Sökning: "social construction of reality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 54 avhandlingar innehållade orden social construction of reality.

  1. 1. Bilden av den "hotfulla ungdomen" : Om ungdomsproblem och fastställandet och upprätthållandet av samhällets moraliska gränser

    Författare :Lars B Ohlsson; Socialhögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; youth delinquence; Youth gangs; deviance; judicial system; discourse; power; discretion; social construction; social control; social actor; arena; normalization; human service organizations.; moral boundaries; Social changes; theory of social work; Sociala förändringar; teorier om socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of my dissertation is to investigate som conceptions, power relations, and practices in the discourse of youth problems. I have studied some of the actors that are involved in the social constructing of the "juvenile delinquent" such as the police, the judical system, the social service, the media, the general public and last but not least, the young people themselves. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Making sense of risk - An analysis of framings in media of the chemical risks of textiles, toys and paint

    Författare :Emelie Stenborg; Research Policy Institute (RPI); []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; framing; citizen-consumer; late modern risks; chemical risks of consumer goods; media; substantive; procedural; textiles; toys; paint;

    Sammanfattning : Chemical risks of consumer goods are a rather new concern in society. These risks are usually based on sythetic chemicals and man-made, often imperceptible and potentially devastating. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Farewell to peasantry? : (Post)modernising rural Mexico - The case of the ejido peasants in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Författare :Sandra Fernández C; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mexico; qualitative methods; campesinos; ejido system; geographies of exclusion and resistance; Rural development; depeasantisation process; Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with a classical issue, that of the fate of the peasantry, in particular the process of the transformation of the peasantry. The aim is to explore whether there is a place for the smallholding peasantry in the future, or if the process of dissolution is inevitable. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Baltzar von Platen, Thomas Telford och Göta kanal : Entreprenörskap och tekniköverföring i brytningstid

    Författare :Lars Strömbäck; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; canal construction; development block; entrepreneur; the Gotha Canal; Göta kanal; Motala verkstad; von Platen; technology transfer; Telford; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : The Gotha Canal was built during 1810-1832 and it was the biggest building enterprise that Sweden up to that time had undertaken. To a poor and preindustrialised country the whole project was economically as well as technically a tremendous challenge. LÄS MER

  5. 5. The Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity

    Författare :Kerstin B. Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kolkata; West Bengal; Intellectuals; Elite groups; Intellectual discourse; Postcolonialism; Relativism; Subaltern Studies; Methodology; Anthropology; Social Change; Development; Media; Kolkata; Västbengalen; intellektuella; elitgrupper; intellektuell diskurs; postkolonialism; relativism; subaltern studies; metod; antropologi; social förändring; utveckling; media;

    Sammanfattning : The aim with this thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. I focus my main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. Analysis is closely related to political issues and an analysis include a critical reflection and deconstruction. LÄS MER