Sökning: "Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
1. Vi och dom och alla dom andra andra på Komvux : Etnicitet, genus och klass i samspel
Sammanfattning : This thesis, set in an educational context (Swedish Komvux, high school adult education), deals with how groups of us and them are constructed, changed and reproduced. In order to understand the processes of us and them I have looked at the interconnections between gender, ethnicity and class utilising participant observations and semi-structured interviews. LÄS MER
2. Svenska latinas : Ras, klass och kön i svenskhetens geografi
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines diasporic narratives of Swedish national belonging among a group of young women of Latin American descent, born and/or raised in Sweden, and adoptees. Based on individual interviews, pair interviews, and focus group discussions with twenty-nine high school girls in the Stockholm region, the study aims to understand how mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion operate through intersecting power structures of race, class, gender, sexuality, and age, in the increasingly multi-ethnic Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Attaining Whiteness : A Sociological Study of Race and Racialization in Russia
Sammanfattning : Attaining Whiteness is the first book-length sociological study of how ideas about race resonate in post-Soviet Russia. The book charts how tropes of self, hybridity, and maturity constitute important symbolic vehicles for applying the idea of race to the drawing of differences. LÄS MER
4. Betydelsen av kön och hudfärg i äldreboendets vardag under olika organisatoriska villkor
Sammanfattning : Even though nursing home care in Sweden and Canada takes place in different care contexts and utilizes different organisational models, in both countries, the traditional image of an ideal care worker is characterized by femininity and whiteness. However, today, in both countries, the care workforce is becoming far more diverse, with increasing numbers of white men, and non-white women and men. LÄS MER
5. From Slaves to Princes : The role of NGOs in the construction of race and ethnicity in Salvador, Brazil
Sammanfattning : Global forms and changes affect all spheres of human life-worlds; not least how we interpret and create systems of meaning in our respective habitats. A merging of global and local reflections and actions often causes ideological transformations and discursive shifts. LÄS MER
