Search for dissertations about: "communitarianism"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word communitarianism.

2. 1. Community, Justice, and Freedom : Liberalism, Communitarianism, and African Contributions to Political Ethics

   Author : Isaias Ezekiel Chachine; Carl-Henric Grenholm; John Atherton; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Ethics; community; justice; freedom; ubuntu; liberalism; libertarianism; communitarianism; view of human; individualism; justification; liberation; opppression; relationship; belonging; universalism; contextualism; Etik; Etik; Ethics;

   Abstract : This study deals with theories of community, justice, and freedom within liberalism, communitarianism, African philosophy and theology. The study maintains that there are different latitudes on how to formulate and articulate theories of community, justice and freedom informed by particualr moral experiences with bearing on different views of human. READ MORE

4. 2. Today's perfect - tomorrow's standard : the role of consumers and the limits of policy in recycling

   Author : Jonas Kågström; Bo Öhlmér; Tage Klingberg; Daniel Matisoff; Högskolan i Gävle; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Recycling; Social marketing; Public marketing; Communitarianism; Austrian Economics; Praxeology; Decision making; Symbolic Regression; Compliance; Self Determination Theory; SDT;

   Abstract : In this study the mechanisms influencing recycling rates around the system maximum are deliberated. On the one hand, Policies, System design and how Citizens understand the two aforementioned are pitted against each other. READ MORE

5. 3. Pluralism and unity in education : on education for democratic citizenship and personal autonomy in a pluralist society

   Author : Joachim Rosenquist; Tomas Englund; Klas Roth; Walter Feinberg; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pluralism; democratic education; citizenship education; children s rights; autonomy-promotion; school choice; deliberative democracy; political philosophy; educational philosophy; Pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The overarching theme of this thesis concerns the possibility of balancing the values of unity and pluralism in education in developed nation states characterized by an increasing pluralism when it comes to the beliefs and values of its citizens. The author suggests that democracy has a normative basis in the principle of reciprocity which can be supported in an overlapping consensus by reasonable persons who differ in their moral, religious and philosophical beliefs. READ MORE

6. 4. Justice and the Prejudices of Culture : On Choice, Social Background and Unequal Opportunities in the Liberal Society

   Author : Marcus Ohlström; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Liberalism; culture; justice; equality of opportunity; esteem; self-esteem; John Rawls; Statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Egalitarian liberal theories of justice – so this dissertation argues – fail to take into accountthe full implications of the way citizens’ socio-cultural backgrounds work to undermine theequal opportunities these same theories demand. While egalitarians support extensiveredistribution of income and wealth from the privileged to the less privileged, and advocateequal opportunities for all, they do not properly attend either to how our shared societalcultures structure social esteem and related advantages, or to how our individual socioculturalenvironments structure the very act of choice. READ MORE