Focus groups in integrated assessment: A micro‐cosmos for reflexive modernization
| Autor: | Carlo Jaeger, Ralf Schüle, Bernd Kasemir |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Knowledge management business.industry Process (engineering) Strategy and Management Geography Planning and Development Modernization theory Focus group Body of knowledge Management of Technology and Innovation Engineering ethics Environmental impact assessment Sociology Global citizenship business Everyday life Reflexive modernization |
| Zdroj: | Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 12:195-219 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8412 1351-1610 |
| Popis: | Like every society, today's global society has a body of knowledge which is taken for granted in everyday life. This knowledge, which is organized around the prospect of modernization, is currently challenged in several ways. One of these challenges concerns the risks of global environmental change. We investigate the hypothesis that the conceptual machinery of modernization is experiencing a far‐reaching transformation whose outcome may be labelled as reflexive modernization. For this purpose, we propose a new methodology based on focus groups embedded in a process of integrated environmental assessment. The methodology yields promising results which are consistent with the hypothesis. They point to further implications of the hypothesis of reflexive modernization which are both interesting for theoretically oriented research and relevant for policy‐making. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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