Search for dissertations about: "sammanläggningsavhandling sociologi"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words sammanläggningsavhandling sociologi.
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1. Total St Gall : Medieval Monastery as a Disciplinary Institution
Abstract : How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in the least - what can such a metaphor tell us about power relations structuring the life of medieval monks?The purpose of this compilation thesis (sammanläggningsavhandling) is to render explicit and analyze relations of power and modes of control comprising the social tissue of early medieval Benedictine monasteries. By bringing up the examples of tenth- and eleventh-century monasteries of St Gall, Fulda, and Bury St Edmunds, this thesis seeks to understand what power was in medieval monasteries, how and between whom it was exercised, what and how it affected in terms of collective and individual identity. READ MORE
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2. Towards a minor bilingualism : Exploring variations of language and literacy in early childhood education
Abstract : The aim of this compilation thesis is to explore variations in bilingualism with the help of everyday specific situations at a Spanish-Swedish early childhood institution in Sweden, and by means of a ‘material-semiotic theorizing’. This means that material and semiotic elements are treated equally and entwined. READ MORE
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3. Between Law and Safety : Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers and the Socio-professional Construction of Legality in European Civil Aviation
Abstract : The survey and interview-based mixed methods research presented in this compilation dissertation explores how licensed aircraft maintenance engineers in Sweden, Norway and Portugal experience working under the vertical chain of hard and soft law that makes up the European Union regulation of this sector. By focusing on occurrence reporting and the certification and release of aircraft into service, as two regulated phenomena directly shaping the everyday working lives of these maintenance engineers, the research ultimately found that a sectorial legal consciousness emerged that is characterised by normative pluralism and a shared professional cultural allegiance to a norm of putting safety first. READ MORE
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4. "I know where you live" : Statutory social work, client violence, and dilemmas for safety and practice
Abstract : Violence from service users towards social workers (client violence) has been a growing concern over the last decades. Statutory social work is among the occupations with a high risk of client violence. Sweden has a long history of legislation on workplace safety, yet client violence in social work is perpetual. READ MORE
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5. Elusive Relations : A Phenomenology of Interpersonal Understanding in Social Work
Abstract : This thesis aims to explore how phenomenological philosophy may contribute to the conception of interpersonal understanding in the context of social work practice. The thesis consists of an extended introduction and four original papers, investigating modalities of interpersonal understanding in relation to three different subjects, namely empathy, stigmatization, and peer-support. READ MORE