Sökning: "gender bias"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 82 avhandlingar innehållade orden gender bias.

  1. 11. Essays on Economic Disadvantage : Criminal Justice, Gender and Social Mobility

    Författare :Ulrika Ahrsjö; Mårten Palme; Susan Niknami; Julien Grenet; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor economics; Economic inequality; Criminal justice; Youth crime; Intergenerational mobility; Gender wage gap; In-group bias; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Youth Crime, Community Service and Labor Market OutcomesCan lifetime trajectories of youth offenders be improved through criminal justice policy? I evaluate the effects of a youth justice reform in Sweden that sharply increased the share of juveniles assigned to court-ordered community service --- i.e. unpaid, low-skilled work. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Flickor och pojkar i den sociala barnavården : Föreställningar om kön och sociala problem under 1900-talet

    Författare :Kerstin Hamreby; Eva Magnusson; Lennart Nygren; Ingrid Claezon; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social service; Body; boys; class; delinquent youth; gender; girls; young men; young women; social constructionism; social work; social research; unadjusted girls; Socialt arbete; Social work; Socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is girls and boys in the field of child welfare. The aim has been to trace and describe conceptions of gender, delinquency and social problems in child welfare from the end of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Elektriska flickor och mekaniska pojkar : Om gruppskillnader på prov - en metodutveckling och en studie av skillnader mellan flickor och pojkar på centrala prov i fysik

    Författare :Kristian Ramstedt; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Differential item functioning; DIF; Mantel-Haenszel; polytomous; non-uniform; item bias; purification; P-SIBTEST; physics; electricity; mechanics; gender;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation served two purposes. The first was to develop a method of detecting differential item functioning (DIF) within tests containing both dichotomously and polytomously scored items. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Hatbrott? : homosexuella kvinnors och mäns berättelser om utsatthet för brott

    Författare :Eva Tiby; Malin Åkerström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Bias crime; fear of crime; gay; gender; hate crime; heterosexism; homophobia; homosexuality; lesbian; lifestyle; victimology; victim studies; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Sammanfattning : During the nineties, the hate crimes concept has been used to describe victimization on the basis of group characteristics. The Swedish penal Code 29:2:7 states that crimes committed against a person due to that person's race, color, nationality, ethnicity, religious beliefs or other similar circumstances, such as a person's sexual orientation, can elicit a more severe punishment than crimes without such motives. LÄS MER

  7. 15. The role of gender in face recognition

    Författare :Jenny Rehnman; Agneta Herlitz; Torun Lindholm; Diane Halpern; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Face recognition; Sex differences; Own-sex bias; Own-group bias; Attention; Biology; Socialization; Psychobiosocial; Psychology; Psykologi; psykologi; Psychology;

    Sammanfattning : Faces constitute one of the most important stimuli for humans. Studies show that women recognize more faces than men, and that females are particularly able to recognize female faces, thus exhibiting an own-sex bias. LÄS MER