Search for dissertations about: "cultures"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1195 swedish dissertations containing the word cultures.

2. 1. Parenting Across Cultures : Parental attributions, attitudes and behaviour

   Author : Sevtap Gurdal; Kerstin Palmérus; Högskolan Väst; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Parenting attributions; Parenting attitudes; Parenting behavior; Culture; Psychology; Psykologi; Parenting attributions; Parenting attitudes; Parenting behavior; Culture;

   Abstract : Previously studies in parenting have mainly been conducted in Western countries. Not uncommonly results from such studies are used to describe general, worldwide trends. In an attempt to make the field of parenting research more culturally heterogeneous, an international research project, Parenting Across Cultures, was started. READ MORE

4. 2. Gendered journalism cultures : strategies and tactics in the fields of journalism in Britain and Sweden

   Author : Margareta Melin; Madeleine Kleberg; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Journalism culture; gendered; feminism; Bourdieu; Social field; Doxa; strategies; tactics; women journalists; feminisation; gentrification; education; gendered logic; Journalism culture; gendered; feminism; Bourdieu; social field; doxa; strategies; tactics; women journalist; feminisation; gentrification; education; gendered logic;

   Abstract : Avhandlingens syfte är att förstå journalistik genom att undersöka brittiska och svenska journalistikkulturer mellan 1989 och 2002. Fokus är lagt på om/skapandet av värdesystem och på maktkampers könade karaktär. READ MORE

5. 3. In Between Cultures : Franco-American Encounters in the Work of Edith Wharton

   Author : Maria Strääf; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Kerstin W. Shands; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American literature; capital; economic; cultural; social and symbolic; cultural encounter; Edith Wharton; hybridity; in-betweenness; mimicry; narratology; nineteenth-century literature; twentieth-century literature; otherness; women’s literature; Amerikansk litteratur; Edith Wharton; hybriditet; in-betweenness mellanskap ; kapital: ekonomiskt; kulturellt; socialt and symboliskt; kulturmöte; kvinnolitteratur; 1800-tals litteratur; 1900-tals litteratur; mimicry; narratologi; otherness ”den andre” ; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis is a study of how the American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in a number of novels and short stories written between 1876 and 1937 depicts cultural encounters between Americans and Europeans, mostly Frenchmen. Chiefly concerned with Fast and Loose, “The Last Asset”, Madame de Treymes, “Les Metteurs en Scène”, The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence, each of which articulates ideas relevant to the theme investigated, the thesis also contains a supplementary discussion of The Reef, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Mother’s Recompense and The Buccaneers. READ MORE

6. 4. Civic Cultures in Eastern Europe : Communication spaces and media practices of Estonian civil society organizations

   Author : Liisa Sõmersalu; Göran Bolin; Anne Kaun; Maria Bakardjieva; Tobias Olsson; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; Estonia; Eastern Europe; space; activist media practices; civic cultures; media; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Abstract : What kind of routine media and communication practices do Estonian civil society organizations enact in their everyday work? What sort of symbolic and physical spaces are used, created, and accessed by Estonian civil society organizations and informal citizen groups when engaging internally and with their target groups? How do these spaces and practices evolve over time? These are the questions this dissertation addresses, with the aim of understanding the ways in which already-established and evolving civil society organizations navigate the highly-mediated everyday through their routine media practices and the spaces in which these practices are situated.Theoretically, this study takes a cultural approach to political participation with the concept of ‘civic cultures’ (Dahlgren 2009, p. READ MORE

7. 5. The relevance of cultures : Perspectives on health visits with children with migration experiences

   Author : Emmie Wahlström; Maria Harder; Marie Golsäter; Inger Holmström; Peter Larm; Pernilla Garmy; Mälardalens universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescents; Children; Culture; Health visits; Interaction; Migration; Participation; School health services; School nurse; folkhälsovetenskap; Public Health Sciences;

   Abstract : Swedish school nurses invite school-aged children to health visits. These involve screening for risks of ill-health and a dialogue about the children’s health. For children with migration experiences, i.e. READ MORE