Essays about: "Symbolic Interactionism"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 85 essays containing the words Symbolic Interactionism.

  1. 31. Inconspicuously foreign: Everyday identity work within the Faroese diaspora in Copenhagen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Brandur Nolsøe; [2018]
    Keywords : Presentation of self; symbolic interactionism; situational ethnicity; impression management; ethnic identity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the identity work of members of the Faroese diaspora in Copenhagen from a sociological perspective. Building on a symbolic interactionist view of social interaction, I explore the strategies of presentation of self in a diasporic environment, in which members adapt their role performances according to ongoing changes to rules of interaction. READ MORE

  2. 32. Can positive messaging on social media promote peacebuilding in Myanmar?

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

    Author : Clement Silverman; [2018]
    Keywords : Communication; development; social media; international development; Myanmar; Burma; Peacebuilding; conflict resolution;

    Abstract : Can positive messaging on social media promote peacebuilding in Myanmar? It is argued that social cognitive communication campaigns reversing negative symbolic interactionism on social networks could be the answer. This paper finds that there has been only one significant campaign, MIDO’s Pan Zagar, to use positive messaging on social media. READ MORE

  3. 33. The workplace as an agent of diversity, inclusiveness, social integration, and social relations : A qualitative study in a multinational company

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Gicela Gallego Escudero; [2018]
    Keywords : Workforce diversity; inclusiveness; social integration; social relations; natives; immigrants; managers; employees;

    Abstract : This qualitative study aims to investigate how a multinational company works to promote workforce diversity and inclusiveness, how native and immigrant employees and managers experience social integration and social relations in the workplace, and how the managers work to contribute to social integration and social relations in the workplace. Interviews have been made with thirteen participants working in the same company. READ MORE

  4. 34. Coordination of tourism in the Swedish national parks : a case study of Kosterhavet National Park

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Emma Wogel; [2018]
    Keywords : National park; Tourism; Collaboration; Coordination; Symbolic interactionism; Trust; Conflict; Local perspective;

    Abstract : Stakeholders involved in Swedish nature conservation and the tourism industry have noticed difficulties in the coordination of activities between private tourist actors and public conservation authorities in national parks. This research demonstrates and explains a collaboration problem that occurred in a pilot project in Kosterhavet National Park in 2015. READ MORE

  5. 35. Growing up as Hybrid Plants A Multiple-Case Study on How Adoptive Parents Cope with the Chinese Origins of Their Adopted Children from China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Weixue Gao; [2018]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Transnational adoption is a type of adoption where the couple (or an individual) voluntarily become the permanent and legal parents of an adoptee from a different nation. Sweden has been actively participating the transnational adoption since the early 1970s, and from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, China had been one of the major donor countries for Sweden. READ MORE