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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sociologi"”.
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MASCULINITIES AT WORK. MALE-TO-MALE INTERNET ESCORTING IN ITALY AND SWEDEN
… att maskulinitetsforskning är viktig inom både sociologi och genusvetenskap. Därför är huvudsyftet med denna studie att analysera sexarbete ur maskulinitetsperspektiv för att förstå vilken typ av relationer som skapas mellan sexarbetarna och deras kunder och hur relationen präglas av …
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Taking Time and Making Journeys : Narratives on Self and the Other among Backpackers
This work addresses the phenomenon of long-term, so-called ‘independent’ travelling, or backpacking, often to destinations described as the ‘third world’. It regards backpacker journeys as arenas for identity work, for expressing individuality and a ‘strong character’. Rather than merely being a …
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Demanding Values : Participation, empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh
… development discourse. This means that a wider sociological perspective is neglected; the analyses prioritise accurate and detailed descriptions of the particular rather than identifying and trying to understand general social phenomena. Theoretical perspectives that emanate from empirical …
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Conflicts and Contracts : Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore
The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of social change on Chinese intergenerational relations in contemporary Singapore. Within only three decades, Singapore has turned into a wealthy and sophisticated metropolis with a highly educated labor force. The massive transformation, …
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Filosofisociologi : Ett sociologiskt perspektiv på filosofiskt tänkande
… the sociology of philosophy concerns the sociological study of philosophy. As this domain is still, to some extent, virgin territory, my thesis is mainly explorative in nature. Viewed as a whole, it aims at investigating what a sociological study of philosophy might entail. The thesis …
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Stadsbarndom : Om barns vardag i en modern förort
Children's conditions in urban environments are an important theme for understanding modern childhood, yet children have rarely been asked about their views of urban childhood conditions. The aim of the dissertation is: To describe the experts' attempts to create good conditions for growing up in …
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The Imagined versus the Real Other : Multiculturalism and the Representation of Muslims in Sweden
Are Muslims so different from other citizens in Sweden, that they have to live in segregation and be separated from the rest of society? What is a Muslim, and who is to define this category? In this thesis, the author presents the main actors in this discussion and their ideological positions. The …
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Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors
The book has two interrelated objectives. One objective is meta-theoretical and concerns the exploration of theoretical debates connected to issues of studying society and environmental problems; another objective is empirical/analytical, referring to the analysis of "green" public participation in …
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Kvinnor mot krig : aktioner och nätverk för fred 1914–1940
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how and why women established peace actions during World War I and the period between the wars. I have examined how women were mobilized, how the actions were carried out, what kind of opposition was awakened, and what happened afterwards. My …
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It-retorik og hverdagsliv : Et studie af fødevarehandel over Internet
From a social constructivist point of view this thesis investigates how e-commerce of grocery develops in the period 1998-2003. The empirical research is done in Sweden. Most Swedish grocery concerns that have had e-commerce and have been forced to shut down as a result of lack of demand. The …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
In her widely quoted and criticised Gender Trouble, Judith Butler elaborates the idea that gender needs to be understood as performative – a certain kind of “doing” within the regulative realm of a hegemonic heterosexuality that is assumed to govern intelligible bodily configurations. Drawing …
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Normstödjande strukturer : Miljötematiken börjar slå rot i skolan
This thesis explores the various influence processes that take place in connection with the dawn of a new theme - the environment - in today's society. Society has declared that schools, a place designed for the intentional influence of children and youths, shall utilise the new environmental theme …
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Rektorers normer i ledarskapet för skolutveckling
This thesis puts a focus on school leadership and school development. The local authorities took over responsibility for public education in 1991. At the same time, steerage by rules was abandoned in favour of steerage by goal-setting and result evaluation. The principal is an important link in …
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Mellan människor och ting : En interaktionistisk analys av samlandet
In most sociological paradigms the importance of human interaction for the understanding of societies, is a well established fact. In this study, the focus is the interaction between human beings and material things as it is occurring in practice. Such an approach with its important consequences …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with …