This paper seeks to explore the emergence of collective agency from collective outrage. With a theoretical foundation in Althusser’s ideological state apparatuses it is stated that the general conceptualization of anger is affecting the subject’s activistic potential.
Read MoreThis projects aim is to identify neoliberal and phylogenetic structural conditions, that can be seen as causal explanations for the experience of maternal distress or a negative reaction to the new motherhood.
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis explores how Danish fourth-wave feminists combine their statements on sexual liberation with a ‘hyper-feminine look’ – an appearance which by older feminists has been marked as a sign of oppression.
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis examines misogyny in a developmental and social psychological perspective. The aim of the study is to move towards an understanding of the mechanisms behind the development of misogyny both on the intrapsychic, intersubjective and societal level. To this end the thesis is based on a moderate eclectic method that combines concepts from psychoanalysis and social constructionism.
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis seeks an understanding of the phenomenon ecological shame (or eco-shame) by exploring theoretical perspectives on the emotional dimension of climate change. Furthermore, this paper investigates whether or not eco-shame promotes climate-friendly behavior. The theoretical perspectives are presented by Sara Ahmed, Martha Craven Nussbaum and Michel Foucault.
Read MoreThis paper attempts to examine the relations between the nuclear family, gay marriage and Western capitalism through a theoretical analysis with the help of Herbert Marcuse’s Eros & Civilization and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. Respectively, these theoreticians allow the use of a Freudo-Marxian and a schizoanalytic perspective to answer the following theoretical question: How can Marcuse’s terminology together with that of Deleuze and Guattari’s be applied to explore desire within the relationship between the nuclear family and the societal structure of capitalism to understand the historical emergence of gay marriage?
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis seeks to explore the differences between the subject model in behavioral economics and the one in neoclassical economics. The neoclassical economics have been widely criticized because of their lack of understanding of reality, as they e.g. assume perfect rationality in man.
Read MoreThe current paper is a theoretical investigation of the impact our nature view has on sensitization towards climate change. Furthermore, it is suggested how psychology can contribute to a movement towards greater sensitization. The phenomenon is addressed through a historical investigation of the nature view based on the ideas of the Norwegian philosopher Hjalmar Hegge.
Read MoreAutistic people experience stigmatization, a lower quality of life and have a high rate of suicide. This bachelor thesis examines whether understanding autism as neurodivergence has the potential to expand the action potence of autistic people. The potential is examined by using the critical psychology to analyse empirical studies.
Read MoreRecently, a prominent Danish union boasted that the level of inequality in Denmark has become obscene (3F, 2019). To contribute with scientific, evidence-based conclusions to the above statement, this thesis will attempt to explore how the Danish population truly assess and prefer the distribution of wealth in Denmark.
Read MoreThe purpose of this study is to examine the mechanisms of carnism, specifically using social psychologist Melanie Joy, and to examine the belief system underneath this conceptualization of carnism as an ideology. Drawing on the work of existential psychiatrist and professor Irvin Yalom, the paper also sets out to understand how some individuals find meaning in the opposing ideologies veganism and vegetarianism.
Read MoreThis thesis explores collective standards in relation to the possibilities of becoming a part of Danish society as a Dane with another ethnicity. I argue that collective standards should be grasped from a dialectical point of view where standards are created by subjects but at the same time creates subjects. This thesis is based on two theoretical perspectives: Semiotic Cultural Psychology and Critical Psychology.
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis examines the concept of stigmatization related to schizophrenia and its effects on the individual. It is explored how different understandings of schizophrenia can contribute to stigmatization. Based on theories of stigmatization, it is argued that the stigmatization that people with schizophrenia experience may result in a decrease of agency and possibilities of action.
Read MoreThis paper examines the contrasts between experimental social psychological approaches and ethnographic, interactionist approaches to nonverbal communication and intimacy in face-to-face interaction.
Read MoreThis project takes as its starting point the idea of transnational economic competition as a structural condition for the subject, and how it affect subjective choices and desires. The question is raised why this globalizing development is not regarded as a historical-ideological process but as a basic living condition?
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