Sökning: "Gifts"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 52 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Gifts.

  1. 1. Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutions in Post-Communist Romania

    Författare :Andreea Mitrut; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Romania; gifts; reciprocity; social norms; groups; informal networks; inequality;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four essays related to different social and economic aspects in postcommunist Romania: Paper 1: In many developing and transitional countries, inter-household transfers in general and gifts in particular are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian data that enables us to isolate pure gifts from other kinds of private transfers. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att hjälpa andra : gåvans, rättvisans och medkänslans aporier i frivilligarbete

    Författare :Hanna Bäckström; Linda Berg; Sara Edenheim; Helen Andersson; Lisa Folkmarson Käll; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; critical social work; empathy; ethics of care; feminist ethics; gifts; gift-giving; moral perception; poststructuralist ethics; solidarity; street-begging; voluntary social work; civilsamhälle; kritiskt socialt arbete; empati; omsorgsetik; feministisk etik; gåvor; moralisk perception; poststrukturalistisk etik; solidaritet; tiggeri; frivilligt socialt arbete; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis addresses the issue of social work in Swedish civil society, focusing on the ambition and practice of helping others as an existential as well as a social, political and cultural phenomenon. The aim is to study the ambiguities and aporetic conflicts that imbue helping activities and the desire to help others, using ethnographic as well as philosophical method. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Ge ifrån och föra hem: Kognitiva aspekter av pilgrimsfärder i Himalaya

    Författare :Andreas Nordin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pilgrimages; Hinduism; cultural selection; commonality; supernatural actor; counterintuition; supernatural immediacy; gifts; sin; blessing; contamination magic ; psychological essentialism; imagistic mode of religion; theological incorrectness; context of validation; Muktinath; Pasupatinath; Mt. Kailash and Manasarovar;

    Sammanfattning : Pilgrimages to Muktinath, Pasupatinath, Mt. Kailash and Manasarovar in the Tibetan and Nepalese Himalayas form part of a broader South Asian pilgrimage tradtition. Pilgrimages are usually analyzed as culturally heterogenous and conested events. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption

    Författare :Joakim Thelander; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; white-collar crime; self-presentations; rhetoric; reported speech; quotations; petty corruption; narrative; morality; interviews; interaction; impression management; gifts; etiquette; discourse; economic crime; development; corruption; contrasts; constructionism; bribes; bribery; boundary-work; anticorruption; accounts; aid work; Criminology; Sociology; Social psychology; Kriminologi; Sociologi; Socialpsykologi;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Making fields of merit: Buddhist nuns challenge gendered orders in Thailand

    Författare :Monica Lindberg Falk; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Thailand; sex; gender; Buddhism; nuns; rituals; gifts; education;

    Sammanfattning : This anthropological study addresses the interaction and interconncectedness between religion and gender relations in Thailand, analysing this through the lens of the Buddhist nuns' (mae chiis') lives, actions and role in Thai society. The mae chiis have a long hstory in Thailand. LÄS MER