Search for dissertations about: "morality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 107 swedish dissertations containing the word morality.

  2. 1. Embodying morality : Girls' socialization in a north Vietnamese commune

    Author : Helle Rydström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Body; Vietnam; Gender; Morality; Girls; Child Socialization; Education; Confucianism; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This study argues that Vietnamese girls' socialization is inseparable from the symbolic and biological meaning of female and male bodies. Socialization is not so much about "sex" (i.e. biological sex) or "gender" (i. READ MORE

  4. 2. Morality as Practice : The Santo Daime, an Eco-Religious Movement in the Amazonian Rainforest

    Author : Titti Kristina Schmidt; Ing-Britt Trankell; Michael Lambek; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Cultural anthropology; Brazil; Amazonia; Santo Daime; caboclos; environmentalism; religion; religious movements; social movements; morality; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This study deals with Santo Daime, a religious and environmental movement in the Brazilian Amazon. It is based on 15 months of anthropological fieldwork in the foundational centre of the Santo Daime movement, Céu do Mapiá, Heaven of Mapiá, located deep inside the Brazilian State of Amazonas. READ MORE

  5. 3. Mistaken morality? : an essay on moral error theory

    Author : Emma Beckman; Gunnar Björnsson; Bart Streumer; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; moral error theory; Mackie; Joyce; Olson; normative institution; fictionalism; normative error theory; epistemic error theory; irreducible normativity; abolitionism; conservationism; propagandism;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores arguments and questions related to moral error theory – the idea that morality inevitably involves a fundamental and serious error such that moral judgments and statements never come out true. It is suggested that the truth of error theory remains a non-negligible possibility, and that we for this reason should take a version of moral fictionalism seriously. READ MORE

  6. 4. Doing morality in school : Teasing, gossip and subteaching as collaborative action

    Author : Michael Tholander; Karin Aronsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Morality; school group work; off-task talk; social interaction; socializing practices collaboration; rhetoric; teasing; gossiping; subteaching; disourse analysis; Elever; etik och moral; skolan; skvaller; samtal; sociala aspekter; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The present thesis investigates socializing practices that take place among pupils during group-work sessions in Swedish junior high schools. The pupils, who were video recorded during such sessions, were supposed to work on common assignments, but quite often digressed into so-called off-task talk Most of the present analyses focus on such digressions. READ MORE

  7. 5. Versions of Exile Morality : Refugees in Britain 1790-1845

    Author : Adrian Velicu; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : Exile; Morality; Britain; Periodicals; History of Ideas; Idéhistoria;

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