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Japanese animation is a vast new field for the Western scholars of Japanese culture for it is a fairly modern popular culture phenomenon. Being a multi-dimensional cultural medium, anime (as it is known both in Japan and in the West) pays homage to one particular kind of animation, which has been made notorious due to its explicit content and violence in relation to female characters, - "hent
If hedonism is taken to be the view that all and only pleasures are the bearers of intrinsic value whilst also saying that complex things, such as states of affairs, can be ascribed intrinsic value, the hedonic thesis seems to be contradictory. Furthermore it has been argued that the hedonic thesis is inconsistent in its treatment of the notion of intrinsic value in another sense, namely that if t
Problem: Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) is an office within United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that handles procurement for governments, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), United Nations agencies, international finance institutions etc. Annually all UNDP offices and organizations are measured for performance and customer satisfaction in a quantitative Bureau of
The purpose of the essay is to, in retrospect, take a closer look at how the young people experienced their placement for assessment at Albogården and what it resulted in. With this purpose I inadvertently came to look at other aspects, for instance their lives before and after the placement. The underlying questions were: * The young people social situations before the placement? * The experie
Den här studien bygger på semistrukturerad intervjuer med föreståndare inom föräldrakooperativa daghem för att analysera vad styrformen har för påverkan på ledarskapet och hur detta utövas. Bakgrunden till studien är en undran i varför föreståndare uppfattar relationen till föräldrar inom den föräldrakooperativa barnomsorgen som problematisk. Det grundläggande antagandet utgår därmed ifrån att sjä
I denna uppsats behandlas ordföljdsvariationen mellan VSO och VOS i enkla satser i de oceaniska språken samoanska, tonganska och niueanska. En av dessa ordföljder är härledd (deriverad) ur den andra. Denna variation påminner om de syntaktiska fenomenen object shift(objektsflytt) och noun incorporation(nomen-inkorporering). Vid OS har objektet flyttat ur VP, vilket också har hänt i VSO-ordföljden,
The purpose with our essay was to increase our knowledge about what social workers, with experience from working with drug addicts, perceive as the explanations to a person stopping the abuse and succeed in staying drug free. Our framing of the question was: - How do social workers define the term drug free? - How big a roll do the social worker believes she/he has in the process in which a pers
During the last few years the alcohol consumption has increased and is now the highest in 100 years, one usually count that 10 % of the grown up population abuse alcohol and/or drugs and most of them are hidden abusers with families and work. This leads to great costs for the companies. But the much greater cost for the companies are the much larger group of risk abusers. According to the Swedish
The purpose of this paper has been to explore how Internet is perceived, with reference to youth, risk and responsibility, by a section of the population in North-West Skåne in Sweden. The questions central to our area of interest were: - Where does the responsibility for a safe Internet environment lie? - What measures are believed to be able to make Internet safer? - Are the opinions about sa
Eight libraries, seven public libraries and one college library, in the northeast of Skåne serve as foundation in a collaboration where students and adult learners are placed in the center of attention. The aim of this Master's thesis in library and information science was to study how the students and adult learners in the northeast of Skåne perceive the library services that are developed wi
Uppsatsens övergripande problematik handlar om normalitet och avvikelse och deras betydelse för vad som kommer att uppfattas som gott och dåligt moderskap. Studiens specifika syfte är att undersöka hur några kvinnor, vars livsstil på olika sätt avviker från det "normala", förhåller sig till och formulerar sig kring sitt moderskap och samhälleliga förväntningar på detsamma. Mitt material
The aim of this report is to obtain a greater understanding of the relationship between work and family for highly educated employed women with children and to elucidate which factors make this relationship more or less conflict-ridden and stressful. The qualitative empirical investigation consists of in-depth interviews with eight women combined with a questionnaire to measure their general well
I detta arbete intresserar vi oss för mötet mellan unga kvinnor och talet om och från pornografin, i syfte att förstå hur detta tal upplevs av individerna. Studien bygger på utskrifter från två fokusgruppsintervjuer. Informanter var fem unga kvinnor. Diskursanalys användes som metod för bearbetningen av materialet och resultaten diskuterades utifrån för ämnet relevant litteratur, i huvudsak femini
The main purpose of this essay was to study how the social service and the lawcourt have implemented the UN Convention on the Right of the Child, particularly incorporating the childs best interest in social services, child welfare investigations and the lawcourts judgement. We considered how the needs of the child, and the will and view of the child was documented. Also how the parents capacity a
In using a qualitative method have I interviewed six women and six men taking care of their wives respectively husbands suffering from physical disease, disfunction or demental disease. The purpose was to find out whether male and female caretakers were differently influenced in their situation, relationship and in their partners, when they became caretakers of their spouse, depending on what the
The main purpose of this essay was to study the program "Nationellt stöd för kunskapsutveckling inom socialtjänsten" ("National support for knowledge development within the social services") from the National Board of Health and Welfare on the basis of how such a development, as represented by the program, could affect clients' possibilities to participation and influence w
Teorival betecknar den handling varmed forskarsamfundet väljer mellan två eller flera uppkomna och inbördes konkurrerande vetenskapliga teorier. Detta sker för att därefter kunna bedriva vetenskaplig verksamhet som är styrd av den valda teorin. Det handlar således om en vetenskaplig revolution, där teorivalet är höjdpunken och avgörande för revolutionens seger. I denna bemärkelse har teorivalsfrå
William G. Lycan undersöker i sin bok Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction möjligheten att förklara lingvistisk mening utifrån verifikationismen. Han lägger fram en mängd invändningar som tillsammans skall omkullkasta projektet. Då jag läst Lycans argument några gånger slås jag av det attraktiva med verifikationismens idé och av att jag vill syna kritiken lite närmre. Sammanfattning
Vad som kanske kan kallas den traditionella förklaringsmodellen för metaforer inom filosofin, hänvisar till metaforisk mening, en mening som sägs uttryckas av metaforer parallellt med deras bokstavliga mening. Det har också gjorts försök att skissera system för hur den metaforiska meningen kan vaskas fram ur den bokstavliga. I ?What Metaphors Mean? kritiserade Donald Davidson sådana teorier och f
China has stepped into a new phase of women's movement with the evolution of women's organizing context. Women's organizations and activities in China have been mostly state-led., focusing on monolithic womanhood and socialist feminism. Since the mid 1980s, self-initiated women's organizations have developed to promote gender equality landscape, responding to various female identit
