Search for dissertations about: "sociology of technology"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 94 swedish dissertations containing the words sociology of technology.
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11. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity
Abstract : In sociology shock is often seen as emblematic of modernity. However, while Benjamin and Simmel famously portray the big city crowd - and by extension modernity itself - as an arena of shock, shock sensations are notable for their absence in depictions of the crowd as well as of modernity as a whole in much contemporary literature. READ MORE
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12. Sibling Configuration and Adulthood Outcomes : The Case of Two-Child Families
Abstract : This thesis includes three empirical studies, analyzing how sibling configuration (i.e. birth order, birth spacing and sex-composition) influences siblings’ long-run income and educational choice. This is done by utilizing the unique linkage opportunities of administrative registers covering the entire population of Sweden. READ MORE
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13. Residential usability and social sustainability, Towards a paradigm shift within housing design?
Abstract : ABSTRACTThe ongoing demographic transformation poses challenges for the field of residential design. Meanwhile rules and regulations maintain a conventional approach to the subject. The housing market is considering the home as a commercialized lifestyle question, not focusing on the long-term residential resilience of the housing stock. READ MORE
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14. Moving and Jamming : Implications for Social Movement Theory
Abstract : The present compiled dissertation explores culture jamming as a social movement in late capitalist information society. Culture jamming embraces groups and individuals practicing symbolic protest against the expansion and domination of large corporations and the logic of the market into public and private life. READ MORE
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15. Menstrual dirt - An exploration of contemporary menstrual hygiene practices in Sweden
Abstract : Menstrual Dirt is a sociological study of how some aspects of menstruation come into being as dirty phenomenon, both in material and symbolic terms. Through engaging with a variety of empirical material Persdotter explores the everyday details of menstrual hygiene practices: how people roll their used pads, dispose their menstrual waste, wash their bloody genitals, change and clean their menstrual cups, clean toilets, and wash dirty clothes and carpets, and much more. READ MORE