According to the national public survey “Health on equal terms” around 20 percent of all the children in Sweden (385 000) is growing up with a parent that is consuming alcohol in a risk full way (Statens folkhälsoinstitut 2008). These children often experience different strains in their life taking big responsibility in the family. The aim of this study was to investigate experiences in growing up

Title: Eating disorders, stigma, self-stigma and four blogs - a qualitative research. [Translated title] The aim of this research was to examine the reason of why people with eating disorders don’t seek professional help, by using Ervin Goffmans (2004) theory about stigma and Patrick Corrigans (2004) theory about self-stigma. I used a qualitative method and I based my study on four blogs from the

More and more consumers are demanding products that are considered fair and ethical. The Swedish market for these products is growing every year. The requirements of Fairtrade labeled goods often means a higher price in stores than the corresponding conventional products. The quest of this essay is to investigate the willingness-to-pay for goods that are considered ethical and fair, with Fairtrade

This study comprises a three month fieldwork and 25 interviews conducted in Jordan on community based rehabilitation of persons with intellectual disability. The analytic procedure was conducted in an explicit and systematic manner much inspired by Grounded Theory. Interviewing social workers engaged in introducing community based rehabilitation in Jordan the study came to unveil their struggle wi

Synthetic estrogens that originate mainly from oral contraceptive pills reach our waters through sewage effluent and potentially affect organisms in the natural environment. This study focused on the effects of the synthetic estrogen 17-alpha-ethinylestradiol (EE2) on the foraging and predator avoidance behaviors of the planktivorous fish roach (Rutilus rutilus), a common fish in Swedish lakes and

Essä som beskriver näst intill osannolika förändringar i samhället under de senaste hundra åren.

Uppsatsen undersöker och analyserar Jeanette Wintersons roman Written on the Body utifrån queerteori. Winterson ifrågasätter och analysar i denna roman begreppen genus, sexualitet och deras förhållande till identitet och denna uppsats undersöker detta närmre genom en analys av romanen. Uppsatsens syfte är att redogöra och analysera romanens berättare, vars könstillhörighet är okänd, utifrån queert

I studien studeras prästens och läkarens roll i lokalsamhället under en rödsotsepidemi år 1858. Rödsot har idag namnet dysenteri. Uppsatsen studerar även vilken utbredning epidemin hade och hur många som drabbades. Uppsatsen har en mikrohistorisk karaktär och endast en socken, småländska Madesjö, studeras. I studien används även diskursbegrepp.

Should a normally unmanned installation rely on helicopter shuttling to allow for the people working there to be accommodated at another platform during the resting periods with regards to the potential loss of life (PLL)? Would the risk the personnel are exposed to increase or decrease if the need for helicopter shuttling was eliminated due to a different design allowing for periodic manning of t

The aim of this essay was to study how posters on the internet forum Flashback discuss social assistance and social assistance recipients. Research show that there is a tendency in today’s society to interpret the reasons for receiving social assistance as having individualistic causes. This is in spite of the fact that studies show that the individuals’ ability to provide for oneself often have s

The empirical evidence on the cross-sectional relation between stock returns and monthly idiosyncratic volatility is mixed. Ang, Hodrick et al. (2006) document that stocks with high past idiosyncratic volatility underperformed those with low idiosyncratic volatility. In this thesis, I show that the pricing effect of idiosyncratic volatility disappears when a sample of stocks with high market value

Author: Pernilla Palm Title: May I take a walk? A study of elderlys influence in their everyday life. Supervisor: Yvonne Johansson The aim of this study was to examine the aspects of the elderlys influence on their everyday life when they are living at nursing homes. The problem that discussed was in what ways the elderly have influence in their daily lives and on those routines that are imprin

This study is concerned with how the reading process reacts to detection of errors in discourse, and how this differs from cases where an error is missed or if no error is present. It sets out to investigate these questions using eye-tracking methodology. In order to determine the influence of detection of errors during the reading process, native English speakers were asked to read short news ite

Sweden is in a period of change in its establishment of a new welfare system. One of the main reasons is the political power shift from social democratic welfare regime to liberal welfare regime. This change involves, among others, a restructuring of the relationship regarding responsibility in the social welfare, between the public, private and non-government sectors. This is due to how different

Uppsatsen är en undersökning i hur upplevelsen av färg ter sig i monokromt måleri. Tre monokroma verk analyseras med hjälp av perceptionsteori, färglära och fenomenologi. En perceptionsanalys med utgångspunkt från författarens färgupplevelse av tre monokroma verk utförs. Resultatet anger bland annat att upplevelsen av en icke-föreställande yta bestående av färgnyanser kan skapa en känsla av imme

Uppsatsen undersöker samspelet mellan diskurser om manlighet, nationalism och emotioner i en svensk 1800-tals kontext. På vilket sätt emotioner artikulerar manlighet och nationalism