Sökning: "sense-making"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 87 avhandlingar innehållade ordet sense-making.
1. Riskförståelse : Teoretiska och empiriska perspektiv
Sammanfattning : The thesis introduces the concept of ‘sense-making of risk’ (riskförståelse) for the purpose of the theoretical and empirical study of the individual’s sense-making of risk. Particular weight is attached to an examination of the term’s various components, its compass, and the relationship between sense-making of risk and behaviour. LÄS MER
2. Att skapa mening i en komplex praktik : Föreställningar om brottspreventiva samverkansformer mellan omsorg och kontroll
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with individual-oriented crime prevention interaction (ICPI) aimed at young people who commit - or are deemed to be at risk of committing - offences. Youth crime prevention is always topical, and a great deal of attention has been paid to such initiatives in recent years. LÄS MER
3. Dementia, Sense-making and Evaluations : Implications for Communication
Sammanfattning : In Sweden, the dementia assessment takes place within primary health care or specialized care. From a clinical perspective, there are many factors to consider in the assessment process, and for the families entering the diagnostic pathways, the process can be uncertain and arduous. LÄS MER
4. Metaphor as a mode of interpretation : An essay on interactional and contextual sense-making processes, metaphorology, and verbal arts
Sammanfattning : This essay is an attempt to assess the oddity and importance of metaphor, both viewed as inseparable, internal aspects of the metaphorical sense-making activity. To outline the "challenge" of metaphor, arguments are made against the traditional approaches to metaphor, namely the idea that metaphor is a thing, an entity out there in the discourse or text, whose meaning is embedded within its discrete units and parts. LÄS MER
5. Growing old and still practising competitive sports : An exploration of acting-space and sense-making processes among old women and men
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores how the way athletically active old men and women make sense of their acting-space affects their participation in competitive sports and conversely how their participation in competitive sports affect their sense-making process and acting-space. It puts emphasis on the sociological point of intersection of three different research fields; sports science, critical gerontology and gender studies. LÄS MER