Search for dissertations about: "working life stories"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words working life stories.

2. 1. Women's varying life careers and shifting life-patterns : a study of Swedish women born in 1948

   Author : Eva Wirén; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; life-career; life-pattern; difference; representation; longitudinal; quantitative; text; stories; Bourdieu; post-structural theories; deconstruction; feminism;

   Abstract : This study is about a generation of Swedish women's varying life-careers and shifting lifepatterns. As empirical base for the study is used a longitudinal data material collected at the two main time-points, in 1961 and in 1980. The purpose of the study is twofold. READ MORE

4. 2. Erkännandets Janusansikte : Det sociala kapitalets betydelse i arbetslivskarriärer

   Author : Caroline Tovatt; Anders Neergaard; Anna-Liisa Närvänen; Aleksandra Ålund; Lennart Svensson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Social capital; social networks; recruitment; working life; working life stories; Bourdieu; Socialt kapital; socialt nätverk; rekrytering; arbetsliv; arbetslivsberättelser; kvalitativ forskning; Bourdieu;

   Abstract : I denna studie undersöks de informella processerna i rekryteringen, speciellt innebörden av olika former av socialt kapital. I fokus står de värden som tillskrivs utbildningar, arbetslivserfarenheter och kontakter. Det uttrycks genom frågor som hur, var, vem och varför snarare än om lediga tjänster tillsätts via kontakter. READ MORE

5. 3. The past and the future in the present : Kenyan adult immigrants' stories on orientation and adult education in Sweden

   Author : Joyce Kemuma; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Life hi stories; narratives; habitus; wage employment; educational and occupational experiences; Pedagogik; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to find out how adult migrants with biographical experiences from Kenya orient themselves in Sweden.Taking an individual perspective (how individuals orient themselves as opposed to what the state does to deal with a group of immigrants), and by using life (hi)story approach and reconstructing experiences on how individual adult immigrants orient themselves, this dissertation analyses the role educational and working experiences from Kenya play in the way the participants orient themselves. READ MORE

6. 4. Children living with Home Mechanical Ventilation : The everyday life experiences of the children, their siblings, parents and personal care assistants

   Author : Åsa Israelsson-Skogsberg; Carina Sparud-Lundin; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Home Mechanical Ventilation; children; siblings; parents; family; personal care assistants; health; family functioning; everyday life; Människan i vården; Människan i vården;

   Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the everyday life experiences of living with Home Mechanical Ventilation (HMV) from the perspective of the children and their siblings, parents and personal care assistants.Methods: Study I describes the experiences of personal care assistants (PCA) working with a ventilator-assisted person at home, based on qualitative content analysis according to Elo and Kyngäs (2008), of 15 semi-structured interviews. READ MORE

7. 5. Perceiving motherhood and fatherhood : Swedish working parents with young children

   Author : Clarissa Kugelberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; anthropology; Sweden; family; parenthood; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This book explores the way in which a group of parents of pre-school children construct the meaning of motherhood and fatherhood and cope with discourses that hold conflicting rules and value systems. Being a working parent today in Sweden entails moving between various domains. READ MORE