Search for dissertations about: "Family research"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1203 swedish dissertations containing the words Family research.

2. 1. The coexistence of family, ownership, and business : Conceptualizing entanglement and business family ownering

   Author : Lisa Bäckvall; Leif Melin; Anna Larsson; Robin Holt; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family Business; Entanglement; Collective Subjective Corpus; Three-Circle Model of Family Business; Social Praxeology; Practice Theory; Business Family; Business Family Ownership Practice; Business Family Owning; Governance; CEO;

   Abstract : This research engages with the topic of business family ownership through an ethnographically inspired study of business governance-related activities constructed as family members’ business-owning practices relationally and over time. In short, it is about what business families do when owning businesses and how this form of owning can be conceptualized. READ MORE

4. 2. Conflict and concord in work and family : Family policies and individuals' subjective experiences

   Author : Ida Öun; Stefan Svallfors; Maria Charles; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work-family conflict; role expansion; family policy; gender; class; dual-earner families; household work; perceptions of fairness;

   Abstract : Background This thesis explores the relationship between individuals’ subjective experiences and the welfare state setting. The research questions in focus deal with the outcomes of women’s and men’s increasing dual roles in work and family in contemporary welfare states. READ MORE

5. 3. Who starts a family? : The prospective association between psychological factors and family formation processes

   Author : Steffen Peters; Kieron Barclay; Mikko Myrskylä; Gunnar Andersson; Monika Mynarska; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychological factors; family formation; personality; identity; leadership skills; marital behavior; fertility; partnership dissolution; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

   Abstract : The role of psychological factors for family formation processes has been underexplored in demographic research. However, psychological concepts such as personality, identity, or skills may have become increasingly relevant for family formation processes such as marital behavior, childbearing, or partnership dissolution, in particular in countries with high levels of individualism. READ MORE

6. 4. Children's Living Conditions : Studies on Health, Family and School

   Author : Sara Brolin Låftman; Jan O. Jonsson; Viveca Östberg; Anne H. Gauthier; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Children; living conditions; well-being; family; health; school; Sweden; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The present dissertation includes four empirical studies, each of which focuses on specific aspects of children’s living conditions. Study I analyses the association between young people’s social relations and health complaints using Swedish nationally representative survey data on 10- to 18-year-olds. READ MORE

7. 5. Essays on Family Dynamics : Partnering, Fertility and Divorce in Sweden

   Author : Linus Andersson; Michael Gähler; Juho Härkönen; Frida Rudolphi; Trude Lappegård; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Fertility; Divorce attitudes; Sweden; Educational Homogamy; Life Course; Family Dynamics; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Diversity in household and family structures poses interesting questions for scientific inquiry. What accounts for patterns of reproduction, partnering, household formation and household dissolution? This dissertation investigates facets of this question in the context of modern Sweden from a longitudinal and individual level perspective. READ MORE