The purpose of this essay was to study the family situation in connection to the absence of one parent due to participation in international peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations. Focus was on the temporarily absent parent's point of view. The study was based on five interviews with parents shortly after their returning home. The main questions has been how the parent described the chi

How does language work within the context of art and image? In what way can text contribute to the reception of an art work? In this essay I examine the role of language and how it, in selected works from the artists Sejla Kameric, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer, becomes part of the deconstruction and exposure of social structures and issues of gender. My aim is to examine whether this deconstru

There were certain behaviours that were more or less correct during the 1950´s Cold War. Men had their fixed positions in society and women theirs. Men were the breadwinners and women were house makers. (McEnany, 52) Single men could easily become homosexuals or go to prostitutes and it was the women´s duty to tame those wild men. It was women´s obligation to make sure that their men were satisfie

The aim of this master's thesis is to study how gender equity is discussed and worked with at a Swedish public library, and what potential consequences these discussions will bring. By analysing different types of documents and interviews with library staff using discourse psychological theories and methods we show that two dominating discourses coexist and determine the direction of how gende

The purpose of this study was to find out how caregivers experienced their psychosocial work environment at three municipal homes for old people. The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) was used in order to study different dimensions of the work environment, and questions about health, sickness presence and sick leave were included. The questionnaire was answered by 86 out of 112 partic

Frågan om selektionsenheter handlar om vilka entiteter, gener, individer eller grupper, som det naturliga urvalet verkar på. Vilka av dessa uppfyller det naturliga urvalets krav på variation, ärftlighet och skillnader i konkurrensförmåga? Den klassiska synen är att urvalet verkar på individer. Individer som är altruistiska, i betydelsen att de gynnar andra individers överlevnad och reproduktion p

Abstract In this thesis I will discuss the relationship between the European Union and the regions of Europe. The development of the European Union has meant that many decisions are taken in Bruxelles. Many actors participate in the policyprocess ranging from national goverment to policynetworks of different kinds. An emerging actor has been the regions of Europe. Their influence on the policypro

Ambitionen med denna uppsats är att förstå hur den autonoma marxismen analyserar förutsättningarna för politisk mobilisering och kamp i dagens samhälle. Det handlar om samhällets förändringar, det vill säga förändringar i produktionsordningen och processen i största allmänhet. Både hur yrken till sin natur har förändrats, och vad detta får för konsekvenser ur ett ontologiskt och politiskt perspekt

Botswana has been a stable democracy since independence. There is a wide-spread assumption that this is due to democratic elements in its traditional system, and the minimal colonial influence exerted by the British. This thesis examines the character of the traditional system and the effects of the colonial presence, with the aim to ascertain how democratic pre-independent Botswana actually was.

Med utgångspunkt för tre forskningsområden: semiotik, pragmatik och kognition, har det gjorts ett försök i att belysa om språket och bilden har skilda roller i den moderna TV-reklamen. Ett noga urval av dagens TV-reklamfilmer användes som underlag för den empiriska undersökningen undersökningen. För att besvara syftet och frågeställningarna testades reklamfilmerna ur två kognitiva aspekter: kognit

Organisation and market orientation of elderly care This comparative literature study is intended to describe how elderly care is organised and financed in Germany and Sweden. Furthermore, it analyses the degree of competition and market orientation in both countries' care systems. Important aspects in this context are the kinds of measurements which are used on the two markets and the questi

Since Denmark's ?no? to the Maastricht treaty in 1992, public opinion and support for European Integration has been the subject of increasing study. Now that referendums play a greater role in the construction of the European Union, as demonstrated by the forthcoming ratification of the European Constitution, European leaders are finding it necessary to pay more attention to Eurosceptic factio

Rwanda och Darfur karaktäriseras som två av de mest fruktansvärda etniska krig i modern tid. Etnicitetens roll uppfattas spela en mycket viktig roll samt vara den grundläggande orsaksförklaringen till konflikterna. Detta anser vi dock vara en förenklande och missvisande bild som bör ifrågasättas. Enligt det socialkonstruktivistiska synsättet skapas etnicitet i relation till någon annan samt är i s

The level of help and support given to elderly people over the age of 65 has been regulated by two separate laws; 1-the Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS) and 2- Act of Social Services (SoL). Recent changes in the legislation could cause local authorities to deal with these issues in different ways. The aim of this study was to examine and eval

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Under de senaste 300 åren har jordbrukslandskapet i Sverige genomgått stora förändringar. Detta började med att bönderna i slutet av 1600-talet erhöll en stor del av adelns jord. De fick således förvalta sin egen vinst, vilket resulterade i en rad nyodlingar och tekniska hjälpmedel. I början av 1900-talet introducerades konstgödslet och efter andra världskriget Human-induced eutrophication has rapidly become one of the most important environmental issues. The problem is largely due to the shift in agricultural practices. Farming methods have become more efficient during the last 300 years. Watercourses have been straightened out and wetlands have been reduced to increase agricultural landuse. Since the end of the 1940s, fertilization has increased dramat

Temat för denna uppsats är att i en svensk kontext undersöka kulturella identiteter som befinner sig på gränsen mellan olika nationella och kulturella kategorier. Bakgrunden till att belysa denna typ av gränsposition är att i den korsas uppfattningar om svenskhet och främlingskap, tillhörighet och utanförskap, inkludering och exkludering. Uppsatsens syfte är att föra en teoretisk diskussion med e