Search for dissertations about: "Pragmatic sociology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words Pragmatic sociology.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. Scarcity, Abundance and Sufficiency: Contributions to Social and Economic Theory

    Author : Adel Daoud; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economics; sociology; scarcity; abundance; sufficiency;

    Abstract : Economic sociology has established itself as a strong and vibrant field in the social sciences. A number of significant studies have been conducted on the relation between the economy and society: on firms, markets, networks, money, and general action theory. But little has been done on the issues of scarcity, abundance, and sufficiency (SAS). READ MORE

  5. 3. Creating spaces for action. ANC-women politicians' views on bridewealth and gender-related power

    Author : Frida Nilsson; Tom Burns; Birgitta Holm; Marianne Liljeström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; ANC-women; bridewealth lobola; discourse; discursive strategy; gender; gender-related power; hermeneutic approach; structure; agency; self-reflexivity; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The first aim of this work has been to analyse and understand the ways in which a group of ANC-women politicians reason about bridewealth/lobola – an institution about which they express differing views, in particular about whether or not it is oppressive to women. The main body of the empirical material is based on 27 interviews conducted in South Africa in the period 1996-1998. READ MORE

  6. 4. Educational choices of the future : a sociological inquiry into micro-politics in education

    Author : Goran Puaca; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Educational choice; Micro-politics; Want-formation; Habitus; Identity; Educational choice; micro-politics; want-formation; habitus; identity;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how students’ practical considerations for future choices in education and occupations correspond to policy objectives of socially productive educational choices. This is conveyed through the primary aim of analyzing the correspondence between on the one hand educational policy intentions and on the other hand students’ educational choices and the social and cultural conditions that structure them. READ MORE

  7. 5. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens

    Author : María Florencia Langa; Tora Holmberg; Stefan Bargheer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; urban gardening and agriculture; morality; valuations; practice; urban nature; environmentalism;

    Abstract : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. READ MORE