Search for dissertations about: "Vignettes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word Vignettes.

2. 1. Measuring Professional Judgements : An Application of the Factorial Survey Approach to the Field of Social Work

   Author : Lisa Wallander; Karin H. Bergmark; Ruth Ludwick; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Factorial Survey Approach; Vignettes; Professional Judgements; Sociology; Social Work; Social Services; Substance Misuse Treatment; Multilevel Analysis; Knowledge Use; Professional Development; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The focus of this thesis is the factorial survey approach as a method for studying professional judgements in social work. The factorial survey approach, which was first introduced in the social sciences around the beginning of the 1980s, constitutes an advanced method for measuring human judgements of social objects. READ MORE

4. 2. Managers' Cooperative Work Practices in Computational Artefacts-Supported Library Systems

   Author : Niki Chatzipanagiotou; Anita Mirijamdotter; Jaime Campos; Christina Mörtberg; Ulrika Lund Snis; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work Practice; Cooperative Work; Cooperative Work Practices; Computational Artefacts; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; Articulation Work; Awareness; Appropriation; Ethnography; Focused-Ethnography; Fieldwork; Vignettes; Complexity; Managers; Management; Libraries; Academic Library; Academic Library Managers; Informatik; Information Systems;

   Abstract : The dissertation presents understandings of the complex, contextual, cooperative everyday work practices of academic library managers supported by computational artefacts, as well as challenges disrupting their practices and thereby computational artefacts usage. The doctoral research approaches and conceptualises managers’ work as ‘everyday cooperative practice’, in this way adopting the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) approach. READ MORE

5. 3. Understanding "successful aging" : Cultural and migratory perspectives

   Author : Sandra Torres; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; sociology. social gerontology; successful aging; value orientations; culture; cross-cultural gerontology; ethnogerontology; migration; Iranian immigrants; culturally-appropriate care; gerontological theory; vignettes; gerontological methods; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation aims to contribute to the rectification of the atheoretization that characterizes the study of aging and diversity through the formulation and preliminary empirical testing of a culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful aging. Inspired by the Kluckhohnian approach to the study of cultural variation, the framework hereby proposed posits that there is congruence between the understandings of successful aging that people uphold and the value orientations that they prefer in regards to four topics: man-nature, time, activity and relational. READ MORE

6. 4. "In general, how do you feel today?" Self-rated health in the context of aging in India

   Author : Siddhivinayak Hirve; Nawi Ng; Stig Wall; Yulia Blomstedt; Stephen M. Tollman; SV Subramanian; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Self-rated health; quality of life; aging; mortality; disability; reportingheterogeneity; anchoring vignettes; India; epidemiologi; Epidemiology;

   Abstract : Background: Most aging research comes from the developed world. Aging research in India is focused on disease states and risk factors. Evidence on elderly health, physical performance and disability to understand the psycho-social or socio-behavioral risk is limited in India. READ MORE

7. 5. Diagnosing heart failure in primary health care

   Author : Ylva Skånér; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Case vignettes; Clinical Judgement Analysis; decision-making; general practice; guidelines; heart failure; judgements; think-aloud;

   Abstract : Diagnosing chronic heart failure (CHF) is difficult. General practitioners (GPs) have an important role in the management of heart failure patients, and the purpose of the studies was to examine their judgements of patients with suspected CHF. READ MORE