Essays about: "DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR.

  1. 6. The 2016 Presidential Impeachment in Brazil : An analysis of the coverage of protests pro and against in national newspapers

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Helena Samaras; [2017]
    Keywords : Protest Paradigm; marginalization devices; presidential impeachment; Brazil.;

    Abstract : Scholars have long argued that mainstream media tends to illustrate protest events and protesters highlighting the aspects of drama, violence and deviant behaviour in the events (Harlow and Johnson, 2011: 1361). Such aspects are referred to as “protest paradigm” which can be considered as the patterns of coverage that expresses disapproval regarding protests (Lee, 2014: 2727). READ MORE

  3. 7. 80HD : ADHD an explorative research

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Lisa van Doremalen; [2015]
    Keywords : adult ADHD; qualitative; self; identity; stigma;

    Abstract : ADHD, attention deficit hyperactive disorder was first described as such in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, the DSM in 1987. Since then the disorder has had great interest from research but also from society. READ MORE

  4. 8. Time-frequency analysis for responses evoked by nociceptive and non-nociceptive stimuli based on EEG signals

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Biomedicinsk teknik

    Author : Juan Pablo Lagos Benitez; [2015]
    Keywords : ICA; artifact; pain; nociceptive; EEG; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : In the pursuit of a system capable of measuring pain signals in humans we propose a method to differentiate those signals related to pain from those which are not. We performed a time-frequency analysis using the Gabor transform to have complete information about the spectrum and its behaviour through the time to study the main differences over the evoked potentials provoked by both nociceptive and somatosensory (non-nociceptive) stimulation. READ MORE

  5. 9. Signs of insecure attachment development in infancy - How do child healthcare nurses identify them?

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Amanda Sarsfield; [2014]
    Keywords : Attachment; BVC; indicative prevention; risk factors; screening; child health; vignettes;

    Abstract : Sarsfield, Amanda. Signs of insecure attachment development in infancy - How do child healthcare nurses identify them? Candidate dissertation in social work, 15 points. Malmö University, Health and society, social work undergraduate degree course, December 2013. READ MORE

  6. 10. Tolerating Deviance: Drug Tourism and Normalization of Cannabis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Reza Sharifitehran; [2012]
    Keywords : social anthropology; leisure activity; tourism; deviant; cannabis; normalization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Aim of this study is to explore the term normalization as a social process that shifts the level of tolerance in societies through examination of the association between cannabis usage as daily life leisure activity and the growing tolerance of this substance use. Contemporary studies suggest that consumption and usage of cannabis should be examined as any other social processes, which are unavoidable and widespread activities that are continuously changing, rather than the more traditional approach to the topic where scholars have generally categorized it as a deviant or pathological behaviour, which has been seen as socially condemned and subsisted at the margins of society. READ MORE