Sökning: "social and personal norms"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 109 avhandlingar innehållade orden social and personal norms.
1. ”Fysisk aktivitet –att röra sig och må väl.” Villkor och dilemman för äldres fysiska aktivitet : En observations- och intervjustudie
Sammanfattning : Fysisk aktivitet beskrivs vara positiv både för den fysiska och den psykiska hälsan för personer i alla åldrar. Det finns rekommendationer för hur mycket fysisk aktivitet människor bör ägna sig åt varje dag. Idag finns även rekommendationer för fysisk aktivitet framtagna för personer som bor i särskilt boende. LÄS MER
2. Risk and Rationality : Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives
Sammanfattning : Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important factor driving unsafe sex practices and support the empirical finding of a weak link between sexual behavior, HIV prevalence, and HIV knowledge in poor countries; therefore suggesting that AIDS policy needs to be calibrated in order to fit within different social contexts. LÄS MER
3. Trust, identity and beer : institutional arrangements for agricultural labour in Isunga village in Kiryandongo district, midwestern Uganda
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the role and influence of institutions on agricultural labour transactions in Isunga village in Kiryandongo District, Midwestern Uganda. It primarily focuses on how farmers structure, maintain and enforce their labour relationships during crop farming. LÄS MER
4. Råd i radion : Modernisering, allmänhet och expertis 1939-1968
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with two series of radio programmes where listeners’ social and personal questions were answered on the air, broadcasted between 1939 and 1968. This is the period in Swedish history which is usually called the era of the folkhem (“The people’s home”) when social reforms, cultural radicalism and social planning – modernization in the cultural, political and material senses – became a broad project and ideology. LÄS MER
5. I tweet like I talk : Aspects of speech and writing on Twitter
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates linguistic and metalinguistic practices in everyday Twitter discourse in relation to aspects of speech and writing. The overarching aim is to investigate how the spoken–written interface is reconfigured in the digital writing spaces of social media. LÄS MER
