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| Mémoire N° | 329 |
| Auteur | FUCHS Kathrin |
| Titre | What’s behind social sustainability? A content analysis of the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger within the agricultural context |
| Thématique & formation | Climat |
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| Summary | The term sustainability is an abstract and fuzzy term. Dogmatism or vague assumptions lacking rational justification are part of the understandings of what is supposed to be sustained. Indeed, not greater clarity of what the concept should entail exists for its social dimension. Even though the entire concept of sustainability represents an anthropocentric concept, only few attempts have been made to define social sustainability as an independent dimension of sustainability. Given the lack of clarity of the theoretical concepts of sustainability and social sustainability, a common understanding of what sustainability should encompass is still lacking. Similar to the concept of sustainability, the term sustainability in agriculture is also interpreted in numerous ways and little agreement on the meaning and goals of sustainable agriculture exists. Most definitions on sustainable agriculture focus rather narrowly on the environment, resource conservation and farm profitability and neglect the social dimension of sustainability. With help of a qualitative content analysis of articles of the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the sustainability discourse within the agricultural context is analysed according to the reporting of thematic areas including social aspect. A medium is analysed due to the reason that print media reflect the social mainstream and perceptions and create public opinions. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis is applied to show the distribution of the mentioned themes over the ana- lysed timespan of 1997 to 2018. The words social and sustainability are rarely used in combination in the journalistic articles, although social aspects are described within the sustainability discourse. The results show that a wide variety of thematic areas are mentioned, referring to the social dimension of sustaina- bility within the agricultural context, namely the most commonly-mentioned themes of living conditions, international cooperation and work. The thematic areas mainly focus on two demo- graphic contexts, namely Switzerland and the international context, with a special focus on developing countries. The results further show that the themes are widely distributed over the timespan. The results are not statistically representative, however, they contribute to an en- hanced understanding of which social issues are perceived to be important to be published by a newspaper within the sustainability discourse in the agricultural context. |
| Volée | 2016 |
| Date et heure soutenance | 14-03-2019 |
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| Collation | 123 pages, 10 figures, 12 tableaux |
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| Mot-clés | Durabilité, sociale, agriculture, agriculteur/trice, analyse des médias, méthode d'analyse du contenu (d'ordre qualitative) |
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| Terrain d'étude ou d'application | Durabilité, Agriculture |
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| Dernière mise à jour |
2019-08-07 10:59:32 |