Search for dissertations about: "dissertation about anger"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words dissertation about anger.
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1. Hope and worry : exploring young people's values, emotions, and behavior regarding global environmental problems
Abstract : This dissertation explores young people’s engagement concerning global environmental problems. To be able to reverse these problems, it is vital to involve the public in the strivings for a sustainable society. However, environmental problems are complex, imbued with uncertainties and ambivalence. READ MORE
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2. The Prometheus Complex : Striving for competence
Abstract : The purpose of the present investigations was to obtain a more comprehensive view of fire setting by children and adolescents; to explore the prevalence of the phenomenon; whether or not it experimentally may be related to frustration or boredom and to examine the role of personality traits such as optimism, pessimism and creativity. This dissertation consists of two experimental and two interview studies. READ MORE
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3. Sentiments of Segregation : The Emotional Politics of Apartheid in South Africa, c. 1948-1990
Abstract : This dissertation studies the relationship between emotions and the everday application of apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1990. Histories of apartheid have long been politics-driven, focusing on the rise and fall of the regime with its reception being studied primarily through the lens of the popular struggle that, in part, led to apartheid’s downfall. READ MORE
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4. Perplexities of the personal and the political : how women's liberation became women's human rights
Abstract : In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus is primarily on the uses of personal stories in activism at the intersections of politics and legal discourse. READ MORE