Essays about: "Sociology of Law"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 50 essays containing the words Sociology of Law.
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6. "The House has Already Burned Down" - A Research Study Exploring Greenwashing in the Swedish Legal Practice
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : As the interest in greenwashing as a strategy for marketing increases, monitoring institutions in Sweden have not failed to acknowledge the tendency of unwarranted and exaggerated statements that has left the impression of products or services without any legitimate support. Even as institutions have voiced their active engagement in tackling this problem, critique has been raised arguing that greenwashing is only increasing with little resistance to deter its practice. READ MORE
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7. This is our rule of law! An ethnography of the rule of law among the “No Green Pass” activists in Italy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, this explorative case study conducts a thematic analysis of how the concept of the rule of law, usually the prerogative of legal professionals, legal scholars and politicians, is understood and by a group of “No Green Pass activists” in Italy and subsequently used as a cultural underpinning to develop silent resistant strategies against the Green Pass itself. READ MORE
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8. Resisting Food Waste
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : Today, about one-third of all produced food and drinks are neither eaten nor drunk and turn into food waste. To put this number into perspective, the amount of wasted food would feed three billion people each year. From 2012 to 2018, Swedish grocery stores have more than doubled their amount of food waste, now reaching 100 000 tons per year. READ MORE
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9. Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. READ MORE
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10. Behind Every Social Robot Finds itself a Community of Developers: A socio-legal exploration on developers of humanoid social robots with a focus on the context of depression diagnosis and its embedded gender norms.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : The rise in new digital technology is bringing with it new ethical questions around how we, as a society, can trust them. However, what if the question was before the technology itself? What if the role of the developers was influencing the way those new technologies were being programmed? This thesis situates itself at the point of exploration, where developers of humanoid social robots look for ways to advance the human-robot interaction as a field as well as getting social robots commercial-ised. READ MORE
