Search for dissertations about: "social cohesion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the words social cohesion.
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1. Sport as a Means of Responding to Social Problems : Rationales of Government, Welfare and Social Change
Abstract : Sport has been increasingly recognized in social policy as a means of steering social change and as a method for responding to diverse social problems. The present study examines how rationales of social change are formed through ‘sport as a means of responding to social problems’. READ MORE
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2. Apprentice Cosmopolitans : Social identity, community, and learning among ERASMUS exchange students
Abstract : The present dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Erasmus Programme, the European Union’s student exchange programme. This programme has, for the last three decades, resulted in an unprecedented exchange of ideas and people within the European Union, and it has quite radically changed the conditions for, and the appearance of, student life in many European universities. READ MORE
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3. A Needs-Based Approach towards Fostering Long-term Engagement with Energy Feedback among Local Residents
Abstract : In order to reach the current climate goals, energy consumption needs to decrease in all sectors, including households, which produce 20% of the European emissions. However, it is difficult to increase residents’ engagement in their household electricity consumption as it is an ‘invisible’ form of energy, the monetary incentives are often too small and environmental incentives are not very effective. READ MORE
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4. Managing yards and togetherness: living conditions and social robustness through tenant involvement in open space management
Abstract : The subject of this thesis is tenant involvement in open space management in the context of Swedish rental housing areas. When tenants become involved in the management of the shared open spaces in their housing area, it affects their relationships to the place, to each other, to the landlord and to the city in different ways. READ MORE
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5. Moving out, moving up, becoming employed : Studies in the residential segregation and social integration of immigrants in Sweden
Abstract : This thesis investigates the complex relationship between residential segregation and social integration. The dominant discourse in Sweden and Europe sees residential segregation as hindering socioeconomic and cultural integration, creating parallel societies and even threatening the social cohesion of European societies. READ MORE