Essays about: "dominant minority"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words dominant minority.
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1. Structural Hybridization and Dual Roles: A Case Study of Coexisting Logics in a Government Agency
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The area of coexisting institutional logics has been extensively discussed at the field and organizational level. However, there is currently a lack of research on the role of individual actors in creating and sustaining organizational hybrids, e.g. organizations operating under contradicting logics. READ MORE
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2. STEREOTYPICAL OR NON-STEREOTYPICAL? : WHICH HATE CRIMES ARE EASIER TO CATEGORIZE?
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)Abstract : Hate crime is an umbrella concept where the motive is to violate an individual or group based on their ethnicity, skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. This study examined police reports from the year 2018, marked as hate crimes. READ MORE
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3. When Religious, Civil, and National Representations Clash : A Decolonial View on Georgian Muslims as Internal Others
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)Abstract : The othering and exclusion of religious minority groups in Georgia is often understood through the prism of religious nationalism, which is argued to have developed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the respective need to fill up the leftover systemic void. Ethno-national and religious identity markers were used to create the image of true, pre-Soviet Georgian – Christian, ethnically Georgian group. READ MORE
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4. Representation Construction of Indigeneity by State vs Sámi Governments : Communicating Indigeneity through Official Government Discourse in Norway and Sweden
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the Sámi population as constructed in the official political discourses of the Swedish and Norwegian Governments and the Sámi Parliaments. As Sámi policies and Sámi political action have historically been limited by the dominating postcolonial conception of the Sámi by the nation-state, this thesis evaluates how the Governments of Sweden and Norway construct a representation of the Sámi in comparison to the representation offered by elected Sámi representatives to ascertain how the sociohistorical perspectives of the majority population reflect the conception of the Sámi population today. READ MORE
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5. The Spectacle of the Alien/Migrant An exploration through Hollywood Science fiction and Horror Movies before and after 9/11
University essay from Lunds universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : This thesis aims at addressing the question of the representation of the Other within current dominant visual media. The Other, in the context of this thesis, refers to any minority community group identified as different from a certain dominant norm; depending on the context it could correspond to groups such as Women, Afro-Americans or Arabs. READ MORE
