Essays about: "policy sociology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words policy sociology.

1. 1. Private Digital Healthcare in Sweden : A Study of Its Emergence and Legitimization

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Martin de Verdier; [2023]
   Keywords : Digital healthcare; discourse analysis; organisational legitimacy; organisational sociology;

   Abstract : In recent years there has been an exponential growth of private digital healthcare providers (or “net-doctors” as they are commonly called) in Sweden. Traditionally public healthcare in Sweden has been divided amongst the regions, but with the emergence of net-doctors came the first “national healthcare”. READ MORE

3. 2. Practitioners of Social Investment Funds – Applied Phronesis : A study of how social investment fund policy framework affect the practices of professionals

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Sociologi

   Author : Hannes Kärrman; [2022]
   Keywords : Social Investments; Evidence-Based Policy and Practice; Phronesis; Relational Theory; Impact Evaluation; Constitutive Effects; sociala investeringar; evidensbaserad policy och praktik; Phronesis; relationell teori; effektutvärdering; konstitutiva effekter;

   Abstract : Social Investments (SI) have become a significant policy tool during the 2010s for developing and implementing social policy. This study explores how the SI framework, based on social innovation, evidence-based policy and practice, and impact evaluation, affects professionals when it is implemented and evaluated. READ MORE

4. 3. Green capitalist or critical environmentalist? : A comparative study of the environmental policies of the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) and the Social Democratic Party (Socialdemokraterna)

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Statsvetenskap

   Author : Michel Mohseni Tabrizi; [2022]
   Keywords : Ecological Modernization Theory; Critical Environmental Sociology; Vänsterpartiet; Socialdemokraterna; Ideal types; Green capitalist; Critical environmentalist; Environmental politics; Environmental political discourse; Capitalism; Post-capitalism;

   Abstract : This paper analyses the environmental policy documents of Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) and Socialdemokraterna (Social Democratic Party) based on the theories of ecological modernization (EMT) and critical environmental sociology (CES), constructed as ideal types. The aim is to explain ideational differences and similarities based on the ideal types of each theory and how well the parties can be linked to the ideal types of EMT and CES, their similarities and differences. READ MORE

5. 4. Illegal and welcome : How school policy practice of secrecy generates conditional schooling opportunities for undocumented children in Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Emil Niklasson; [2022]
   Keywords : educational policy practice; undocumented children; secrecy; policy sociology; compulsory school;

   Abstract : Children who live in Sweden without a legal residence permit have the right to go to Swedish school. Students are thereby welcomed at the same time as they are considered illegal in society at large. READ MORE

6. 5. PRECARIZATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - An ethnographic study of the working and living conditions of early non-institutional performing arts groups in Gothenburg

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Liliana Farcas; [2021-10-21]
   Keywords : governmental precarization; freedom; non-institutional performing arts groups; public funding system; cultural policy; interdependency; power;

   Abstract : In Swedish theatre history, the period 1965–2000 is seen as a time of emergency and establishment of the non-institutional performing arts field and is referred to as the “expansion period”. The performing arts’ field expanded due to the non-institutional performing arts groups, known as the “free groups”, which started to perform in new places, to experiment artistically, to meet new audiences and to raise social questions. READ MORE