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  2. 1. Public Perceptions of Gene Technology : On the edge of risk society

    Author : Susanna Öhman; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi;

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  4. 2. Project work, independence and critical thinking

    Author : Anders Eklöf; Torgny Ottosson; Lars-Erik Nilsson; Per-Olof Erixon; Högskolan Kristianstad; Gothenburg University; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; project work; independence; individualisation; critical thinking; frame analysis; risk; uncertainty; Risk-society; Goffman;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how students do projects in a Swedish upper secondaryschool. The students have to produce products and at the same time provethem self as independent in relation to the teachers, and negotiate therequirements of the project setting and the written instructions within thegroup. READ MORE

  5. 3. Too Enabling to Fail – Ethics and Practices in the Legitimation of Nanotechnology

    Author : Nicholas Surber; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; enabling technology; responsible research and innovation; legitimation crisis; applied ethics; risk sociology; political economy of research and innovation; research and innovation policy; nanotechnology; technoscientific capitalism; emerging technology;

    Abstract : This thesis reads Beck’s Risk Society in the context of nanotechnology and the politicization of failure in the promise of enabling technologies. It aims to investigate how researchers and innovators legitimate nanotechnology in society. READ MORE

  6. 4. Project work, independence and critical thinking

    Author : Anders Eklöf; Torgny Ottosson; Lars-Erik Nilsson; Kristianstad University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how students do projects in a Swedish upper secondaryschool. The students have to produce products and at the same time provethem self as independent in relation to the teachers, and negotiate therequirements of the project setting and the written instructions within thegroup. READ MORE

  7. 5. Young mothers’ identity work : life course, risk, and good motherhood

    Author : Magdalena Sjöberg; Simon Lindgren; Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist; Lucas Gottzén; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Background: Most studies about young motherhood have focused on identifying how young mothers can be supported or on how notions of young motherhood are produced. However, there is still limited knowledge about the maternal identity work of young mothers. READ MORE