Essays about: "social-cultural"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 115 essays containing the word social-cultural.

1. 1. On becoming an organic farmer2.14.0.0 : An autoethnographic reflection2.14.0.0

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

   Author : Cliona Jane Lyle Bredius; [2024]
   Keywords : WWOOF; sustainable tourism; Gotland; autoethnography; agriculture;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) network may constitute a form of sustainable tourism on the Baltic Island of Gotland, Sweden. To do this, I narrate my own personal journey as a WWOOF volunteer trying to find my way as an organic farmer, in an autoethnographic account of my experience at Tjeldervik Gård during the spring and summer of 2023. READ MORE

3. 2. Family influence on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för management (MAN)

   Author : Alina Kanonchyk; Zahra Mirza; [2023]
   Keywords : Women entrepreneurship; gender; family; Pakistan; entrepreneurship;

   Abstract : This qualitative study explores factors within families that influence women entrepreneurs of Pakistan. Pakistan is chosen as the key research area as where the corporate environment as well as the domestic sphere, they belong to, represent the intricate interaction of social, cultural, traditional, and religious components, especially considering the characteristics of the existing patriarchal system. READ MORE

4. 3. Childhood household composition and future economic outcomes : Are children of single parent families experiencing growing disadvantages as adults in Sweden?

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Mikaelsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Childhood household composition; Single parent households; Cumulative disadvantages; Socioeconomic background; Education; Family Sociology; Social stratification; Generations and Gender Survey GGS ;

   Abstract : Family is a unit of socialization and transmitter of social, cultural and economic resources. Thus family arrangements may result in unequal future outcomes for the children growing up in them. A case in point is children from single parent households. READ MORE

5. 4. The Representation of Perpetrators in the Netherlands : A Case Study of Dutch Memorial Museums about the Second World War

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Eva Britt van Es; [2023]
   Keywords : Holocaust; genocide; perpetrators; memory culture; The Netherlands;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses the texts and audio-files of the exhibitions of the Dutch memorial museums about the Second World War to understand how perpetrators have been represented. In a social constructionist approach on cultural memory and heritage it can be argued that memorial museums are institutions which partake in the processes of cultural memory and heritage during which a reconstruction of the past is developed which can be connected to the values of the current society. READ MORE

6. 5. The Sounds of Our World: Navigating Live Music and Artist Growth in Harare

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Annika Medin; [2023]
   Keywords : live music; zimbabwe; harare; urban sociology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Increasingly connected to urban development and vitality in modern discourses of urban sociology, live music is a social and cultural phenomenon with great potential for improving people’s, including artists, well-being. Still, the systems and networks which shape live music are specific to their local social, cultural and institutional contexts, leading to a range of perceptions. READ MORE