Search for dissertations about: "sense-making"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 swedish dissertations containing the word sense-making.

2. 1. Dementia, Sense-making and Evaluations : Implications for Communication

   Author : Sophia Lindeberg; Nicole Müller; Christina Samuelsson; Louise Nygård; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; dementia; evaluation; assessment; testing; collaboration; conversations; interaction; language; cognition;

   Abstract : In Sweden, the dementia assessment takes place within primary health care or specialized care. From a clinical perspective, there are many factors to consider in the assessment process, and for the families entering the diagnostic pathways, the process can be uncertain and arduous. READ MORE

4. 2. Metaphor as a mode of interpretation : An essay on interactional and contextual sense-making processes, metaphorology, and verbal arts

   Author : Claes Entzenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; context; contextualization; active determination; interpretation; linguistic item; metaphor; sense-making; understanding; Estetik; Aesthetics; Estetik; Aesthetics; estetik;

   Abstract : This essay is an attempt to assess the oddity and importance of metaphor, both viewed as inseparable, internal aspects of the metaphorical sense-making activity. To outline the "challenge" of metaphor, arguments are made against the traditional approaches to metaphor, namely the idea that metaphor is a thing, an entity out there in the discourse or text, whose meaning is embedded within its discrete units and parts. READ MORE

5. 3. Growing old and still practising competitive sports : An exploration of acting-space and sense-making processes among old women and men

   Author : Josefin Eman; Carita Bengs; Annette Schnabel; Gertrud Pfister; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aging; sports; gender; acting-space; sense making; old athletes; the process of growing old; sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : The thesis explores how the way athletically active old men and women make sense of their acting-space affects their participation in competitive sports and conversely how their participation in competitive sports affect their sense-making process and acting-space. It puts emphasis on the sociological point of intersection of three different research fields; sports science, critical gerontology and gender studies. READ MORE

6. 4. Ambivalent Ambiguity? : A study of how women with 'atypical' sex development make sense of female embodiment

   Author : Lisa Guntram; Kristin Zeiler; Karin Zetterqvist-Nelson; Cynthia Kraus; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sex; sex development; ‘atypical’ sex development; female embodiment; adolescence; women; Sweden; uterine and vaginal agenesis; Turner syndrome; intersex; DSD; qualitative methodologies; sense-making; narratives; norms; normality; heteronormativity; resistance; relations; sexual practice; diagnosis; treatment; critique; Kön; könsutveckling; kvinnlig kroppslighet; ”otypisk” könsutveckling; normalitet; tonår; kvinnor; Sverige; MRKH syndrom; uterus och vaginal agenesi; Turner syndrom; intersex; DSD; meningskapande; relationer; kvalitativ metod; narrativ; normalitet; heteronormativitet; sexuell praktik; normer; ifrågasättande; diagnos; behandling; kritik;

   Abstract : Against a backdrop of feminist and social scientific research on sex, female embodiment, and normality this thesis aims to discern how young women, who in adolescence have learned that their bodies are developing in ways considered ‘atypical’ for the female sex, make sense of their bodies and their situation. In focus are the ways in which the women make sense of and negotiate female embodiment; how they, particularly in stories about their interactions with others, position their embodied selves; and how norms and beliefs about sexed embodiment, heterosexual practice, and in/fertility are strengthened and challenged in the interviewees’ sense-making. READ MORE

7. 5. Utopian-driven projektive research exploring the field of Metaurbanism

   Author : Nel Janssens; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Worlding; Urbanisation; Sense-making; Meta-Urbanism; Theory-through-design; Unsettlement; Poetic knowledge building; Imagineering; Utopia-Driven Projective Research; Projectivity;

   Abstract : In this thesis a design-based approach is developed to address the issue of reconceptualising urbanisation. The approach is called utopia-driven projective research and is the result of a process of reflection on a number of conceptual design projects the author participated in. READ MORE