Science, Technology and Culture [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910667720403321
• Autore: Bell David <1965 February 12->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007
• ISBN: 1-280-95071-4; 0-335-22419-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.483; 306.45
• Soggetti: Science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Issues; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Glossary of Key Terms; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear war to microwave o

Basiskomponenten der persönlichkeit / / Suitbert Ertel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141152203321
• Autore: Ertel Suitbert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011; Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2011
• ISBN: 9783863950392
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations
• Soggetti: Social Sciences; Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Thurstone's principle of simple structure is rejected and replaced by its converse, the principle of complex structure. Varimax, the popular simple structure rotation of factors, is replaced by varimin, a novel procedure taking account of the complexity of investigated variables (s. Ertel, 2011). An exploratory factor analysis of a similarity matrix of 16 kinship terms showed that expected semantic features (sex, generation, nuclear family, lineality) manifest themselves by varimin rotation,while distorted clusters of kinship terms are obtained by varimax rotation. Varimin rotation was also applied to five PCA-factors obtained from 30 facet variables of NEO-PI-R (Ostendorf & Angleitner, 2004). As expected, variminrotated factors do not replicate the Big-Five factors neuroticism, extraversion, etc., they rather reveal basic componential features (usually called „dimensions‟): activation level (high-low), activation slope (ascending-descending), source of regulation (endodynamic- exodynamic), phenomenal quality (endomodal-exomodal), and functionality (eufunctional vs. dysfunctional). The well-known Big-Five factors represent clusters of those features rather than simple dimensions. Sensation seeking, internalexternal control, i. e. further constructs of simple structure- oriented research, are likewise conceivable as patterns of functioning based on those five componential features. The validity of the five ; features obtained by varimin has largely been confirmed by rankings of the 30 NEO-PI-R facets using the features as judgmental criteria. Replacing Thurstonian simple structure by procedures aiming at complex structure might help to generate a systemic architecture in the personality and individual differences domains. More psychological functioning might be made transparent by modelling patterns of basic features.; Seit über 70 Jahren kursieren in der Psychologie faktorenanalytische Modelle der Persönlichkeit. Methodologische Kontroversen, die jahrzehntelang die Szene beherrschten, wurden seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten von einem zunehmenden Konsens abgelöst. Das Fünf-Faktoren-Modell (FFM) hat die Vorherrschaft gewonnen. Das FFM ist indessen mit schwerwiegenden Mängeln behaftet, was die theoretische Deutung der fünf Dimensionen betrifft. Der Verfasser hat dafür einen bislang unerkannten Fehler in den Grundauffassungen der Psychometrie verantwortlich machen können (Ertel, 2011). In seiner vorliegenden Schrift wird die Szene der methodisch und theoretisch mangelhaften Persönlichkeitsforschung aufgerollt. Ein neues Verfahren der Faktorenrotation (Varimin) wird eingesetzt, das im Unterschied zur bisherigen Modellierung, das sich dem Prinzip der Einfachstruktur verschrieben hatte, der Komplexität der analysierten Variablen Rechnung trägt. Das Verfahren, das für die faktorenanalytische Forschung ein neues Paradigma eröffnet, ermittelt Varianzquellen der Persönlichkeit, die als Basiskomponenten eines psychophysischen Ganzen eine funktionale Einheit erkennen lassen. Damit werden die Hindernisse überwunden, die einem theoretischen Verständnis der Ergebnisse faktorenanalytischer Persönlichkeitsforschung bisher im Wege standen.

Xenoi : immagine e parola tra razzismi antichi e moderni : atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Cagliari, 3-6 febbraio 2010 / / a cura di Andrea Cannas, Tatiana Cossu, Marco Giuman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910135633603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liguori Editore
• Edizione: [1. ed. italiana.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 406 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm
• Collana: Scienze storiche ; ; 24; Domini
• Altri autori (Persone): CannasAndrea; CossuTatiana; GiumanMarco <1967->
• Soggetti: Racism - History; Racism in literature; Racism and the arts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Quali sono le premesse ideologiche dei razzismi moderni e contemporanei? Come immagini e parole sono stati utilizzati dai poteri di ieri, anche del lontano passato, e di oggi per costruire discorsi e visioni del mondo razziste, che legittimassero politiche e pratiche di emarginazione, di esclusione, di discriminazione di gruppi umani? Come i media contribuiscono a diffondere stereotipi culturali e processi di naturalizzazione delle differenze? Tutte questioni che archeologi, storici, letterati e antropologi culturali trattano nelle cinque sezioni tematiche di questo libro in cui sono analizzati il mito "del sangue e del suolo", l'invenzione della razza e il nazifascismo, la costruzione dello straniero e del nemico nei media e nelle opere letterarie, il razzismo e i nazionalismi, e infine uno sguardo particolare è dedicato alla Sardegna.