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  1. 11. Economic perspectives on the obesity epidemic

    Författare :Åsa Ljungvall; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Obesity; body-mass index; BMI; waist circumference; inequality; socioeconomic inequalities; concentration index; socioeconomic disparities; time trends; economic freedom; misreporting; misclassification;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis takes its starting point in the large spread and rise in obesity prevalence that have been observed around the world, making obesity an increasing public health concern. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter, which justifies the study of obesity from economic perspectives and puts the subsequent studies in context, and four studies that address obesity from different economic perspectives. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Måltidens paradoxer : Om klass och kön i vardagens familjepraktiker

    Författare :Terese Anving; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; food; family; children; work; care; gender; class; inequality; gender equality; everyday life; feminism; household; feeding work; institutional ethnography; family practice;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis the relation between the everyday meal, the doings of family and the reproduction of difference in Swedish everyday family life is explored. The thesis has a qualitative approach and interviews with parents from different class and ethnic backgrounds and family constellations, but all with children under the age of 8 years old, is the empirical basis. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Turning Privilege Into Merit : Elite Schooling, Identity, and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Belief

    Författare :Max Persson; Stina Bergman Blix; Maria Törnqvist; Sam Friedman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; elites; elite schooling; identity; ideology; meritocracy; meritocratic belief; justification; privilege; inequality; exclusion; inclusion; belonging; non-belonging; school segregation; socialization; reproduction; frame analysis; identity frames; meritocratic frame; privilege frame; ethnography; Sweden; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research on meritocratic ideology and elite adolescent identity has mainly approached it from the outside, understanding meritocratic identity as a rhetorical cover to justify privilege. Through a frame analytic approach this study nurtures a phenomenological insider perspective, exploring through a one-year ethnography how adolescents at an elite high school experience, negotiate and perform identity in the tension between the school’s institutional definition of identity and their everyday life as young adults. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Staten, företagen och arbetskraftsinvandringen : - en studie av invandringspolitiken i Sverige och rektryteringen av utländska arbetare 1960-1972

    Författare :Denis Frank; Apostolis Papakostas; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; immigration policy; labour migration; historical institutionalism; ethnic relations; social inequality; state; migrant workers; citizenship; power; labour market; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the labour migration from Southern Europe to Sweden, and the changes in Swedish immigration policy between 1960 and 1972. The first part of the dissertation examines the role of the state in shaping the migration streams from Southern Europe to Sweden. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Unequal Opportunities : The Impact of Social Capital and Recruitment Methods on Immigrants and Their Children in the Swedish Labour Market

    Författare :Alireza Behtoui; Carl-Ulrik Schierup; Mahmood Arai; Carl le Grand; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social capital; social network; recruitment process; discrimination; immigrants; Social kapital; socialt nätverk; rekryteringsprocess; diskriminering; invandrare; Ethnicity; Etnicitet;

    Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen består av tre empiriska studier som undersöker effekten av socialt kapital för individernas arbetsmarknadsutfall, utifrån två huvudsakliga frågeställningar. För det första: Vilka individuella egenskaper, såsom utbildningsnivå, genus och ursprungsland, underlättar eller försvårar tillgång till socialt kapital? Här studeras den avkastning som socialt kapital genererar på arbetsmarknaden, jämfört med utbildning och arbetslivserfarenhet. LÄS MER