Search for dissertations about: "social capital"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 726 swedish dissertations containing the words social capital.

2. 11. Unequal Opportunities : The Impact of Social Capital and Recruitment Methods on Immigrants and Their Children in the Swedish Labour Market

   Author : Alireza Behtoui; Carl-Ulrik Schierup; Mahmood Arai; Carl le Grand; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social capital; social network; recruitment process; discrimination; immigrants; Social kapital; socialt nätverk; rekryteringsprocess; diskriminering; invandrare; Ethnicity; Etnicitet;

   Abstract : Avhandlingen består av tre empiriska studier som undersöker effekten av socialt kapital för individernas arbetsmarknadsutfall, utifrån två huvudsakliga frågeställningar. För det första: Vilka individuella egenskaper, såsom utbildningsnivå, genus och ursprungsland, underlättar eller försvårar tillgång till socialt kapital? Här studeras den avkastning som socialt kapital genererar på arbetsmarknaden, jämfört med utbildning och arbetslivserfarenhet. READ MORE

4. 12. Where from and by whom? Tracing academic and practitioner visions of energy systems change related to lower income countries

   Author : Samuel John Unsworth; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociotechnical imaginaries; temporality; sociotechnical change; agency; directionality; lower income countries; knowledge politics; spatiality; innovation; framing;

   Abstract : Dominant agendas of global sustainable development broadly emphasise the urgency of a transition towards an environmentally, socially and economically preferable future. Critical scholars have raised concerns that this transition either produces new environmental, social and economic problems or reproduces those problems of the present system. READ MORE

5. 13. The Coloniality of Taste : A political ecology of middle class food practices in a Bolivian city

   Author : Sarah Kollnig; Humanekologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cochabamba; middle class; white; coloniality; chicken meat; taste;

   Abstract : Cochabamba city, also referred to as the “gastronomic capital of Bolivia”, is a place where different cultures and tastes meet. Indulging in rich culinary traditions is a part of everyday life, but so are social differentiations reproducing long-standing inequalities between the indigenous and the non-indigenous population. READ MORE

6. 14. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda

   Author : Ellinor Isgren; LUCSUS; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural sustainability; smallholder farming; neoliberal modernization; sub-Saharan Africa; Uganda; civil society; rural social movements; emancipatory social science; political ecology; sustainability science; hållbarhetsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. READ MORE

7. 15. Towards digitalisation of urban social sustainability

   Author : Sanjay Somanath; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; indicators; digital tools; neighbourhood; Urban morphology; digitalisation; urban planning; Social Sustainability;

   Abstract : The primary goal of the built environment is to create the infrastructure that facilitates the needs of the people that use them and elevate their quality of life. Sustainable development has encouraged architects and urban planners to be more sensitive toward the built environment's economic, environmental, and social dimensions. READ MORE