Essays about: "Institutionalized Practices"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words Institutionalized Practices.
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6. Rationalizing sociology as an educational strategy : Plurality of convictions and position-takings of sociology students in Swedish higher education
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudierAbstract : The present study examines the choice for sociology as a subfield in Swedish higher education. In the Bourdieusian tradition, the theory of social practices – with its relational concepts of field, habitus and capital – was the sociological lens for constructing the object and instruments for tackling it. READ MORE
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7. Together or Apart - Populist Perceptions on an Institutionalized EU Migration Approach
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The following paper aims to answer the question, how do national populist movements perceive an institutionalized approach to migration on an EU level? Maintaining International Relations relevancy, the puzzle at heart is eminent with its acknowledgement of national-populist parties in relation to EU collaboration, specifically in reference to the issue of migration. Thus, the paper establishes the central argument that populist discourse establishes the EU as a constituent of the elite, projecting a nationalist agenda on migration rather than cooperating and maintaining a collective identity through the institution. READ MORE
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8. Eugenics and bodily discipline in the Scandinavian welfare state: a genealogy of gendered othering
University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis is a genealogy of the gendered othering practices that emerged through and within the implementation of eugenic policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, namely Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Between the early 1930s and 1970s, tens of thousands of people were sterilized and institutionalized in Scandinavia for various purposes, and a vast majority of these people were “feebleminded,” “immoral,” “vagrant,” “antisocial” or “weak” women whose fertility constituted a threat to the quality of the “national stock. READ MORE
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9. New challenges for transport planning : the institutionalization of mobility as a service in the Stockholm region
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : The new trends and challenges are transforming the traditional way of thinking and planning transport systems, with concepts like mobility as a service (MaaS) developing as a result of these transformations. Whilst, the concept of MaaS is still considered new, it is attracting attention from both researchers as well as actors involved within the transport sector. READ MORE
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10. Disassembling the Elephant Translating Agile Project Management into a Banking Context
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This paper investigates the concept of Agile project management (APM) within the Swedish banking context. In order to explore how the idea of APM has travelled to and become translated in practice, the study draws upon interview data collected in a Swedish bank currently undergoing transformation as a result of changes in the Swedish banking market. READ MORE