Essays about: "family as a social institution"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the words family as a social institution.
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1. “Excuse me, I am still here” : Designing for the Wellbeing of People With Dementia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikationAbstract : A growing number of studies have been addressing the use of technology in dementia care. As traditional views of society focus mostly on the symptomatic aspects of dementia, the use of technology is limited to people’s impairments. READ MORE
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2. Do institutional investors care about material ESG disclosure? Evidence from the SASB standards
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper examines the relationship between institutional ownership and SASB disclosure, by applying a linear probability model with fixed effects to our panel dataset. We find that certain groups of institutional investors demand SASB disclosure, and that their demand is sensitive to the disclosure costs faced by firms, namely information production and proprietary costs. READ MORE
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3. Transnational Experiences of Ugandan Students in Gothenburg, Sweden; Challenges and Adaptation strategies
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteAbstract : The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the transnational experiences of Ugandan students in Gothenburg; Sweden. The focus was to understand how cultural differences affect the academic and social life of these students, the ways in which they adapt to the new host country Sweden, challenges they might have encountered and how they have managed to overcome them. READ MORE
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4. Frankenstein's Mother - Mapping structures, and researching ways of creating new ones, within the interrelated entanglement of artistic practice and motherhood
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designAbstract : American artist Judy Chicago once told another artist, Helen Million Ruby, that she had to choose between her children and artistic practice. When asked about this, she commented that she was not giving an ultimatum but merely stating a fact. READ MORE
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5. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE
