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Over the last four decades, the extended usage of cars for the daily mobility of people inwards and outwards the city of Limassol has taken over a huge part of the public space and formed a nature of urban ataxia (lack of order).Environmental pollution, social isolation, cultural stall and economical failure have become collateral consequences, at increasing rates and at high cost to all living be

This study focuses on the demand side of prostitution and sex-trafficking. The aim is to examine how young men construct the purchase of sex in the male peer group. We did six qualitative interviews with Swedish men between 20 and 30 years of age and used the theory of sexual scripts and stigma to analyse them. Through this, we could obtain that there is male peer groups where buying sex is constr

This case study seeks to contribute to an ongoing discussion about planning for a sense of community by exploring which approach is used by the municipality of Linköping when planning for the neighbourhood Vallastaden. Vallastaden is presented as a neighbourhood planned to create meetings and a local sense of community. However, in times of increased mobility and digitalisation, this local scale o

Armenia is a small, land-locked, transitional economy in the region of South Caucasus with a huge potential of developing its solar energy system. The challenges that the country’s energy sector is facing, such as high dependence on imported natural gas and oil, energy dependence on a single market, high transport costs, old and inefficient infrastructure, as well as the risk of repetition of ener

Studien syftar till att undersöka hur svenska företag använder sig av femvertising i sin digitala kommunikation. Studien görs ur ett kritisk feministiskt perspektiv och studerar och analyserar hur kvinnor och kvinnlighet porträtteras i marknadsföring idag samt hur feminism används för kommersiella syften. På så sätt syftar studien till att bidra med kunskap kring hur postfeministiska diskurser anvThe study aims to examine how Swedish companies use femvertising in their digital communication. The study is done from a critical feminist perspective and aims to identify how women and femininity are portrayed in marketing today as well as how feminism is used for commercial purposes. The study aims to contribute knowledge about how post-feminist discourses are used in digital marketing in a Swe

Denmark and Sweden, as the rest of Europe, face a dilemma of whether to repatriate their citizens who travelled to the so-called Islamic State, from the wretched refugee camps in Syria and Iraq after its fall, and how to deal with those already returned. This thesis examines the two countries’ policy-approaches and discourses to the issue of foreign fighters (FF’s) through a comparative case study

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om beteendeintentionen att följa rekommendationer i ett Public Service Announcement (samhällsinformation/PSA) publicerat på Instagram påverkades beroende på om avsändaren angavs som en fiktiv myndighet eller en fiktiv influencer samt att undersöka om negativt emotionellt bildmaterial påverkar beteendeintentionen att följa rekommendationerna. Studien syftadThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether the behavioral intention to follow recommendations in a Public Service Announcement (PSA) published on Instagram is affected depending on whether the publisher was listed as a fictitionalauthority or a fictitional influencer and to investigate whether negative emotional imagematerialaffects the behavioral intention to follow the recommendations.

Juvenile delinquency has become an obvious and recurring issue in the daily debate and emerges as one of the most controlling and dominant societal problems. There are various reasons why people choose to commit crime and there is no easy answer to the question why young people commit crime. A fundamental but crucial distinction to be made regarding crime is the difference between deviant acts and

Digitalisering, teknikutveckling och globalisering gör att Sverige tar stora steg från industrisamhälle till kunskapssamhälle. I takt med den förändringen ökar också kravet på arbetstagaren, arbetsgivaren – och på samhället. Arbetstagarnas kunskap utgör den viktigaste resursen i samhället, och det är en resurs som hela tiden måste återerövras. Det räcker inte att utbilda nya generationer – välfärdDigitization, technology development and globalization mean that Sweden is taking big steps from an industrial society to a knowledge society. In line with this change, the demands on the employee, the employer – and on society increase. Workers' knowledge is the most important resource in society, and it is a resource that is constantly being recaptured. It is not enough to educate new genera

The aim of this study was to examine school counselors’ experiences of relationship building with students in online counseling during the covid-19 pandemic. The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with six school counselors from different municipalities. The empirical data was analyzed and discussed using past research, Carl Roger’s theory on client-centered therapy and Erving

Traditionella binära könsstereotyper utmanas idag allt mer av könsöverskridande uttryck i ett pågående globalt samhällsskifte som i synnerhet märks av i Sverige. Parallellt med detta samhällsskifte utmanas även tidigare forskning i hur varumärken kommunicerar könsuttryck, vilket möjliggör för ett ökat antal varumärkesgenuspositioner. Trots att en androgyn genusposition beskrivs som mest gynnsam ärTraditional binary gender stereotypes are increasingly being challenged by gender fluid expressions in an ongoing global societal shift that is particularly noticeable in Sweden. Parallel with this societal change, previous research on how brands communicate gender expressions is also being challenged, which enables an increased number of brand gender positions. Although an androgynous brand gende

The aim of this study was to explore care managers view on loneliness among elderly and to examine what interventions they proposed. Ten qualitative interviews were conducted with care managers from nine municipalities in the region of Skåne. The empirical material that has been collected was analyzed through Håkan Jönsons (2010) perspective analysis and Roine Johanssons (2007) theory of street-le

With disability continuing to be the single most barrier to education, efforts towards inclusive education have been globally acknowledged and legally ensured. Despite its widely shared call for justice and the fulfillment of the human right of education for all, the understanding of its process is diverse and interactions amongst system remains limited. Based on the Ecological Systems Theory and

Studiens syfte var att undersöka hbtq+-personers upplevelser och hantering av minoritetsstress i nära relationer samt upplevda konsekvenser på hälsan och de nära relationerna. Detta gjordes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio personer, som bröt mot cis- och/eller heteronormen. En tematisk analys av berättelserna utmynnade i tre huvudteman: Omvänd skuld- och ansvarsfördelning, Två sidor av mThe aim of this study was to explore how LGBTQ+ people experience and cope with minority stress in their close relationships, how minority stress affects the relationships and what health implications might come from it. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with LGBTQ+ individuals. A thematic analysis of the stories resulted in three main themes: Reverse guilt and liability, Two sides of

Abstrakt Bakgrund: Idag mår och presterar barn allt sämre i skolan. Det saknas ofta ett varierande arbetssätt och det finns brister i individanpassningar samt i att tillgodose elevers individuella behov utifrån ett delaktighets- och aktivitetsperspektiv. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka arbetsterapeutiska åtgärder som kan främja delaktighet, sociala färdigheter och lärande för skolplikAbstract Background: Today children feel and perform poorly in school. Due to shortcomings in individual adaptations, in varying ways of working and to meet students' individual needs from a participation and activity perspective. Aim: This study investigates occupational therapy interventions that can promote participation, social skills and learning, for students in primary schools in Sweden

Abstract The care for the environment in investment situations is rising among different groups of investors, due to social and psychological factors. Existing studies on nonpecuniary preferences for the environment are focused on measuring the proportion of individuals with green agendas, whereas we focus on measuring also magnitudes, i.e. how much future wealth are people actually prepared to gi

Feminism is a concept that can be considered extremely topical in Sweden in both the social and political context. Therefore, it is interesting to examine women’s position towards the concept and if they want to be identified as a feminist. This study is based on how women’s position towards feminism and feminists can be challenged by stereotypes and ideal types in the discourse of the concepts. T

The purpose of this study was principally to illuminate and describe how the alteration in law (1994:137) about the reception of asylum seekers and others has been implemented at some different authorities in Sweden, according to separated children; children who have fled to Sweden without their parents or other adult guardians. Beside this I want to, as a part, describe how the child perspective

Our purpose is to display the meaning of fan clubs and further reveal the potential value of fans. This study has an abductive approach with a qualitative data collection, where empirical material has been collected through a micro netnographic study along with qualitative interviews. IKEA and IKEA Family have been applied together with virtual fan clubs to study the fan club phenomenon. The study