Search for dissertations about: "sociological research"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 78 swedish dissertations containing the words sociological research.

2. 1. Hybrid Research Policy : How to Organize Research Funding

   Author : Marta Cocos; Monika Berg; Jan Olsson; Joachim Åström; Jarmo Vakkuri; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutional hybridity; research funding policy; institutional logic; sociological institutionalism; research funding organizations; handling of institutional tensions; research excellence; research utility; new public management;

   Abstract : Science and innovation are crucial parts of societal prosperity. Yet managing scientific activities is challenging because, even before the implementation of any give n policy starts, policy makers have to overcome the fact that there areprofoundly different views on what the role of science in society should be and hence how the state could intervene to shape or increase the research outputs. READ MORE

4. 2. Female Employment and Fertility Change in South Korea

   Author : Li Ma; Gunnar Andersson; Gerda Neyer; James Raymo; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Female employment; fertility change; South Korea; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography; Sociologi;

   Abstract : A large amount of literature has addressed the relationship between women’s employment and fertility in the Western context. We have less relevant knowledge about the context of East Asia. This thesis addresses this situation by providing insight into how women’s employment is interrelated with their fertility in South Korea. READ MORE

5. 3. Small science on big machines: Politics and practices of synchrotron radiation laboratories

   Author : Olof Hallonsten; Research Policy Institute (RPI); []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; big science; little science; sophistication; collectivization; European Synchrotron Radiation Facility; Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource; MAX-lab; scientific entrepreneurs; changing dynamics of science; Synchrotron radiation; research policy; science policy;

   Abstract : Synchrotron radiation laboratories are large scientific facilities where various scientific experiments are carried out by the use of radiation produced by particle accelerators. Research with synchrotron radiation emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a peripheral activity at particle physics laboratories. READ MORE

6. 4. Ambivalent Peace : External Peacebuilding, Threatened Identity and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

   Author : Roland Kostic; Peter Wallensteen; Kjell Magnusson; Erik Melander; Susan Woodward; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Peace and conflict research; Peacebuilding; Nation-Building; State-Building; Identity; Societal Security Dilemma; Reconciliation; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research; freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : This study expands the enquiry of external efforts to build peace after an ethnic war by investigating the effects these efforts may have on societal security and reconciliation among groups in a host society. To achieve this, a theoretical framework, combining theories on the character of external peacebuilding, and theories on societal security and reconciliation, was devised and applied to the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. READ MORE

7. 5. What Counts as Religion in Sociology? : The Problem of Religiosity in Sociological Methodology

   Author : Erika Willander; Sandra Torres; Jørgen Straarup; Sverker Sikström; James A Beckford; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociology of religion; theory and method; religious affiliation; religious beliefs; religious practice; religious mainstream; sacred; religiosity; spirituality; secularization; Sweden; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to contribute to the ongoing critical discussion within the sociology of religion by focusing on the seldom considered perspective of methodology. As such, it consists of a theoretical part that problematizes the ways in which religion has been analyzed, and an empirical part that develops how religiosity can be approached in sociological studies. READ MORE