Search for dissertations about: "Philip Lalander"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Philip Lalander.

2. 1. Borders crossing bodies : The stories of eight youth with experience of migrating

   Author : Pouran Djampour; Carin Cuadra; Philip Lalander; Paula Mulinari; Bridget Anderson; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; borders; sites of control; being stopped; love; intimacy; hope; futurity; resistance; political subjectivity;

   Abstract : In public discourse on migration, people who migrate are often portrayed as deviating from the rest of the population. This is especially true for the group categorised as ‘unaccompanied’ children who are portrayed as homogeneous and not seldom with a common history. READ MORE

4. 2. Performing Punk : Subcultural Authentications and the Positioning of the Mainstream

   Author : Erik Hannerz; Tora Holmberg; Philip Lalander; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; subculture; punk; mainstream; authentication; style; identity; cultural sociology; ethnography; convex; concave; patterns of meaning; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This thesis is about how and in opposition to what punk is defined and lived out by punks in Sweden and Indonesia. Arguing against the previous research’s presumption that subcultural meaning constitutes a single set of meaning, this study points to two patterned sets of meanings, each constructed out of several different definitions of the mainstream as well as the subcultural authentic. READ MORE

5. 3. We bang our heads, therefore I am : subculture as laboratory of identity – the case of heavy metal

   Author : Susanna Larsson; Rolf Lidskog; Emma Engdahl; Philip Lalander; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; subculture; heavy metal; identity; authenticity; ritual; alienation; gender; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : Subculture is a structure against which identities are both created and guarded. These identities are often socially and practically negotiated against an idea of individual authenticity. The thought of nurturing ones uniqueness while striving to fit in is a common duality and a clear cause of friction within subcultures. READ MORE

6. 4. Moments on a City Bus : Micro-sociology of Non-verbal Interaction in Urban Bus-riding

   Author : Magdalena Vieira; Sandra Torres; Elin Thunman; Philip Lalander; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public places; mundane; non-verbal interaction; interaction moments; gestures; homogeneous heterogeneous interaction; micro-sociology; Goffman; bus-riding; riders; time; space; bodies; interaction norms; structured participant observation; fieldnotes; territories; involvement; rituals; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to contribute to research on social interaction in public (and semi-public) places in general, and research on non-verbal mundane interaction in these places in particular. By paying empirical attention to the non-verbal interaction that takes place in the context of riding a city bus – which is a contained and time-limited form of social activity – this thesis explores the theoretically rich source of information about mundane interaction that this specific social activity offers. READ MORE