Sökning: "informal social strategies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 107 avhandlingar innehållade orden informal social strategies.

1. 1. Strategies of entrepreneurship : Understanding industrial entrepreneurship and structural change in northwest Tanzania

   Författare :Per Trulsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurship; Structural adjustment; Institutional theory; Trust; Strategy; Unintended consequences; Societal change; Extended family; Tanzania; Industry; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : This study addresses the problem of entrepreneurial activity in an environment of institutional change. The focus is on industrial entrepreneurs in northwest Tanzania. Like many other African countries, Tanzania is today undergoing a process of structural transformation. Significant changes are introduced in the formal institutional framework. LÄS MER

3. 2. Activation Policy in Action : A Street-Level Study of Social Assistance in the Swedish Welfare State

   Författare :Katarina H. Thorén; Sydney Hans; Tapio Salonen; Jennifer Mosley; Jeanne Marsh; Växjö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Activation policy; social assistance; street-level bureaucracy theory; front-line workers; implementation; welfare state; coping strategy; discretion; Social work; Socialt arbete; Socialt arbete; Social Work;

   Sammanfattning : Work-related activation policies are currently developing in most western welfare states. Sweden is no exception and activation policies were introduced in the 1990s in many municipal social services organizations in Sweden. LÄS MER

4. 3. Conflict resolution in coastal management: Interdisciplinary analyses of resource use conflicts from the Swedish coast

   Författare :Olga Stepanova; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; coast; conflict; natural resource management; conflict analysis; conflict resolution; interdisciplinary methodologies; sustainable resource management; Sweden; Europe;

   Sammanfattning : Natural resource use conflicts at urbanized coasts and their analysis and resolution are the main themes of this thesis. Based on the analysis of four conflict cases from the Swedish coast, I explore the ways the local management of coastal resources may be connected with a broader notion of sustainable resource management. LÄS MER

5. 4. To maintain control: Negotiations in everyday life of older people who can no longer manage on their own

   Författare :Anna Dunér; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Older people; formal eldercare; informal help; strategies; ;

   Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis is to reach a more insightful understanding of how help is actually worked out in the everyday life of older people when they can no longer manage on their own. The overall research question is how individuals, representing different perspectives in the help arrangement process, think and act in order to organise needed help as well as how they may themselves apprehend the functions of the help. LÄS MER

7. 5. Needed by Nobody : Homelessness, Humiliation, and Homelessness in Post-Socialist Russia

   Författare :Tova Höjdestrand; Karin Norman; Galina Lindquist; Bruce Grant; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Russia; post-socialist society; homelessness; housing; state surveillance; informal economy; urban space; intimate social relationships; gender; identity; ; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

   Sammanfattning : Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian metropolitan cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of ‘vagrancy’ and similar offences was abolished. This study investigates homelessness as a sociostructural phenomenon as well as an individually experienced life condition, with a focus on homeless people in St. LÄS MER