Essays about: "Norm changing"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 28 essays containing the words Norm changing.

  1. 11. Norms, Nudging, and Sustainable Consumption- An interactive online experiment evaluating the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on the consumption of sustainability labelled products

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Viktor Johansson; [2020-08-31]
    Keywords : nudging; sustainable consumption; injunctive norm; descriptive norm; Fairtrade; KRAV; EU Organic;

    Abstract : Sustainable consumption is one important factor in mitigating negative environmental and societal impacts of extensive production and consumption. Behavioural interventions, such as nudging, have been suggested as potential methods in changing customer behaviour. READ MORE

  3. 12. The Ark - an urban, vertical monastery for non-believers

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Nina Essebro; [2020]
    Keywords : rituals; collective; introspection; minimum dwelling;

    Abstract : Climate change and rapidly changing labour markets call for societies to increase their level of resilience. Parallelly, mental illness is tormenting Swedes in increasing numbers. READ MORE

  4. 13. Changing Norms about Life Skills and Sexuality Education through Empowerment: A study of public secondary life skills teachers’ experiences and perceptions in Zanzibar

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Jenny Fristrand; [2019-08-13]
    Keywords : formal sexuality education; Zanzibar; Teachers; Life skills; Empowerment; Human Rights; Norm changing;

    Abstract : Formal life skills education, including topics related to sexuality, was developed in the 1990s to prevent HIV/AIDS as well as a method to strengthen ‘good’ behaviours among students in schools. In Zanzibar, life skills education interventions have duplicated in recent years. READ MORE

  5. 14. Addressing discourses in manuals/texts on male engagement in ending child marriage

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Jessica Eng; [2019]
    Keywords : gender; child marriage; communication; depvelopment; human rights;

    Abstract : AbstractFor this thesis I have conducted a discourse analysis on which discourses that are being reproduced in texts on the issue of male engagement in ending child marriage. I am looking at the agency of both males and females, what is taken for granted, words that carry norms and how these are maintain or challenging the dominant discourse on the topic. READ MORE

  6. 15. Bring it To The Table

    University essay from Konstfack/Industridesign

    Author : Robert Damisch; [2019]
    Keywords : alternatives; tools; education; everyday; trickster; table; norm criticism; present; future; play; system; table; photography; storytelling; discussion; design;

    Abstract : The thesis is intending to answer the question: Do tools and objects have the ability to support capacities for imagining alternative ways of living the present and through that also the future? How do we imagine our future? What is necessary for us and how do we want to live our everyday? It is important to rest for a moment and have a conversation about this questions in order to adapt old concepts of the world towards drastically changing conditions. Most of us, mainly in the modern western society, know that we can no longer maintain this lifestyle in the future. READ MORE