In this thesis theoretical meaning of the concept of individualization is examined. Compilation and comparison of the concepts of individualization as they are understood by Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens are put forward. Critiques of the concept of individualization are analyzed with focus on controversial issues of the concept of individualization. The analysis shows four types of objections: 1. Concepts of theorists of individualization are not based on empirical research, therefore they do not match the reality correctly. 2. In the conceptions of theorists of individualization, the individuals seem to be independent on the culture and on other people. 3. Social classes and gender status to some extent still affect the life of the individuals. 4. Individualization does not have the same effect on everybody. The analysis also shows that the controversial issues are the result of different meaning which give to the individualization creators of the concept and its critics. Theorists of individualization understand the individualization as macro-social phenomenon, whereas critics of individualization understand the individualization as the change of life and behaviour of the individuals due to the effect of various ambivalent processes. The question, how to connect those meanings...

Recent research is largely concordant in that the core roles of the military instrument has expanded after the end of the cold war to include peacetime support to the nation.This study examines the reach a security policy transformation has in ex-plaining this role for the Swedish armed forces. It is done through at deduc-tive approach by examining national security policy documents from 1987 to 2017 using a risk theoretical perspective deriving from sociologist Ulrich Becks conceptualisation of the World risk society.The result shows that even though the rhetoric indicates a widened picture of a complex future of risks and uncertainty, such a transformation has not taken place in full. The view on the causes of danger and how to handle these are more in line with traditional threat-based views and functional reasons seemingly have a better reach in explaining the use of the military in-strument.

Undersökningens fokus är att belysa upplevelser av just förstalinjechefer inom kommunal verksamhet då vi önskar söka en bättre förståelse för hur cheferna upplever HRs stöd för att eventuellt kunna förbättra HR som servicefunktion. Studien riktar in sig på kommunal verksamhet då mycket av de befintliga teorier och modeller som finns är baserade vinstdrivande företag och vi anser att det finns en kunskapsbrist inom området. Studien är främst riktad som ett verktyg till HR men skildrar också kunskap som cheferna också kan ha användning av för att förstärka sitt samarbete med HR.Undersökningen är av kvalitativ ansats och genomfördes som djupintervju. Målstyrt- och snöbollsurval låg till grund för att komma i kontakt och välja respondenter. Intervjuguiden som är semistrukturerad består av frågor anpassade efter litteratur och teoriavsnitt enligt teorier som bland annat HRs värde, profession, hur HR får engagemang samt rollmodeller som beskriver HRs olika förhållningssätt gentemot cheferna.Resultatet visar bland annat på att cheferna uppfattar HR som diffust. Det finns brister vad gäller chefernas uppfattning av HRs syfte, arbetsbeskrivning och mandat. Det framkommer också att flertal chefer inte vet var man ska vända sig och med vilka frågor. Undersökningen visar också att förstalinjechefer endast ser roller som berör deras eget område och att viss förståelse saknas för HRs resterande arbetsuppgifter. Detta kan i sin tur leda till missnöje och missförstånd mellan parterna. Slutligen finns det områden i samarbetet mellan parterna som kan förbättras för att stärka ett samarbete. Däribland förbättra och tydliggöra kommunikation, främja relationen parterna emellan samt se över att HR har de resurser som krävs för att möta chefernas förväntningar och önskemål. Till exempel genom att anställa fler HR personal för att kunna fördela och prioritera arbetet bättre.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates why human poverty and environmental degradation still exist to the extent that they do in a world where there appears to be sufficient scientific and social knowledge to reduce them considerably. It asserts that the reason they continue to exist on such a large scale is because their root cause - a mistaken understanding of humanity's role in creation - has not been sufficiently examined. Humanity's mistaken understanding of ourselves as the Cartesian lords of creation is addressed by introducing the Biblically-based concept of Shalom, as interpreted by theologians Ulrich Duchrow and Gerhard Liedke in their book, Shalom. Biblical Perspectives on Creation, Justice and Peace (1987). The concept stresses how our exploitative relationship towards creation results in destructive relationships with our fellow human beings and ultimately with God. The thesis argues that global capitalism's central value of accumulating wealth for its own sake has severely disrupted Shalom in society and the rest of creation. Using a second work of theologian Ulrich Duchrow, Alternatives to Global Capitalism. Drawn from Biblical History Designed for Political Action (1995), the social and environmental poverty inducing structures within the world economy are highlighted. It is asserted that in order to reduce poverty and environmental degradation within the economy, this central value of wealth accumulation for its own sake has to be replaced with one that seeks to satisfy the basic needs of all people. The thesis also discusses the inability of the South African government's macro economic strategy - the Growth, Employment and Redistribution plan (GEAR)- to create Shalom. In order for the macro-economic strategy of South Africa to address the exploitative relationships that exist within the economy, it is argued that a more critical attitude towards the values and structures of the market economy is needed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die vraag hoekom armoede en omgewingsaftakeling steeds bestaan in 'n wêreld waar genoegsame wetenskaplike en sosiale kennis beskikbaar is om dit aansienlik te verminder. Dit argumenteer dat die rede waarom hierdie probleme op so 'n groot skaal voortbestaan, is omdat hulle grondoorsaak - 'n verkeerde verstaan van die mens se rol in die skepping - nie voldoende ondersoek is nie. Die mensdom se misverstaan van sigself as die Cartesiaanse meesters van die skepping word aangespreek deur die ondersoek van die Bybels-gebasseerde konsep van Shalom, soos geïnterpreteer deur die teoloë Ulrich Duchrow and Gerhard Liedke in hulle boek Shalom. Biblical Perspectives on Creation, Justice and Peace (1987). Die konsep benadruk hoe ons eksploiterende verhouding tot die skepping resulteer in 'n vernietigende verhouding met ons medemens en uiteindelik, met God. Die tesis argumenteer dat globale kapitalisme, met die akkumulasie van welvaart vir sigself as sentrale waarde, Shalom ondermyn in die wêreld en die res van die skepping. Deur gebruik te maak van 'n tweede werk van die teoloog Ulrich Duchrow, Alternatives to Global Capitalism. Drawn from Biblical History Designed for Political Action (1995), word die strukture wat sosiale- en omgewings-armoede veroorsaak binne die wêreldekonomie, ondersoek. Dit word gestel dat, ten einde armoede en omgewingsvernietiging te verminder, hierdie sentrale waarde van welvaartakkumulasie vir sigself vervang moet word met een wat daarna streef om die basiese behoeftes van mense te bevredig. Die onvermoë van die Suid-Afrikaanse regering se makro-ekonomiese strategie, naamlik die Groei-, Werkskeppings- en Herverdelingsprogram (GEAR) - om Shalom te skep, word ook bespreek. Dit word geargumenteer dat, ten einde 'n situasie te bereik waar die makro-ekonomiese strategie van Suid Afrika die eksploiterende verhoudings binne die ekonomie aanspreek, 'n meer kritiese houding ten opsigte van die waardes en strukture van die vryemark ekonomie benodig word.

In this thesis I reframe theories of love-relationships in late modernity (by Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman and Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim) in relation to a general framework of discursive theory (inspired by Michel Foucault). I suggest that current developments and contradictions in the field of love-relationships with advantage can be understood in terms of discourse and discursive conflict. Utilizing the discursive framework, I conceptualize two conflicting discursive regimes (as romantic love and individualized freedom), and their components. With these components in mind, I explore how contradicting discursive components are problematized in established risk-discourse, using cases of popular culture as illustrative reference. Risk-discourses force short-term practical solutions, and put pressure on further discursive change by inducing anxiety and cognitive dissonance. Future discourse will have to adapt to several conditions, including the (in)compatibility of discursive components, how well practical strategies work out, how social interaction is organized, and how discursive deconstruction unavoidably have consequences for the fundaments of love itself. / I uppsatsen omtolkar jag senmodernitetsteorier om kärleksrelationer (av Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman och Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim) till ett generellt diskurs­teoretiskt ramverk (inspirerat av Michel Foucualt). Uppsatsen redogör för hur samtida utvecklingar och motsättningar inom fältet kärleksrelationer med fördel kan förstås i diskursteoretiska termer. Med hjälp av detta ramverk utvecklar jag två diskursiva regimer och deras respektive komponenter (konceptualiserade som romantisk kärlek och individualiserad frihet). Med dessa komponenter i åtanke granskar jag hur konflikterande komponenter problematiseras genom etablerade riskdiskurser, med fallstudier av populärkultur som illustrativa exempel. Jag menar att att dessa riskdiskurser driver fram kortsiktiga praktiska lösningar, och orsakar ångest och kognitiv dissonans vilka motiverar ytterligare diskursiva förändringar. Kommande diskursiva förändringar måste förhålla sig till flertalet omständig­heter inklusive diskurskomponenternas (in)kompabilitet, huruvida praktiska lösningar är hållbara, hur social interaktion organiseras i allmänhet och hur diskursiv dekonstruktion oundvikligen får konsekvenser för kärlekens fundament.

Das Phänomen Remake ist so alt, wie die Geschichte des Films selbst. Dennoch wird der Begriff immer wieder leichtfertig benutzt, weshalb sich die Arbeit zunächst um die Entwicklung einer praktikablen Arbeitsdefinition bemüht, welche Remakes im engeren Sinne von anderen Formen der Neuinszenierung abgrenzt, bevor in einem nächsten Schritt ausgewählte Original-Remake-Paare einer ausführlichen strukturellen Analyse unterzogen werden: Dazu werden die jeweiligen Filme in ihre einzelnen Szenen aufgegliedert und mit einem Plotschema - dem sogenannten Paradigma nach Syd Field und Hans-Ulrich Mohr - unterlegt, welches neben der allgemeinen Struktur des Films auch für die Handlung besonders relevante Szenen offenlegt und strukturelle Veränderungen offensichtlich macht, aus welchen Änderungen des Inhalts, der Handlungsrichtung und des Genres resultieren. Dazu werden die Neuverfilmungen ihren filmischen Vorgängern in direkter Weise gegenübergestellt, wodurch stilistische Mittel und inszenatorische Elemente sowie historische und kulturelle Zusammenhänge und strukturelle Unterschiede sauber ausgearbeitet und sichtbar gemacht werden können. Damit leistet diese Arbeit einen Beitrag sowohl zum noch spärlich ergründeten Feld der Remakeforschung als auch zur Debatte um die Existenz und Funktionsweise von Filmstrukturen.

Zugl.: Regensburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

A contemporaneidade aponta para uma nova concepção do risco. Passa-se de uma idéia de controle e racionalidade para uma idéia de incerteza e probabilidades. Essas transformações refletem no sistema do direito, que é obrigado a decidir e enfrentar os problemas da sociedade atual. A forma como as matrizes do direito têm lidado com o risco são objeto desta pesquisa. Diante desse contexto, apresenta-se o caso do avanço da tecnologia, mais precisamente o uso polêmico das células-tronco como uma questão que o direito deve responder. Reflexões sobre a incerteza e a contingência do uso dessas tecnologias serão feitas a fim de verificar o uso sistêmico do direito como modo de observar a complexidade envolvida na questão, utilizando-se, para isso do substrato oferecido pela teoria de Beck, Giddens e Luhmann. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-12T19:45:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Busanello Ferreira.pdf: 1040294 bytes, checksum: 4551584dffb7869cc55f230346c9deb7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-12T19:45:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Busanello Ferreira.pdf: 1040294 bytes, checksum: 4551584dffb7869cc55f230346c9deb7 (MD5) / The contemporanity points with respect to a new conception of the risk. One transfers of an idea of control and rationality for an uncertainty idea and probabilities. These transformations reflect in the system of the right that is obliged to decide and to face the problems of the current society. The form as the matrices of the right has dealt with the risk is object of this research. Ahead of this context, the case of the advance of the technology, more necessarily is presented, the controversial use of the stem cells as a question that the right must answer. Reflections on the uncertainty and the contingency of the use of these technologies will be made in order to verify the sistemic use of the right as way to observe the involved complexity in the question, using for this the theory by Beck, Giddens and Luhmann.

A contemporaneidade aponta para uma nova concepção do risco. Passa-se de uma idéia de controle e racionalidade para uma idéia de incerteza e probabilidades. Essas transformações refletem no sistema do direito, que é obrigado a decidir e enfrentar os problemas da sociedade atual. A forma como as matrizes do direito têm lidado com o risco são objeto desta pesquisa. Diante desse contexto, apresenta-se o caso do avanço da tecnologia, mais precisamente o uso polêmico das células-tronco como uma questão que o direito deve responder. Reflexões sobre a incerteza e a contingência do uso dessas tecnologias serão feitas a fim de verificar o uso sistêmico do direito como modo de observar a complexidade envolvida na questão, utilizando-se, para isso do substrato oferecido pela teoria de Beck, Giddens e Luhmann. / The contemporanity points with respect to a new conception of the risk. One transfers of an idea of control and rationality for an uncertainty idea and probabilities. These transformations reflect in the system of the right that is obliged to decide and to face the problems of the current society. The form as the matrices of the right has dealt with the risk is object of this research. Ahead of this context, the case of the advance of the technology, more necessarily is presented, the controversial use of the stem cells as a question that the right must answer. Reflections on the uncertainty and the contingency of the use of these technologies will be made in order to verify the sistemic use of the right as way to observe the involved complexity in the question, using for this the theory by Beck, Giddens and Luhmann.