For all its divisions and disputes, the traditions of theorising about power that come to us through the European heritage of ideas, down to contemporary philosophy, social sciences and humanities, nonetheless bear the impress of a particular set of social problems and concerns. And today, these are typically the problems of liberal society. So very frequently, what are offered as general, rather timeless and a-cultural statements about the nature of power, actually need to be understood in a more specific historical context. These essays define a kind of journey, from Lachmann's more descriptive sociological account of the predicament posed by global warming for the fate of modern states based on citizenship and liberal principles, through more theoretical and philosophical explorations of the nature of the idea of freedom in the essays by Haugaard and Morriss, to discussions of the problems of inequality and maldistribution of power, first in a more conceptual and normative analysis by Pansardi, and then in a historical and theoretical analysis by Hearn.
SYNTHESES (REVIEWS) J. BARCENILLA et/and J. M. C. BASTIEN La place de l'ergonomie dans les approches de l'utilisabilité et de l'expérience de l'utilisateur THEORIES ET METHODOLOGIES (THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES) E.
BRANGIER, A. DUFRESNE, et/and S. HAMMES-ADELE Approche symbiotique de la relation humain-technologie: perspectives pour l'ergonomie informatique M. E.
BOBILLIER " CHAUMON et/and M. DUBOIS L'adoption des technologies en situation professionnelle: quelles articulations possibles entre acceptabilité et acceptation ?
F. TERRADE, H. PASQUIER, J. BOULANGER, G. GUINGOUAIN et/and A.
SOMAT L'acceptabilité sociale: la prise en compte des déterminants sociaux dans l'analyse de l'acceptabilité des systèmes technologiques BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW (SYNTHESE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE) D., R. SMITH Authorship, scholarship and ergonomics Auteurs, publications et ergonomie
