Search for dissertations about: "socio-economic heterogeneity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words socio-economic heterogeneity.

2. 1. The social contingency of law : Studies of social control during foreclosure in Sweden

   Author : Mikael Lundholm; Måns Svensson; Matthew Lindquist; Bengt Larsson; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; borrower; compensation; debt collection; debtor; Donald Black; expert interviews; foreclosure; law; lender; mortgage; negotiation; register data; relational distance; social control responses; social structure; socio-economic heterogeneity; socio-economic status; sociology of law; Sweden; Swedish Enforcement Authority; borrower; compensation; debt collection; debtor; Donald Black; expert interviews; foreclosure; law; lender; mortgage; negotiation; register data; relational distance; social control responses; social structure; socio-economic heterogeneity; socio-economic status; sociology of law; Sweden; Swedish Enforcement Authority;

   Abstract : Summary: This thesis empirically investigates how law and other social control responses during foreclosure in Sweden are contingent upon differences in social status. The thesis draws upon American sociologist Donald Black’s theoretical framework on social control to explain this social contingency. READ MORE

4. 2. Social Mobilities : Multidimensionality, Operationalization, and Subgroup Heterogeneity

   Author : Max Thaning; Martin Hällsten; Rense Nieuwenhuis; Per Engzell; Jani Erola; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Mobility; Social Stratification; Socio-economic inequality; Subgroup Heterogeneity; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Social mobility is a key concern for societies, as it reflects levels of inequality, life chances, and fairness. A higher mobility rate implies that individuals are less constrained by their family origins. READ MORE

5. 3. A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone

   Author : Stefania Galli; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Stratification; Institutions; Ideals; Colonialism; Africa; Sierra Leone; West Africa; Slave trade; Egalitarianism; Settler colony; Inequality; Wealth; Marriage; Socio-economic status;

   Abstract : In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra Leone is valuable for it allows to examine social stratification in an alleged egalitarian context. READ MORE

6. 4. Drug use, mortality and outcomes among drug users in the general population and in methadone maintenance treatment

   Author : Ingrid Davstad; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The two general aims of this thesis were to longitudinally analyse the association between drug use experience among young men and mortality and socio-economic situation up to late middle age and secondly the impact of methadone maintenance treatment on opiate dependents life course. Study I and II were based on a cohort of 48 024 of 50 465 men, born in 1949-51 and compulsory conscripted in 1969/70. READ MORE

7. 5. Trajectories of Integration : Naturalization, Intermarriage and Education in Denmark, 1980-2015

   Author : Anna Tegunimataka; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Naturalization; mother-tongue education; intermarriage; immigrant integration; Denmark;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines socio-economic outcomes of first and second generation immigrants in Denmark and adds to our understanding of different trajectories of immigrant integration by studying policy and family relatedfactors. The association between family composition and socio-economic outcomes of the individual is in this thesis examined by studying the effects of intermarriage. READ MORE