Search for dissertations about: "youth subculture"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words youth subculture.

  2. 1. Normaliseringspraktiker i det moderna samhället : en diskursanalys av åtta sociala ungdomsprojekt

    Author : Thomas Öhlund; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Youth; Social Work; Youth Projects; Discourse Analysis. Juvenile Delinquency; Deviancy; Identity; Subculture; Youth Culture; Popular Culture; Media; Power; Social Control; Practices of Normalization; Field of Socialtechnology; Re-socialization;

    Abstract : This study deals with the problem of socialization/re-socialization within modern society and how social workers deal with deviant youth. The empirical study is a stratified case-study including eight different projects within social work with youth. READ MORE

  4. 2. Looking vanlig; neither too much nor too little : A study of consumption of clothing among mainstream youth in a Swedish small town

    Author : Emma Lindblad; Jacob Östberg; Klas Nyberg; Magdalena Petersson Mcintyre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Consumption; Denim; Mainstream; Subculture; Ordinary; Youth; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : This thesis studies consumption among young people who identify as mainstreamers in a Swedish small town. In order to map patterns of clothing consumption and to understand what was central in the young people’s self-identification, the research was conducted using a mix of ethnographic methods and wardrobe studies. READ MORE

  5. 3. Sweet Battlefields : Youth and the Liberian Civil War

    Author : Mats Utas; Ovesen Jan; Alcinda Honwana; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural anthropology; Liberia; anthropology; civil war; youth; children; child soldiers; street children; conflict; violence; women in war; West Africa; liminality; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This dissertation presents an ethnography of youth in Liberia and of how their lives became affected by a civil war which raged in the country between 1990 and 1997. The focus is on the experiences, motivations, and reflections of young combatants who fought for a variety of rebel factions. READ MORE

  6. 4. Svensk motorcykelkultur

    Author : Lars Lagergren; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Motorcycle; motorcycle culture; the essence of the motorcycle; manliness; subculture; youth culture; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the motorcycle and the subcultures that have grown up around it in Sweden. Early on, the motorcycle became a culturally formative object associated with a sporty, tough, and technically oriented masculinity. READ MORE