Sökning: "sociocultural attitudes"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden sociocultural attitudes.
1. Adolescent Eating Disorders in a Sociocultural Context
Sammanfattning : Adolescence means an increased risk for eating disorders (ED) and the female gender is the most important risk factor. Empirical studies of the perceptions of gender ideals—as potential mediating factors between the socio-cultural context and ED—were this thesis’ primary goals. LÄS MER
2. Organisation, attityder, lärandepotential : Ett skrivpedagogiskt samarbete mellan en akademisk utbildning och en språkverkstad
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines Swedish writing centers’ pedagogical positions in relation to surrounding conditions through a case study of organization, attitudes and learning potential in a pedagogical collaboration project on writing with many multilingual students. The data consists of steering documents, students’ texts, interviews, observations, and recorded tutorials. LÄS MER
3. Immigration, Social Cohesion, and the Welfare State : Studies on Ethnic Diversity in Germany and Sweden
Sammanfattning : Can social cohesion and solidarity persist in the face of large-scale migration? One particularly contentious hypothesis states that native majorities will be unwilling to support the provision of government-funded welfare to those whom they do not consider to be part of their own sociocultural ingroup, especially when sociocultural or ethnic otherness and socioeconomic disadvantage overlap. Consequently, majorities’ willingness to accept disadvantaged immigrant groups as legitimate and trusted members of the welfare community is central to the social cohesion of societies diversifying through migration. LÄS MER
4. Room for Improvement? : A comparative study of Swedish learners’ free written production in English in the foreign language classroom and in immersion education
Sammanfattning : The present study examines the effects of immersion education on the English of two groups of advanced Swedish learners at upper secondary school. In immersion education, or CLIL, subject content is taught through a second language as a means of enhancing target language competence. LÄS MER
5. Social interaction and identification among adolescents in multilingual suburban Sweden : A study of institutional order and sociocultural change
Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on an ethnographic fieldwork among a group of adolescents in and out of school in suburban Sweden. The adolescents share the diasporic experience of living outside of the countries or nations of origin, experiencing marginalization in relation to majority society and concurrently being part of global, national and local transformations and changes. LÄS MER
