Search for dissertations about: "modernization"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the word modernization.
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16. Life after death : The diffusion of Swedish life insurance - Dynamics of financial and social modernization 1830-1950
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand the diffusion process of Swedish life insurance during the period c. 1830-1950, with the specific aim to understand financial modernization and social mobilization as reflected in the diffusion of life insurance to less well-to-do classes and women. READ MORE
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17. Ambiguous Hopes : An Ethnographic Study of Agricultural Modernisation in a Rwandan village
Abstract : Since 2006, Rwanda has been implementing policies to modernize the agricultural sector, with the aim of moving from small-scale subsistence farming to modern, market-oriented farming. Under these policies, small-scale farmers have been compelled to abandon their traditional farming practices and adapt to monocropping of state-approved crops on consolidated land. READ MORE
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18. African Women and Religious Change: A study of the Western Igbo of Nigeria with a special focus on Asaba town
Abstract : This study focuses on a small ethnic group in the western part of Igboland called Asaba. It describes how the religious and socio-political role of women has changed, due to colonialism, modernisation, Western education and Christianity, which were brought by the groups of Europeans and Americans, who penetrated Africa in the nineteenth century. READ MORE
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19. Modeling and Forecasting of Electric Vehicle Charging, Solar Power Production, and Residential Load : Perspectives into the Future Urban and Rural Energy Systems
Abstract : The urban and rural energy systems are undergoing modernization. This modernization is motivated by the need to increase sustainability in both systems. Some characteristics of this modernization include electrification of industries, transports, and heating and cooling loads. READ MORE
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20. Vestiges of urban spirit : Isfahan's urban fabric through socio-spatial transformations
Abstract : The city of Isfahan, one of the most historic urban settlements in Iran, has undergone dramatic socio-spatial transformations during the recent decades, beginning with the modernization programs of the 1920s. While the urban structure of Isfahan was the outcome of a process over centuries of incremental evolution, a new mode of place making and street patterns was imposed on the historic fabric of the city within the space of only a few decades. READ MORE