Department of Sociology and Work Science / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap (2012-): Recent submissions
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Inequity in Mind. On the Social and Genetic Risk Factors of Dementia and Their Interactions
(2019-09-20)The present thesis seeks to further explain the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias by studying the long-term impact of class- and gender-based inequities as well as the extent to which they potentially ... -
Mot en visare organisering av äldreomsorgen - Rapport från ett följeforskningsprojekt
(2019)Det sker idag många olika satsningar för att utveckla former för organisering av äldreomsorgen men flera av dessa har haft stora svårigheter att genomföra förändringar i praktiken. Den visa organisationen är ett ESF- finansierat ... -
Mother Tongue Education - The Interest of a Nation. A policy study in Sweden 1957-2017.
(2019-01-16)This doctoral thesis is a policy study about mother tongue education policies as they have developed historically in Sweden.The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the policies of mother tongue education from ... -
Making Room for Complexity in Group Collaborations: The Roles of Scaffolding and Facilitation
(2018-11-09)This thesis has a dual objective: the theoretical aim is to analyse how developmental scaffolding influences the way that group participants’ conceptions about societal issues of concern, appropriate goals and courses of ... -
Imagined Independence. Institutional Conditions and Individual Opportunities in European Labour Markets
(2018-11-06)The studies presented in this thesis examine perceived labour market opportunities and conditions for labour market mobility for European employees. The European labour market strategy has created an opportunity-oriented ... -
Normer som skaver - Hbtq-personers sociala arbetsmiljö i Göteborgs Stad
(2018)På uppdrag av Göteborgs Stad har denna studie genomförts med syfte att få en överblick över hur hbtq-personer som arbetar i kommunen upplever sin sociala arbetsmiljö, samt vilka konsekvenser arbetsmiljön får för hbtq-personers ... -
MONITORING HANDBOOK - Methods and tools for monitoring developed in the GenderTime project
(Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap, 2018)This Monitoring Handbook offers guidelines and recommendations concerning monitoring which were developed and applied during four years of monitoring activities in the GenderTime project. It also includes detailed ... -
Same and Different? Perspectives on the Introduction of person-Centred Care as Standard Healthcare
(2017-05-17)This thesis examines a collection of cases and situations where efforts are being made to combine and unify the concerns of person-centred care, standardization and evidence-based medicine. Person-centred care is commonly ... -
Gender and Emotions in Family Care – Understanding masculinity and gender equality in Sweden
(2017-05-17)This thesis addresses care responsibilities in families as an arena for gender reproduction and change, primarily in the Swedish context, which includes a long history of gender equality policies, and broad public support ... -
A Mechanism Approach to the Sociology of Teachers’ and Students’ Actions: Teaching Practice, Student Disengagement and Instructional Materials
(2017-04-21)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to describe and explain teachers’ and students’ actions related to instruction in compulsory education classrooms in Sweden. In order to approach these issues, I will focus on ... -
School shootings in seven countries: Testingand developing the theory of five necessary conditions
(Égalité, 2017)To test and further develop Newman and collaborators’ 2004 theory of the five necessary conditions for school shootings to occur, this chapter investigates 14 school shootings in seven countries. Using case-based comparison ... -
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems – A Complexity Approach to Sociology
(2017-02-15)This thesis investigates how the interdisciplinary field of Complexity Science can inform both sociological theory and methodological practice. Non-linearity and complexity dynamics such as emergence and positive/negative ... -
Om befrielseteologins uppkomst i Latinamerika. En sociologisk analys av religiös förändring.
(2016-08-23)The overall purpose of the present study is to contribute to our understanding of religious change and to an explanation of the phenomenon. The emergence of the theology of liberation is an important case of religious ... -
Nordiska perspektiv på transnationellt fackligt samarbete i Europa – former, hinder, utmaningar och strategier
(2016)Denna rapport utgör en delstudie av ett forskningsprojekt som studerar transnationellt fackligt samarbete och nätverksbyggande på sektorsnivå i Europa. Projektets över-gripande syfte är att förklara vilka faktorer som ... -
Sovjetologi: Läran om Sovjetunionen
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Job Demands, Job Resources, and Consequences for Managerial Sustainability in the Public Sector – A Contextual Approach
(2016-04-11)ABSTRACT The aims of this thesis were threefold: to explore and increase knowledge of managerial working conditions in Swedish municipalities, to extend the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, and to provide information ... -
Watershed events and changes in public order management systems: Organizational adaptation as a social movement outcome
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The Microfundations of Flexicurity
(2016-01-21)This thesis examines the microfoundations of flexicurity, an arrangement of policies that proponents claim can deliver a ‘win-win’ situation in the labour market. These policies include lax employment protection ...