Search for dissertations about: "QUEST"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 264 swedish dissertations containing the word QUEST.

  2. 1. Quest for Sociology : Revisiting Prevailing Understandings of a Discipline with Computational Text Analyses of Dissertations

    Author : Josef Ginnerskov; Sandra Torres; Johan Wickström; Sebastian Kohl; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociology of sociology; sociology of knowledge; sociological theory; paradigm theory; computational social science; digital humanities; text mining; dissertations; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : What is sociology? For centuries sociologists have struggled to answer this question and repeatably proclaimed that their discipline is in crisis. The problem has generated a field of its own, the sociology of sociology, where sociologists of knowledge offer concepts for how the paradigmatic status of discipline and its crisis ought to be understood. READ MORE

  4. 2. Latent Trait Models of Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and Quest Religious Orientations

    Author : Marcus Koskinen-Hagman; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Meta-analysis; Item Analysis; Rasch; Scaling; Quest; Extrinsic; Intrinsic; Measurement; Religious Orientations; Teologi;

    Abstract : Allports and Ross (1967) Intrinsic and Extrinsic scales and Batsons and Schoenrades (1991b) Quest scale are re-analyzed from a unidimensional perspective by using the Rasch measurement model (RM). The RM of choice, Rating scale analysis, offers an alternative scaling procedure to Factor analysis. READ MORE

  5. 3. Putting Scientific Research and Performing Arts Together : A Quest for Equality

    Author : Pranab Dahal; Katarina Swahnberg; Sunil Kumar Joshi; Karen Marie Moland; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; drama; awareness; community participation; gender-based violence; gender inequality; human trafficking; Nepal; Health and Caring Sciences; Hälsovetenskap;

    Abstract : BackgroundGender inequality and violence are prevalent globally affecting women withdiscriminatory practices and victimizations. The oppressions majorly arise due tosystemic inequalities and power hierarchies. Interventions targeting to endinequality and violence are increasing and this thesis compares the outcomes ofparticipatory Forum Theater. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Quest for Recognition : The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65

    Author : Johannes Heuman; Pär Frohnert; Claudia Lenz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; France; Holocaust; remembrance; historical culture; narrative; use of history; republicanism; universalism; Jewish identity; historicisation; Europeanisation; antisemitism; Vichy; CDJC; Mémorial de la Shoah; Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the development of Holocaust remembrance in France, taking the activities of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine in Paris as its focus. By looking at the construction, function, and reception of Holocaust narratives in the twenty years following the end of the War, it shows how remembrance took shape within French historical culture, and, conversely, how representations of the genocide influenced France’s national-historical culture. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Quest for Equilibrium : Towards an Understanding of Scalability and Sustainability for Mobile Learning

    Author : Anna Wingkvist; Lars Svensson; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Action Research; Mobile Learning; Scalability; Sustainability; Informatics; Informatik; Information Systems; Informatik;

    Abstract : The research presented in this thesis investigates the concept of sustainability in relation to mobile learning initiatives. Sustainability is seen as a key concept for mobile learning to gain acceptance. READ MORE