Search for dissertations about: "moral dilemmas"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words moral dilemmas.

2. 1. Disciplining Freedom : Treatment Dilemmas and Subjectivity at a Detention Home for Young Men

   Author : Anna Gradin Franzén; Rolf Holmqvist; Karin Aronsson; Ann Phoenix; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Discipline; self-government; subjectivity; subject positioning; forced treatment; youth; normality; morality; humor; ideological dilemmas; resistance; Disciplin; självstyrning; subjektivitet; subjektspositionering; tvångsvård; ungdom; normalitet; moral; humor; ideologiska dilemman; motstånd;

   Abstract : This ethnographic study explores treatment practices and staff-resident interaction at a detention home for young men, drawing on video recorded conversations and interviews. It investigates ideological dilemmas inherent in the institutional setting and how these produce complex subject positions to uptake, negotiate or refuse. READ MORE

4. 2. Temporal Distance and Morality : Moral Concerns Loom Larger in the Distant Future

   Author : Jens Agerström; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; moral concerns; morality; moral judgment; Construal Level Theory; temporal distance; moral reasoning;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation was to examine whether the temporal distance of moral events affects the moral judgments and decisions people make in response to those events. Drawing upon Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) which posits that the distant future is represented at a higher, more abstract level of mental construal than the near future, and that high-level mental construals shift attention to core values and higher-order principles, the main proposition of this dissertation was that people would show greater moral concerns in response to distant future events than near future events. READ MORE

5. 3. The Logical Structure of the Moral Concepts : An Essay in Propositional Deontic Logic

   Author : Karl Pettersson; Erik Carlson; Kent Hurtig; Sven Ove Hansson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deontic logic; standard deontic logic SDL ; deontic paradoxes; non-Kripkean modal logic; moral dilemmas; supererogation; Hector-Neri Castañeda; practitions; dyadic deontic logic; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

   Abstract : In this thesis, the main focus is on deontic logic as a tool for formal representation of moral reasoning in natural language. The simple standard system of deontic logic (SDL), i.e. READ MORE

6. 4. Ethical Competence and Moral Distress in the Health Care Sector : A Prospective Evaluation of Ethics Rounds

   Author : Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong; Bengt Arnetz; Anna T Höglund; Janine Morgall Traulsen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Social medicine; Moral distress; Ethics rounds; Ethical competence; Professional ethics; Clinical practice; Pharmacy practice; Work organization; Sweden; Socialmedicin;

   Abstract : Ongoing structural and financial changes in the health care sector have resulted in increased risks for ethical dilemmas and moral distress. It is purported that increased ethical competence will help staff manage ethical dilemmas and hence decrease moral distress. READ MORE

7. 5. Moral cognition : Individual differences, intuition and reasoning in moral judgment

   Author : Fredrik Björklund; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Psychological processes involved in moral cognition were examined in three studies, taking as their starting point the assumption that the cognitive-developmental perspective commonly taken is too narrow and that individual differences and implicit processes need to be taken into consideration. Study I focused on the role of defense mechanisms in moral thinking. READ MORE