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Boigey, Philippe. "Essai de modélisation de la complexité sociale des projets et étude de cas." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU10027/document.
Full textThis research is intended to model project complexity, in an effort to better control its occurrence and, subsequently, improve how complexity is handled. This work addresses a dual management objective of project oversight and performance enhancement; it has been formulated from a series of convergent observations on the limitations (both theoretical and practical) of project management within contemporary settings. The research conducted focuses on reinserting into this management context the social dynamics central to project design. With such dynamics, the inherent complexity of social systems, along with the practical activities implemented or engendered by these systems, gets added back in, thus providing another perspective on the problems raised and their eventual resolution. Rather than denying their existence, variations or variability, social dynamics are reintroduced as of the project's early planning stages. This reintegration step played out in a systemic project approach is bolstered by a methodological approach capable of tracking dynamics and incorporating their evolution. Simulation possibilities also enter into play, offering perspective based on future scenario projections that benefit project management and the chances of project success
Lehoux-Fleury, Catherine. "L'influence de la reconnaissance sur la puissance d'agir : une approche biographique de personnes en situation de vulnérabilité." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCD085/document.
Full textThis PhD thesis studies the mechanisms which play a role in the development of the empowerment of people in a vulnerable situation. To this end, we base our approach on previous works in sociology, philosophy, linguistics, and also on our professional experiences in the socio-educative area which allowed us to collect testimonies of social workers and their patients.The author thus proceeded to twelve conversational exchanges with people with disabilities or in situations of precariousness. These exchanges are transcribed into an annex, which constitutes the second volume of this thesis, while the first volume provides their analysis via biographical research tools (socianalysis stemming from institutional analysis, analysis via Walter R. Heinz's categories : an analysis framework adapted by Christine Delory-Momberger). What is more, our experience is summarized and analyzed here via a professional investigation narrative account. We also show how a « Third Place » (a group of exchanges of practices) was used in order to, to quote Edgar Morin, « unfold the complexity » of the biographical approach and of the issue of the researcher’s implication.The entanglements between empowerment and social recognition are here embodied, in this research, by each person we interviewed. On this occasion, we revisit in particular some thoughts by Blaise Pascal, Hegel, Hannah Arendt, and the works of Paul Ricoeur, Axel Honneth, and Emmanuel Renault. This theoretical approach is accompanied by two concrete interactions with the CPAM (the main institution of the French Health System) and a group home for people with disabilities : We illustrate how, via the junction of our university point of view and our sensibility as a social worker, we have been able to convince these two institutions to adapt their approach and their perspectives
Bouffart, Sophie. "La possession comme lieu et mode d'expression de la complexité sociale : Le cas de Mayotte." Paris 10, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA100009.
Full textMayotte Island is at the junction of Bantu, Arabian, Malagasy and henceforth French influences. This little Muslim island will become the 101st French department, and then will be cast in a frantic economic and social development creating contradictions in its traditional values. In this context, several possession rituals evolve and present a great variety of spirits which are differently organised. This study tries to uncoil all the mechanisms and the implications of those possession rituals, at an intimate level as well as at a territorial and political level, passing through social management of this community which has multiple and tormented origins. This diversity in the number of rituals and the number of spirits allows the possession rituals to be a very malleable tool for the management of personal interactions, and a privileged medium for the treatment of the memory of the migratory origins of the population and passed historical events. Through the possession rituals, an individual and collective memory also finds its possible reusing and appropriate reinterpretation for its investment in the actual political life of Mayotte, facing new stakes of cultural disruptions. The possession rituals are less the final object of this study than an open window on the actual society of Mayotte and its reactivity
Crowley, John. "Immigration, "relations raciales" et mobilisations minoritaires au Royaume-Uni : la démocratie face à la complexité sociale." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995IEPP0002.
Full textThe difficulties encountered by political theory in providing a general foundation for democratic order lead its mainstream tradition to a more or less explicit requirement of social homogeneity that minority issues risk making irrelevant. Detailed analysis of British ethnic minority mobilization and of its politicization shows their interdependence and the close relation between the analytical and programmatic dimensions of their sociological understanding. This underlines the political content of identity processes and their indeterminate nature in a structurally complex environment characterized by dematerialization and enhanced reflexiveness of social consciousness. The theoretical necessity to take account of these factors means abandoning both the traditional logic of homogeneity and the new celebration of heterogeneity. This leads beyond the abstract foundation of democratic order towards a political conception of the management of diversity. At once inescapable and threatening, heterogeneity requires not so much theoretical subtlety as practical prudence
Berjot, Sophie. "Comment gérer la mauvaise réputation et comment rendre compte de la complexité de sa gestion : performances et rétablissement de l'identité positive." Paris 5, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA05H045.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on how stigmatized people selectively react to identity-threatening social contexts. More specifically, we attempted to identify the expressions of these strategies that people used in response to such threats in the domain of performance, in which "stereotype threat", manipulated by the task diagnosticity or by the visibility of the target's membership, is known to produce performance decrements (Steele & Aronson, 1995). We hypothesized that task diagnosticity and social visibility do not threat stigmatised people in the same way and hence do not induce identical strategy in response to threat. Because task diagnosticity makes personal identity threat salient, we think that stigmatised people will use a mobility strategy. When social identity is salient (because of the visibility of the group membership), we think that they'll use a creativity strategy. Additionally, when both types of threat are salient (personal and identity threat), they'll disengage from the situation (Crocker & Major, 1898). (. . . )
Vander, Linden Marc. "Archéologie, complexité sociale et histoire des idées: l'espace campaniforme en Europe au 3e millénaire avant notre ère." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211540.
Full textDal, Gilles. "Aux sources discursives du conflit social : confrontation des discours patronaux et syndicaux en matière de Sécurité Sociale durant les Trente Glorieuses : gestion de la complexité linguistique et institutionnelle de la Sécurité Sociale." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010607.
Full textKonan, Jérémy Konan. "Une socianalyse de l'intervention sociale dans le champ de la politique de la ville." Paris 8, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA084119.
Full textFrom the contemporary context of the urban policy, this thesis aims to question the dogmas and the experiences of positivist sociology in the field of social intervention
Lefèvre, Thomas. "Principes de méthodes " non classiques, non statistiques et massivement multivariées " et de réduction de la complexité. Applications en épidémiologie sociale et en médecine légale." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066336/document.
Full textSocial epidemiology and clinical legal medicine are hybrid objects that articulate several fields, accounting for social and interpersonal relationships. The complexity that characterizes them both is investigated through different viewpoints, scales and dimensions: the individual scale, the group scale and the society scale. The techniques used in biomedicine are not designed to properly deal with such a complexity, in a non-normative way. A wide range of alternative non-statistical, “non-classical” methods exist that can process simultaneously various dimensions so that we can reduce the apparent complexity of data while discovering scientific objects. Here, we present the principles and the use of clustering techniques, applied to social epidemiology. We applied different clustering techniques on data from the SIRS cohort to build a typology of healthcare utilization in the Paris metropolitan area. From an epistemological and technical viewpoint, we explain why these methods should take place beside other recognized but limited techniques such as randomized controlled trials. We introduce another but complementary kind of complexity reduction technique. The concept of intrinsic dimension is explained – the littlest dimension needed to describe properly data – and nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques are applied in clinical legal medicine. With these tools, we explore whether the integration of multiple information sources is relevant in age estimation of living migrants. Finally, we discuss the pros and cons of these methods, as well as the opportunities they may create for both fields of social epidemiology and clinical legal medicine
Baker, Jack. "Analyse des objets de parure pour explorer la diversité culturelle et sociale au cours du Gravettien en Europe." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Bordeaux, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024BORD0277.
Full textThe Gravettian (34–24 ka) is widely considered as the final Pan-European technocomplex before the regional fragmentation of the population following the Last Glacial Maxima. Personal ornaments have been shown to be powerful indicators of social status and cultural affiliation. Hitherto, the ubiquitous personal ornaments found in occupation and burial sites characterising the Gravettian have yet to be the subject of a comprehensive study. The primary aim of the PhD was to document the variability in bead-type associations and identify the mechanisms driving this diversity at both regional and European scales during the Gravettian period. Achieving this paved the way for the second aim: investigating the cultural geography of Gravettian communities. We first provide an in-depth analysis of the numerous personal ornaments coming from a key Gravettian funerary site, Cro-Magnon (Dordogne, France). Subsequently, we created a representative georeferenced bead database of Gravettian personal ornaments encompassing 164 types coming from over 130 sites across Europe and analyse it using multivariate and spatial statistical methods, such as principal coordinates analysis (PCoA), Neighbour-joining, Neighbour-net, seriation and Mantel correlations and correlograms. We then proceeded to compare and contrast the Gravettian personal ornaments with those coming from the preceding Aurignacian using similar analyses in addition to k-means clustering, perMANOVA and Archaeological Similarity Networks to investigate whether continuity existed between these two technocomplexes. Analysis of the personal ornaments found at Cro-Magnon revealed the existence of extensive exchange networks across the continent. Despite sharing similarities with ornaments from other nearby groups in Dordogne, the Cro-Magnon ornaments exhibit a distinctiveness, i.e., a small, rather than large, number of decorated ivory pendants and a large, rather than small, number of shell ornaments, that highlights this people’s desire to assert their unique identity within a broader symbolic context. The recalibration of the only available radiocarbon date for this site suggests that a more extensive dating campaign is necessary to chronologically attribute this iconic site accurately. The analysis of the European-scale Gravettian database reveals that this technocomplex was split into nine groups who wore different bead-type associations which were organized in an east-west cline across Europe. Whereas Gravettian groups from the east of Europe wore personal ornaments predominantly fashioned from ivory, stone and mammal carnivore teeth, groups from the west tended to wear beads made from 8 marine shells and mammal herbivore teeth. The observed differences in bead-type associations were shown to not be solely due to Isolation-by-Distance. From this we concluded that a sense of cultural belonging dictated the personal ornament types different groups of Gravettian people wore. Burial and occupation sites were characterised by distinct patterns of personal ornament associations. The observed difference between burial groups was higher than the difference between occupation groups. The comparison of the Gravettian and Aurignacian databases unveiled stark similarities in terms of personal ornament choices between the two technocomplexes. The Gravettian was characterised by regions of similar personal ornament associations which had over ten times the surface area and which were more interconnected than those of the Aurignacian. Personal ornaments types fully carved out of osseous and lithic material better marked the cultural divide between these two technocomplexes than those produced from minimally modified natural forms
Sambugaro, Jonathan. "Les conditions d'élaboration et d'énonciation d'une doctrine politico-stratégique dans les organisations pluralistes." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2090/document.
Full textThis doctoral research aims at understanding how pluralistic organizations that combine multiple institutional logics can engage in their deliberate transformation. It draws on pragmatist theories of rationality and of institutions to develop a novel perspective on strategy practices and processes in pluralistic organizations. Its results rely on fieldwork (ethnography and research-action) conducted within a French mutual insurance company, Macif, which is a key actor in the field of social economy. Firstly, this research identifies and analyzes the major obstacles that prevent pluralistic organizations from conducting such a transformation. Secondly, it conceptualizes and experiments ways to do so. Finally, this research suggests some methods for strategizing and organizing in pluralistic contexts
Ndayiziga, Honoré. "Territoires et mobilité durable : complexité, acteurs-réseaux et hybridation des pratiques au croisement de l'intelligence territoriale et du développement durable." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Toulon, 2019. http://bu.univ-tln.fr/userfiles/file/intranet/travuniv/theses/information_communication/2019/2019_Ndayiziga_Honore.pdf.
Full textWe actually do make, in our PhD research work, a tough choice on studying mobility at the crossroads of Territorial Intelligence Process and Sustainable Mobility through Communication Science sensitive approach with the help of IT (Information Technologies). Because mobility, or absence of, can lead to isolation (may be seclusion) or even exclusion, especially for the most vulnerable people, is a subject of high political and scientific relevance, raising questions and involving processes far beyond the usual and specific questions of transportation (Bonnet, Desjeux, 2000, p. 201). We stress the point about the link between « Territorial Intelligence and Sustainable Mobility » with a focus on shared displacement, goods and people, which means, and can be seen as, a social communication factor and development of territorial equilibrium; We conducted a simultaneous study both in East Africa and Euro Mediterranean space (PACA and Corsica), to recap learned lessons. Bertacchini, Girardot, and Grammacia (2006), shown Territorial Intelligence (IT) as a theory, posture, and bottom-up approach of collective intelligence based on citizen's approach of territorial development. And for that purpose, we underlined the need of action based on analysis of travel needs of residents and how to create new ways of structuring mobility offer through the development of communications suggested by Territorial Intelligence (IT), social cohesion, conviviality, equity, assumptions of IT and with the ability of communication to promote territorial mediation. For local stakeholders mobility is a matter of life and at the crossroads of their daily economic and social life, mobility is an issue with multiple challenges: impact on global warming, rights to mobility, economy development, jobs accessibility, town planning and environment, road safety and public health. The need for mobility can be addressed or even satisfied by several ways, either by responding to the need for mobility, or by providing a response to the mode of mobility. Thus, the transportation sector needs using information technology. These information technologies are studied through numerous ways on mobility and non-mobility, particularly focusing on how reducing physical displacements made necessary and call for the control of greenhouse gas emissions. Information technologies by hybridizing territories, as described within Territorial Intelligence assumptions, can be tools for a comprehensive and sustainable management of territorial displacements
Faye, El Hadji Malick. "Complexité attributionnelle et exactitude des attributions : appréciation du modèle de perception du leadership en Afrique sub-saharienne." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CNAM1230/document.
Full textThis thesis proposes an empirical test of the leadership attribution model based on the observation of leader-subordinate dyads in Senegal and France. This model focuses on key constructs such as attributional complexity and leader attribution accuracy, resulting behaviors, mediating variables such as subordinate satisfaction, performance corrective strategies, and outcome variables such as leadership perceptions. The model is tested using hierarchical regressions of direct effects and mediating effects of biased allocations. Our intention is to test the relationships from a sample of auditors in continuingeducation of higher education (in Senegal and France) and to determine according to our model and our research hypotheses, which constructs contribute the most to explain the attributional complexity of the leaders. This leads us to study the direct influence of the accuracy of the attributions, the effect of the corrective strategies and the satisfaction of the subordinates on the perception of the leadership. We will also test the role of biased assignments on the two mediating variables. Hypotheses are strongly corroborated. The attributional complexity of leaders is linked to the accuracy of their attributions, as perceived by their subordinates. The performance correction strategies developed by leaders have beenlinked to accurate attribution and then to key outcome variables. We analyze the results as well as the limits and future directions of the research. The managerial contributions are twofold: on the one hand, to take into account in the process of recruiting leaders their ability to adopt a complex attributional approach and, on the other hand, to train them to better support their subordinates
Ndayiziga, Honoré. "Territoires et mobilité durable : complexité, acteurs-réseaux et hybridation des pratiques au croisement de l'intelligence territoriale et du développement durable." Thesis, Toulon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOUL0002.
Full textWe actually do make, in our PhD research work, a tough choice on studying mobility at the crossroads of Territorial Intelligence Process and Sustainable Mobility through Communication Science sensitive approach with the help of IT (Information Technologies). Because mobility, or absence of, can lead to isolation (may be seclusion) or even exclusion, especially for the most vulnerable people, is a subject of high political and scientific relevance, raising questions and involving processes far beyond the usual and specific questions of transportation (Bonnet, Desjeux, 2000, p. 201). We stress the point about the link between « Territorial Intelligence and Sustainable Mobility » with a focus on shared displacement, goods and people, which means, and can be seen as, a social communication factor and development of territorial equilibrium; We conducted a simultaneous study both in East Africa and Euro Mediterranean space (PACA and Corsica), to recap learned lessons. Bertacchini, Girardot, and Grammacia (2006), shown Territorial Intelligence (IT) as a theory, posture, and bottom-up approach of collective intelligence based on citizen's approach of territorial development. And for that purpose, we underlined the need of action based on analysis of travel needs of residents and how to create new ways of structuring mobility offer through the development of communications suggested by Territorial Intelligence (IT), social cohesion, conviviality, equity, assumptions of IT and with the ability of communication to promote territorial mediation. For local stakeholders mobility is a matter of life and at the crossroads of their daily economic and social life, mobility is an issue with multiple challenges: impact on global warming, rights to mobility, economy development, jobs accessibility, town planning and environment, road safety and public health. The need for mobility can be addressed or even satisfied by several ways, either by responding to the need for mobility, or by providing a response to the mode of mobility. Thus, the transportation sector needs using information technology. These information technologies are studied through numerous ways on mobility and non-mobility, particularly focusing on how reducing physical displacements made necessary and call for the control of greenhouse gas emissions. Information technologies by hybridizing territories, as described within Territorial Intelligence assumptions, can be tools for a comprehensive and sustainable management of territorial displacements
Debray, Eva. "L’ordre social spontané : étude des phénomènes d’auto-organisation dans le champ social." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100019/document.
Full textThe starting point of this investigation in social theory is the observation of strong affinities that very different and somehow rival theories have with each other. These theories investigate the problem of social order, namely « how is it possible for human beings to live with each other in a relative peaceful situation? ». Furthermore, they all maintain that this order cannot emerge but unintentionally. The present research aims at setting the terms of a debate among these approaches and focuses in this respect on the theories of Baruch Spinoza, Blaise Pascal, Adam Smith, Émile Durkheim, Friedrich August von Hayek and Niklas Luhmann. Their respective approaches to self-organizing mechanisms rest on correspondingly various theoretical assumptions. Our purpose is to point out these assumptions. For instance, Hayek and Luhmann’s theories on the one hand and those of Spinoza, Pascal, Smith and Durkheim on the other strongly differ regarding their conception of the conditions of social order: while the former, on account of the specificities of modern societies, assume that their social order cannot essentially rest on a social control, the latter argue that passions, by misleading human beings, make this social control an essential condition of peaceful living together
Colijn, Caroline. "Addressing complexity, exploring social change through chaos and complexity theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43374.pdf.
Full textLacayo, Virginia. "Communicating Complexity: A Complexity Science Approach to Communication for Social Change." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1367522049.
Full textLoubet, Lilian. "Les maires confrontés à l'apprentissage de l'intercommunalité : l'exemple de l'agglomération toulousaine." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00638938.
Full textAttindéhou, Olivier-Charles Bernardin. "Penser l'instabilité socio-politique en Afrique subsaharienne. Examen des causes et revendication heuristique : la stabilité par le chaos. Les cas illustratifs de la Côte d'Ivoire et du Rwanda." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3053.
Full textSubsaharan Africa presents itself, involuntarily, like an area in the grip of a succession of crises, conflicts, civil wars. These negative externalities of sociopolitical instability are apprehended, often, by the means of the causal ritual. That's why, the terms "ethnic group", "identity" - when it isn't question of underdevelopment, or the injection of democratic deficit - near the commentators, in a cursory mention, are convened to explain the perceived disorder. Thus, the events of 1994 in Rwanda are brought back to a "ethnic" conflict Hutu/Tutsi; negleging consequently the acuity of the complexity of reality or failing this, that of the convergence of variables. And yet, while going down in this cognitive depth, any observer would note that sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa remains a construction in time and space, optimized by the unrepentant desire of power of the political actors. The historical structures, far from being true determinants, take part in the social construction of reality carrying ideas, rules, and practices representational which set up the necessary grammar of the social upheaval. Our present work, not only comes to examine the usually advanced causes, but is also opposed to the culturalist arguments mobilized for the explanation or the comprehension of sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa. This is why, we retain that the scientific accuracy related with the comprehension of sociopolitical mechanisitc movement in subsaharan Africa is function of the mode of knowledge of perceived reality. Consequently, we estimate that sociopolitical instability in subsaharan Africa, is an evolutionary dynamic process which, notwhithstanding, the strutural disorder, strives for a relative stationnarity, then absolute before the advent of stability
Liu, Li. "Pathways to Social Complexity in China." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113476.
Full textLos característicos rasgos del Neolítico se desarrollaron independientemente unos de otros durante un periodo muy largo en una amplia región de China. La cerámica es tan antigua como c. 19.000 A.P., en contextos del Paleolítico Tardío. A principios del Holoceno (c. 11.000 A.P.) ocurrió un cambio hacia un modo de vida sedentario y estuvo asociado con las poblaciones de cazadores-recolectores. El cerdo, el perro, el arroz y el mijo fueron domesticados alrededor de 9000 a 8000 A.P. por gente que antes dependía, en especial, de plantas y animales silvestres. Las aldeas agrícolas del Neolítico completamente desarrolladas no se establecieron si no hasta c. 7000 A.P. La economía agrícola fue el fundamento para el surgimiento de sociedades jerárquicas organizadas en las que existían grupos de elite que controlaban el poder político y ritual. A lo largo de los periodos Neolítico Medio y Tardío (7000-4000 A.P.) numerosas sociedades complejas se desarrollaron y pasaron por procesos de decadencia en gran parte del paisaje del territorio chino antes de la formación de los Estados tempranos en el segundo milenio a.C.
Di, Clemente Riccardo. "Essays on economic and social complexity." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2014. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/135/1/Di_Clemente_phdthesis.pdf.
Full textMedd, William Peter. "Complexity in the wild : complexity science and social systems; an ethnography of collaboration in social welfare provision." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323069.
Full textPatouma, Moidinecouty Marie Judith. "Médiation langagière en milieu pluriculturel et plurilingue : altérité, interactions, construction dynamique de la personne." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00576263.
Full textMillhouse, Penny. "Social facilitation, social loafing, and the influence of task complexity /." Adelaide, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsm653.pdf.
Full textFry, Christina Susan. "Language complexity, working memory and social intelligence." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275558.
Full textMiller, Kevin Peter. "Social identity complexity: new methods and directions." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407404783.
Full textPontoizeau, Thomas. "Community detection : computational complexity and approximation." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLED007/document.
Full textThis thesis deals with community detection in the context of social networks. A social network can be modeled by a graph in which vertices represent members, and edges represent relationships. In particular, I study four different definitions of a community. First, a community structure can be defined as a partition of the vertices such that each vertex has a greater proportion of neighbors in its part than in any other part. This definition can be adapted in order to study only one community. Then, a community can be viewed as a subgraph in which every two vertices are at distance 2 in this subgraph. Finally, in the context of online meetup services, I investigate a definition for potential communities in which members do not know each other but are related by their common neighbors. In regard to these proposed definitions, I study computational complexity and approximation within problems that either relate to the existence of such communities or to finding them in graphs
Preacher, Kristopher J. "Romantic Relationship Schema Complexity." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626191.
Full textLarge, David. "Complexity and communities : the application of complexity to community studies." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2015. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/25244/.
Full textRidley, Jo. "The population consequences of social complexity in birds." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399770.
Full textKaulicke, Peter. "Simplifying and Complicating Early Social Complexity: An Introduction." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113420.
Full textEste aporte aborda algunos problemas básicos relacionados con el origen de la complejidad social en el Perú antiguo y la complejidad inherente de definiciones centrales como domesticación y sedentarización. Asimismo, enfatiza la necesidad de incluir lo ‘no complejo’ en la discusión de la complejidad, y de enfocar la relevancia respectiva y la interrelación entre ‘lo simple’ y ‘lo complejo’. Más aún, la cronología pertinente usada en el Perú requiere de una uniformización y definiciones más precisas. Por último, se presentan los trabajos incluidos en este número.
Gill, Gerard Andrew. "Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54088.
Full textSantos, Ademar Alves dos. "Cyberbullying, mídia e educação à luz do pensamento complexo." Universidade Nove de Julho, 2017. http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1715.
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This thesis aims to study the phenomenon of cyberbullying in the virtual electronic media. As a multidimensional phenomenon, cyberbullying is closely linked to the exponential growth of information and communication technology. The aggressive, intimidating, systematic and recurring behaviors typify this kind of bullying, which was previously restricted to physical, school and non-school spaces, and today transcends into cyberspace. The analyses of this thesis are based on the complex thinking, proposed by Edgar Morin. Therefore, the study was developed in a qualitative approach. By examining cyberbullying in the cyberspace, this research is also characterized by the use of the ethnographic methodology. The data and information obtained were analyzed in the light of three categories of Morin’s thought: interactivity, complexity and simplification. This interpretative procedure was carried out according to the assumptions of the content analysis defined by Bardin (2010), taking as a universe of research, discourses that involve the cyberbullying phenomenon published by three major Brazilian newspapers and by three virtual communities on Facebook. The study showed that, in the contents of the newspapers and virtual communities analyzed, by promoting a fragmented and sensationalist approach to cyberbullying, these information vehicles promote the construction of a reductionist and therefore partial view of this phenomenon, disregarding its biological, social, cultural and psychological dimensions, elements that make up the totality of this social event.
Cette thèse a pour objet d'étude le phénomène cyberbullying dans les médias électroniques virtuels. Comme phénomène multidimensionnel, le cyberbullying est étroitement lié à la croissance exponentielle de la technologie de l'information et de la communication. Les comportements agressifs, intimidateurs, systématiques et récurrents, caractérisent ce type de bullying qui, auparavant limité aux espaces présentiels, scolaires et non scolaires, transcende aujourd'hui au cyberespace. Les analyses de cette thèse se reposent sur la pensée complexe proposée par Edgar Morin. Par conséquent, l'étude est développée dans une approche qualitative. Lors de l'étude du Cyberbullying, dans le cyberespace, cette recherche se caractérise également par l'utilisation de la méthodologie ethnographique. Les données et les informations obtenues ont été analysées au regard de trois catégories de pensée "moriniano": Interactivité, Complexité et Simplification. Cette procédure interprétative a été réalisée en accord avec les présupposés de l'analyse de contenu définis par Bardin (2010), prenant en compte des discours impliquant le phénomène cyberbullying publiés par trois grands journaux brésiliens et trois communautés virtuelles de Facebook. L'étude a démontré que, dans les contenus des journaux ou des communautés virtuelles analysés, en promouvant une approche fragmentée et sensationnaliste du Cyberbullying, ces véhicules d'information favorisent la construction d'une vision réductionniste et, donc partielle de ce phénomène, sans tenir compte des dimensions biologiques, sociales, culturelles et psychologiques, éléments qui composent tout cet événement social.
Esta tesis tiene como objeto de estudio al fenómeno de acoso virtual (cyberbullying), en los medios electrónicos virtuales. Como fenómeno multidimensional el acoso cibernético (cyberbullying), está estrechamente vinculado con el crecimiento exponencial de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación. El comportamiento agresivo y la intimidación sistemática y recurrente, tipifican este tipo de agresión que anteriormente se encontraba restringida a los espacios del aula, escolares o no, que hoy trasciende al ciberespacio. Los análisis de esta tesis se fundamentan em el pensamiento complejo propuesto por Edgar Morin. Por tanto, el estudio se desarrolló mediante un enfoque cualitativo. Al examinar el acoso cibernético en el ciberespacio, esta investigación también se caracteriza por el uso de la metodología etnográfica. Los datos e informaciones obtenidas fueron analizados sobre la óptica de tres categorías del pensamento moriniano: la interactividad, la complejidad y la simplificación. Ese procedimiento interpretativo se realizo de acuerdo con las condiciones definidas por Bardin (2010), tomando como universo de investigación discursos que incluyen al fenómeno del cyberbullying publicados por tres grandes revistas brasileñas y por tres comunidades virtuales del Facebook. El estudio demostro que en los contenidos de las revistas y comunidades virtuales analizadas, al promover un abordaje fragmentado y sensacionalista del acoso cibernético esos vehículos de información promueven la construcción de una visión reducionista y por tanto parcial de ese fenómeno, sin considerar sus dimensiones biológicas, sociales, culturales y psicológicas, elementos que componen la totalidade de ese evento social.
Esta tese tem como objeto de estudo o fenômeno cyberbullying na mídia eletrônica virtual. Enquanto fenômeno multidimensional, o cyberbullying está intimamente ligado ao crescimento exponencial da tecnologia da informação e da comunicação. Os comportamentos agressivos, intimidatórios, sistemáticos e recorrentes tipificam esse tipo de bullying, que, antes, restrito aos espaços presenciais, escolares e não escolares, transcende, hoje, para o ciberespaço. As análises desta tese fundamentam-se no pensamento complexo, proposto por Edgar Morin. Para tanto, o estudo desenvolveu-se numa abordagem qualitativa. Ao examinar o cyberbullying, no ciberespaço, esta pesquisa caracteriza-se também pelo uso da metodologia etnográfica. Os dados e informações obtidos foram analisados à luz de três categorias do pensamento moriniano: interatividade, complexidade e simplificação. Esse procedimento interpretativo realizou-se de acordo com os pressupostos da análise de conteúdo definidos por Bardin (2010), tomando como universo de investigação discursos que envolvem o fenômeno cyberbullying publicados por três grandes jornais brasileiros e por três comunidades virtuais do Facebook. O estudo demonstrou que, nos conteúdos dos jornais e comunidades virtuais analisados, ao promover uma abordagem fragmentada e sensacionalista do cyberbullying, esses veículos de informação promovem a construção de uma visão reducionista e, portanto, parcial desse fenômeno, desconsiderando suas dimensões biológicas, sociais, culturais e psicológicas, elementos que compõem a totalidade desse evento social.
Haynes, Philip. "Social complexity and government social care planning for the long term ill." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263978.
Full textSambugaro, Jonathan. "Les conditions d'élaboration et d'énonciation d'une doctrine politico-stratégique dans les organisations pluralistes." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2090.
Full textThis doctoral research aims at understanding how pluralistic organizations that combine multiple institutional logics can engage in their deliberate transformation. It draws on pragmatist theories of rationality and of institutions to develop a novel perspective on strategy practices and processes in pluralistic organizations. Its results rely on fieldwork (ethnography and research-action) conducted within a French mutual insurance company, Macif, which is a key actor in the field of social economy. Firstly, this research identifies and analyzes the major obstacles that prevent pluralistic organizations from conducting such a transformation. Secondly, it conceptualizes and experiments ways to do so. Finally, this research suggests some methods for strategizing and organizing in pluralistic contexts
Haynes, Paul. "Complexity and social change : two case studies in technology." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250551.
Full textMarin, Pérez José Aramis. "La construction de la valeur en entrepreneuriat social : proposition d’un modèle pour la conception d’une valeur globale." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0285/document.
Full textIn this thesis, we are interested in understanding how social entrepreneurs create value. Our goal is to model the process of value creation that we observed on a short supply chain project through an action research methodology. The sociology of translation and discourse analysis have been used to take into account the complexity of the definition, the perception and the process of sharing the value of a social enterprise project. We want to demonstrate that value creation in social entrepreneurship is an interactive, dynamic and complex translation process. It takes into account a multitude of visions and representations on the satisfaction of the needs of each stakeholder that will affect not only the design and the implementation of economic activity, but also their social and environmental impact. We have observed that social entrepreneurs construct the value of their project by identifying a social need, or by committing themselves to a societal ideal that they will incorporate into their values on a personal scale. This adoption process will determine the intentionality of their entrepreneurial action, the sustainability of which will depend on the support of their network and the overall coherence of the organization itself. We therefore proposed, at the field level, the improvement of a heuristic tool to support value creation and, at the theoretical level, a framework for understanding social entrepreneurship based on the actions of entrepreneurs and the perception of their stakeholders
Sarr, Serigne Momar. "Usages et conservation des communs en contexte de changement climatique dans le delta du Saloum au Sénégal." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAG028.
Full textThis PhD thesis explores the management and use of commons in relation to the collective benefits derived from their exploitation in the context of climate change in the Saloum Delta, in central-western Senegal. The research is based on a theoretical framework built on the theory of the governance of the commons, to which we combined approaches of psychosociology of social representations, socio-anthropology of development, and sociology of social transaction. The research was conducted in the Saloum Delta, which is formed by an interlacing of islands rich in biodiversity but vulnerable to climate change. In addition, social dynamics show the drive with which women, youth and development projects produce the everyday. Building on an epistemological posture based on the ‘paradigm’ of complex thought and the perspective of a ‘subjectal knowledge,’ the research methodology is primarily qualitative with an ethnographic approach. Based on a case study, the use of a set of tools (documentary review, observation, individual and group interviews) produced a diversity of discursive and factual data. The analysis of the data collected in the field was conducted with a focus on the following dimensions: organisational settings, action and interaction relations in collective action, intentionality and uncertainty of social practices, historicity, space, and forecasting. Research findings show that commons (fishery and forestry), despite a constraining context of climate change and the existence of differential social representations resulting from the presence of a multiplicity of actors in the Saloum Delta, are successfully managed by community organisations and groups of actors working together, including social, state and non-state actors. This is done through social transactions for the conservation of natural resources through a ‘negotiated order’ of sustainability on the one hand, and the uses of collective benefits derived from their exploitation to carry out community projects on the other hand. In fact, collective action of various social and institutional actors – which has been referred to as ‘socio-institutional connection’ – is a condition for the successful management of commons. It is also an adaption strategy to climate change by the social construct of space based on the historicity of the Niominka community – the main group in this region. Furthermore, relations among various actors and with environmental objects such as natural resources and space require the object of sociology to be extended and an interest in facts of nature after the psychosociological approach gains acceptance. For now, this is only possible with inter- and transdisciplinarity in environmental science starting from the concept of vulnerability
Lyxell, Adrian. "COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS OF A SOCIALLY AWARE BDI-AGENT." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-175903.
Full textNguyen, Trang, Robin Dirks, and Robin Woolner. "Looking in The Mirror - Social Labs and Evaluation in Complexity." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-16628.
Full textMarevesa, Tobias. "Social identity complexity and conflict-resolution in Luke and Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75261.
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Di, Felice Louisa Jane. "Energy systems are complex. Implications for science and for policy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671906.
Full textEsta tesis investiga las implicaciones de la complejidad para la producción de modelos de sistemas social-ecológicos y para la interfaz ciencia-política. Me centro en la política energética en la Unión Europea (UE), a través de estudios de casos desarrollados dentro del proyecto MAGIC de Horizonte 2020. A través de una serie de estudios de casos, desarrollo las herramientas necesarias para describir los sistemas energéticos a diversas escalas, cuestiono si las narrativas que sustentan la política energética de la UE son adecuadas para atender sus preocupaciones e inspeccionar el papel que juega el mundo académico en la configuración de estas narrativas. Las implicaciones metodológicas de la modelización de sistemas energéticos en la interfaz ciencia-política se abordan mediante un estudio de caso del sector energético de Cataluña. Basándose en la teoría de la jerarquía, el sistema energético de la región se describe en términos estructurales y en términos funcionales, mostrando como una descripción funcional es útil para guiar las cuestiones de política. Mediante la cartografía de las dimensiones del nexo entre niveles jerárquicos, este primer estudio de caso proporciona las herramientas para generar evaluaciones de nexos de manera abierta y transparente. En el segundo caso práctico, en colaboración con Zora Kovacic, me centro en la seguridad energética, uno de los pilares de la Unión Energética de la UE. nspeccionando las múltiples definiciones y dimensiones relacionadas con la seguridad energética en la literatura académica, argumentamos que la ambigüedad del término es funcional en la formulación de políticas y no es una cuestión que deba resolver con una mayor claridad definicional. Más bien, la ambigüedad está incrustada en la complejidad. Esto sugiere que la producción de definiciones e indicadores de seguridad energética en el mundo académico puede no ser útil para las políticas. El tercer estudio de caso analiza las narrativas que rodean los vehículos eléctricos en la UE. Las narrativas de políticas de los documentos de la UE se identifican mediante un análisis de texto y se asignan a niveles jerárquicos. Se introduce una taxonomía para clasificar las narrativas políticas, distinguiendo entre narrativas normativas, narrativas de justificación y narrativas explicativas. Mediante una revisión de estudios e informes existentes, se inspecciona la calidad de la constelación de narrativas que rodean los vehículos eléctricos, centrándose en la relación entre las narrativas normativas y de justificación. Los resultados muestran cómo esta relación es incierta en el mejor de los casos. Centrándose en el papel que juega la ciencia en la información de las políticas, señalan la necesidad de reconocer la manera en que las narrativas de políticas afectan y son afectadas por las académicas. El cuarto y más reciente estudio de caso es una ampliación del primero, presentado aquí como trabajo exploratorio en curso. Los metabolismos energéticos de España, Suecia y la UE se describen a través de holarquies, incluyendo cada rama del sistema energético (electricidad, calor, gas y combustibles). Este mapeo a gran escala se utiliza para debatir dos temas centrales en la política energética de la UE: la descarbonización y la externalización. Pongo en duda las narrativas de descarbonización de la UE y subrayo el conocimiento incómodo sobre la dependencia del sector energético de la UE en las importaciones.
This thesis investigates the implications of complexity for the production of models of social-ecological systems and for the science-policy interface. I focus on energy policy in the European Union (EU), through case studies developed within the Horizon 2020 project MAGIC. The way I refer to complexity builds on the work of Robert Rosen, who defined a complex system as one which can be described in non-equivalent and non-reducible ways. This powerful definition, which I refer to as Rosennian (or relational) complexity, calls for deep reflections on the way scientific knowledge is used to inform our image of the world and how we act upon that image. It focuses on the role played by observers in perceiving systems and in modelling them, through devices that I refer to as narratives. Narratives allow reducing the information space of complex reality into a manageable storyline which can be used to guide action, establishing causal patterns across impredicative processes operating at different scales. As such, they are central both to science and to policymaking. Narratives cannot be true or false, only adequate or obsolete with respect to the perception of a system. Through a series of case studies, I develop the tools needed to describe energy systems across multiple scales, question whether narratives underpinning EU energy policy are adequate in addressing their concerns and inspect the role played by academia in shaping those narratives. The methodological implications of modelling energy systems at the science-policy interface are addressed through a case study of Catalonia's energy sector. Building on hierarchy theory, the region's energy system is described in structural terms and in functional ones, showing how a functional description is useful in guiding policy questions. By mapping nexus dimensions across hierarchical levels, this first case study provides the tools to generate nexus assessments in open and transparent ways. In the second case study, a collaboration with Zora Kovacic, I focus on energy security, one of the pillars of the EU's Energy Union. Inspecting the multiple definitions and dimensions connected with energy security in the academic literature, we argue that the ambiguity of the term is functional in policymaking and is not a matter to be solved with increased definitional clarity. Rather, ambiguity is embedded in complexity. This suggests that the production of definitions and indicators of energy security in academia may not be useful to policy. The third case study analyses the narratives surrounding electric vehicles in the EU. Policy narratives in EU documents are identified through a text analysis and mapped across hierarchical levels. A taxonomy to classify policy narratives is introduced, making the distinction between normative narratives, justification narratives and explanation narratives. Through a review of existing studies and reports, the quality of the constellation of narratives surrounding electric vehicles is inspected, focusing on the relationship between normative and justification narratives. Results show how this relationship is uncertain at best. Focusing on the role played by science in informing policy, they point to the need of recognising the way in which policy narratives affect and are affected by academic ones. The fourth and most recent case study is an expansion of the first one, presented here as exploratory work in progress. The energy metabolisms of Spain, Sweden and the EU are described through holarchies, including each branch of the energy system (electricity, heat, gas and fuels). This multi-scale mapping is used to discuss two issues that are central to EU energy policy: decarbonisation and externalisation. I question EU decarbonisation narratives and highlight uncomfortable knowledge regarding the reliance of the EU's energy sector on imports.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals
De, Coning Cedric Hattingh. "Complexity, peacebuilding and coherence : implications of complexity for the peacebuilding coherence dilemma." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71891.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the utility of using Complexity studies to improve our understanding of peacebuilding and the coherence dilemma, which is regarded as one of the most significant problems facing peacebuilding interventions. Peacebuilding is said to be complex, and this study investigates what this implies, and asks whether Complexity could be of use in improving our understanding of the assumed causal link between coherence, effectiveness and sustainability. Peacebuilding refers to all actions undertaken by the international community and local actors to consolidate the peace – to prevent a (re)lapse into violent conflict – in a given conflict-prone system. The nexus between development, governance, politics and security has become a central focus of the international effort to manage transitions, and peacebuilding is increasingly seen as the collective framework within which these diverse dimensions of conflict management can be brought together in one common framework. The coherence dilemma refers to the persistent gap between policy-level assumptions about the value and causal role of coherence in the effectiveness of peacebuilding and empirical evidence to the contrary from peacebuilding practice. The dissertation argues that the peacebuilding process is challenged by enduring and deep-rooted tensions and contradictions, and that there are thus inherent limits and constraints regarding the degree to which coherence can be achieved in any particular peacebuilding context. On the basis of the application of the general characteristics of Complexity to peacebuilding, the following three recommendations reflect the core findings of the study: (1) Peacebuilders need to concede that they cannot, from the outside, definitively analyse complex conflicts and design ‘solutions’ on behalf of a local society. Instead, they should facilitate inductive processes that assist knowledge to emerge from the local context, and such knowledge needs to be understood as provisional and subject to a continuous process of refinement and adaptation. (2) Peacebuilders have to recognise that self-sustainable peace is directly linked to, and influenced by, the extent to which a society has the capacity, and space, to selforganise. For peace consolidation to be self-sustainable, it has to be the result of a home-grown, bottom-up and context-specific process. (3) Peacebuilders need to acknowledge that they cannot defend the choices they make on the basis of pre-determined models or lessons learned elsewhere. The ethical implications of their choices have to be considered in the local context, and the effects of their interventions - intended and unintended - need to be continuously assessed against the lived-experience of the societies they are assisting. Peacebuilding should be guided by the principle that those who will have to live with the consequences should have the agency to make decisions about their own future. The art of peacebuilding lies in pursuing the appropriate balance between international support and home-grown solutions. The dissertation argues that the international community has, to date, failed to find this balance. As a result, peacebuilding has often contributed to the very societal weaknesses and fragilities that it was meant to resolve. On the basis of these insights, the dissertation concludes with a call for a significant re-balancing of the relationship between international influence and local agency, where the role of the external peacebuilder is limited to assisting, facilitating and stimulating the capacity of the local society to self-organise. The dissertation thus argues for reframing peacebuilding as something that must be essentially local.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif ondersoek die toepaslikheid van Kompleksiteitstudies om ons begrip van vredesbou en die dilemma van koherensie te verbeter, wat as een van die gewigtigste probleme vir die toetrede tot vredesbou beskou kan word. Vredesbou word as kompleks beskou en die implikasies van hierdie siening word in hierdie proefskrif ondersoek. Dienooreenkomstig word die vraag na die nut van Kompleksiteitstudies vir die verbetering van ons begrip van die veronderstelde kousale verband tussen koherensie, doeltreffendheid en volhoubaarheid aangespreek. Vredesbou verwys na alle handelinge wat deur die internasionale gemeenskap en plaaslike belanghebbendes onderneem word om vrede binne ʼn gegewe sisteem, wat neig na konflik, te konsolideer om sodoende ’n (her)verval in gewelddadige konflik te voorkom. Die aanknopingspunt tussen ontwikkeling, staatsbestuur, staatkunde en sekuriteit is tans die sentrale fokus van die internasionale poging om sodanige oorgange te beheer, en vredesbou word toenemend as ’n kollektiewe raamwerk beskou, waarbinne hierdie onderskeie dimensies van konflikbestuur in een gemeenskaplike raamwerk saamgebring kan word. Die koherensiedilemma verwys na die voortdurende gaping tussen beleidsvlakaannames ten opsigte van die waarde en kousale rol van koherensie vir die doeltreffendheid van vredesboupogings en empiriese data vanuit die vredesboupraktyk wat hierdie aanvaarde kousale verband weerspreek. Die proefskrif toon dat vredesboupogings uitgedaag word deur voortdurende en diepgewortelde spanninge en teenstrydighede, en dat daar dus inherente beperkings en stremmings is ten opsigte van die mate waartoe koherensie binne enige spesifieke vredesboukonteks moontlik is. Op grond van die toepassing van die algemene kenmerke van Kompleksiteitstudies op die vredesbouproses, weerspieël die volgende drie aanbevelings die kernbevindings van die studie: (1) Vredesbouers moet toegee dat hulle nie daartoe in staat is om komplekse konflikte van buite af bepalend te analiseer en ‘oplossings’ namens ’n plaaslike gemeenskap te ontwerp nie. Hulle behoort eerder induktiewe prosesse te fasiliteer om ondersteuning te bied sodat kennis uit die plaaslike konteks na vore kom, en sodanige kennis moet as voorlopig en onderhewig aan ’n voortdurende proses tot verfyning en aanpassing, verstaan word. (2) Vredesbouers moet besef dat die selfvolhoubaarheid van vrede direk verband hou met, en beïnvloed word deur, die mate waartoe ’n gemeenskap oor die vermoë tot en ruimte vir selforganisering beskik. Vir vredeskonsolidering om selfvolhoubaar te wees, moet die proses wat daartoe aanleiding gee inheems, van ‘onder-na-bo’ en konteks-spesifiek wees. (3) Vredesbouers moet aanvaar dat hulle nie die besluite wat hulle neem op grond van voorafbestaande modelle of lesse wat elders geleer is kan regverdig nie. Die etiese implikasies van hulle besluite moet in terme van die plaaslike konteks beoordeel word, en die effekte van hulle ingrepe – bepland en onbepland – moet voortdurend opgeweeg word teen die daaglikse ervaring van die samelewings wat bygestaan word. Vredesbehoupogings behoort gelei te word deur die beginsel dat diegene wat met die gevolge van die proses sal moet saamleef, die agentskap behoort te hê om besluite oor hulle eie toekoms te neem. Die kuns van vredesbou lê in die vasstel van ’n toepaslike balans tussen internasionale ondersteuning en inheemse oplossings. Die proefskrif se argument is dat die internasionale gemeenskap tot dusver daarin gefaal het om hierdie balans te vind. As gevolg hiervan het pogings tot vredesbou dikwels bygedra tot die presiese swakhede en broosheid in die gemeenskap wat dit veronderstel was om aan te spreek. Op grond van hierdie insigte sluit die proefskrif af met ’n beroep tot ’n betekenisvolle herbalansering van die verhouding tussen internasionale invloed en plaaslike agentskap, waarin die rol van die eksterne vredesbouer beperk moet word tot die ondersteuning, fasilitering en stimulering van die plaaslike gemeenskap se vermoë tot selforganisering. Die proefskrif bepleit dus dat vredesbou herontwerp word binne ’n essensieel plaaslike raamwerk.
Andriani, Pierpaolo. "The emergence of self-organisation in social systems : the case of the geographic industrial clusters." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4011/.
Full textCrozier, Sophie. "Le pari éthique de la complexité : Action médicale dans le champ des accidents vasculaires cérébraux graves." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00815733.
Full textGoldspink, Christopher. "Social attractors : an examination of the applicability of complexity theory to social and organisational analysis /." Richmond, N.S.W. : University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030812.094325/index.html.
Full textRussell, Nathan. "Complexity of control of Borda count elections /." Online version of thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/4923.
Full textSambrook, Thomas Daniel. "Social complexity in a large and small group of olive baboons." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6498.
Full textKamhi, J. Frances, Wulfila Gronenberg, Simon K. A. Robson, and James F. A. Traniello. "Social complexity influences brain investment and neural operation costs in ants." ROYAL SOC, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621590.
Full textCunha, Gabriel Oliva Costa. "Hayek and complexity: coordination, evolution and methodology in social adaptive systems." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-06072016-152628/.
Full textA afinidade entre a obra do economista austríaco Friedrich A. Hayek e a abordagem da Economia e Complexidade é amplamente reconhecida pela literatura. Apesar disso, ainda há grande carência de estudos que busquem analisar de forma aprofundada a relação entre Hayek e a complexidade. Esta dissertação é uma contribuição para o preenchimento dessa grande lacuna na literatura. Na primeira parte do trabalho, os diversos períodos no desenvolvimento da visão de complexidade de Hayek são analisados, evidenciando-se como tal visão está fortemente presente em seus trabalhos sobre conhecimento, competição, metodologia, evolução e ordem espontânea. Na segunda parte, exploramos como Hayek foi influenciado por dois dos principais precursores da moderna teoria da complexidade - a cibernética e a teoria geral do sistema - desde o período em que estava trabalhando no seu livro sobre psicologia teórica, The Sensory Order (1952), até o final de sua carreira intelectual.