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<li><strong>Anticipatory socialisation:</strong> Adopting norms, values, standards and behaviour of a group, which non-members of the group aspire to join. Through social interactions and experience, these individuals learn to take on the role they have yet to assume in order to facilitate their assimilation and eventual participation in the group (Marshall 1998).<li>
<li><strong>Anticipatory socialisation:</strong> Adopting norms, values, standards and behaviour of a group, which non-members of the group aspire to join. Through social interactions and experience, these individuals learn to take on the role they have yet to assume in order to facilitate their assimilation and eventual participation in the group (Marshall 1998).<li>
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<li>Accountability:</li>
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<li>Black-boxing:</li>
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<br><li>Black-boxing:</li>
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<li>Commodification:</li>
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<br><li>Commodification:</li>
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<li>Deskilling:</li>
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<br><li>Deskilling:</li>
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<li>Discourse:</li>
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<br><li>Discourse:</li>
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<li><strong>Dual-use technology:</strong> Technologies which can be used for more than one goal, usually having both civilian or peaceful purpose and military aims. They imply a dilemma <i>"because it is difficult to prevent their misuse without forgoing beneficial applications. [...] [M]any of the emerging technologies with the potential to do the most good are also capable of the greatest harm"</i> (Tucker 2012 :1)</li>
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<br><li><strong>Dual-use technology:</strong> Technologies which can be used for more than one goal, usually having both civilian or peaceful purpose and military aims. They imply a dilemma <i>"because it is difficult to prevent their misuse without forgoing beneficial applications. [...] [M]any of the emerging technologies with the potential to do the most good are also capable of the greatest harm"</i> (Tucker 2012 :1)</li>
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<li><strong>Ecological modernisation:</strong> Optimistic theory <i>"that aims to harness the power of human ingenuity for the purposes of harmonising economic advancement with environmental improvement"</i> (Cohen 1997:108; Huber 1985; Jänicke 1985; Simonis 1988)</li>
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<br><li><strong>Ecological modernisation:</strong> Optimistic theory <i>"that aims to harness the power of human ingenuity for the purposes of harmonising economic advancement with environmental improvement"</i> (Cohen 1997:108; Huber 1985; Jänicke 1985; Simonis 1988)</li>
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<li>Ethnography:</li>
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<li>Cross-borderness:</li>
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<li>Governance:</li>
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<li><strong>Ignorance:</strong> Knowing that the knowledge is limited in a certain area. It increases with every state of new knowledge</li>
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<br><li><strong>Ignorance:</strong> Knowing that the knowledge is limited in a certain area. It increases with every state of new knowledge</li>
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<li>Interdisciplinarity:</li>
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<li>Late-modernity:</li>
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<li>Modernity and modernisation:</li>
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<li>Open-source:</li>
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<li>Oversight:</li>
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<li>Professionalization:</li>
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<li>Rationality:</li>
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<li>Reductionism:</li>
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<li>Reflexivity:</li>
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<li><strong>Risk:</strong> A situation of uncertainty in which some of the possible outcomes involves an undesirable outcome</li>
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<br><li><strong>Risk:</strong> A situation of uncertainty in which some of the possible outcomes involves an undesirable outcome</li>
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<li>Risk society:</li>
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<br><li><strong>Risk society:</strong> A society increasingly preoccupied with the distribution of (technological) risks, and <i>"dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself"</i> (Beck 1992:21). These risks differ from other times because <i>"(1) they are undetectable by direct human sensory perception; (2) they are capable of transcending generations; (3) they exceed the capacity of current mechanisms for compensating victims"</i> (Cohen 1997: 107)
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<li>Self-governance and self-regulation:</li>
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a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself </li>
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<li>Socialisation:</li>
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<br><li>Self-governance and self-regulation:</li>
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<li>Sociology:</li>
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<br><li>Socialisation:</li>
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<li>Subpolitics:</li>
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<br><li>Sociology:</li>
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<li>Technologies of hubris:</li>
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<li>Transnationalism:</li>
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<br><li>Technologies of hubris:</li>
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<li><strong>Uncertainty:</strong> "A situation in which, given current knowledge, there are multiple possible future outcomes" (Gross 2010: 3) </li>
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<br><li>Transnationalism:</li>
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<li>Upstream:</li>
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<br><li><strong>Uncertainty:</strong> "A situation in which, given current knowledge, there are multiple possible future outcomes" (Gross 2010: 3) </li>
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<br><li>Upstream:</li>
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Sociological Imaginations - Reconciling Environmental Discourses

Human Practice Team

Glossary


  • Anticipatory socialisation: Adopting norms, values, standards and behaviour of a group, which non-members of the group aspire to join. Through social interactions and experience, these individuals learn to take on the role they have yet to assume in order to facilitate their assimilation and eventual participation in the group (Marshall 1998).

  • Accountability:

  • Black-boxing:

  • Commodification:

  • Deskilling:

  • Discourse:

  • Dual-use technology: Technologies which can be used for more than one goal, usually having both civilian or peaceful purpose and military aims. They imply a dilemma "because it is difficult to prevent their misuse without forgoing beneficial applications. [...] [M]any of the emerging technologies with the potential to do the most good are also capable of the greatest harm" (Tucker 2012 :1)

  • Ecological modernisation: Optimistic theory "that aims to harness the power of human ingenuity for the purposes of harmonising economic advancement with environmental improvement" (Cohen 1997:108; Huber 1985; Jänicke 1985; Simonis 1988)

  • Ethnography:

  • Cross-borderness:

  • Governance:

  • Ignorance: Knowing that the knowledge is limited in a certain area. It increases with every state of new knowledge

  • Interdisciplinarity:

  • Late-modernity:

  • Modernity and modernisation:

  • Open-source:

  • Oversight:

  • Professionalization:

  • Rationality:

  • Reductionism:

  • Reflexivity:

  • Risk: A situation of uncertainty in which some of the possible outcomes involves an undesirable outcome

  • Risk society: A society increasingly preoccupied with the distribution of (technological) risks, and "dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself" (Beck 1992:21). These risks differ from other times because "(1) they are undetectable by direct human sensory perception; (2) they are capable of transcending generations; (3) they exceed the capacity of current mechanisms for compensating victims" (Cohen 1997: 107) a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself

  • Self-governance and self-regulation:

  • Socialisation:

  • Sociology:

  • Subpolitics:

  • Technologies of hubris:

  • Transnationalism:

  • Uncertainty: "A situation in which, given current knowledge, there are multiple possible future outcomes" (Gross 2010: 3)

  • Upstream:

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