Sökning: "Vocabularies of motive"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Vocabularies of motive.

1. 1. The Sellable Self : Exploring endurance running as an extraordinary consumption experience

   Författare :Carys Egan-Wyer; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Extraordinary experience; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Consumer culture theory; Endurance running; Discourse; Foucault; Vocabularies of motive;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I critically explore the ways in which people consume extraordinary experiences and what this can tell us about contemporary society. My findings question the idea that extraordinary experiences are an escape from the demands of everyday life. LÄS MER

3. 2. Criminal Records in Sweden. Regulation of access to criminal records and the use of criminal background checks by employers

   Författare :Christel Backman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Criminal records; criminal background checks; surveillance; function creep;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the regulation of access to criminal records in Sweden and the actual and potential use of criminal background checks by employers in hiring processes. In recent years, more and more Swedish employers have been required by law to check their job applicants’ criminal records. LÄS MER

4. 3. Meddelanden från enskildheten : En sociologisk studie av ensamhet och avskildhet

   Författare :Niklas Westberg; Ingrid Sahlin; Jacobsson Katarina; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; loneliness; solitude; alienation; discourse; question situation; impression management; accounts; social psychology; micro sociology; ensamhet; avskildhet; frågesituation; accounts; loneliness; solitude; alienation; discourse; question situation; impression management; accounts; social psychology; micro sociology;

   Sammanfattning : This study explorea and analyse how loneliness and solitude are constructed as problems and how they are explained by ”society” in different forms of texts and by people who themselves define their situations as characterized by loneliness or solitude. The latter forms a special focus and my ambition is to understand how they answer to a social situation that in different ways problematize them as persons and construct their life situation as an anomaly. LÄS MER