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Modern RISC-Societies

No review available on this record. Title : Modern RISC-Societies Material Type: printed text Authors: Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj, Editor ; Karl H. Müller, Editor Publisher: Wien : edition echoraum Publication Date: 2010 Pagination: 570 p. Layout: ill. Size: 23 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-3-901941-23-8 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-550) Includes index (p. 559-569) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Globalization - Social aspects Progress Risk-Sociological aspects Social structure Technology - Social aspects Class number: 303 Abstract: Between 2007 and 2009 the University of Ljubljana initiated a trans-disciplinary research program on rare events with strong societal repercussions and effects, which has been labeled as RISC-Program(rare incidents, strong consequences).In this process, the university established a small unit that sought to act as a catalyst for promoting trans-disciplinary research on rare events across a wide variety of domains both inside and outside the social sciences. The RISC-unit organized a series of talks, lectures, workshops and research activities, which highlighted the current knowledge frontiers on rare events as well as the available policy recommendations and best practices in reducing hazards and disasters related to rare events. From its overall goals, these RISC-activities were intended as a model for a new type of trans-disciplinary knowledge production that draws together expertise in the social, physical, biological and technical sciences to address urgent societal problems. The present volume summarizes he advances of these RISC-activities and points to the high relevance of the new RISC-based perspective on societal problems both at present and in the future. Contents note: An Overview on RISC-Research : RISC-Processes and Societal Coevolution: Towards a Common Framework; RISC Modeling and RISC Theory: A discussion of Zipf's law; Bubbles everywhere in human affairs; New models for generating power law distributions; RISC-Processes and their weak societal protection networks; Zipf's law in labor status transitions: new insights from Austrian labor market data; Self-reflexive, contagious, attraction-driven networks(SCANs):towards a new Transdisciplinary framework for RISC-Modeling; The organizing of promises: finance capital as Tensegrity system; The poverty of economic explanations RISC-Applications: Weather and Climate related natural hazards; The RISC potential of converging technologies; Risk, crisis and control: between fear and negligence; RISC-Prevention and damage control: Natural and other disasters: a social work perspective; Secondary disaster and social work; "Tsunami project": a case of a collaborative project between two universities; Seismic isolation for asymmetric building structures; Towards Inter- and Transdisciplinary forms of science: Socio-economics and a new scientific paradigm; Turning science transdisciplinary: Is it possible for the new concept of cross-disciplinary cooperation's to enter Slovenian science and policy; Approaches to Interdisciplinary collaborative research; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17055

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Towards a new kind of social science / Karl H. Müller

No review available on this record. Title : Towards a new kind of social science : social research in the context of science II ands RISC-societies Material Type: printed text Authors: Karl H. Müller, Author Publisher: Wien : edition echoraum Publication Date: 2012 Pagination: 259 p. Layout: ill. Size: 23 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-3-901941-39-9 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) Includes inddex (p. 255-259) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Risk-Sociological aspects Social sciences - Research Sociology - Methodology Class number: 300.727 Abstract: This volume is the result of a large research project which runs under the name EECO – LAB (Eastern European Co-operation on Labor), funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection of Austria. EECO-LAB has its main focus on the European Social Survey and on generating the Austrian data for the EES. The present volume compiles a series of jointly produced articles on ESS-data, on survey methodology and on the interpretation of survey data. The first major theme which provides also the necessary background focuses on an ongoing phase transition in the overall science landscapes from a traditional configuration under the name of Science I to an emergent assembly under the heading of Science II. This transition from Science I to Science II becomes the central issue of part I. Contents note: Introduction; Acknowledgments; Abstract; From Science I to science II; Science II and its impact on social research; New designs for survey research in the age of Science II; Social research within Contemporary RISC- Societies; Sources; Bibliography; Index; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20032

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8. Three Roads to Comparative research

No review available on this record. Title : Three Roads to Comparative research : analytical, visual and morphological Material Type: printed text Authors: Niko Toš, Editor ; Karl H. Müller, Editor Publisher: Wien : edition echoraum Publication Date: 2009 Series: Complexity - design - society No. 8 Pagination: 536 p. Size: 23 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-3-901941-17-7 General note: Includes bibliographical references and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Comparative research. Labor market Migration Class number: 331.5 Abstract: "Three roads to comparative research" is the result of a co-operating between Austria and its neighboring countries which runs under the title EECO-LAB(Eastern European Co-operating on Labour).EEC0-LAB is financed by the Federal ministry of labour, social affairs and consumer rotection (BMASK)in Austria since 2003 and has become an important platform for comparative analyses in Central, East and South-East Europe. Contents note: The analytical road to comparative research: Patterns of work flexibility in typical jobs in eastern and western Europe; Division of housework in European societies through the analysis of macro level factors; Attitudes towards immigrants and the effect of migration in European countries; Cure for loneliness? Social activity and its role in changing European societies; Life satisfaction, happiness and marital status in four central European countries: International comparison based on the European social survey; Women's role in the family: a comparative study; Children-to have or not to have: A question in the context of cross-national differences; An outline for a new concept of citizenship in a trans-national context; Trust in institutions of the system-European comparisons-and Slovenia; Types of non-electoral political participation in Europe; The visual rode to comparative research: Static patterns; Dynamic patterns; Complex patterns; The morphological road to comparative research: The third road for comparative research: Morphological designs; Towards new frontiers in comparative survey research Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17056

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Complexity design society, 2. Political Faces of Slovenia

No review available on this record. Collection Title: Complexity design society, 2 Title : Political Faces of Slovenia : political orientations and values at the end of the century : outlines based on Slovenian public opinion surveys Material Type: printed text Authors: Niko Toš, Editor ; Karl H. Müller, Editor Edition statement: 2nd edition Publisher: Wien : edition echoraum Publication Date: 2005 Pagination: 447 p. Layout: ill. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-3-901941-11-5 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-441) Includes index (p. 447-451) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Politics Politics and government Slovenia Social conditions Class number: 320 Abstract: I welcome this book as a particular proof of vitality of Slovenia's political and economic arrangements which enable the country to successfully take part in the development of the European Union. The comprehensive assessment of the past development of the European Union. The comprehensive assessment of the past development of Slovenia, the comparative nature of the study and the wide variety of the subjects analysed(social,gender,enviromental,religious etc.)which goes beyond pure analysis of the political system,give a fascinating overview of the Slovenian institutional "laboratory" as the authors call it.in this sense, I am convinced that the book will find the interest of both policy makers and political scientists not just in Slovenia but also across Europe. There is always something new moto learn and there is plenty of it in this book. Contents note: Part I : Political faces: The Slovenian Way to Democracy and Sovereignty; Beliefs in State or in the Usefulness of State?; Slovenian Identity: Interesting Landscapes of Values and Culture; Satisfaction with Democracy in Slovenia; Barriers of Democratic Consolidation; Slovenian Electorate-Formation or Renewal; Nationalism, National Identity and European Identity :The case of Slovenia from a Comparative Perspective; Impact Of Economic and Democratic Performance on Support for the Government; Value Divisions in the Light of Political Choices; Part II -Contexts: 10 EU Enlargement-The Case of Slovenia; Comparing Groups by Work Flexibility Across Eight Countries; The Stubbornness of Sexism in the Second Part of the Twentieth Century in Slovenia; Micro foundations of Risk Societies in Slovenia and Europe I: Basic Concepts and New Inequality Scales; Micro Foundations of Risk Societies in Slovenia and Europe II : Towards High Theory; Some Notes on the Sociological Issues of the Environment and Environmental Values; Comparative Analysis of Religiosity in Slovenia and Central and Eastern European Countries; Bibliography; Index Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17053

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