Social Norms from a Goal-System Point of View: Contributions of Activity Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Corrégé ◽  
Céline Clavel ◽  
Julien Christophe ◽  
Mehdi Ammi
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Activity Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Goal System ◽  
System Point

“Product Not Available in Pre-War Quantities – but Quality Remains the Same”: Remarks on Advertisements as Historical Sources

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Press ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

The article focuses on advertisements as visual and historical sources. The material comes from the German press that appeared immediately after the end of the Second World War. During this time, all kinds of products were scarce. In comparison to this, colorful advertisements of luxury products are more than noteworthy. What do these images tell us about the early post-war years in Germany? The author argues that advertisements are a medium that shapes social norms. Rather than reflecting the historical realities, advertisements construct them. From an aesthetical and cultural point of view, advertisements gave thus a sense of continuity between the pre- and post-war years. The author suggests, therefore, that the advertisements should not be treated as a source for economic history. They are, however, important for studying social developments that occurred in the past.

scholarly journals HUMOR AND LAUGHTER IN THE PEDAGOGICAL COMMUNICATIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Vladimirs Kincāns
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
Effectiveness Of Training

This article analyzes the possibilities of humour and laughter in educational activity. Using techniques based on the knowledge of methodological potential of laughter is a substantial reserve for increasing the effectiveness of training, education and personal development. From a pedagogical point of view, means of creating a comic situation is a way of indirect pedagogical interaction with the audience. Laughter helps to observe generally accepted social norms of behaviour, avoid conflicts, defuse the situation, remove emotional tension and enhance the intellectual activity of students.

Analytical Investigation of the Effects of Induction Motor Transients on Compressor Drive Shafts

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical System ◽  
Induction Motor ◽  
Analytical Investigation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Electrical Parameters ◽  
Short Circuits ◽  
Torque Values ◽  
Driving Torque ◽  
Electrical Supply ◽  
System Point

Centrifugal compressors driven by induction motors are most common in the turbomachinery industry. When sudden transients occur in the driver due to upsets in electrical supply to the motor, the air-gap torque generated by the motor undergoes a transient spike. This in turn gets transmitted through the coupling to the drive-shaft of the driven equipment, causing momentary high spikes in vibration that are torsional in nature, and can sometimes result in shaft torques that can create catastrophic damage to driven equipment components. In order to analytically predict these peak torques that can occur during transients, a complete drive-train torsional model needs to be created for the mechanical system, and the driving torque values need to be derived from the motor electrical system of equations. Various line faults are possible with induction motor driven equipment. A generalized analytical procedure based on motor electrical parameters to predict the peak shaft torques of compressor drive shafts is investigated in this paper. The effects of shaft transients due to 3-phase short circuits and reclosures are analyzed. The simulation has been performed for an industrial compressor train, and has been presented from a mechanical system point of view, rather than electrical. Comparisons and inferences are also made based on the simulation results.

scholarly journals Ecological aspect of mobile systems operated in terrain conditions

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 3) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
A. Janeček ◽  
M. Mikleš
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Energy Flow ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Operating Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mobile Systems ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Optimal Values ◽  
Theoretical Results ◽  
System Point

In this paper is evaluated an optimal constructional and operating performance of the mobil terrain system, that works in forest ecosystems from point of view of volume of processed biomass and total amount of logging transport erosion. A monitored terrain system, working in forestry, is considered as a production system, with its material and energy flow. The determination value, that optimizes the production system, is the operating and constructional performance. In this paper is evaluated the amount erosion in dependence of cutting mass, by means of mathematics and from system point of view. The conditions for the mobile terrain system work, that insure optimal, i.e. minimal value of erosion will be determined. The theoretical results are verified. The optimal values of soil erosion are determined by experimental measurements. The principles of the paper are based on theses of ecological synthesis that determine coupling between dissipative energy of a production system and its ecological cleanliness of work.

Optimal Contracting Model in a Social Environment and Trust-Related Psychological Costs

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suren Basov ◽  
M. Ishaq Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Optimal Contracting ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Contracting Model

AbstractMost research in contract theory concentrated on the role of incentives in shaping individual behavior. Recent research suggests that social norms also play an important role. From a point of view of a mechanism designer (a principal, a government, and a bank), responsiveness of an agent to the social norms is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it provides the designer with extra instruments, while on the other it puts restrictions on how these new and the more conventional instruments can be used. The main objective of this paper is to investigate this trade-off and study how it shapes different contracts observed in the real world. We consider a model in which agent’s cost of cheating is triggered by the principal’s show of trust. We call such behavior a norm of honesty and trust and show that it drives incentives to be either low powerful or high powerful, eliminating contracts with medium powerful incentives.

A Participatory Design Project on Mobile ICT

2009 ◽  
pp. 669-675
Author(s):  
Ursula Hyrkkänen ◽  
Juha Kettunen ◽  
Ari Putkonen
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Activity System ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Special Software ◽  
Maintenance Personnel ◽  
Mobile Ict ◽  
System Point

The purpose of this article is to describe and assess the participatory development process of a palm computer with special software from the work activity system point of view and analyse the benefits and drawbacks experienced by an employee while testing, implementing, and using a new communication and collaboration tool. This study focuses on the maintenance personnel of Company Alpha (the name has been changed for this study). The workers are responsible for the maintenance and serving of real estate.

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