of Sugar Island. This article is part of alarger project HUMANA-Human Migration and Network Analysis: Developing NewResearch Methods for the Study of Human Migration and Social Change (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/humananetworks/), funded by the Finnish Kone Foundation. Thisproject will develop new methodologies for studying the human past by using networkanalysis to better understand social, political, administrative, economic, and geospatialnetworks. For the purposes of this article, our main sources are the US Censusreturns from 1920 to 1940, and they will be supported by other archival and secondarysources. The scope of analysis will focus primarily on a few prominent individualsbut will also provide information on the social structures of the Finnish community.Ultimately, this case study develops an experimental computer model of the SugarIsland Finnish community and will provide a glimpse into the authors’ forthcomingproject that aims at building a robust dynamic model of the entire Sugar Island communityover the period of 1850-194