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Given its emphasis on understanding marketing systems through their reciprocal interactions with society, the task of developing a methodology that captures such complexity is particularly crucial for macromarketing. The aim of the present contribution is to elaborate a methodological approach that is able to operationalize macromarketing complexity into more comprehensive and analyzable forms, wh

This thesis provides knowledge of occupational engagement in day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities and contributes to measurement development in the area of occupational engagement. The first study focused on the characteristics of the occupations carried out at the day centre by exploring occupational engagement using time-use diaries with a person-environment-occupation perspectiv

A review of literature related to fire evacuation in underground transportation systems, e.g., tunnels and subway stations, was carried out with the objectives (1) to identify a theoretical framework that can help understand of human behaviour in the event of a fire in underground transportation systems, (2) to use the theoretical framework to analyse and to identify problems related to fire evacu

This paper discusses how physical planning works with place-making through urban design to support image creation in a municipality that aims to create a new image for its city. Two large-scale urban development projects in Sweden are analysed. The analysis focuses on official plans and documentation, and expert interviews. It distinguishes how place-making by physical planning happens through aes

This thesis analyzes moral argumentation and meaning creation in the process of programmatic policy formulation in the Christian People's Party and Socialist People's Party in Denmark, and the Christian Democratic Party and Left Party in Sweden, focusing specifically on their policy deliberations about the European Community and the European Union from 1990-1996. The primary emphasis is not on pol

Religion and intersectionality Categories frequently discussed in terms of intersectionality are gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. This paper argues that religion often is a relevant dimension in intersectional analyses. Religion may not be inevitable as the other dimensions, but in large parts of the world it is nevertheless an unavoidable social element and even in the secu

Popular Abstract in Swedish I mer än tre årtionden har kvinnors situation och främjandet av jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män lyfts fram inom utvecklingssamarbetet. Bilaterala organisationer har gjort politiska åtaganden och utvecklat strategier, metoder och instrument för att uppnå detta viktiga mål. Som uppföljning på FNs fjärde kvinnokonferens i Peking (1995) är det viktigt att analysera vad Gender equality has been on the development cooperation agenda for more than three decades. Bilateral agencies have developed policies, strategies, methodologies and tools to support achievement of this important goal. Following the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 it is important to take stock of the progress that has been made, and identify the changes needed for movi

Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingen handlar om de personliga följderna av de tidiga konsekvenserna av kronisk ledgångsreumatism, hur det påverkar personernas arbetsliv och hur de hanterar detta. I denna kvalitativa studie har tematiserade intervjuer använts. Tjugotre personer, vilka nyligen diagnostiserats med kronisk ledgångsreumatism, var intervjuade två gånger med två års mellanrum. StudieThis dissertation discusses the personal implications of the early consequences of rheumatoid arthritis, how they effect the person's working life and how they are dealt with. In this qualitative study thematized interviews are used. Twenty-three persons, recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, were interviewed twice, two years apart. The study is influenced by an interactionist perspective

Objective This study provides the summary of current knowledge about migrant work in agriculture available from journal articles, books, reports and other relevant academic publications, focusing on political, economic, legal, social and medical aspects of migrant work in agriculture. Methods A systematic search was carried out on the LibHub and Google Scholar databases in order to compile the e

This thesis sets out a food web framework for size-structured populations. The framework enables an ecological approach to food web modelling as the individual life-history from birth, through maturation, and ultimately death is explicitly resolved with the use of bioenergetics based on individual body size. Each population resolves size-structure through a size-spectrum containing the individual

This paper seeks to discuss the nature of complex relationships among participants in organizational life, including ways in which paradox and ambiguity in their interactions impact upon organizational performance. Any relationship emerges and subsists through interaction between people. The nature of a relationship is the result of double description (Bateson, 2002). Each of the parties involved

The Swedish democrats crossed the four percent threshold for parliament representation in Sweden for the first time in the election 2010. This controversial party has teared open a lot of emotion in the Swedish debates, mostly because of their anti-immigrant politics. The Swedish democrats politics all weigh heavily upon a clear distinction between the swedes and the non- swedes. The party appears

Denna uppsats behandlar och syftar till att utreda möjligheten till umgänge mellan barn och dess mor- och farföräldrar, i enlighet med gällande svensk lagstiftning. Sådan umgängesrätt har genom de senare årtiondenas utveckling, enligt lagens ordalydelse, kommit att bli en rättighet tillägnad barnet. Enligt den tidigare gällande uppfattningen stod istället föräldrarnas intresse i fokus. UmgängesrätThis paper discusses the possibility of access between children and their grandparents according to Swedish law. In recent decades this access has become a right belonging to the child, according to the letter, in contrast to previous law where the parents’ interests were the priority. Since the reform in 1983 the right of access has become increasingly concentrated on the child’s needs and what i

Syftet med uppsatsen är att med ett diskursanalytiskt angreppssätt undersöka hur domstolar konstruerar våld och sexuella handlingar som utövats inom ramen för påstådda BDSM-relationer. De normer och värderingar om våld och sexualitet som kommer till uttryck genom samtyckesbedömningarna i domarna utgör uppsatsens ramverk. Det diskursanalytiska tillvägagångssättet innebär att en ansats att tränga baThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the courts’ constructions of violence and sexual acts practiced in alleged BDSM relationships, by using a discourse analytical approach. Norms and values regarding violence and sexuality, as expressed through the courts’ assessments of a valid consent, constitute the framework of the thesis. A discourse analytical approach involves an attempt to penetrate t