Search for dissertations about: "social economic levels"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 506 swedish dissertations containing the words social economic levels.

2. 21. Prejudice in context over time : how demographic, economic and social conditions influence anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescents and adults

   Author : Jeffrey Mitchell; Mikael Hjerm; Andrea Bohman; Marcel Coenders; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Anti-immigrant attitudes; context; adolescence; formative years; impressionable years; social trust; social change; attitude change; longitudinal analysis; attitudinal environments;

   Abstract : Background Thesis explores the contexts that influence anti-immigrant attitudes in both adolescents and adults, and how contexts influence changes anti-immigrant attitudes in societies over time. Whereas previous research into anti-immigrant attitudes has either focused on micro socialization factors in adolescence, or threat inducing factors in adulthood; this thesis forwards an approach that synthesizes these two ideas. READ MORE

4. 22. Towards a theory of natural occupation: developing theoretical, methodological and empirical support for the relation between plot systems and urban processes

   Author : Evgeniya Bobkova; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; types; urban diversity; urban-morphology; plot systems; statistical analysis; temporal evolution of built form; quantitative descriptions; natural occupation; morphological measures;

   Abstract : Plot systems (or ‘plots’, ‘lots’, ‘parcels’, ‘land divisions’) is a commonly recognised structural component of urban form along with streets and buildings. They play a critical role in understanding urban processes in cities, not least of all because they link directly between the physical world and institutions, such as property rights. READ MORE

5. 23. Constructing Transit Corridors : The Politics of Public Transport Policy and Planning in Malmöhus and Skåne 1970-2020

   Author : Jens Portinson Hylander; Robert Hrelja; Jamil Khan; Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt; Jane Summerton; Jonathan Metzger; Miljö- och energisystem; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public transport; Rationality; power and politics; Planning theory; policy studies;

   Abstract : Planning local and regional public transport in so-called ’transit corridors’ – i.e., to concentrate infrastructure and resources to few, but more attractive corridors in a city or a region – is commonplace in contemporary public transport planning. This has not always been the case, however. READ MORE

6. 24. The Regionalisation Process in Southeast Asia: Exploring Current Cooperation and Integration Schemes

   Author : Lena Lindberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; AFTA; IAI; ASEAN 3; GMS; ACMECS; CLMV; Cambodia; Laos; regionalisation; regionalism; economic integration.;

   Abstract : This study deals with the current regionalisation process in Southeast Asia, and exploratively examines the various cooperation and integration schemes that take place in the region. The main focus is placed on, first, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and, second, the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and the Ayeyawady - Chao Phraya - Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS). READ MORE

7. 25. Valuation of goods transportation characteristics : A study of a sparsely populated area

   Author : Kerstin Westin; Einar Holm; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Just-In-Time; Goods transportation; Sparsely populated areas; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This study describes how consumers and providers of transportation services in a sparsely populated area valuate different transportation characteristics and estimates how these valuations might affect the total goods flows and the flows on individual Origin-Destination links. It also tests Stated-Preference methods as a tool for valuating transportation characteristics. READ MORE