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1. 6. Samhälle, individ och ansvar : En studie om synen på arbetslöshet

   Författare :Jennifer Hobbins; Birgitta Eriksson; Patrik Larsson; Jonas Axelsson; Tomas Berglund; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Unemployment; unemployment policy; civil society; political particiation; individualisation; individualised responsibility; positioning; qualitative; Arbetslöshet; arbetslöshetspolitik; civilsamhälle; politisk delaktighet; individualisering; individualiserat ansvar; förhållningssätt; Working Life Science; Arbetsvetenskap; Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to highlight and to problematize conceptions of unemployment in Swedish society. The questions guiding my work have been: Which conceptions of unemployment emerge in society? How are these dealt with by the unemployed? Work on the thesis has been guided by a social constructionist approach. LÄS MER

3. 7. Respect for People : Developing alternative understandings and relationships to ethics, leadership, and culture in Lean implementations

   Författare :Mia Ljungblom; Thomas Taro Lennerfors; Maria Fredriksson; Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Culture; Developmental Leadership; Ethics; Leadership; Lean Management; Real Lean; Respect; Respect for people; Virtue ethics; Dygdeetik; Etik; Kultur; Ledarskap; Lean Management; Respekt; Respekt för männskan; Utvecklande Ledarskap; Äkta Lean; Engineering Science with specialization in industrial engineering and management; Teknisk fysik med inriktning mot industriell teknik;

   Sammanfattning : Successful Lean implementation is a combination of both technology and culture, using bothkey principles of continuous improvement (CI) and respect for people (RFP). However, manyorganizations fail to implement Lean and critical factors in this failure are leadership, cultureand the lack of RFP. LÄS MER

4. 8. Challenging Canon : The Gender Question in Computer Science

   Författare :Christina Björkman; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women and Computer Science; Feminist Technoscientific Studies; Computer Science Paradigms;

   Sammanfattning : The gender question in computer science is often presented as: "Why are there so few women in computer science and what can be done about that?" This question usually focuses on women. Sometimes 'men' or 'gender' enter the discussions. However, it is not common that the second part of the sentence - computer science - is considered. LÄS MER

5. 9. Democracy and Planning : Contested Meanings in Theory and Practice

   Författare :Sherif Zakhour; Jonathan Metzger; Maria Håkansson; Philip Allmendinger; Andy Inch; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democracy; Democratic theory; Planning; Public participation; Demokrati; Demokratiteori; Planering; Medborgardeltagande; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; Urbana och regionala studier; Urban and Regional Studies;

   Sammanfattning : "Democracy" is a frequently used concept in the Western planning field. Scholars, practitioners, and citizens alike regularly deploy it to both explain and contest the nature and legitimacy of urban governance. And yet, in the planning literature, the concept of democracy itself is rarely explained or debated. LÄS MER

7. 10. The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality

   Författare :Jenny Ingridsdotter; Mats Lindqvist; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; Catrin Lundström; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse theory; ethnography; Argentina; race; whiteness; coloniality; postsocialism; social inequality; subject positions; migration; gender; class; intersectionality; ethnography; post structuralism; Latin America; Soviet Union; identities; differentiation; ethnology; economic crisis; mobility; auto-ethnography; colonial settlement; diaspora; humanities; Ukraine; Russia; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Ethnology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. LÄS MER