Search for dissertations about: "Social classes"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 170 swedish dissertations containing the words Social classes.
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1. Worse than Complex
Abstract : This thesis engages with questions on the boundary between what has traditionally been understood as social and natural. The introductory essay contextualizes the specific contributions of the included papers, by noting and exploring a reinvigoration of "naturalism" (the notion of a continuity between the human realm and the rest of natural phenomena) under the banner of Complexity Science. READ MORE
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2. Social Relations in Youth : Determinants and Consequences of Relations to Parents, Teachers, and Peers
Abstract : The thesis includes three empirical studies on Swedish children’s well-being. Central themes in these studies are how children’s social relations are influenced by and influence other dimensions of their well-being. The studies are framed in the introductory chapter, which includes an international comparison of children’s social relations. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Social Reproduction and Lifelong Learning
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers that deal with social reproduction and lifelong learning in Sweden and all use large-scale longitudinal data from public registers. The first paper analyses inequality by class origin in programme choice at university. READ MORE
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4. Social Class in Science Class
Abstract : One of the most important aims of schooling is to give all children an equal education. Despite this, social differences continue to be reproduced in school. READ MORE
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5. Shaping urban environments through human selection for plant traits
Abstract : Cities, as home to the majority of the world’s people, are significant sites for addressing challenges of achieving sustainability and securing human wellbeing. Urban environments are complex social-ecological systems, and meeting these challenges requires better understandings of the interactions of social and ecological elements. READ MORE