Essays about: "Ethnomethodology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the word Ethnomethodology.

1. 1. The Joy of Not Fitting In – An Essay on How Non-binary People Accomplish Gender Euphoria

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Frederik Kramer Kluw; [2022]
   Keywords : Non-binary; Gender Euphoria; Masculinity Femininity; Internet-ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Doing gender; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how gender euphoria is constructed by non-binary people, and how these experiences are embedded in ideas of masculinities and femininities. The theoretical point of departure involves the theorization of “doing gender” by West and Zimmerman, concepts from ethnomethodology inspired by Liberman, and finally “performative acts” by Butler. READ MORE

3. 2. Steering the Client toward Self-sufficiency Swedish Social Workers’ Accounts of Responsibilisation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Daniel Carlsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Social workers; labour market policies; activation; responsibilisation; discipline; control; discretion; street-level bureaucracy; automation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the last couple of decades in Sweden, there has been an adoption of “workfare”-oriented policy approaches to unemployment (as opposed to the former, less conditioned welfare-oriented ones). Consequently, labour market policies more and more have started to encompass the Social Services Department (in Swedish; “socialtjänsten”). READ MORE

4. 3. Investigating the Suitability of a Knowledge Sharing System in a Non-Digitalized Workplace

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Maria Westling; [2018]
   Keywords : Knowledge sharing system; pre-implementation; digitalization;

   Abstract : Keeping knowledge within the company using knowledgemanagement can be a difficult task, as many studies have shown. The main reason for failures with the implementation and use of knowledge sharing systems has often been due to human factors. READ MORE

5. 4. Strengths and weaknesses of a visual programming language in a learning context with children

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)

   Author : Maria Hjorth; [2017]
   Keywords : Learning; Teaching; Visual programming languages; Scratch;

   Abstract : In a world where computers are a part of most people's everyday life, learning how to instruct one to perform time consumingand/or complex tasks is beneficial. Visual programming languages aim to make the experience for people programmingcomputers the best it can be by bypassing some of the issues of syntax and translation from mental plan to executable program. READ MORE

6. 5. Seeing Segregation Happen : The Assembling of Normative Space and Attribution of Normative-Spatial-Identities

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Emilie Rosman; [2017]
   Keywords : Segregation; Ethnomethodology; Conversation Analysis; Discursive Psychology; Membership Categorization Analysis; Online-Forums; Spatial categories; Spatial Identities; Normative-Spatial-Identities;

   Abstract : In view of the augmenting spatial, socio-economic and ethnic segregation in Sweden over the last 30 years, the purpose of this study is to examine, illustrate and enhance the understanding of mundane segregation processes by studying how social actors collaboratively interact in Swedish online forums regarding in which areas it is “good” or “bad” to live in. The theoretical and methodological framework used to guide the collection, coding and analysis of empirical data is based on ethnomethodology and its applied methods conversation analysis, discursive psychology and membership categorization analysis. READ MORE