Search for dissertations about: "Social exclusion"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 218 swedish dissertations containing the words Social exclusion.
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21. A longitudinal approach to social exclusion in Sweden
Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers, and has as its central theme the accumulation of welfare problems and social exclusion. We use Swedish data and all analyses are based on individuals of working age. READ MORE
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22. Class and gender in Russian welfare policies : Soviet legacies and contemporary challenges
Abstract : The general aim of this thesis is to explore the gendered and classed nature of social work and social welfare in Russia to show how social policy can be a part of and reinforce marginalisation. The overall research question is in what ways class and gender are constructed in Russian social work practice and welfare rhetoric through Soviet legacies and contemporary challenges? In addition, which actors contribute to the constitution of social work values and how this value system affects the agency of the clients? This study focuses on contradictory ideologies that are shaped in discursive formations of social policy, social work training and practice. READ MORE
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23. A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies
Abstract : This thesis aims at contributing to the understanding of digital inequalities among older people, by studying the involvement of older people in research on digital technologies. Some mechanisms driving old age digital inequalities are well known. READ MORE
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24. Needed by Nobody : Homelessness, Humiliation, and Homelessness in Post-Socialist Russia
Abstract : Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian metropolitan cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of ‘vagrancy’ and similar offences was abolished. This study investigates homelessness as a sociostructural phenomenon as well as an individually experienced life condition, with a focus on homeless people in St. READ MORE
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25. No Heroics, Please : Mapping Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital
Abstract : This thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its consolidated specialised team of transplant coordinators (TCs). READ MORE