Sökning: "generating social capital"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden generating social capital.

  1. 1. Utbildningskapital : Om hur det alstras, fördelas och förmedlas

    Författare :Ida Lidegran; Donald Broady; Brigitte Le Roux; Sigbrit Franke; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi; Education; Pedagogik; Utbildningssociologi; Sociology of Education;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis is on how educational capital is generated, distributed, and transmitted. Two of the most resource-rich regions in Sweden are investigated: Uppsala—wealthy in educational capital—and the northern part of Stockholm where economic capital predominates.The tools, the most significant concepts—e.g. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city

    Författare :Ilda Lourenço-Lindell; Katherine Gough; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; social networks; social capital; informal safety nets; informal sector; informalization; livelihoods; urban food; regulation; social change; structural adjutsment; Guinea-Bissau; West Africa; African cities; ADP; ADB;

    Sammanfattning : Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Från miljonprogram till högskoleprogram - plats, agentskap och villkorad valfrihet

    Författare :Mats Widigson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; urban marginalization; educational barriers; social mobility; social inclusion; equity in education; place identity; critical realism; agency; sociology of emotions; sociology of education;

    Sammanfattning : This is a dissertation about young people’s experiences of their journeys from a socially marginalized suburb to higher education. Many students from these areas do not continue to higher education, but some do. There is little empirical knowledge about what makes this achievable. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Used Clothes and Social Goods: Two economic problems

    Författare :Rick Wicks; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Paper 1: used clothes; second-hand; imports; exports; LDCs; development aid.Paper 2: altruism; caring behavior; club goods; communitarian; communities; complete markets; complete contracting; economic ideology; economic theology; general equilibrium theory; inherent non-marketability; methodological individualism; neoclassical economics; rational choice; religion of the market; rhetoric of economics; separability; social capital; social economics; social environment; social goods; social institutions; social realm; social values; social wealth; social welfare; three realms; universal market;

    Sammanfattning : PAPER 1: Used Clothes As Development Aid: The political economy of rags Report of a study for Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) by Rick Wicks and Arne Bigsten Abstract: Should Swedish used-clothes exports continue to be subsidized as development aid? Theoretical analysis and review of empirical evidence regarding effects of both commercial and charitable (subsidized) used-clothes imports in LDCs. Includes statistics on the world used-clothes trade, including 127 gross used-clothes-exporting countries and 181 importing countries in 1990 (with values, weights, average prices, and weights-per-capita), and some specifics of U. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on Earnings and Human Capital in Kenya

    Författare :Anthony Wambugu; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Human capital; Earnings; Family background; Employment; Household; Activity farming; Own business; Informal sector; Kenya;

    Sammanfattning : Among Sub-Sahara Africa countries, Kenya has had a rapid educational expansion. This dissertation provides empirical analyses of the impact of education on labor earnings in Kenya, based on surveys of manufacturing firms and a survey of households in the 1990s. It consists of four papers. LÄS MER