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Historians of Technology in the Real World: Reflections on the Pursuit of Policy-Oriented History
Historians of Technology in the Real World: Reflections on the Pursuit of Policy-Oriented History Richard F. Hirsh Technology and Culture, Volume 52, Number 1, January 2011, pp. 6-20 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press DOI: 10.1353/tech.2011.0039 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tech/summary/v052/52.1.hirsh.html Access provided by Virginia Polytechnic Inst. __ACCESS_STATEMENT__ St.University __ACCESS_STATEMENT__ (Viva) (6 Feb 2014 13:11 GMT) 02_52.1hirsh 6–20:03_49.3dobraszczyk 568– 1/22/11 7:49 AM Page 6 Historians of Technology in the Real World Reflections on the Pursuit of Policy-Oriented History RICHARDF.HIRSH Nearly all historians writing about their craft begin by explaining the value of studying the past. According to the authors of a popular primer, history represents a collective memory that provides an awareness of past events, helping us shape our present and future.1 History has great practical signif- icance, notes another academic, because “intelligent action” draws on past experience.2 As a consequence of the way pedagogues extol the relevance of their work, many high-school students can paraphrase Santayana’s dictum that “[t]hose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”3 Despite widespread acceptance of the notion that history provides tan- gible benefits, historians usually remain reluctant to apply “lessons” to real- world situations, especially in the realms of public and business policy. Eager to be viewed as unbiased, dispassionate observers of events, most aca- demic historians seem happy to write primarily for their peers. -
Future Perspective of Electric Bicycles in Sustainable Mobility in China By
Future Perspective of Electric Bicycles in Sustainable Mobility in China by Xiao Lin A Thesis Submitted in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Cardiff University Logistics and Operations Management Section of Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University July 2016 “Before we can even ask how things might go wrong, we must first explain how they could ever go right.” – F. A. Hayek 1 DECLARATION This work has not previously been accepted in substance for any degree and is not concurrently submitted in candidature for any degree. Signed ……… ………………………………………. (candidate) Date ………05/09/2016………………… STATEMENT 1 This thesis is being submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of ……………PhD……………(insert MCh, Md, MPhil, PhD etc, as appropriate) Signed ……… ………………………………………. (candidate) Date ………05/09/2016………………… STATEMENT 2 This thesis is the result of my own independent work/investigation, except where otherwise stated. Other sources are acknowledged by footnotes giving explicit references. Signed ……… ……………………………………. (candidate) Date ………05/09/2016………………… STATEMENT 3 I hereby give consent for my thesis, if accepted, to be available for photocopying and for inter-library loan, and for the title and summary to be made available to outside organisations. Signed ……… ……………………………………. (candidate) Date ………05/09/2016………………… I Abstract The thesis seeks to analyse the electric bicycle (e-bike) transition phenomenon in China by applying the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) Transition Theory and Multi-scalar -
Tribhuvan University Critique of Capitalist Ideology in Henrik Ibsen's
Tribhuvan University Critique of Capitalist Ideology in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People A Thesis Proposal submitted to the department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Degree of Master of Arts in English By Kalpana Tandan Roll No.400313(2070-071) T.U Regd. No: 6-2-503-8-2008 July 2018 Contents Declaration II Letter of Approval III Acknowledgements IV Abstract V 1. Critique of Capitalist Ideology in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People 1-27 1.1 The Capitalist Ideology in the Text 2-3 1.2 Ideology as False Consciousness 3-11 1.3 Protest against Capitalism 11-14 1.4 Ideology as a Binding Force 14-18 1.5 Hegemonic Oppression 18-24 1.6 Awareness of Injustice 24- 27 Works Cited Declaration I hereby declare that the thesis entitled "Critique of Capitalist Ideology in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People"is my own original work carried out as a Master's student at the department of English at Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus except to the extent that assistance from others in the thesis design and conception in the presentation, style and linguistic expression are duly acknowledged. All the sources used for the thesis have been fully and properly cited. It contains no material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any award of any other degree at Tribhuvan University or any other educational institutions, except where due Acknowledgement is made in the thesis. -
Social Representations of Self and Society. a Cross-Cultural Investigation in Britain and Japan
SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF AND SOCIETY. A CROSS-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION IN BRITAIN AND JAPAN Yukiko Kuwahara Thesis submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Department of Psychology School of Human Sciences University of Surrey November 2004 1 Summary The theory of Individualism and Collectivism (I-C) has been pervasively used in the cross-cultural investigation as a dimension, making a typology of culture. In this project, cross-cultural differences were investigated in how people talk about their society and how the meanings of self are constructed among British and Japanese nationals, from the perspective of Social Representation Theory (Moscovici, 1984, 1988, 1998, 2001). Moreover, how individualistic and collectivistic characteristics are reflected in such representations was investigated. The approach to identity, proposed by Chryssochoou (2003), which assumes a cyclical relationship among Self-knowledge, Self-claim and Recognition to construct the sense of self, was used to investigate social representation of identity. Three empirical studies were conducted in order to investigate representation of society and identity. The first study investigated the social context in which the meaning of self is constructed and the 'Self-knowledge'. A series of semi-structured interviews were performed with British and Japanese women in order to elicit the belief about the society and success. Data was analysed by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 1996), in order to understand participants' subjective experience of their society and success. The second study investigated the 'Self-claim' and the social norms reflected in the way people describe themselves in different contexts. 11 Twenty Statement Test (Kuhn and McPartland, 1954) was used to elicit 10 self-expressions from 106 British and 151 Japanese women university students. -
Saint Jacques: Derrida and the Ghost of Marxism
Saint Jacques: Derrida and the Ghost of Marxism David Bedggood Introduction For the bourgeoisie, the collapse of "communism" made the world-historic victory of capitalism seem certain. Yet the contradictions of capitalism immediately called the new world order into question as globalisation brought with it what Jacques Derrida calls the "10 plagues". Apologists for capitalism are now fearful of the return of Marx's ghost. George Soros sees the ghost in the form of the anarchy of finance capital. Anthony Giddens sees the ghost in the rise of left or right fundamentalist ideology. Without realising it, they pose the problem in terms familiar to Marxists: the contradiction between dead and living labour and the rise of the dead reclaimed by the living. But is there a way out for capitalism? Jacques Derrida enters the fray with his book Specters of Marx. He returns to Marx, or at least, "one spirit" of Marx in the German Ideology. This is the "spirit" of Marx which became lost to totalitarian Marxism -- the "spirit" rediscovered in the extreme individualism of Max Stirner, who deluded himself that he was a free floating "unique" ego not subject to any social laws. By reclaiming the powers of alienated social being from the Hegelian god, Stirner worshipped his self as his personal god. By rediscovering this formerly unnoticed "spirit" of Marx, Derrida claims to find a way out of capitalism's plagues with the call for a "new International". Not a Marxist International on the side of living labour, but rather a reworked messianism of the religion of the abstract ego. -
On Flew's Compatibilism and His Objections to Theistic Libertarianism
On Flew’s Compatibilism and His Objections to Theistic Libertarianism 2015/25 115 Kaygı Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi Uludağ University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Journal of Philosophy Sayı 25 / Issue 25│Bahar 2015 / Fall 2015 ISSN: 1303-4251 Research Article Araştırma Makalesi Hakan GUNDOGDU* Doç.Dr. | Assoc.Prof.Dr. Gazi University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Ankara-Turkey [email protected] On Flew’s Compatibilism and His Objections to Theistic Libertarianism Abstract Flew strongly defends a compatibilist thesis in the free will debate before going on to totally object to theistic libertarianism. His objections basically rely on his compatibilism embracing the notion of agent causation, which is not very common in compatibilist theses. Since he is a strong proponent of ordinary language philosophy, he also holds that linguistic analyses can certainly solve the free will problem as well as many other problems of philosophy. In doing so, he first uses the paradigm cases based on our common sense experience and then assumes the verity of principle of alternative possibilities. This study attempts to show, on the one hand, that there are some serious difficulties in both his justification of compatibilism and his objections to theistic libertarianism, and on the other hand, that he cannot easily defend both at the same time. Keywords Antony Flew, Compatibilism, Free-Will, Agent, Causation, Theistic Libertarianism, Paradigm Case Argument, Principle of Alternative Possibility. * This study was funded by the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK): 2219 / 1059B191400716. On Flew’s Compatibilism and His Objections to Theistic Libertarianism 116 2015/25 1. -
Jonathan White the Social Theory of Mass Politics
Jonathan White The social theory of mass politics Article (Accepted version) (Refereed) Original citation: White, Jonathan (2009) The social theory of mass politics. Journal of Politics, 71 (1). pp. 96-112. ISSN 1468-2508 DOI: 10.1017/S0022381608090075 © 2009 Cambridge University Press This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/23528/ Available in LSE Research Online: January 2016 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. WHITE The Social Theory of Mass Politics Journal of Politics 71 (1). 96-112 Jonathan White (LSE) Abstract This paper argues the study of mass politics is currently weakened by its separation from debates in social theory. A preliminary attempt at reconnection is made. The implications of an interpretative turn in social theorising are explored, and the interpretative perspectives of mentalism, intersubjectivism, textualism and practice theory examined in detail, in particular regarding how they and their equivalents in political study differ on units of analysis and how to understand one of the key social practices, language. -
How Are Radical Innovations Developed? an Analytical Framework to Examine Radical Innovations Based on the Values of Cohesion Approach
Paper to be presented at the DRUID 2012 on June 19 to June 21 at CBS, Copenhagen, Denmark, How are radical innovations developed? An analytical framework to examine radical innovations based on the Values of Cohesion approach. LUCIA HELENA H. T. VIEGAS Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos - FINEP The Brazilian Agency of Innovation [email protected] JOSÉ VITOR BOMTEMPO Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Escola de Química, Área de Gestão e Inovação Tecnológi [email protected] Abstract Our research proposes an analytical framework to examine radical innovations in the Kuhnian sense, based on the comprehension of the values of cohesion of a paradigm. We define radical innovation as the resultant of both a mode of production as a systemic conformation, and an institutional mode. Our research complements existing systemic studies on radical innovations, but under a different vision. Our approach takes into account the structural dimension that maintains a paradigm cohesive. The proposed framework is grounded on the structuralist approach, typical of studies of Human/Social Sciences (e.g., the works of Cl. Lévi-Strauss, F. de Saussure, W. Dilthey). This perspective enables the study of those factors that are manifested as a virtuality: as a belief, an ideological symbol, a cultural value, etc. Our framework was conceived to capture the virtualities, which express the conditions for the development of radical innovations. The proposed analytical framework based on values of cohesion - VCF is constituted of three analytical dimensions: the wheel of relationships, the force of cohesion, and the steps of transmission. The proposed VCF was validated to examine the potential for radical innovation in the change of raw materials sources for the Brazilian chemical industry, from fossils to renewables. -
1997 Getting Technologies Together Introd.Pdf
1 INTRODUCTION Cornelis Disco and Barend van der Meulen In 1970 the United States Atomic Energy Commission announced a plan to bury long-term radioactive waste in the salt mines of Lyons, Kansas. Ten years of careful investigation had demonstrated the safety of salt mine disposal and the suitability of Lyons as a trial site. Public acceptance seemed a matter of course. However, efforts to implement the plan aroused a major public outcry. A well- researched and presumptively routine technology became a practical impossibility. What had gone wrong? Since its founding shortly after World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission had done its best to monopolize decision-making on nuclear waste disposal. Accordingly it had worked out a highly ‘bureaucratic’ and ‘technological’ solution for radwaste disposal which excluded other organizations and groups. Against the background of this legacy, Lyons was a bridge too far. The Atomic Energy Commissions actions there produced a vocal opposition composed of both old and new opponents. Lacking allies, the Atomic Energy Commission was forced to recall its carefully constructed plans (De la Bruhèze). In 1985 the famous cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II was renovated. Among other things the owners were interested in upgrading the efficiency of the propeller system. An entirely new type of propeller system was proudly presented at conferences as an example of the manufacturer’s capabilities. However, at the sea trials of the renovated Queen Elizabeth II the propeller blades broke off. Two years later, the manufacturer was able to market a similar propeller system only after assuring the public that the entire design process had been overhauled. -
Justice for Juveniles
If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. )OS!, 7 JUSTICE FOR JUVENILES Charles E. Springer Vice-Chief Justice Supreme Court of Nevada ~ " :tment of Justice lvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention OJJDP Ie * JUSTICE FOR JUVENILES Charles E. Springer Vice-Chief Justice Supreme Court of Nevada U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention OJJDP II ,I;' - c :;;w '&-••1\'£:-.' ¥W, Charles E. Springer is Vice-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada. Prior to being commissioned to the Supreme Court, he was Juvenile Court Master for the Second Judicial District Court for the State of Nevada from 1973 to 1980. He has also served the State of Nevada as Attorney General. He received the Outstanding Service Award from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges in 1980 and has served on the Boards and Commissions of numerous civic and State organizations in an effort to improve the quality of justice for adults and juveniles . ........ * & & !MI',. u. S. ~partment of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention NmionallnslituJejiJr Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Juvenile Ju.rl;" Cfrorin8/w"''' NCJRS Box6000. Rochill<. MD 20lJjO Dear Colleague: "Justice for Juveniles" is a serious and deliberative look at the juvenile justice systeln, its philosophical and historical underpinnings, the strengths and weaknesses of today's system, and the implications for its future. Last year over 35,000 juveniles were arrested in this country for violent crimes, including murder, rape, and aggravated assault. The success of this office's e~forts to reduce juvenile crime and create a nlore secure society depends on the ready exchange of information and ideas among professionals in the field. -
The Age of Knowledge Studies in Critical Social Sciences
The Age of Knowledge Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series Editor David Fasenfest Wayne State University Editorial Board Chris Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside G. William Domhoff, University of California-Santa Cruz Colette Fagan, Manchester University Matha Gimenez, University of Colorado, Boulder Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University Karin Gottschall, University of Bremen Bob Jessop, Lancaster University Rhonda Levine, Colgate University Jacqueline O’Reilly, University of Brighton Mary Romero, Arizona State University Chizuko Ueno, University of Tokyo VOLUME 37 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/scss The Age of Knowledge The Dynamics of Universities, Knowledge and Society Edited by James Dzisah Henry Etzkowitz LEIDEN • BOSTON LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 Cover illustration: 1978 Triple Helix. © Henry Etzkowitz This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The age of knowledge : the dynamics of universities, knowledge & society / edited by James Dzisah, Henry Etzkowitz. p. cm. -- (Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 37) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-21102-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Universities and colleges--Social aspects. 2. Education, Higher--Social aspects. 3. Knowledge, Sociology of. I. Dzisah, James. II. Etzkowitz, Henry, 1940- LB2324.A34 2011 378.01--dc23 2011029425 ISSN 1573-4234 ISBN 978 90 04 21102 5 Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. -
THOMAS J. MISA Program in History of Science, Technology & Medicine University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 Tmisa [
THOMAS J. MISA Program in History of Science, Technology & Medicine University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 tmisa [at] umn.edu tjmisa.com twitter: @tjmisa8 Education University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Science, 1987. Dissertation: “Science, Technology, and Industrial Structure: Steelmaking in America, 1870-1925.” Dissertation advisor Thomas P. Hughes. M.A., 1983. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. S.B. in Applied Biology, 1981; minor in STS. Awards, Fellowships and Grants Listed in Directory of American Scholars; Contemporary Authors; Who’s Who in America; Writers Directory. Department of Energy/Los Alamos National Laboratory. Collaborative Research Project: High Performance Computing (HPC) at Los Alamos, 2014-19. University of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. “Collaborative Innovation and the Global Midwest: Inter-disciplinary Design and Envisioning Prairie Futures.” 2015-17 [consortium with Illinois and Purdue] Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985)” 2014-16. National Science Foundation. “Technology and Modernity” 1999-2000. “Technology and the Making of 20th Century Europe” 2002-6. “Research Methods for Contemporary History of Computing” 2007-8. “Designing and Using FastLane: Lessons for Cyberinfrastructures” 2008-12. “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History” 2011-15. Society for the History of Technology. Dexter Prize, 1997. <www.jstor.org/stable/1215899> IEEE Life Members Prize in Electrical History, 1987. <www.jstor.org/stable/3105281> Illinois Institute of Technology. Bauer Family Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1993. Lewis College Faculty Teaching Award, 1993. ERIF awards 1988, 1990-91, 1993-94. Hagley Museum and Library. Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.