John Gardner’s Grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. Along with a discovery of self with which Grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. Grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...

john gardner’s grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. along with a discovery of self with which grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...

Presented contribution deals with legality and legitimacy in the field of political science sociology a narrower focus on mechanisms legitimization trust, issue acquisition loss legitimacy. The concepts "legitimacy" "legality" are directly linked to exercise official authority. Both terms have common basis, based law, what is line law. clarification premise that legitimate must be legal (legal)...

Three main motivations can explain compliance with social norms: fear of peer punishment, the desire for others' esteem and the desire to meet others' expectations. Though all play a role, only the desire to meet others' expectations can sustain compliance when neither public nor private monitoring is possible. Theoretical models have shown that such desire can indeed sustain social norms, but ...

This article discusses outcomes of a dialogue conference on 'The road ahead for ELSA in Norway: Issues of quality, influence and network cooperation' held in Oslo in December 2012. Norwegian researchers in the field of ethical, legal and social aspects of technologies (ELSA) were invited to discuss conceptual and strategic issues, as well as the setup of a researcher network. In the article I t...

Advocates of a core of IS research have cautioned about a lack of legitimacy, specifically the “cognitive legitimacy” (Benbasat and Zmud, 2003), of the IS field and have even questioned the survival of the field (Agarwal and Lucas, 2005), raising questions as to what should constitute IS research – its boundaries, and the discipline’s core. Some authors maintain that IS researchers have avoided...

The following article focuses on the economic conflicts in local rural communities Slovenia until World War II and analyses example of privatisation a public good, relations between labour capital, solidarity form cooperatives as tool for ensuring social cohesion at level. author presents viewpoint that feeling justice (moral economy) represented cohesive element analysed communities. Justice, ...