Sökning: "social representations"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 390 avhandlingar innehållade orden social representations.
1. Apprentice Cosmopolitans : Social identity, community, and learning among ERASMUS exchange students
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Erasmus Programme, the European Union’s student exchange programme. This programme has, for the last three decades, resulted in an unprecedented exchange of ideas and people within the European Union, and it has quite radically changed the conditions for, and the appearance of, student life in many European universities. LÄS MER
2. Representations of discourse : cognitive and computational aspects
Sammanfattning : This work is concerned with empirical studies of cognitive and computational aspects of discourse representations. A more specific aim is to contribute to the development of natural language interfaces for interaction with computers, especially the development of representations making possible a continuous interactive dialogue between user and system. LÄS MER
3. Stories of masculinity, gender equality, and culinary progress : On foodwork, cooking, and men in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis is to use foodwork and cooking in Sweden as a way to better understand theoretical questions about men and masculinities. Paper I discusses how an increased public interest in elaborate cooking and gastronomy in Sweden, a country with a cultural idealization of gender equality, could explain why men in Sweden assume responsibilities for domestic cooking without feeling emasculated. LÄS MER
4. (Re)producing a periphery : popular representations of the Swedish North
Sammanfattning : The discourse on Norrland (literally ‘North land’ in English) as essentially ‘different’ has been(re)produced in literature, politics and science for as long as the idea of ‘Norrland’ has existed. Thus,when investigating the discourse that constructs the identity of Norrland in opposition to a Swedishnational identity, it is important to connect these representations to their contemporary (andchanging) political-economic contexts. LÄS MER
5. Social scaling and children's graphic strategies : A comparative study of children's drawings in three cultures
Sammanfattning : This cultural comparative study examines social scaling in children's drawings and whether children's formal graphic strategies follow the lines of traditional developmental stage models. Moreover, an attempt is made to develop methodological tools for comparative cultural research on children's social worlds. LÄS MER
