Sökning: "symbolic boundaries"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden symbolic boundaries.

  1. 1. Symbolic and Material Boundaries : An archaeological genealogy of the Urus of Lake Poopó, Bolivia

    Författare :Virginia Sáenz; Frands Herschend; Paul Sinclair; Per Stenborg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Archaeology; Indians; Andes; Bolivia; Lake Poopó; Pampa Aullagas; Uru; ethnic groups; ethnic markers; Anthropology; History; Archaeology; Architecture; Linguistics; Sociology; multi-disciplinary approach; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis focuses on Bolivian Indians who are assimilated into ethnic groups as one of many consequences of the colonial past. An understanding of the complexity of this construction draws from disciplines such as Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Sociology, in an effort to expose the power relations behind the construction. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Boundaries, believers and bodies : a cultural analysis of a multidisciplinary research community

    Författare :Helena Pettersson; Britta Lundgren; Erik Stolterman; David Hakken; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Culture; ethnographic method; research; technology; boundary object work; symbolic capital; technoromanticism; future; speed; creativity; reality; dystopia; focal things; trading; multidisciplinary; gender; reflexivity; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to analyze the construction of research culture and collaboration within the research studio Tools for Creativity, one node in the larger Interactive Institute. This studio is an arena that in today’s society is associated with boundary crossing, dynamics and variability: An environment with high-tech equipment, a staff equipped with diverse skills, and a flexible approach with the ambition of developing innovative tools based on ICT to strengthen human creativity. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Modernitet i det traditionella : kulturbyggen och gränser inom ett nordsvenskt område

    Författare :Lars Olov Sjöström; Kurt Genrup; Alf Arvidsson; Solveig Sjöberg-Pietarinen; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; basal and variable modernity; local collectivity; identity; cultural boundaries; bourgeois society; banquets; symbolic capital; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines how modernisation affects and is affected by existing local culture and identity. It is about the relation between the social and mental barriers experienced, expressed and manifested in the social culture of local community, and modernisation’s dynamic powers over time. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Gemenskapens gränser : Stigmahantering och pluralistisk fostran i gymnasieskolan

    Författare :Emil Bernmalm; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; inkluderande undervisning; rörelsehinder; pluralism; pluralitet; fostran; stigma; religionskunskapsämnet; riksgymnasium; skolvardag; gymnasiet; värdegrundsarbete; inclusive education; values education; disability studies; physical disabilities; religious education; inclusion; exclusion; integration; symbolic boundaries; stigma; frame-analysis; upper secondary education;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis problematizes values education and governed inclusion from the standpoint of experiences made by upper secondary students with severe physical disabilities. The aim is to contribute to the understanding of value education empirically, by examining how students with physical disabilities experience the process of integration into different communities of regular education. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Class, Place and Identity in a Satellite Town

    Författare :Elias le Grand; Patrik Aspers; Lars Udehn; Les Back; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; identity; place; chav; stigma; symbolic boundaries; youths; moral panics; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The central aim of this study is to examine processes of identity formation among white, working-class youths in a marginalized area located on the outskirts of South London. It is primarily based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork but also on analyses of web sites, newspapers and popular culture. LÄS MER