Em uma metacontingência, respostas de dois ou mais indivíduos interagindo (denominadas um culturante) produzem estímulos (denominados de consequências culturais) capazes de afetar a recorrências daquelas respostas. Resultados de experimentos sobre metacontingência têm sido tratados como demonstrações de um tipo de seleção cultural. Além de sugerir a importância de interações verbais entre participantes, alguns desses experimentos têm empregado tarefas baseadas no dilema do prisioneiro repetido (iterated prisoners dilemma, IPD) interpretando-o, porém, como a programação apenas de contingências operantes. O Experimento 1 avaliou se um IPD com mais de 200 tentativas produziria escolhas cooperativas simultâneas de modo fidedigno e se a interação verbal entre participantes aumentaria a cooperação. 4 quartetos de universitários utilizaram 4 computadores conectados em rede (sem contato visual) e foram expostos a condições com ou sem permissão para usar uma sala de bate-papo pelo computador (chat) em um delineamento de linhas de base múltiplas entre quartetos. Os resultados demonstraram claramente que escolhas cooperativas unânimes podem ocorrer fidedignamente em um IPD e que a interação verbal entre participantes aumenta rapidamente tais escolhas. Esses resultados destacam a semelhança entre estudos sobre IPD e sobre metacontingências, nos quais são programadas consequências para comportamentos inter-relacionados de vários indivíduos. No Experimento 2, uma consequência cultural foi sobreposta às consequências já programadas pelo IPD: os quartetos podiam produzir pontos iguais para todos os participantes (feedback do mercado) contingentes a diferentes números de escolhas cooperativas. Como no Experimento 1, condições nas quais o uso do chat eram ou não permitidos foram arranjadas em um delineamento de linhas de base múltiplas entre quartetos. A interação verbal promoveu rápida e marcadamente a seleção cultural pelo feedback do mercado. Um quarteto apresentou algum controle dos culturantes pelo feedback do mercado antes das interações verbais, mas após o uso do chat a produção das consequências culturais aumentou substancialmente. O Experimento 3 replicou o Experimento 2 apresentando o feedback do mercado da mesma forma que os pontos do IPD, i.e., sem diversos estímulos verbais que sugerem a sua produção pelo quarteto como um todo. A interação verbal promoveu ao menos algum controle das escolhas pelo feedback do mercado em 2 dos 3 quartetos, sugerindo que a forma de apresentação da consequência cultural é irrelevante para os efeitos de uma consequência cultural. Os resultados dos 3 experimentos destacam a importância da interação verbal para a seleção cultural. Além disso, sugerem que um IPD programa uma situação análoga à programada em estudos sobre metacontingência, esclarecendo as diferenças entre os procedimentos empregados no estudo do IPD e de metacontingências e permitindo que avanços em uma área possam ser aproveitados pela outra / In a metacontingency, responses of two or more interacting individuals (a culturant) produce stimuli (called cultural consequences) that affect the recurrence of those responses. Results of metacontingency experiments are said to demonstrate a kind of cultural selection. Besides suggesting the importance of verbal interactions between participants, some of these experiments have used tasks based on the iterated prisoner\'s dilemma (IPD) interpreting it, however, as programming only operant contingencies. Experiment 1 examined whether an IPD with 200-plus trials would produce simultaneous cooperative choices reliably and whether verbal interaction between participants would increase cooperation. 4 quartets of undergraduate and graduate students used 4 networked computers (without visual contact), and were exposed to conditions with or without permission to use the computer chat room in a multiple baseline design between quartets. Results clearly demonstrate that unanimous cooperative choices can occur reliably in an IPD, and that verbal interaction between participants rapidly increases such choices. These results highlight the similarity between IPD and metacontingencies studies, both of which program consequences for inter-related behaviors of many individuals. In Experiment 2, a cultural consequence was superimposed on the consequences already programmed by the IPD: quartets could produce equal points for all participants (market feedback) contingent on different numbers of cooperative choices. As in Experiment 1, we arranged conditions in which chat use were or not allowed in a multiple baseline design between quartets. Verbal interaction quickly and markedly promoted cultural selection by the market feedback. One quartet presented some control of culturants by the market feedback before verbal interactions, but production of cultural consequences increased substantially after using the chat. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2 presenting the market feedback the same way that the IPD points, i.e., without several verbal stimuli that suggest its production by the quartet as a whole. Verbal interaction promoted at least some control of the choices by the market feedback in 2 of the 3 quartets, suggesting that the form of cultural consequence presentation is irrelevant for the effects of a cultural consequence. The results of the three experiments highlight the importance of verbal interaction for cultural selection. Furthermore, they suggest that an IPD program a situation analogous to the one employed in metacontingency studies, clarifying differences between procedures used in the study of IPD and of metacontingencies, and allowing advances in one area be employed by another

The purpose of this paper has been to reach a greater understanding in how moral inflicts social workers way of handling everyday situations. In what way, if in any way, moral comes to play a part in the making of decisions. In order to reach this understanding we have interviewed two different groups of social workers which we also later on came to compare . One of the groups contained six interviewees and the other group contained five interviewees. Both of these groups were in the ages between 27 – 52.To shed some light over this phenomenon did we use two theoretical perspectives, first Kant’s morale theory and second, consequentialistic utilitarism theory. As a result from the interviews we’ve made, we came to an understanding that the meaning of morale and in what way it can be applied in the everyday work differs between these two professional groups. One of the greater conclusions we came to make, is that one key role is the differences between both work environments, both on a social and a structural level.

Youth centres- A qualitative study of how midwives relate to the potential ethical dilemma between youths right to integrity and parents right to information The aim of this study was to investigate how midwives at youth centres relate to the potential ethical dilemma between parents’ right to information that young people between 15-17 years share at the centre, vs. youths right to integrity. The study was based on qualitative interviews with six midwives in various youth centres in Stockholm County. We analysed our empirical material according to Blennbergers consequential ethical model and Bronfenbrenners ecological system model. The empirical data was categorized based on categories of information and integrity in relation to midwives' opinions and actions. The results show that midwives are careful to protect the integrity of young people and that parents’ right to information are neglected, unless there is a great risk that the youths will harm their lives or health. Often it is only when the midwives need to report to the social service that the parents are given right to information, which indicates that the ethical decisions that midwives make are based on their beliefs that the best consequence for the youths is for their integrity to be protected. It was revealed that the midwives experienced the decision as difficult, and sometimes even found it to be a dilemma.

In der vorliegenden Studie wurde mittels der Bildgebung des funktionellen MRT die Dynamik der neuronalen Hirnmechanismen untersucht, die es dem Menschen erlauben, durch kurzfristigen Verzicht auf Belohnungen seinen Verhaltenserfolg langfristig zu optimieren. Durch den Vergleich zweier Extremgruppen gesunder Probanden (hoch- versus niedrig- impulsive Probanden) sollte ein möglicher Zusammenhang zwischen der Impulsivität und dem funktionellen Zusammenspiel frontostriataler Regelkreise während des aktiven Prozesses der Entscheidungsfindung dargestellt werden. Die vorliegende Studie hat gezeigt, dass gesunde, nicht- klinische Individuen, die sich selbst mittels der Barratt- Impulsivitätsskala als hoch- impulsiv charakterisiert haben, ihr Verlangen nach einer direkten Belohnung erfolgreich durch Aktivierung zweier komplementärer Hirnmechanismen kontrollieren können. Als erster Mechanismus ist festzuhalten, dass selbstkontrollierte Entscheidungen zu einer Abschwächung der belohnungsabhängigen Aktivierung im Nucleus accumbens führten, welche von einer ansteigenden inversen Verbindung mit dem anteroventralen präfrontalen Kortex begleitet wurde. Der zweite Mechanismus ist, dass HI- Probanden ihren Wunsch nach einer höherwertigen, aber suboptimalen Belohnung in Abhängigkeit von der Wertigkeit der unmittelbaren Belohnung durch Downregulation im ventromedialen präfrontalen Kortex kontrollierten. Diesem Mechanismus folgte eine ansteigende inverse Kopplung mit dem ventralen Striatum. Von entscheidender Bedeutung ist dabei, dass sich diese neuronalen Mechanismen qualitativ von denen der extrem- kontrollierten Probanden unterschieden. Insgesamt lässt sich sagen, dass diese Ergebnisse darauf hindeuten, dass es persönlichkeitsspezifische neuronale Mechanismen gibt, die es hoch-impulsiven Probanden ermöglichen, ihren Wunsch nach einer unmittelbaren Belohnung zu kontrollieren.

The thesis analyses the importance and mutual relationship of the human and the professi-onal quality of social workers in their decision making concerning professional dilemmas as they are interpreted in a sample of qualification theses of the University of South Bohemia. The first four chapters deal mainly with the theoretical explanation of ethical dilemmas in social work, their origin, categories, as well as with the possible solutions of ethical dilemmas published in literature. The following parts focus on selected qualification theses and their analysis. The majority of the theses emphasizes the professionalism of a social worker above all, mainly the significance of professional ethics, ethical theories and ethical code in dealing with ethical dilemmas. Nevertheless, none of them omits the role of personal (human) qualities involved in decision making, even though each stresses their importance to a different extent. In conclusion, the attention paid to personal (human) qua-lities on the one hand and professional qualities on the other hand is disproportionate in the analysed qualification theses.

This thesis set out to study the debate on circumcision of boys in Sweden. The study concerns itself with how categories and positions become rhetorical resources in the debate and how categories andpositions thus are made relevant. In order to get at what is made possible through the use of theserhetorical recourses this study has analyzed debate articles, official Swedish governmental documentsand the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Three interpretativerepertoires surfaced as distinct in this material and they are; Religious identity and belonging,medicine and the UNCRC. The analysis will therefore be structured and guided by these repertoires.As the debate is centred around the Human Rights Paradigm there is an ingrained ideological dilemmain the debate that can be explained as the tension between a Universal and a Cultural relativisticinterpretation of Human Rights. This tension will be discussed throughout the study. Severalconclusions can be drawn from the analysis: The various and contradictory positions allowed for bythe use of the UNCRC makes it an elusive tool in both theory and practice. The ideological dilemmatends to coerce the participants into opposing positions and even question the rhetorical tools utilizedin the debate. The child surfaces in various categories and at the end of this thesis the question remain;Is it a religious child or is it a child of religious parents?

The thesis deals with the question of militarization and weaponization of the outer space and it analyse the actor's behaviour regarding space militarization and weaponization. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether the key actors cooperate or not in dealing with the use of the outer space. The relations between the key actors are analysed from the perspective of the game theory, particularly with the two models of behaviour: prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons. These models are used based on the assumption that they best describe the relations between actors in international relations as either cooperative or competitive. The aim is to evaluate whether these two models are valid in researching the behaviour of the key actors in the question of militarization of space. The analysed actors are the United States, Russia and China, as these are the three most important and successful space-faring nations with the biggest potential in the future of space exploration. Analysing their relations, the thesis attempts to evaluate whether the two models of the game theory are valid or not. For evaluating the prisoner's dilemma, bilateral relations are analysed, for the tragedy of the commons, their multilateral relations are analysed. What we learn from the analysis is that both models...

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Bakgrund: Felrekryteringar är ett återkommande företagsekonomiskt problem, där organisationer får stå för dyra konsekvenser när de inträffar. Det finns olika metoder för att undvika felrekryteringar och således har ett fenomen vid namn cyber-vetting fått större uppmärksamhet, vilket är att rekryterare granskar kandidaters sociala medieprofiler för att få en bättre förståelse av kandidaterna. Cyber-vetting medför ett etiskt dilemma, där vissa menar på att det är oetiskt att gå in i människors privata sfär, medan andra i stället menar på att det är nödvändigt att arbetsgivaren får en helhetsbild av kandidaterna som söker.  Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva yngre och äldre rekryterares eventuella likheter och skillnader i deras syn på cyber-vetting, samt deras etiska ståndpunkt kring användandet av fenomenet.  Metod: Studien har innehaft en induktiv ansats. För att kunna beskriva yngre och äldre rekryterares syn på fenomenet, har en kvalitativ komparativ fallstudie utförts, där insamlingsmetod varit semistrukturerade intervjuer. En tematisk analys har genomförts som grundar sig på kvalitativ empiri. Då studien är komparativ genomfördes två separata tematiska analyser, en för yngre och en för äldre.  Slutsats: Studiens slutsats är att det finns både likheter och skillnader mellan yngre och äldre rekryterare i både användandet av cyber-vetting och om de finner det etiskt korrekt eller ej. Interna konflikter med moraliska resonemang, ligger till grund för deras åsikt i frågan och berör fler faktorer än enbart det faktum att rekryteraren har en viss ålder. / Background: Recruitment errors are a recurring business problem, with organizations facing costly consequences when they occur. There are various methods for avoiding recruitment mistakes and thus a phenomenon called cyber-vetting has gained more attention, whereby recruiters review candidates' social media profiles to gain a better understanding of the candidates. Cyber-vetting poses an ethical dilemma, with some arguing that it is unethical to go into people's private sphere, while others argue that it is necessary for the employer to get a complete picture of the candidates applying.  Purpose: The aim is to describe younger and older recruiters' views on cyber-vetting and their ethical stance, and to compare possible similarities and differences.  Method: The study has had an inductive approach. To describe younger and older recruiters' views on the phenomenon, a qualitative comparative case study has been conducted, where the collection method has been semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis has been conducted based on qualitative empirical data. As the study is comparative, two separate thematic analyses were conducted, one for younger and one for older people.  Conclusion: The study concludes that there are both similarities and differences between younger and older recruiters in both the use of cyber-vetting and whether or not they find it ethically correct. Internal conflicts with moral reasoning underlie their opinion on the matter and involve more factors than just the fact that the recruiter is of a certain age.

Denna studie syftade till att undersöka hur personal på grupp- och serviceboenden hanterar dilemman mellan omvårdnad och självbestämmande. Fokus låg på vilka erfarenheter personalen har av dilemman, hur de hanterar dessa samt vad som avgör hur de handlar. Datainsamlingen skedde genom sex semi-strukturerade intervjuer med personal på grupp- och serviceboenden och analyserades med tematisk analys. Resultatet visade att personalen möter många dilemman i sitt arbete där hantering av dessa utgår ifrån individens självbestämmande. Kommunikation var en betydande del av personalens sätt att hantera dessa dilemman på. Studien visade också att personalen hanterar dilemman utifrån sin egen avsikt - att främja självbestämmande och omvårdnad. Personalens handlingar påverkas av vad de moraliskt och organisatoriskt kan göra samt brukarens handlingar. / The aim of this study was to investigate how staffs at group housing and service housing manage dilemmas between nursing and self-determination. Experiences of dilemmas, how they manage these dilemmas and factors that determined their actions were explored. The data were collected through six semi-structured interviews with staffs in group housing and service housing and was analyzed using a thematic analysis. The result showed that the staff face many dilemmas, and their management of these situations is always based on self-determination. Communication was also a significant part of how they manage the dilemmas. Furthermore, the study showed that staffs deal with dilemmas based on their own intention - to promote self-determination and nursing. Their actions are based on what they can do morally and organizationally as well as the patients’ actions.