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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 50 avhandlingar innehållade orden social security institutions.
1. Favela Funk – Ways of Being Young in the Urban Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro
Sammanfattning : During the last decades, funk music produced in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world as a genre of contemporary cool. Construed as both hip and authentic and consumed globally, it has become a political and commercial asset in the nation’s rise to economic dominance and in Rio’s campaign to become a global city. LÄS MER
2. The power of place : Existential crises and place security in the context of pregnancy
Sammanfattning : The study explores the importance of place attachment on individuals sense of security during existential crises. Coping strategies of pregnant women are analysed, focusing on how the prospect of giving birth affects their relationship to place. LÄS MER
3. Security in the welfare state : Attachment, religion and secularity
Sammanfattning : Because of the industrial revolution some 200 years ago, a growing part of the western world’s population started moving to cities and away from traditional sources of security, like families or local communities. Consequently, social security, such as aid for the sick and elderly, came to be organized through the public domain, giving rise to the welfare states. LÄS MER
4. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda
Sammanfattning : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. LÄS MER
5. Kommer tid kommer tillit? : Unga vuxnas och medelålders erfarenheter
Sammanfattning : Even though Sweden is considered a high trust society, research on this topic is primarily based on a few standardized survey questions. It is also known that there is a robust pattern of less trustful young people compared to older ones. Still, a satisfactory explanation of this fact is lacking. LÄS MER