This study aims to contribute to the study field about social interactions and remote studying by researching how professors and students at Uppsala University have experienced remote studying during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a conventional content analysis the authors tried to answer how teachers and students at Uppsala University experienced the transition to remote studying, which social roles and norms that exist in the university context and how the social roles and norms have been affected by the transition to digital interaction. Interviews with students and teachers at different faculties were conducted and analyzed. The results were that different social roles and norms do exist, for example the active and the more passive student and the entertaining teacher. The identified norms were the effectiveness norm, the appearance norm and the intelligence norm. Both the social roles and the norms were still noticeable during remote studies but the different social setting strengthened the effectiveness and intelligence norm, and weakened the conformity for the appearance norm. The social roles were affected in different ways, but mainly in reducing the social part of the student role, and the teacher role was affected mainly by having them change their way of teaching. The interviewed students and teachers showed different opinions about remote studying, some were more positive due to the increased work effectiveness and some were more negative due to the lack of social life.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-479070 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Baneshi, Nadina, Carlsson, Hanna |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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