Search for dissertations about: "discursive dilemma"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words discursive dilemma.
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1. Dilemmas in child custody disputes : the child's best interest in courtroom discourse
Abstract : This thesis examines courtroom interactions involving child custody disputes, exploring how participants during courtroom hearings orient to and manage the task of presenting their own side, while contesting the opposing party, in matters like the child’s best interest, domestic violence, parental neglect and misconduct. Drawing on 42 audio-recorded courtroom examinations of litigating parents by the same side and opponent side attorneys, it examines authentic courtroom hearings. READ MORE
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2. Caregiving Dilemmas : Ideology and Social Interactionin Tanzanian Family Life
Abstract : This thesis explores caregiving ideology and social interaction in Tanzanian families with a focus on guidance and control of young children. The study is set within a context of social change in terms of urbanization as well as the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. READ MORE
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3. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer
Abstract : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. READ MORE
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4. The Road From Damascus : New Arrival Immigrant Families and The Swedish Preschool
Abstract : The overall aim of this doctoral thesis is to examine the perceptions that new arrival immigrant families have of Swedish preschool, and the perceptions of these families as expressed by the Swedish state preschool political discourse over the last fifty-year period. For this purpose, the study uses critical discourse analysis, as proposed by Norman Fairclough. READ MORE
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5. Disciplining Freedom : Treatment Dilemmas and Subjectivity at a Detention Home for Young Men
Abstract : This ethnographic study explores treatment practices and staff-resident interaction at a detention home for young men, drawing on video recorded conversations and interviews. It investigates ideological dilemmas inherent in the institutional setting and how these produce complex subject positions to uptake, negotiate or refuse. READ MORE