Search for dissertations about: "Habermas"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the word Habermas.

  2. 11. Experiences of being in ethically difficult care situations and an intervention with clinical ethics support

    Author : Catarina Fischer Grönlund; Karin Zingmark; Unni Lindström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Care ethics; clinical ethics support; ethically difficulties; healthcare professionals; inter-professional communication; narratives; omvårdnadsforskning med medicinsk inriktning; Caring Sciences;

    Abstract : Background: Studies show that healthcare professionals often experience ethical difficulties in their relations with patients, relatives, and other professionals and in relation to organisational issues, and these can sometimes be difficult to handle. Failing to act or to relate in accordance with one’s values for what is good and right might cause a troubled conscience that is connected to feelings of guilt and ill-being. READ MORE

  4. 12. "Social work" and missionary work as part of the power game

    Author : Hans-Jörgen Wallin Weihe; Socialhögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social changes; Sociology; Social work; Saami; Missology; Inuit; History; Greenland; Ethics; Anthropology; theory of social work; Sociala förändringar; teorier om socialt arbete;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses "social work" as part of missionary work during Hans Egede´s mission in Greenland (1721-1736) and the starting period of the Norwegian Saami mission (1888-1900). The discussion is focused by connecting it to Habermas´s discussion of "The structural transformation of the public" (1989). READ MORE

  5. 13. The Challenge from Nationalism : Problems of Community in Democracy

    Author : Per Helldahl; Jörgen Hermansson; Ulf Mörkenstam; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nationalism; Community; Theory of democracy; Political theory; United States of America; Germany; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : The dissertation examines the relationship between democracy and nationalism from a normative standpoint. A point of departure is the assumption that any democracy requires a referent community, or demos. Nationalism has, in practice, frequently provided democracies with this sense of community during the last two centuries. READ MORE

  6. 14. Action and Institution : Contributions to a discourse theory of human rights

    Author : Eva Erman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science; statsvetenskap; Statskunskap;

    Abstract : In the theoretical rights discourse rights are commonly analyzed in terms of two themes,negative and positive rights, on the one hand, and individual and collective rights, on theother. We witness similar themes in the empirical rights discussion held by the UnitedNations’ Commission on Human Rights (the CHR). READ MORE

  7. 15. Liberation of the Ecclesia : The Unfinished Project of Liturgical Theology

    Author : Michael Hjälm; Sven-Erik Brodd; Richard Schneider; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; communicative action; disclosure; ecclesia; emancipation; identity; lifeworld; liturgical theology; ordo; ortho; otherness; rationalization; ritual action; theory and practice; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a critical study of the paradigm of Liturgical Theology. Focus in this systematic inquiry has been on the Russian school with the focal point in the works of Alexander Schmemann, who was active in the late 20th century. The main question of the thesis concerns the relation between theory and practice in Liturgical Theology. READ MORE