Essays about: "Social passivity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Social passivity.

  1. 1. Social passivity in English classrooms : A qualitative study on how upper-secondary English teachers in Sweden work to help socially passive students

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Jennifer Ängerfors; [2022]
    Keywords : Social passivity; English as a second language; Second language learning; Unwillingness to communicate; Qualitative; Upper-secondary school; Sweden;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to increase our knowledge of how upper-secondary English teachers in Sweden work to ensure that students who are socially passive reach the learning objectives regarding oral proficiency in the English subject. The study explores how six English teachers interpret the underlying factors causing students to be passive in English class, and what they do about this. READ MORE

  3. 2. Undermining the Local: Power, Acceptance, and Confidence surrounding a Chilean Mining Operation : Social Impacts of the Mining Operation Los Pelambres on the Cuncumén Community

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Naturresurser och hållbar utveckling

    Author : Julia Schwab; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Ethnography; Social License to Operate; Mining; Power; Trust; Victim Mentality;

    Abstract : The present ethnographic research explores the socio-economic repercussions of a copper mining operation in Chile on its host community. By examining the development of the relationship between this local community and the mining company since the latter’s arrival, this thesis sheds light on the possible (secondary) impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) measures and participatory spaces on intracommunal dynamics. READ MORE

  4. 3. (Re)Articulating Sexual Citizenship: Between Queering the Urban Space and Subjugating the Queer

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Onur Kiliç; [2018]
    Keywords : politics of space; globalisation; sexuality; sexual citizenship; discourse theory; consumerism; homonormativity; post-industrial city; entrepreneurial city; creative class; post-structuralism; neoliberalism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In today’s post-industrial cities, how urban citizenship is defined and performed have been ambiguously positioned in their relationship with the urban societal space. While the cities become more commodified and privatized with the inter-urban competition, the concept of citizenship is put into a tentative position between being participatory political subjects and passive consumers. READ MORE

  5. 4. Domestic Violence: The Adolescents' Perspectives on the Barriers and the Facilitators of Social Intervention : A Systematic Literature Review

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Catarina Gonçalves; [2018]
    Keywords : Child’s perspective; domestic violence; social intervention; adolescents; social work; systematic literature review;

    Abstract : Domestic violence is often experienced as a crisis period, and it may impact children’s well-being, everyday functioning and development. To promote these minors’ resilience, social intervention is extremely important. The support and responses attributed to these children are not always adequate for their needs and interests. READ MORE

  6. 5. Imaginary Battlefield War rape, the extreme consequence of gender hierarchy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Louise Petersson; [2012]
    Keywords : War Rape; Gender; Gender Hierarchy; Rape as a Weapon of War; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to identify the social structure that sanctions the act of war rape. This by answering the research question; what normative structure is reflected in the meanings attached to the act of war rape? The research design is that of a qualitative case study, with empirical focus on the war rapes committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war in 1992-1995. READ MORE