Search for dissertations about: "ethnography"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 291 swedish dissertations containing the word ethnography.

  2. 16. Elderly South Africans' in transition : the daily life circumstances, beliefs concerning health and illness and the influences on caring and family structure

    Author : Doris Bohman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Activities of daily living; Aged; Changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Family; Health and illness beliefs; Interpretive phenomenology; Keeping normality; Modernization; Reciprocity; South Africa; Tradition; Transition; Activities of daily living; changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Keeping normality; South Africa; health and illness beliefs; interpretive phenomenology; transition; aged; family; modernization; reciprocity; tradition;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to shed light on different aspects of elderly South Africans experiences in a transitional period in order to reach culturally contextual knowledge within gerontological care. The research objectives were to: identify and describe daily life and related concerns and interests as expressed by a group of elderly (I), illuminate how a group of elderly South Africans experience being old in a transitional period (II), study how a group of aged South Africans and their family members describe their intergenerational relations in a transitional period i. READ MORE

  4. 17. Software Practice from the Inside : Ethnography Applied to Software Engineering

    Author : Kari Rönkkö; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ethnographic knowledge; software engineering;

    Abstract : Empirical methodologies have recently attracted increasing attention from the broader software engineering community. In particular, organisational issues and the human role in software development have been addressed. Qualitative research approaches have been identified as necessary for understanding human nature. READ MORE

  5. 18. Making Methods Work in Software Engineering : Method Deployment - as a Social Achievement

    Author : Kari Rönkkö; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Software engineering; software development methods; social achievement; research methodology; action research; ethnography; ethnomethodology; industrial cooperation;

    Abstract : The software engineering community is concerned with improvements in existing methods and development of new and better methods. The research approaches applied to take on this challenge have hitherto focused heavily on the formal and specifying aspect of the method. READ MORE

  6. 19. Television Practices : Ethnography, Television and User Practices

    Author : Elin Önnevall; Oskar Juhlin; Alexandra Weilenmann; Johan Lundin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Man-Machine-Interaction MMI ; människa-maskin-interaktion MMI ;

    Abstract : This thesis explores television practices in a time when new technology has made it possible to interact with and create your own TV content. The work is focused on how user practices need to be understood in a context of chan- ging technology. READ MORE

  7. 20. A production of diversity : appearances, ideas, interests, actions, contradictions and praxis

    Author : Vedran Omanović; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; diversity; ethnography; critical theory; dialectic view; social-historical process;

    Abstract : A history of two management concepts, valuing diversity and managing diversity, has its cultural and historic origins in the U.S., or, more exactly, in the management/organizational literature produced in the U.S. READ MORE