Essays about: "school segregation"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 45 essays containing the words school segregation.

  1. 16. Revising the link between neighbourhoods and education: The case of well performing middle schools in Malmö

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Andreea Valentina Moraru; [2021]
    Keywords : Neighbourhood effects; Education; Malmö; fsQCA; privatisation of education; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How do neighbourhoods affect life chances? This is a question that researchers have asked in different forms as early as the 50’s –and there is no shortage of papers exploring neighbourhood effects: how where we live affects our well-being or our participation in the labour market, our life expectancy or, in general, our life outcomes. Yet, there is less consensus than one would expect from a field that has been this active: mechanisms are not clearly defined, methodologies are often one-sided, theoretical concepts are outdated and sometimes harmful for communities and contextuality of most kinds is surprisingly rare. READ MORE

  3. 17. Racism against second-generation migrant in Swedish primary school

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Axel Bejar; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The research is a study on second generation migrants in a white-dominant primaryschool. The subject was about the racist experience in the school year when theywent to primary class. Hence, the research uses two different analytical frameworks:Göran Therborn theory on inequalities and Jane Elliot experiment on RacialPrejudice. READ MORE

  4. 18. The Right Man for the Job

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Ebba Alm; Cecilia Bill; [2020]
    Keywords : Gender; Investment Banking; Occupational Segregation; Social Identity Theory; Stereotype Threat;

    Abstract : The finance industry has traditionally been male-dominated, and despite recent efforts to attract more female applicants, the gender segregation still prevails. The investment banking industry, in particular, is notoriously male-dominated. READ MORE

  5. 19. With a Preference for Priority: Explaining Variations of Stability and Efficiency in School Choice

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Alexander Andevall Mårtensson; Nils Lager; [2019]
    Keywords : matching theory; market design; allocative efficiency; mechanism design; education and research institutions;

    Abstract : In school choice systems, policy makers try to allocate students in a fair and efficient way. Two mechanisms for allocating students that has been of particular interest for market designers is Deferred Acceptance (DA), which is stable and does not allow for priority violations, and Top Trading Cycles (TTC), which is Pareto efficient but creates justified envy among students. READ MORE

  6. 20. Looking for nurses: The relation between agency salience in job advertisements and the appeal of nursing for men

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : My Eriksson; [2019]
    Keywords : Social role theory; belongingness; goal congruity; communion; agency; gender segregation; job advertisements; nursing; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In Sweden, nursing is strongly gender segregated. Additionally, there is a national nursing shortage. READ MORE