Sammanfattning Museer har till uppgift att dokumentera, forska och samla in människans och naturens lämningar för att berika kulturarvet och bidra med ny kunskap. Frågan är vad det är för kunskap som förmedlas och vad det är som väljs att ta med i kulturarvet. Denna uppsats syftar till att lyfta fram diskussionen kring huruvida kulturarvet och kunskapsförmedlingen är könsneutral och hur den dolda

The aim of this study is to generate an understanding of how professionals work with attitude change, and their sense of job-satisfaction. The six participants, three males and three females, from both public and private sectors, were interviewed twice. The first interview was analyzed thematically and the second was analyzed through a narrative method. The interviews showed that people in this st

The purpose of this essay was to examine whether there were any differences in social workers way of investigating boys and girls, age 13-15. The main questions we wanted to answer were; which were the factors that the social workers focused on? Did the investigations lead to a measure and if so, which one? How were risk and protection factors described and ana-lysed? To answer our questions we r

Immigrants and children of immigrants are statistically lumped together into a category of "person with foreign background". Blatte is a degrading and violating word when directed at immigrants by Swedes. The aim of my essay was to test to what extent the Swedish term "blatte" could be qualified as an ethnicity in the sense that young people with foreign background born between

Abstract Sammanfattning: Uppsatsen handlar om hur ungdomar förhåller sig till talet om pornografi, hur de uppfattar, definierar och resonerar kring fenomenet i förhållande till sig själva och till andra fenomen. I uppsatsen vill jag visa på hur mötet mellan två olika diskurser, en som reglerar sexualitet och en som reglerar förhållandet vuxen/ungdom, styr hur ungdomar förhåller sig till och reson

The aim of this university paper was to understand how eight former clients at Staple reformatory had experienced their stay there. The clients at Staple are young people between 13-20 years old, both boys and girls. The basic questions were: What picture do the clients have of the treatment they received? What has been, from their perspective, the most important during their stay? Do the client

Det uppmärksammas allt fler kriser som behöver kommuniceras och hanteras för att organisationer ska kunna upprätthålla en trovärdighet. På grund av dåligt utförd kommunikation vid själva kriserna kan förtroendekriser uppstå. Ämnesområdet kriskommunikation håller på att bli allt viktigare för professionella kommunikatörer att kunna hantera och vara kompetenta inom. Det professionella kriskommunikat

I denna uppsats undersöks tre stadsplaneringsprocesser i Lunds kommun ? en trafikled genom stadskärnan på 1960-talet, det s.k. Genombrottet; en forskningsby på 1980-talet, Ideon; och en större forskningsanläggning på 2000-talet, ESS ? med avseende på diskursiva spänningar och förändringar i den politiska processen. Studien visar att stadsplaneringsdiskursen har förändrats från att ha karaktär av

The aim of this study is to analyze the construction of "Christian masculinity" during the modern era. This is made in opposition to earlier research that has claimed that masculinity could not be constructed religiously, that is, without at the same time being constructed as effeminate or anti-masculine. Using a wide variety of theoretical concepts - such as discourse analysis, class,

The purpose with our essay was to examine what favourable factors there are for women to get out of drug abuse and from a gender aspect interpret how these factors are used in the treatment of female drug-addicts, regarded from the treatment personnel view. The questions we have focused on are: What are the favourable factors for women in the way out of the addiction. How can the use of favourable

The purpose of this essay has been to examine how the city of Helsingborg´s prevention of alcohol and drug use among youths is laid out. It has been of special interest to examine the youth centers (after school programs) preventive work with youths and its effects on frequency of alcohol and narcotics use among youths. The people we have interviewed are all involved in the three organizations: t

Abstract This essay concerns young women´s point of view and discussions about rape and rape victims. The purpose was to examine young women´s view on rape and rape victims. By young women we mean 17 to 18 year-old-high school-students. Our main questions were how young women define rape, if there are any circumstances were they blame the victim and/or consider her less trustworthy and how they

The purpose of this paper was to see how poverty and social exclusion has been defined, measured and understood together with the urbanization process in a mega-city like Sao Paulo and also to look upon and analyze the connection and importance of policy correlated with these notions in the last decades, especially from 1990s until present. The questions that have been answered in order to fulfil

In 2000 the UN Security Council declared HIV/AIDS a risk to national and international security. No region in the world is as affected by the pandemic as sub-Saharan Africa, which hosts 64% of the world's HIV/AIDS cases. In this thesis we take a close look at the security implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically based on alternative security approaches, such a

In Sweden between 800.000 and 900.000 people have some kind of alcohol related addiction. Each and everyone are expected to have three relatives who in some way are involved in the abuser´s way of life. The consequences of living close to someone with an abuse of alcohol is described as a chaotic life with extreme emotional stress, fear and anger. The aim with our essay has been to look into how

The purpose of this essay was to examine how youths are described in certain written statements that are produced by the social services. The statements that this study has focused on, are those written with the purpose of serving the court with suggestions of treatment-measures when a person between 15 and 18 is suspected of having committed a crime. The main issues were: How is the content in th

Abstract The purpose of this essay was to study the parental education for adoptive parents. It´s provided by law since 1/1-2005 that parents have to participate in this education-program before they adopt. We wanted to look at what caused the change and made the education compulsory and to find out where the initiative came from, what purpose the education is supposed to fulfil, if it can facili

In an organizational change process, motivated employees are considered an asset. Work motivation can both be seen as situational and as a stable individual characteristic. The present study attempts to investigate how the employees at the Social Insurance Office in Scania experience the present organizational change by focusing on work motivation and well-being. Both questionnaires and interviews

2005 was the year that all of the 25 member states in the European Union were to ratify the treaty of a constitution for Europe. The year did, however, offer a series of unexpected and slightly shocking events as both France and the Netherlands voted no to the constitution. Because of this the already planned referendums across many of the other member states were either postponed indefinately or