Sökning: "standpoint epistemology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden standpoint epistemology.

1. 1. Humans in the loop - Mapping the current critical debate on AI in the Information Systems discipline

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Författare :Wibke Hannah Du Rietz; [2023]
   Nyckelord :AI; algorithm; ethics; epistemology; metatheory; IS research; sociotechnical perspective; research paradigm; critical research; literature review; content analysis; thematic analysis; abduction; abductive approach; socioanalysis; Bourdieu;

   Sammanfattning : AI is a phenomenon that does not only manifest itself as a disruptive technology, but also entails a paradigmatic shift with conceivably unprecedented and unforeseeable consequences for society and the human condition. This technology with its components Big Data and Machine Learning/algorithms has evoked critical reactions because of ethical concerns that follow on the backwash of its ubiquitous and ever more expanding use. LÄS MER

3. 2. Identifying the Barriers to Pre-owned Fashion: A Consumer Perspective

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Alicia Larsson; Cajsa Schoultz; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Consumer Behavior; Pre-owned Shopping; Multichannel Retail; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : Thesis Purpose: This study aims to enhance the understanding of factors that discourage consumers from buying pre-owned fashion in a multichannel retail setting. Methodology: Rooted in a qualitative and exploratory method, this study is further guided by an abductive approach. LÄS MER

4. 3. 'Blood of a Woman' : A Critical Reevaluation of the Traditional Views on Menstrual Impurity in Akkadian Terminology

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Författare :Disa Lindholm; [2022]
   Nyckelord :menstruation; Akkadian; impurity; research bias; Ancient Mesopotamia; Translation; Standpoint theory; menstruation; akkadiska; orenhet; Mesopotamien; översättning; forskningsbias;

   Sammanfattning : Assyriology as a field of study has long been dominated by the ideas and values of the white, Western men who, during the 19th century, were responsible for the development and growth of all scientific research. This has resulted in a resilient androcentric bias in the discipline, which to this day continues to influence scholarly perceptions of Ancient Mesopotamian society - and particularly of Mesopotamian women. LÄS MER

5. 4. The World’s oldest Profession does Not have a Place in Modern Feminist society – a qualitative analysis of Talita and KOK e.V.’s described work for trafficking and prostitution victims

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Thania Persson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Human trafficking; prostitution; undocumented migrants; feminism;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to compare organisations that help victims from human trafficking and prostitution with a focus on undocumented migrants. Germany is one of the chosen countries in this study because of the legalised and regulated prostitution policy and will be compared with Sweden with the contrasting policy in which sex purchase is criminalised but not to sell sex. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Food Waste Paradox from a Critical Discursive Perspective

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Författare :Maria Constanza Hepp; [2016]
   Nyckelord :food waste; critical discourse analysis; activist research; standpoint epistemology; social change; discursive change; capitalist-economic discourse; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : According to data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) one third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste. This phenomenon is both normalized and socially obscured within a discursive regime that is materially sustained in the squander of natural resources, the most severe consequence of which is an overall threat to the life-support system of the planet. LÄS MER