Search for dissertations about: "identity categories"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 75 swedish dissertations containing the words identity categories.
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1. Identity Construction : The Case of Young Women in Rasht
Abstract : This study took place in the city of Rasht, which is the capital of Gilan Province, situated in North-Western Iran. The aim has been to investigate how a group of young Rashti women constitute their identities through their talk-in-interaction, and how they relate to the concept of Rashti, be it the dialect, people living in a geographical area, or a notion of collective characteristics. READ MORE
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2. Identity, Old(er) Age and Migrancy : A Social Constructionist Lens
Abstract : ldentity research in relation to ethnicity and migration has tended to focus an younger people whilst identity research in relation to ageing and old(er) age has not focused an migrants. This inadvertent mutual neglect has led to a lack of identity research that examines the identity categories of old(er) age and migrancy together, a lacuna that this dissertation aims to redress. READ MORE
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3. Model categories, pro-categories and functors
Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers. The first three are concerned with various model structures on ind- and pro-categories, while the last two are concerned with the homotopy theory of functors.In Paper I, a general method for constructing simplicial model structures on ind- and pro-categories is described and its basic properties are studied. READ MORE
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4. Talking violence, constructing identities : young men in institutional care
Abstract : The aim of the study is to investigate how young men constructing identities in talk about their own use of violence. The study is based on a fieldwork at a youth detention home in Sweden. The data consists of individual interviews and video recordings of the treatment programme Aggression Replacement Training (ART). READ MORE
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5. In Search of a Fulfilling Identity in a Modern World: Narratives of Indigenous Identities in Sweden and Canada
Abstract : This thesis deals with the identity of individuals with parents from two different ethnic groups. The focus is on individuals in Sweden with one Saami parent and one Swedish (or other European) parent, and individuals in Canada with one Native (Indian or Inuit) parent and one Euro-Canadian parent. READ MORE