Sökning: "wealth mobility"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden wealth mobility.
1. Challenges of Online Security for Senior Citizens
Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskapSammanfattning : Senior citizens are among the most vulnerable groups of cyber victimization in today’s contexts. Ensuring online security for the elderly has become extremely critical as the global elderly population is on the rise and the incident of cyber victimization is rapidly growing causing financial and societal problems for them. LÄS MER
2. The Role of English in South Korean Social Mobility : A Sociolinguistic Study on Korean Native Speakers’ Perspectives, Language Ideologies, and Identities with Respect to English
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : English has been a central language in various sectors of South Korean (henceforth Korean) society for over a century, with historical events and contexts resulting in a glorification of the language as both an essentiality for success and an indicator of superiority and modernity (Park, 2009; Cho, 2017). With English becoming omnipresent in recent times due to an increasing focus on globalisation within Korean society, most families rigorously pursue English education to ensure optimal chances of employment. LÄS MER
3. An Illusion of the American Dream : The Great Gatsby from a Feminist Perspective
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/EngelskaSammanfattning : The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald encapsulates the Roaring Twenties, a period of social and political change. The economy is thriving, and the American Dream, with its promise of monetary wealth, happiness and upward mobility, is seemingly within reach. LÄS MER
4. Happiness, Prosperity and Inequality in the 21st Century: The Case of Latin America
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : Latin American countries are among the happiest countries world-wide despite suffering from vast economic inequality at the same time. Addressing this alleged puzzle, this study analyses the effects of economic prosperity and inequality on happiness in Latin America. LÄS MER
5. Passport Power – Citizenship by Investment Programmes Exploiting Spatiotemporal Hierarchies of Passports
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälleSammanfattning : The practice of selling passports through Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programmes is gaining more attraction and legitimacy in light of increasingly stricter immigration policies. Instead of simply weighing the pro and contra points of CBI, this thesis aims to understand CBI as a consequence of neoliberalism and analyses the correlation between so called ‘passport power’ and wealth, whereby the former is determined by rankings and the latter is represented in terms of the gross domestic product (GDP). LÄS MER