Search for dissertations about: "stratification"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 439 swedish dissertations containing the word stratification.

  2. 16. Social stratification and classroom discourse : a sociolinguistic analysis of classroom practice

    Author : Emília Ribeiro Pedro; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Skolans socialpsykologi; Språksociologi;

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  4. 17. Managing migration in modern welfare states : Essays on the development, causes, and effects of policies regulating family immigration

    Author : Anton Ahlén; Joakim Palme; Karin Borevi; Axel Cronert; Christian Albrekt Larsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family immigration; Migration policy; Welfare state; Conditionality; Progressive dilemma; Civic integration; Stratification; Policy configurations; Eligibility criteria; Qualifying conditions; Time-series cross-country analysis; Europe; OECD; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : Being the main channel of migration into advanced industrial democracies, family migration has been the subject of increasing contestation in political debate. While previous studies have noted that many OECD countries have introduced more restrictive policies on family immigration during the last few decades, we still know little about how cross-country policy configurations in this area have evolved and varied over time, or about how policies affect inflows and why they differ between countries. READ MORE

  5. 18. Educational and Occupational Careers in a Swedish Cohort

    Author : Cecilia von Otter; Kenneth Nelson; Sten-Åke Stenberg; Sonja Drobnic; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; occupation; aspiration; stratification; longitudinal; Sweden; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis includes four empirical studies investigating factors related to educational and occupational careers in a Swedish cohort born in 1953. Data from the longitudinal “Stockholm Birth Cohort study” (SBC) are used. In Studies I & II I investigate educational careers among children whose parents were interviewed as part of the SBC study. READ MORE

  6. 19. 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

  7. 20. Circulating platelets : a novel liquid biopsy source for cancer diagnostics and therapy stratification

    Author : Lee-Ann Tjon-Kon-Fat; Jonas Nilsson; Pernilla Wikström; Michiel Pegtel; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; platelets; biomarkers; liquid biopsy; therapy stratification; personalised medicine; Prostate cancer;

    Abstract : As conventional tissue biopsies have several drawbacks, much effort has been directed toward the development of minimal-invasive liquid biopsy platforms for detecting and profiling cancer.Platelets are the second most abundant cells in blood and have very versatile functions both in physiological and pathophysiological conditions. READ MORE