• Political distrust and support for anti-establishment parties in hard times: panel and longitudinal evidence of the association between political distrust and voting for anti-establishment parties 

  Serani, Danilo (Date of defense: 04-03-2020)

  This thesis revolves around the relationship between distrust in the main actors of political representation (political parties and politicians) and voting for anti-establishment parties (AEP). While the research does not ...
• Intercultural relations and family-school trust: immigrant and native families in schools of Barcelona 

  Mina, Prokic (Date of defense: 23-01-2020)

  The main aim of the thesis is to explain intercultural relations between immigrant and native families in the school context and how these reflect in their trust in local schools. For this purpose, I analyze the relationship ...
• Reimagining truth and morality: from Jürgen Habermas to Jacques Derrida 

  Tskhadaia, Giorgi (Date of defense: 13-02-2020)

  In this thesis, I argue that Jürgen Haberma’s neo-katian liberalim fails to provide universalistic foundations for truth and morality as it cannot be applied invariably across different context. However, this failure does ...
• Understanding the political integration outcomes of enfranchised and high socioeconomic status immigrants in host societies 

  Nguyen, My Land Do (Date of defense: 31-01-2020)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of assimilation and ...
• Changing paradigms of women's labor market participation: cases of Denmark and the USA 

  Ratniece, Luïze (Date of defense: 16-12-2019)

  This thesis contributes to knowledge about gender differences in labor market attachment by using a longitudinal, life-course approach, and consists of three empirical articles. The first one establishes the profile of ...

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