Search for dissertations about: "Life stories"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 116 swedish dissertations containing the words Life stories.

  2. 1. Women's varying life careers and shifting life-patterns : a study of Swedish women born in 1948

    Author : Eva Wirén; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; life-career; life-pattern; difference; representation; longitudinal; quantitative; text; stories; Bourdieu; post-structural theories; deconstruction; feminism;

    Abstract : This study is about a generation of Swedish women's varying life-careers and shifting lifepatterns. As empirical base for the study is used a longitudinal data material collected at the two main time-points, in 1961 and in 1980. The purpose of the study is twofold. READ MORE

  4. 2. Different Voices - Different Stories : Communication, identity and meaning among people with acquired brain damage

    Author : Eleonor Antelius; Lars-Christer Hydén; Marja-Liisa Honkasalo; Andrew Sparkes; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Acquired brain damage; body; communication; dependence; disability; embodiment; enactment; ethnography; identity; language use; meaning-making practices; narratives; normality; personhood; power relations; self-determination; social interaction; stories; storytelling; story-making; videoethnography; voice; Beroende; berättande; berättelser; etnografi; funktionshinder; förkroppsligande; förvärvad hjärnskada; identitet; kommunikation; kropp; maktrelationer; meningsskapande praktiker; narrativer; normalitet; personskap; röst; självbestämmande; social interaktion; språkanvändning; videoetnografi; Disability research; Handikappsforskning;

    Abstract : The main purpose of the dissertation is to understand meaning-making practices used by people suffering from acquired brain damage with severe physical and communicative disabilities, in order to create and sustain their identity and personhood in relation to other people. The study emanates from the idea that identity and personhood, also in relation to disability, are created/sustained in ongoing interaction between people in everyday situations, and that the ability to narrate is central to such a creation of identity. READ MORE

  5. 3. Psychiatric disorders in Swedish elite athletes : Prevalence, comorbidity and life stories

    Author : Cecilia Åkesdotter; Johan Franck; Göran Kenttä; Andrew C. Sparkes; Claudia L. Reardon; Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Samhällsvetenskap Humaniora; Social Sciences Humanities;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore psychiatric disorders in Swedish elite athletes.The first study investigates a) the prevalence of symptoms of psychiatric disorders, b) the prevalence of mental health problems, defined by psychological suffering and impairment>2 weeks, c) the usefulness of sport-specific instruments in indicating clinical levels of psychiatric symptoms, and d) the life history of psychiatric disorders. READ MORE

  6. 4. Roots and Routes : Life stories of exiled Hungarian women in Sweden

    Author : Katalin Henriksson; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hungarian; Hungarian Minorities; Hungarianness; Migration; Mobility; Narratives; Narrations; Life stories; Membership Category; Category Entitlement; Identifications; Ethnic Identification; Culture; Doing Gender;

    Abstract : This dissertation analyses the narrated life stories of Swedish Hungarian women, sharing the numerous values and experiences of Hungarian exiles. With the help of interview transcripts of five women from the first generation of Hungarians living in exile in southern Sweden, the study presents seldom-discussed angles of ascertained membership in the Hungarian nation, moving beyond traditional definitions of ethnic belonging, official census figures, and organizational categorizations. READ MORE

  7. 5. On lifelong learning as stories of the present

    Author : Gun Berglund; David Hamilton; Ingrid Nilsson; Richard Edwards; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lifelong learning; discourse; history of the present; stories; power knowledge; governmentality; the other; pathology; medicalisation; diskurs; berättelser; patologisering; medikalisering; livslångt lärande; Education; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the discursive construction of lifelong learning in Swedish, Australian and American policy. Lifelong learning has an aura of apparent self-evidence which this study wishes to challenge by deconstructing the normalised truths in contemporary lifelong learning policies. READ MORE