Search for dissertations about: "divided society"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 98 swedish dissertations containing the words divided society.

  2. 21. People’s knowledge about climate change: Uncertainty as a guide to future commitments

    Author : Eva-Lotta Sundblad; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; climate change knowledge; confidence in one’s own knowledge; risk perception of climate change; scientific uncertainty; temporal discount;

    Abstract : Knowledge of climate change is provided by scientists to other groups in society who have to interact to establish sustainable development. Hence, the knowledge must reach people and the content must be evaluated as important and relevant. READ MORE

  4. 22. Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors

    Author : Mikael Klintman; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecology; critical realism; electricity; environment; epistemology; green identity; greening; meta-theory; nature; ontology; social science; public participation; waste; windpower; sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The book has two interrelated objectives. One objective is meta-theoretical and concerns the exploration of theoretical debates connected to issues of studying society and environmental problems; another objective is empirical/analytical, referring to the analysis of "green" public participation in the electricity and waste sectors in Sweden, and partly in the Netherlands as well as the UK. READ MORE

  5. 23. Dissemination of scientific knowledge regarding climate change

    Author : Eva-Lotta Sundblad; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; climate change knowledge; confidence in one´s own knowledge; risk perception of climate change;

    Abstract : Knowledge of climate change is provided by scientists. The issue is characterized by great complexity, as well as by scientific uncertainty. Since the knowledge is disseminated to society by others than the scientists, to be confident in one´s own knowledge in these circumstances is even more difficult. READ MORE

  6. 24. Sápmi i förändringens tid : en studie av svenska samers levnadsvillkor under 1900-talet ur ett genus- och etnicitetsperspektiv

    Author : Andrea Amft; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sami history; Sami identity; gender division of labor; marginalization; power relations; dominant - subordinated ethnic groups; ethnic legislation; cultural studies; cultural boundaries;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the changing living conditions for the Sami in Swedish Såpmi (Samiland) throughout the twentieth century with an analysis based on a gender and ethnic perspective.At the turn of the century, the Sami lived as nomadic reindeer herders and were primarily self- sufficient. READ MORE

  7. 25. The politics of symbolic negotiation: Tauromachy and the making of Spain

    Author : Alberto Bouroncle; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Spain; bullfighting; state rituals; ritualisation; symbolism;

    Abstract : This study is a social anthropological approach to the role of bullfighting in the symbolic creation of Spain. By analysing the historical circumstances that turned an ancient ritual of fertility into the expression of a victorious nation and its dominant elite, this work discusses the role of rituals in the generaton of ordered social life through a process of symbolic negotiaton of power. READ MORE