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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)"”.
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"Är det så här vi är" : Om utbildning som normalitet och om produktionen av studenter
… of their encounters with the university milieu, and what significance they believe the existence of a local university such as Halmstad in south-west Sweden may have had in this. The empirical basis of the study consists of interviews with 58 students taking one of three courses at Halmstad …
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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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Befolkning, samhälle och förändring : Dynamik i Halmstad under fyra decennier
… are often discussed on an aggregated level and it is argued that society is changing from a modern industrial society to a post-industrial society. Through studying changes on a local level it is possible to study the complexity and variations of the general and aggregated theories of …
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Rethinking Son Preference : Gender, Population Dynamics and Social Change in the People’s Republic of China
… explores how son preference is constructed and renegotiated in light of social change in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Based on secondary sources and interviews with women and men in rural Anhui Province as well as key informants, it addresses son preference from conceptual, …
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Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre
… this thesis is the passport as it was understood and used in the European Union from 1999 to 2001, as a requirement to cross the external borders of the EU and as a symbol of a united Europe free from a spectacular nationalism of the member states. According to nationalism, every nation should …
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Demanding Values : Participation, empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh
The concepts participation and empowerment are frequently used in development projects in the third world. The meaning given to the concepts today signal a normative orientation, marking an alternative, people-centred approach to development. When used in development projects, the concepts demand …
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Filosofisociologi : Ett sociologiskt perspektiv på filosofiskt tänkande
… matter of the present doctoral thesis is the sociology of philosophy, a sub-discipline within the general field of sociology. As the term clearly indicates, the sociology of philosophy concerns the sociological study of philosophy. As this domain is still, to some extent, virgin territory, my …
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The Reluctant Change Agent : Change, Chance and Choice among Teachers, Educational Change in the City
… change in the context of globalisation and innovation the author argues that the current discourse on educational change is un-nuanced and omits the important perspectives on change. The author has analysed an educational district in Sweden and one of its projects on competence …
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Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors
… 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 the electricity and waste …
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Tryggheten inför rätta : Om rätten till förtidspension enligt förvaltningsdomstolarna under tre decennier
… Through the years the need for an adjusted and financially stable insurance has been commented on by politicians and by scholars. Numerous government reports have tackled both the costs of the program and the growing number of people granted disability pensions. During the last ten years the …
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Digitala pengar : Nya villkor i det sociala livet
It has often been argued that money and modern monetary economies have occasioned a comprehensive rationalisation of society. Money has often been viewed as being socially destructive, while it is said that the modern monetary economy has had inescapable consequences for society, culture, and …
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Att utmana förändringens gränser : En studie om förändringsarbete, partnerskap och kön med Equal-programmet som exempel
… departure being texts developed within the framework of three development partnerships financed by the European Social Fund's Equal Programme 2001-2007. The development partnerships, consisting of collaborating parties from both the public and private sector, aimed at developing new methods and …
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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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Konsten att lyckas som par : Populärterapeutiska berättelser, individualisering och kön
In this thesis, the expanding discourse of popular therapeutic culture on and for heterosexual couples is analysed. Three case studies have been carried out; self-help books for couples, TV programs with relationship-focus, and web discussion boards connected to the TV programs. The analysis is …
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Det vardagliga och det vetenskapliga : Om sociologins begrepp
… dissertation concerns the relationship between sociology and everyday life and aims primarily to critically evaluate the positions taken in the theoretical discussion on sociological concept formation and its relation to everyday life and social sciences. The main theoretical positions in the …
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Shaping Justice : Defining the disability benefit category in Swedish social policy
… to be characterised as disability in Swedish social security legislation and which principles are used to decide who is entitled to social security benefit as disabled. The thesis brings into focus which definitions of needs and criteria that are found 'worthy' and acceptable to include in a …
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Mellan människor och ting : En interaktionistisk analys av samlandet
… 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 for understanding both social life …
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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 …
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På AI-teknikens axlar : Om kunskapssociologin och stark artificiell intelligens
This dissertation is concerned with Sociology’s stance in the debate on Strong Artificial Intelligence, i.e. such AI that is able to shape new knowledge without human interference. There is a need for sociologists to realize the difference between two approaches to constructing AI systems: Symbolic …
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