Essays about: "Prejudice"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 218 essays containing the word Prejudice.

1. 16. A Defense of the Permissibility of Prejudice

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Lucas Lainpelto; [2023]
   Keywords : Prejudice; stereotypes; epistemology; ethics;

   Abstract : This paper argues for the counter intuitive notion that some prejudice is morally justified. The argument is divided up into three parts: (1) what prejudice is, (2) the role of epistemology and (3) the final moral argument. The first section initially establishes a working definition which allows prejudice to be justified epistemically. READ MORE

3. 17. 'It was never about the games' : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of "Video Game Addiction" in Swedish News 1991-2017

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

   Author : Ulf Benjaminsson; Danielle Unéus; [2023]
   Keywords : discourse analysis; video game addiction; moral panic; moral entrepreneurs; Owe Sandberg; Patrik Wincent; youth culture; juvenism; forced treatment; Sweden;

   Abstract : This theoretical thesis employs critical discourse analysis to scrutinise the construction of video game addiction in Swedish press from 1991 to 2017, and examines its potential contribution to a moral panic. Our research is based on the assumption that media discourse influences societal norms, which in turn, can profoundly affect individuals and groups. READ MORE

4. 18. "How you make friends in Finland" : An intersectional analysis of friendship formation in adulthood

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Despoina Papadakou; [2023]
   Keywords : Friends; Adulthood; Intersectionality; Intersectional Analysis; Decoloniality; Finland;

   Abstract : The present thesis explores how people’s gender with its various intersections shape theirexperiences of making friends in adulthood in the Finnish context and presents anintersectional analysis of the processes and challenges of making friends. The intersections Ifocused on were those of gender with ethnicity, race, religion and migrant or non-migrantstatus. READ MORE

5. 19. An interest in progress: A graphic design campaign that aims to contribute to a positive attitude regarding mental illness

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Medie- och Informationsteknik; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakulteten

   Author : Sania Rahimian; [2023]
   Keywords : mental health; mental illness; attitude; stereotypes; prejudice; conditioning; operant conditioning; observational conditioning; design; animation;

   Abstract : A graphic design campaign that aims to contribute to a positive attitude regarding mental illness. ... READ MORE

6. 20. "I'm afraid World War Three is inevitable" : A Critical Discourse Analysis of German Social Media Comments on the Russo-Ukraine War

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Astrid Winiker; [2023]
   Keywords : Social Media; Discourse; Russo-Ukraine War; Stereotypes; Sentiment; Prejudice; Russophobia; Refugees;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of comments about the Russo- Ukraine war on Facebook and Instagram from February 2022 until March 2023 and points out topics that are dominantly discussed and stereotypes that are used in connection to the war. For this, critical discourse analysis (CDA) was employed as analytical framework and method (Fairclough, 2010). READ MORE