Search for dissertations about: "social contacts"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 159 swedish dissertations containing the words social contacts.
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1. Talk, text and institutional order : A study of communication in social welfare bureaucracies
Abstract : This work focuses on the role of talk and text in the processing of people in public organizations. It is a study of communication between citizens and officials in one such organization, namely, the Swedish social services. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Elite Networks in Sweden : Power, social integration, and informal contacts among political elites
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to present work on a number of salient characteristics of elite relations in Sweden, studied from a social network analytic perspective. Elite integration, the distribution of elite power, and the significance of elites’ informal relations represent the three main themes explored in the original studies that comprise the thesis. READ MORE
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3. Exploring patterns of empirical networks
Abstract : We are constantly struggling to understand how nature works, trying to identify recurrent events and looking for analogies and relations between objects or individuals. Knowing patterns of behavior is powerful and fundamental for survival of any species. READ MORE
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4. Perpetual borders : German-Polish cross-border contacts in the Szczecin area
Abstract : Borderlands are often peripheral geographically, administratively, and economically. A particularly illustrative case is the Szczecin area at the border between Poland and Germany, where a large city on one side neighbours to a sparsely populated hinterland on the other. READ MORE
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5. Flytta nära, långt bort : de sociala nätverkens betydelse för val av bostadsort
Abstract : This study deals with long distance migration together with the importance of social networks and geographical preferences for the choice of destination when moving. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to analyze and specify the importance of the mover's social contacts when choosing a new place-of residence. READ MORE
