Search for dissertations about: "social konstruktion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words social konstruktion.
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1. Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden
Abstract : People with dementia are commonly in need of some form of social care from the social services in order to manage their everyday situations. However, social services are shaped by the construction of policy targets. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the social citizenship for people with dementia. READ MORE
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2. (Un)bearable freedom : Exploring the becoming of the artist in education, work and family life
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to explore and understand three important social contexts for the becoming of an artistic subjectivity: education, work and family life. The empirical data consist of interview material with alumni from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, staff of the institute, and a survey material from the Swedish National Artists Organization (KRO/KIF). READ MORE
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3. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates
Abstract : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. READ MORE
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4. Constructing Consumer Knowledge in Market Research : An Ethnography of Epistemics
Abstract : Market research pervades society. It is an endeavour that connects marketing practice with methods similar to social science. Further, market research results appear as knowledge produced to inform recipients towards making productive business decisions and as a commodity sold to commissioning clients. READ MORE
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5. Small town, big move : Constructions of place in transiting mining communities
Abstract : The dissertation accounts for construction of place in mining communities as they undergo a major urban transformation. In the 2010s, urban centres in the northern Sweden mining communities of Gällivare and Kiruna entered a new execution phase of a large-scale transformation precipitated by ground subsidence caused by mining activities, a transformation that continues. READ MORE