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31. Modernitetens markörer : ungdomsbilder i tid och rum
Sammanfattning : The main objective of tbis dissertation is to study the media discourse on youth as it appeared in the Swedish region of Norrbotten during the postwar period. It discusses changes in ways of thinking and talking about youth against the background of modernization in the region. The data consists of artides from two locai newspapers. LÄS MER
32. Embedded in a context : the adaptation of immigrant youth
Sammanfattning : With rising levels of immigration comes a need to know what fosters positive adaptation for the youth growing up in a new culture of settlement.The issue is increasingly studied; however, little of the research conducted has combined a developmental with a contextual approach. LÄS MER
33. Public Expenditures and Youth Crime
Sammanfattning : This dissertation comprises three essays on public expenditures and youth crime.Essay 1 deals with the modelling of youths’ criminal behavior and analyzes the public decision to allocate resources to school and leisure activities. First, an individual time allocation model with a choice set containing school, leisure and crime is set up. LÄS MER
34. Ungdomar och dialekt i Alingsås : Young people and dialect in a small town in West Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a study of sociolinguistic variation among students from five municipalities, all attending an upper secondary school in Alingsås, a town of 25,000, northeast of Göteborg, Sweden. The material consists of recorded interviews with 97 students. LÄS MER
35. Taking it as a Man? : Music, Youth, and Gender, Outside and Within Mainstream Media Cultures
Sammanfattning : Since the establishment of the Internet as an aspect of everyday life in the Western world, popular culture has generated new prospects for artists and other cultural agents to disseminate their creative outcomes. This thesis focuses on the early years of the new millennium, a time of pessimism and conflict around file-sharing and other illegal activities, but also a time for renewed thinking and enthusiasm regarding the potential of the prospering information and communication age. LÄS MER