224 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-afs-10.1177_0095327X241236890 – Supplemental material for Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-afs-10.1177_0095327X241236890 for Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note by Morten Nordmo, Lasse Bang, Anders Øvergaard and Ole Christian Lang-Ree in Armed Forces & Society</p
sj-docx-3-afs-10.1177_0095327X241236890 – Supplemental material for Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-afs-10.1177_0095327X241236890 for Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note by Morten Nordmo, Lasse Bang, Anders Øvergaard and Ole Christian Lang-Ree in Armed Forces & Society</p
sj-docx-2-afs-10.1177_0095327X241236890 – Supplemental material for Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-afs-10.1177_0095327X241236890 for Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note by Morten Nordmo, Lasse Bang, Anders Øvergaard and Ole Christian Lang-Ree in Armed Forces & Society</p
Technologies of Mobility in the Americas: Introduction
No full textTechnics, technicians, and techniques form the three basic cornerstones of what this book is about. Whether it is cell phones or airplanes, passengers or magazine advertisements, what the chapters collected here have in common is a basic orientation towards technology as a set of relations. This relational approach to technology demonstrates that technology is neither a utopian nor a dystopian force driving the universe towards progress or involution. For all the contributors to this book, what mobile communication technologies like smart phones and spatial mobility technologies like cars and ferry boats have in common is the potential to transform—and be transformed by—the very relationships in which technics and technicians are involved. Nothing more, and nothing less. Technology, therefore, becomes in this context a substitute term for a socio-technical assemblage in which multiple components play different roles based on circumstances, context, purposes, needs, affordances, material possibilities, and multiple other contingencies and variables
If Only it Could Speak:Narrative Explorations of Mobility and Place in Seattle
No full textThis chapter imaginatively engages with the ways in which place is understood by telling a story about urban transformation in Seattle. Empirically this is explored by “giving voice” to the reconstruction of State Route 99 (SR99) in downtown Seattle (a project estimated to cost in excess of US$3 billion). According to the 2010 census there are 608,000 residents in the Seattle city area and some 3.4 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. SR99 runs 50 miles from Fife in the South to Everett in the North and in parts in parallel with the Interstate 5, however closer to the coast. The SR99 cleaves its way on the north-south trajectory through the city via raised ramps and elevated sections and carries about 110,000 vehicles a day. One of these sections, the Alaskan Way Viaduct, was built on old seawall structures and created a buffer between the city and the sea at Elliott Bay. The Alaskan Way Viaduct, colloquially known as the “Seawall,” was opened on April 4, 1953 and extensively damaged by an earthquake in 2001. The subsequent debate concerning plans for its reconstruction serves as a lens for understanding the complex relationship that exists between human and non-human elements and illustrates how infrastructures and mobility systems are simultaneously both material and cultural artifacts that need to be understood very differently from the utilitarian and instrumental perception that guides much contemporary urban planning and design. Inspired by Bruno Latour’s (1996) story of the aborted Aramis light rail project in Paris and Phillip Vannini’s (2008) account of the sinking of the Queen of the North ferry in British Columbia, this chapter embarks on a similar thought experiment of imagining how a redesign of a large urban infrastructure project like the Seawall in Seattle would look “if only it could speak.
Death rites in Korea : the Confucian-Christian interplay
No full textThis study examines Christian death rites in modem Korea in the light of the complex interplay of Confucian and Christian values. It is based on the fact that Korea, once the most thoroughly Confucianized state in East Asia, has become one of the most dynamic Christian countries in the world within the space of a century. The study uncovers the ways in which Korean Christians, in their death rites, have struggled to balance 'religious piety to God' and 'filial duty to ancestors', which represent core Christian and Confucian values respectively. They cannot simply choose the one at the expense of the other as both are integral to their identity. This study innovatively classifies death rites into three categories: ritual before death (bible-copying), ritual at death (funerary rites), and ritual after death (ancestral ritual). After presenting historical and contemporary data of the three death rites, the study provides two different types of analysis: one is a historical-theological analysis and the other sociological-anthropological. Drawing upon historical and theological perspectives, it reveals the underlying principle of complex phenomena surrounding the three death rites. The thesis then explores these death rites in terms of three sociological and anthropological theoretical themes, viz. embodiment, exchange, and material culture. The three death rites are viewed as a 'total social phenomenon', a concept derived from Marcel Mauss' study and employed here as an overarching interpretive framework.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Stevnemøter med leved liv. Høgskolefolk forteller.
No full textISBN 978-82-93208-66-2 (trykt)De som nå er seniorer og pensjonister etter et langt yrkesliv i profesjonsyrker og høgskoleutdanning har skrevet mye. Rapporter, notater, studieplaner, forelesninger, forskningsartikler og debattinnlegg. Sakprosa i mange varianter. Men historier fra eget liv, særlig yrkesliv, der de selv forteller og preger teksten med sine egne, subjektive erindringer, har de ikke skrevet tidligere. Og her finnes mange opplevelser, menneskemøter og erfaringer som kan fortelle om den stille revolusjonen som deres generasjon har vært med på, i norsk utdanning og i samfunnslivet forøvrig.Dette var utgangspunktet da Kompetansesenteret for seniorer ved Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus i 2008 ( den gang HiO ) inviterte til skrivekurs for høgskolens seniorer. Våren 2014 fullføres det sjette kurset, og denne rapporten inneholder tekster fra vel 20 kursdeltakere.Som ved de tidligere kursene kommer forfatterne fra forskjellige utdannings- og yrkesmiljøer. De aller fleste har hatt lang "fartstid" som lærere i høgskolesystemet, samtidig som vi har hatt med oss enkelte eksterne deltakere fra nærstående yrkesfelt.Kurset har hatt inspirerende forelesninger av Gro Dahle, Karsten Alnæs, Tordis Fosse og Egil Fossum, og deltakerne har gjennom gruppearbeid stadig kommentert hverandres tekster, i tillegg til veiledning og innspill fra kurslederne, Jorun Fougner og Ole Christian Lagesen. De to siste har også redigert denne rapporten. Flertallet av tekstene har tema fra yrkeslivet, men, i likhet med deltakere på tidligere kurs, har noen også ønsket å skrive om opplevelser og erfaringer i barndoms- og oppvekstår.Noen tekster kan nok også kalles for mer eksistensielle, men også der med utgangspunkt i egne erfaringer og refleksjoner
Reevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scores
No full textSince 1954, the Norwegian Armed Forces have annually administered an unchanged general mental ability test to male cohorts, comprising figure matrices, word similarities, and mathematical reasoning tests. These stable and representative data have supported various claims about shifts in general mental ability (GMA) levels, notably the Flynn effect and its reversal, influencing extensive research linking these scores with health and other outcomes. This study examines whether observed temporal trends in scores reflect changes in latent intelligence or are confounded by evolving test characteristics and specific test-taking abilities in numerical reasoning, word comprehension, and figure matrices reasoning. Our findings, using multiple-group factor analysis and multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) models, indicate that while there was a general upward trend in observed scores until 1993, this was predominantly driven by enhancements in the fluid intelligence task, specifically figure matrices reasoning. Notably, these gains do not uniformly translate to a rise in underlying GMA, suggesting the presence of domain-specific improvements and test characteristic changes over time. Conversely, the observed decline is primarily due to decreases in word comprehension and numerical reasoning tests, also reflecting specific abilities not attributable to changes in the latent GMA factor. Our findings further challenge the validity of claims that changes in the general factor drive the Flynn effect and its reversal. Furthermore, they caution against using these scores for longitudinal studies without accounting for changes in test characteristics
Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note
No full textThere is a growing concern that the mental health of adolescents is worsening and that this deterioration may influence adolescents’ willingness and ability to complete military service. The purpose of this study is to investigate yearly relationships between self-reported mental health indicators and motivation for military service. To accomplish this, nationwide yearly percentile records from repeated cross-sectional records of Norwegian cohorts (N = 891,600) collected from 2009 to 2022 were evaluated. The results show that the number of adolescents with self-reported mental health diagnoses increased every year for both males and females. Well-being and coping decreased over time for females (but not males), although absolute levels were high throughout the study period. Despite evidence of worsening mental health and well-being, self-described motivation and aptitude for military service were largely stable over time for both genders. The negative trends in mental health are not associated with functional consequences for adolescents’ motivation and aptitude to complete military service.publishedVersio
Christian Metz : a bibliography
No full textContents: Books Reviews Articles Prefaces Radio and TV Interviews Dissertations and Theses Supervised by Metz On Metz: Special Issues On Metz: Selected Articles and Books Special thanks to Frank Kessler, Guido Kirsten and Margrit Tröhler for their hints, corrections, and advice
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