The main purpose of this study was to examine how femininity is constructed in Swedish women’s magazines. The purpose was also to study whether there was a hegemonic discourse in the magazine. This presumes that femininity is a social construction, which is why the study was based on a social constructionist perspective and it´s method was discourse analysis. More specifically the essay investigat

This essay presents a perspective in which knowledge is to be understood as abilities of the nervous system. Classic epistemology has not been able to shed sufficient light on a large number of conundrums that arise from its analyses on human belief, which motivates a different approach. An introductory discussion herein argues for a new naturalistic principle concerning what I have termed ‘congru

I och med teknisk utveckling har nya forskningsfält uppkommit som sociologer måste undersöka för att förstå samhället och nutida kultur. Genom internet kan individer interagera med varandra i realtid oavsett var de befinner sig. Det tidsfördriv som denna uppsats ämnar att undersöka är datorspelandet. Det sätt som spelarna använder sig av för att visa sitt missnöje är via text, vilket denna uppsats

The aim of this study is to examine norms about gender and sexuality, expressed and reproduced in relation between young people based on sex education in the danish primary school. By norm-critical approach the aim is to show how visability can challenge the binary idea of gender together with heteronormativity and open up to alternative views of gender and sexuality. The main empirical material c

Begging - A study about how begging is constructed as a social problem. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyze how ‘begging’ is constructed as a social problem in the Swedish society. According to the social constructivism perspective, our understanding of a social problem is constructed through a collective process. Therefore I chose to analyze the claims-making activity in the con

Denna uppsats redogör för straffvärdebedömningen vid grova narkotikabrott. Fram till 1923 hade narkotika ingen juridisk innebörd i Sverige, men allteftersom det introducerades i samhället och ett missbruk började spridas, började också lagstiftningen utvecklas kring det. När det uppdagades vilka rusframkallande och beroendeframkallande effekter narkotika förde med sig, och att dessa preparat hamnaThis essay describes the assessment of penal value concerning grave narcotic offenses. Up until 1923 narcotics did not have a legal meaning in Sweden, but as it was introduced in society and an addiction started spreading, the legislation also started to evolve around it. When it began to be known what intoxicative and addictive effects narcotics brought with it, and that these preparations starte

Abstract Title ‘The passion of the consumer’ Seminar date 30/5- 2012 Course BUSN29 Master thesis Author Forat Al Haider Advisor Ulf Elg Keywords Community, Culture capital, Identity, Social links, CCT Thesis purpose The main aim with this research is to contribute to influential and decisive theory within the lines of Consumer behaviour and identity by applying various Consumer Culture theories

The aim of this qualitative study is to define and compare the professional role of school and medical counselors in Sweden. It also addresses the question whether the counselor is a unified profession and if it is established among other professions in the organizations. The analysis is based on interviews with three medical counselors and three school counselors. Theories used in the analysis ar

Metaphor is the most commonly discussed form of figurative language, and can most simply be presented as statements describing one thing as another. This paper is concerned with the issue of in what sense a metaphor can be said to be true. It outlines the main features of two different theories of metaphor: Donald Davidson’s account of metaphor as presented in the article ”What metaphors mean” (19

Author: Frida Olander Title: Life as a rollercoaster- regarding relatives of people with bipolar disorder (translated title) Supervisor: Hanna Wittrock The aim of this study was to examine relatives’ possibility to dialogue and participate in the inpatient psychiatric care. The relatives should be involved in the care, but to what extent can they be? What controls relatives’ contact with the inpa

In this paper, we analyze the role which human capital played in Swedish economic growth over the late nineteenth-twentieth centuries. It has been shown that Swedish development over the considered period may be divided into three sub-periods, which have particular features when it comes to interrelations between human capital and economic growth. In the first sub-period (1888-1933), the Lucasian

Beslutsfattande utgör en stor del av vardagen för ledare och chefer i organisationer. Eftersom informationsmängden ständigt ökar väljer många att implementera beslutsstödssystem, vilket är datoriserade system som hjälper till att sortera ut och presentera relevant information för beslutsfattaren i den ständigt växande informationsmängden. Statiska beslut förutsätter att all information ska finnas

Bakgrund: Höftfrakturer är ett stort folkhälsoproblem som kan leda till funktionshinder, nedsatt livskvalitet och dödlighet. I Socialstyrelsens riktlinjer för vård och behandling betonades 2003 vikten av att skapa lokala vårdprogram för att förbättra, säkra samt effektivisera vården och behandlingen av höftfrakturer. Samma år skapades vid Lunds Universitetssjukhus ett vårdprogram för omhändertagan

The purpose of this paper was to examine how care managers in municipal elderly care work and how they relate to the term reasonable standard of living and the term dignity in their occupation. Also if care managers are affected by municipal directives and administrative procedures in their work and if those have an impact on how care managers relate to the terms responsible standard of living and

Vid Sveriges genomförande av direktiv 2001/29/EG av den 22 maj 2001 om harmonisering av vissa aspekter av upphovsrätt och närstående rättigheter i informationssamhället (Infosoc-direktivet) år 2005 infördes begreppet överföring till allmänheten i 2 § 3 st. 1 p. i lagen (1960:729) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk (URL). I denna uppsats utreds innebörden av detta begrepp. Under When Sweden implemented directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (the copyright directive) the term communication to the public was introduced in sec. 2(3)(i) of the Swedish Copyright Act (1960:729). The meaning of this term will be determined in this paper.

Studien fann att allt fler elföretag nuförtiden inte använder sig av grön marknadsföring i någon större utsträckning. Företagen väljer bort att fokusera sin marknadskommunikation på grön el, då de har slutat använda termer som ”grön” och ”miljövänligt” i sin kommunikation. Orsakerna till detta är att grön el inte längre är en konkurrensfördel eftersom det har blivit en förutsättning på marknad

Vi ser idag en samhällsutveckling där medborgare i allt större utsträckning tappar förtroendet för formella politiska organisationer, vilket ställer högre krav på nya strategier för att främja medborgardeltagande. Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom kvalitativa intervjuer med tjänstemän och engagerade medborgare, med koppling till Malmö stads initiativ områdesprogram Herrgården, skapa en större In today’s society we see a development where citizens are losing their trust in formal political organizations. This calls for new strategies with the purpose of promoting civic participation. Through qualitative interviews with local government officers and engaged citizens, connected to the City of Malmö’s initiative områdesprogram Herrgården, this study aims at creating a greater understanding

The aim of this study was to examine how social workers reason concerning homeless families with children from the term “the child’s best interest” found in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Socialtjänstlagen (Social services act). We wanted to study how social workers reason about placements of homeless families in hotels and hostels. We also wanted to find out how soci

The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether there existed a trade-off between outreach to the poor and efficiency of MFIs between year 2000 and 2010. The study is conducted on a sample of 1679 observations from countries worldwide and is analyzed through Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The results from this study suggest that there was indeed a negative correlation between outreach to the poor