Essays about: "Nature of sociology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 essays containing the words Nature of sociology.

  1. 1. Mastering the shift: exploring external CEO successions in a comparative case study

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Nils Karlflo; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : Actor-Network Theory; ANT; actors; negotiations; Sociology of translation; Management; Corporate Governance; CEO successions; CEO retirements; CEO departure; chief executive officer; boards; chairman of the board; externalizing; owner-led; owner-steered; owner-led companies; process theory; translation theory; family successions;

    Abstract : This paper critically examines the claim made by previous research that explains CEO successions as a result of a linear process, influenced by isolated factors of causality succeeding one another. Thus, it seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding of the process of CEO successions, acknowledges the complexity, ambiguity, and unpredictability in its nature. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. A Question of Taste : Psychoanalytic Explorations of Aesthetic Dislike and Bourdieu’s Distinction

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Marco Rep; [2021]
    Keywords : Bourdieu; distinction; Ferenczi; Freud; jouissance; Lacan; objet a; psychoanalysis; symptom; taste.;

    Abstract : This dissertation approaches the question of taste and aesthetic dislike from a combined sociological and psychoanalytic perspective. Building on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of art (most notably La distinction from 1979), I attempt to reconcile a view of aesthetic judgments as acts of distinction with a legitimate subjective dimension of aesthetic enjoyment. READ MORE

  5. 4. From Relations to Simplicial Complexes: A Toolkit for the Topological Analysis of Networks

    University essay from KTH/Matematik (Avd.)

    Author : Johan Lord; [2021]
    Keywords : applied algebraic topology; complex networks; topological data analysis; brain network analysis;

    Abstract : We present a rigorous yet accessible introduction to structures on finite sets foundational for a formal study of complex networks. This includes a thorough treatment of binary relations, distance spaces, their properties and similarities. READ MORE

  6. 5. Teaching online in a Global Pandemic : A Look at the Work involved

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Patrick Dooley; [2020]
    Keywords : Online teaching; Tacit Knowledge; Articulation work; Sociology of work.;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse the process of teaching on line amongst Swedish high school teachers. The empirical material for the study is based on four one-hour qualitative interviews with high school teachers who taught a range of subjects between them. READ MORE