Sökning: "Social Attention"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 1822 avhandlingar innehållade orden Social Attention.
6. Creating social citizenship : Young people, ethnicity and participation in a Swedish local context
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns social participation in the Swedish welfare state among young people from ethnic minorities, the opportunities open to them and the constraints they face. It focuses on the interplay between structural social conditions related to social exclusion and subjective experiences in everyday life among these young people. LÄS MER
7. Differentiating the Poor : Patterns of Discrimination in Decision-Making on Social Assistance Eligibility
Sammanfattning : Access to the Swedish welfare state’s last safety net, social assistance, is ultimately determined through discretionary decision-making by social workers. This dissertation examines intersectional patterns and discriminatory bias in social workers’ assessments about social assistance eligibility. LÄS MER
8. Making the Poor Work : Social Assistance and Activation in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Management of poor relief and work demands have been controversial questions in social policy during the workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in current discussions on social assistance and activation of recipients. The first part contains a discussion on the concepts of poverty, marginalisation, and social exclusion, and continues with an overview of activation policies for recipients of social assistance. LÄS MER
9. Nödvändighetens pris : Konsumtion och knapphet bland barnfamiljer
Sammanfattning : The object of this thesis has been to study the relationship between consumption and economic scarcity from a theoretical perspective. I have used families with children as an empirical example to illustrate the theoretical framework. LÄS MER
10. At the limits of state governance : territory, property and state making in Lenje Chiefdom, rural Zambia
Sammanfattning : African state property regimes – embedded in a racialized structure of land ownership that stretches back centuries – are at the center of contemporary land struggles. At present, the Zambian government is appropriating ‘traditional land’, controlled by chiefs and headmen molded through colonial rule, in an effort to bring it into the fold of ‘modernity’. LÄS MER