Search for dissertations about: "A. Grand"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 90 swedish dissertations containing the words A. Grand.

2. 1. Class, Place and Identity in a Satellite Town

   Author : Elias le Grand; Patrik Aspers; Lars Udehn; Les Back; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; identity; place; chav; stigma; symbolic boundaries; youths; moral panics; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The central aim of this study is to examine processes of identity formation among white, working-class youths in a marginalized area located on the outskirts of South London. It is primarily based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork but also on analyses of web sites, newspapers and popular culture. READ MORE

4. 2. A large-eddy simulation perspective on Arctic airmass transformation and low-level cloud evolution

   Author : Antonios Dimitrelos; Annica Ekman; Caballero Rodrigo; Rune Grand Graversen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Arctic; mixed phase clouds; sea ice; Arctic amplification; atmospheric energy transport; CCN; Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography; atmosfärvetenskap och oceanografi;

   Abstract : The Arctic is currently warming faster than other regions of the Earth. Many processes and feedbacks contribute to the enhanced warming. Among these are the radiative effects of clouds. READ MORE

5. 3. On the recent Arctic Warming

   Author : Rune Grand Graversen; Michael Tjernström; Erland Källén; John Walsh; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Climate change; atmospheric energy transport; Meteorology; Meteorologi; atmosfärvetenskap; Atmospheric Sciences;

   Abstract : The Arctic region attracts considerable scientific interest in these years. Some of the Earth's most pronounced signs of the recent climate change are found here. The summer sea-ice cover is shrinking at an alarming rate. At the same time the region warms faster than the rest of the globe. READ MORE

6. 4. The "Japanese employment system" revisited : gender, work and social order

   Author : Toshiko Tsukaguchi-le Grand; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Ilse Lenz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : The thesis is an attempt to examine the influence of cultural elements on the Japanese society of today, especially in regard to social organizations and economic activities. With regard to the framework of analysis, the ie (Japanese family) ideology is applied as a specific key concept, since it is regarded as being of substantial significance as the dominant ideology and as the source of that social order which rules in present-day Japanese society. READ MORE

7. 5. Ethnic Discrimination, Name Change and Labor Market Inequality : Mixed approaches to ethnic exclusion in Sweden

   Author : Moa Bursell; Carl le Grand; Gunn Birkelund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnicity; ethnic discrimination; employment gaps; field experiment; correspondence test; gender; sex segregation; name change; stigma; pragmatic assimilation; mixed methods; Sweden; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four empirical studies on ethnic integration in the Swedish labor market. Studies I-III draw on a field experiment testing ethnic discrimination in the hiring process. READ MORE