Social Change in Sweden
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 176
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Tradition and Change in Swedish Education
Author: L. Boucher
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-06-28
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1483296482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn up-to-date description and analysis of the recent reforms, current structure and issues in Swedish education. All stages of the system, from pre-school through to adult education and teacher training are covered. The book seeks to place the material firmly within the context of Swedish society and politics but the problems addressed are of concern to people everywhere
The social construction of Swedish neutrality
Author: Christine Agius
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1784990027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe end of the Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’ has signalled a shift in the security policies of all states. It has also led to the reconsideration of the policy of neutrality, and what being neutral means in the present age. This book examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to today, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in International Relations (IR) theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues that neutrality is intrinsically linked to identity. Using Sweden as a case study, it links identity, sovereignty, internationalism and solidarity to the debates about Swedish neutrality today and how neutrality has been central to Swedish identity and its worldview. It also examines the challenges to Swedish neutrality and neutrality broadly, in terms of European integration, globalisation, the decline of the state and sovereignty, and new threats to security, such as international terrorism, arguing that the norms and values of neutrality can be reworked to contribute to a more cosmopolitan international order.
Globalization and Social Change
Author: Diane Perrons
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780415266956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities, this significant text is illustrated through a series of case studies linking people in rich and poor countries.
The Gender Dimension of Social Change
Author: Elisabetta Ruspini
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781861343321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new study uses longitudinal data to provide new insights into the changing dynamics of lives of women today. In particular, it explores the potential of longitudinal or life course analysis as a powerful tool for appreciating the gender dimension of social life.
Handbook of Quality of Life and Social Change
Author: Cornelia C. Walther
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 3031395077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPensions in the European Union: Adapting to Economic and Social Change
Author: Gerard Hughes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000-06-30
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0792378385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ageing, financial and labour market challenges facing the old age pension systems of the member states of the European Union are well known. This book contests the view that funding is the answer. It shows how adaptable the largely pay-as-you-go old age pension systems in the EU are.
Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden
Author: Michele Micheletti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1351951130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity. Newer groups in society are demanding equal treatment, and others whose struggles for recognition are older and unwon, are successfully mobilizing support for political change. Social democratic political hegemony has been eroded and other new political forces are now reinterpreting past political ideas and methods of action and a need for historical perspective. This book analyses the history of Swedish civil society. Social movements and interest organizations have played crucial roles in Sweden. Their history is also Swedish history and concerns struggles for political recognition and welfare state development and cutbacks. Theoretical developments within sociology, social psychology, public choice and political science are combined to enrich the analysis. Some of the theoretical elements used in this book are organizational waves of development, organizational life cycles, political opportunity structure, and topologies of collective action organizations. The book analyzes Swedish civil society history from the Midas to the 1990s. Swedish civil society history is divided into six periods. The role played by collective action organizations in the important developments in politics, society and economy in this one hundred and fifty year period are described, compared and analyzed. The primary focus is the impact of change brought about by these developments on collective action organizations.
Shaping Taxpayers
Author: Lotta Björklund Larsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1785334115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden’s most esteemed bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project’s passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to its final abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.
Cradle to Grave: Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden
Author: Jan O. Jonsson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-04-14
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1134281420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe empirical study of individuals' life-course is one of the most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour market, job mobility, divorce and death. This book consists of studies capturing the life-course from the cradle to the grave. The research questions include long-term consequences of childhood conditions; family formation and school-careers; work and parental leave; gender discrimination in job promotion; divorce and occupational career; persistence in poverty; and the intriguing question of why the highly educated tend to survive everyone else. The studies shed light on the relation between family and work, on gender inequality, social class differences, welfare state redistribution, and labour market processes. They do this in a particular context, namely Sweden in the post-war period that is, during the decades that formed one of the most advanced welfare states in modern history. One chapter provides a descriptive account of institutional and life-course change in Sweden during that period. Most authors use the Swedish level-of-living surveys, a unique data set providing ample opportunity to study social processes in a longitudinal perspective. The book will, therefore, be of relevance to those with interests in the Swedish welfare state as well as those with theoretical and reseacrh interests in the reproduction of inequality
