Search for dissertations about: "reflexivity"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 63 swedish dissertations containing the word reflexivity.

  2. 11. Life in the labyrinth : a reflexive exploration of research and politics

    Author : Suzanne Almgren Mason; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; labour market policies; self-employment; immigrant women; discrimination; politics; research; reflexivity; gender; ethnicity; ethnocentrism;

    Abstract : This thesis is about exploring the politics within and around research. The starting point is a European project which ran from late 1997 to the end of 2000. READ MORE

  4. 12. Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age

    Author : Olav Hammer; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; anthroposophy; discursive strategy; disembedding; emic historiography; globalization; late modernity; movement text; New Age; reflexivity; religious experience; scientism; secularization; sociocognitive analysis; tradition; theosophy; Theology; Western esotericism; Teologi;

    Abstract : The study addresses the question of how religious creativity in the West manages to adapt to the forces of modernity. The empirical data are drawn from a set of historically and thematically related movements, from late nineteenth century theosophy to the contemporary New Age.The dissertation is divided into three main sections. READ MORE

  5. 13. Rural migration in Sweden : a new green wave or a blue ripple?

    Author : Susanne Hjort; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rural; migration; gentrification; middle class; Sweden; reflexivity; quantitative methods; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

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  6. 14. Vägval : lastbilsförare i fjärrtrafik - perspektiv på yrkeskultur och genus

    Author : Eddy Nehls; Billy Ehn; Magnus Berg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gender; masculinity; working culture; reflexivity; truck-driver; male myths; trucker; gender equality; freedom; participant observation; haulage business; class;

    Abstract : This thesis is an ethnological study of the truck-driver profession and an examination of the prerequisites for sexual equality and diversity in the haulage branch. The aim is to: from a cultural perspective, with a special focus on gender and masculinity, study truck-drivers as an occupational group. READ MORE

  7. 15. Structural Violence as a Constraint to African Policy Formation in the 1990s : Respositioning Education in International Relations

    Author : Catherine A Odora Hoppers; Birgit Brock-Utne; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural violence; policy formation; power relations; aid; discourses; geo-politics; education; knowledge; neo-liberalism; Structural Adjustment Programmes; reflexivity; transdisciplinarity; Public Policy Dialogue.; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

    Abstract : This study is a meta-analysis of the manner in which global relations impact on national level policy spaces and policy formation. As the International Financial Institutions tighten their grip through the Structural Adjustment Programmes over African countries, and donors steadily shift their ground and push conditionality beyond economic policy into institutional arrangements, the issue of political sovereignty of African countries, and of indirect rule through aid becomes a key concern. READ MORE