Om tidens värde [Elektronisk resurs] : en sociologisk studie av senmodernitetens temporala livsvärldar

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2010</p

Om tidens värde [Elektronisk resurs] : en sociologisk studie av senmodernitetens temporala livsvärldar

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2010</p

About the value of time : A sociological study of the temporal life worlds of late modernity

This dissertation explores the relationship between people’s conceptualisation and use of time in everyday life against the background of the political economy of the late modern welfare state. The main focus lies upon their evaluation of different time-uses in order to approach a better understanding of the moral economy of time. Special consideration is given to the role of commodification of time and the experience of time scarcity. Another topic investigated is the association of time with the striving for ecological sustainability in everyday live. The study is based upon three empirical materials. The first one consists of a subset of Statistic Sweden’s time-use database for inhabitants of Stockholm. The other two materials are qualitative interview studies. One was conducted with 85 unemployed people in Sörmland and Jämtland, the other with 45 inhabitants of Stockholm. The interviewees in the latter study were asked to consider two options for the future of welfare politics in Sweden: increasing wages combined with the same work hours as today or a substantial decrease in working hours accompanied by stagnating wages. Many interviewees consider time scarcity to be an important issue that needs to be integrated into the traditional concept of welfare. Time conflicts in everyday life, also regarding the choice of sustainable options, are solved with a certain moral flexibility still dominated by work ethics. Some interviewees try to articulate counter-images to the commodified concept of time by challenging traditional conceptions of the value of time and envision an ecological sound time use. These attempts draw attention to the importance of temporal commons such as vacations and also the need for a conscious time-politics in order to strengthen temporal welfare

Om tidens värde [Elektronisk resurs] : en sociologisk studie av senmodernitetens temporala livsvärldar

<p>Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2010</p

Carstairs Douglas (1830-1877) and his Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (1873)

This paper traces the life and achievements of the Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas (1830–1877), especially his contributions to the mission in Amoy (Xiamen廈門). It also includes a contextualized description and evaluation of his dictionary of the spoken language of Amoy (1873), a reference work that may still be used with some benefit by students of the Southern Hokkien (Minnanhua) language

Inledning

Det här specialnumret, den fjärde volymen i serien Det vita fältet som samlar svensk och internationell forskning om högerextremism, utgår ifrån den berömda boken The Authoritarian Personality från 1950 av Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson och R. Nevitt Sanford. I en tid när högerpopulism och högerextremism åter växer sig starka på båda sidor av Atlanten har den bokens huvudfråga om vad som gör människor mottagliga för fascistisk propaganda fått en ny och skrämmande aktualitet. Numret innehåller förutom översatta kapitel av Adorno och Frenkel-Brunswik också flera omfattande kommenterande artiklar av Anders Ramsay, Mats Deland, Paul Fuehrer och Erik Hansson om bakgrunds- och tillkomsthistorien för boken tillsammans med analyser av vad den verkligen försöker säga oss samt dess inflytande på senare forskning

Inledning

Det här specialnumret, den fjärde volymen i serien Det vita fältet som samlar svensk och internationell forskning om högerextremism, utgår ifrån den berömda boken The Authoritarian Personality från 1950 av Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson och R. Nevitt Sanford. I en tid när högerpopulism och högerextremism åter växer sig starka på båda sidor av Atlanten har den bokens huvudfråga om vad som gör människor mottagliga för fascistisk propaganda fått en ny och skrämmande aktualitet. Numret innehåller förutom översatta kapitel av Adorno och Frenkel-Brunswik också flera omfattande kommenterande artiklar av Anders Ramsay, Mats Deland, Paul Fuehrer och Erik Hansson om bakgrunds- och tillkomsthistorien för boken tillsammans med analyser av vad den verkligen försöker säga oss samt dess inflytande på senare forskning

AN IMPROVED TELEMETRY SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AN OFF-ROAD RACECAR

The University of Arizona Baja Racing Team competes annually in a grueling off-road racing competition designed to test the durability of each team’s vehicle. For the last several years, we have been developing a custom telemetry system to monitor and analyze the performance of the vehicle in order to provide live diagnostics to the pit crew and driver, as well as to inform future designs. This year, we have redesigned the core of the system to be more modular and use more COTS parts in order to allow easier upgrade and repair, and have upgraded many existing sensors, added sensors to monitor driver vitals, improved the driver’s display, and embedded USB hubs in our power distribution boards to allow programming of all microcontrollers on the vehicle over a single USB interface. These changes will make future development easier and will produce far more data than we have had in previous generations.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection