Essays about: "Communion"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word Communion.

1. 1. Rethinking social care services for elderly persons in Zambia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Annette Hatembo; [2022]
   Keywords : Ageing; elderly people; family; community; caregiving; old people’s home; social care.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The Elderly people in Zambia face numerous challenges resulting from high poverty levels, stigma, and social exclusion, poor service provision in old people's homes, and lack of proper care and support from family and the public. In addition, changes in population ageing have also resulted in increased longevity affecting the obligatory responsibilities of the state and the family to meet individual needs in caregiving adequately. READ MORE

3. 2. Kehrä/Kehrae : A moment in between

   University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för cirkus

   Author : Myrsky Rönkä; [2022]
   Keywords : Circus; ritual; liminality; communitas; play; animism; gift; rope; circus practice; nature; intimacy orientation; regenerative; sustainability;

   Abstract : First of all, my research is not only my research but our research. It has been made together with my long-time art companion Marjut Hernesniemi. The starting point for our research was our experience of the western modern circus, what it does, and how it cares for the cosmos. READ MORE

4. 3. Gender stereotypes in contemporary Swedish society: Does gender still matter? An investigation of prescriptive stereotypes, self-views in gendered traits and evaluation of role (in)congruity.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Maria Evangelia Karatzia; [2021]
   Keywords : prescriptive stereotype content; self-views in gendered traits; agency; communion; self-prescription discrepancy; role congruity; role incongruity; devaluation.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The present study aimed to further investigate the current state of gender stereotypes and their function in Swedish population in a two-fold way: Primarily by investigating the content of prescriptive stereotypes (how people should be) in relation to people’s self-views in gendered traits, and secondarily by investigating how people who behave stereotypically and counter-stereotypically are perceived and evaluated in Sweden today. Results supported the existence of a strong traditionally gendered prescription but also revealed a self-prescription discrepancy such that participants’ self-views in gendered traits were found to be less gender stereotypically pronounced. READ MORE

5. 4. Looking for nurses: The relation between agency salience in job advertisements and the appeal of nursing for men

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : My Eriksson; [2019]
   Keywords : Social role theory; belongingness; goal congruity; communion; agency; gender segregation; job advertisements; nursing; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In Sweden, nursing is strongly gender segregated. Additionally, there is a national nursing shortage. READ MORE

6. 5. For the Love of the Game : The role of social media and strategic communication in developing women’s softball in Europe

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Linnea Goodman; [2018]
   Keywords : non-profit organizations; strategic communication; communities; social media; sports organizations;

   Abstract : This study explores how social media contributes to the relationship between community and non-profit organizational communication in the scope of marginalized women’s sports. The analysis of the data is based on a theoretical framework of social identity and self-categorization theories in imagined communities from a non-profit, strategic organizational communication perspective. READ MORE