Search for dissertations about: "socio-cultural context"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 75 swedish dissertations containing the words socio-cultural context.

2. 1. Socio-cultural viability of international intervention in war-torn societies : a case study of Bosnia Herzegovina

   Author : Dzenan Sahovic; Jan Engberg; Donna M Schlagheck; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Bosnia Herzegovina; peacebuilding; war-torn societies; High Representative; cultural theory; socio-cultural viability; conditionality; Bonn powers; local ownership; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the ‘socio-cultural dilemma’ facing international peacebuilders in war-torn societies through a case study of the post-conflict process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is done with the help of a typological approach of the grid-group Cultural Theory framework, which defines four social solidarities – or ideal type cultures – of individualism, egalitarianism, fatalism and hierarchy. READ MORE

4. 2. Islands of Togetherness : Rewriting Context Analysis

   Author : Minna Räsänen; Ann Lantz; Per-Anders Forstorp; James M. Nyce; Paul Dourish; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Human-Computer Interaction; call-centre organization; ethnography; togetherness; socio-cultural context; Technology and culture; Teknik och kultur;

   Abstract : A continuing debate within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is how to elucidate, improve, and optimize the relationship between social context and technology use. Social context is conventionally understood as immediate use context while an understanding informed by social science suggests a wider scope, involving actors and structures. READ MORE

5. 3. State industrial buying behavior within a socio-cultural context : a case study of buyer-seller relationships between Sweden and Tunisia

   Author : Ali Ben Abdallah; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inköpsorganisation; Tunisien;

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6. 4. 'Striving for motherhood': understanding the socio-cultural context of realizing childbearing among women in Kenya

   Author : Opondo Awiti Ujiji; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : PMTCT allows people living with HIV to actualize childbearing. However, it also complicates motherhood, as the medical consequences and public health implications of non-adherence to PMTCT service recommendations disrupt socio-cultural expectations of childbearing and parenthood. READ MORE

7. 5. Reconnecting with nature through concepts : On the construction of values in the ecosystem services paradigm

   Author : Sanna Stålhammar; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ekosystemtjänster; hållbarhetsvetenskap; Vetenskapsteori; människa↔natur; värde; Ecosystem Services; Ecosystem services concept; ecosystem services value; Ecosystem service assessment; Cultural ecosystem services; socio-cultural valuation; connectedness; Relational value; experienced and context-based perspective.; Urban green infrastructures;

   Abstract : The alarming rates of extinction and degrading ecosystems call for new means of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature. Ecosystem services (ES) is a contested but widely applied concept aiming to connect ecosystem functions to human wellbeing and to assess and account for how nature matters in decision-making. READ MORE