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Commercial banks in China, such as the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) should take environmental considerations into their business operations and policies to 'green' their business, from the perspective of risk management and business marketing. This is not only the social responsibility for them as a corporate citizen which is playing an important role in the business life

Abstract This essay concerns young women´s point of view and discussions about rape and rape victims. The purpose was to examine young women´s view on rape and rape victims. By young women we mean 17 to 18 year-old-high school-students. Our main questions were how young women define rape, if there are any circumstances were they blame the victim and/or consider her less trustworthy and how they

Supervisor: Annika Capelán Assessor: Olle Frödin The purpose of this study was to explore the participants' experience of the ongoing integration project “Integration through work” in the south of Sweden. This was done empirically by performing semi-structured, qualitative interviews with eight of the project´s participants from a theoretical perspective based on the concepts of marginalizati

There is an idea that nations form the basis of identity. Through history the rulers have tried to connect the cultural identity of the population with the identity the state is supporting, in order to further legitimize their ruling. This has constructed a conception of cultural homogeneity within a country, which in these modern years becomes more and more problematic with flows of migration. We

This qualitative study is about how individual supportive conversation between school welfare officers and pupils in upper secondary school is carried out. The major interest of the study was to explore the problems that school welfare officers have during forced or involuntary supportive conversations with pupils, and how those problems can be understood and solved with the concept of strategies.

The research for this study, concerning trade unions within the maquila industry, has been carried out during a three months period in the Central American country of El Salvador. Fieldwork and research has been financed by the MFS (Minor Field Study) scholarship of SIDA. Research questions used throughout the field study have focused on the possibility of unionization and the role and position of

Kvinnor utgör en relativt ny komponent inom FN:s fredsbevarande operationer och ökar stadigt i antal. Därför är det viktigt att utvärdera hur kvinnor porträtteras i mediediskursen, eftersom media kan bidra till att reproducera könsstereotyper eller sträva mot social förändring. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilken bild som förmedlas genom FN:s nyhetscenter av kvinnor som tjänstgör i FNWomen are a relatively new component in the UN peacekeeping operations and are steadily increasing in number. Hence it is essential to evaluate how women are being portrayed in media discourse, since media has a vital role in the reproduction of gender stereotypes, or has the possibility to strive towards social change. The purpose of this paper is to examine how women, serving in UN peacekeeping

The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narratives about coercive population control policies and programs abound. Questionable practices such as the wide sterilization campaigns as took place in India during its state of emergency period in the 1970s or the use of contraceptives in developing world already banned from Western markets contributed

The Black Forest National Park (NP), Germany, opened in 2014 after intense societal disputes, complicated by changing political factors, scientific conservation debates, and multi-level decision-making structures. I argue that value conflicts over fundamentally opposed views on nature underlie these disputes, and that integrating these views in future NP planning may improve the sustainability of

Abstract Author: Elisabet Loverde och Arbresha Rushiti Title: Participation – on who’s terms? A study of personnel participation and how it is affected by leadership. [translated title] Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren Assessor: Weddig Runquist The aim of our study was to clarifying the possibilities for personnel participation through the experiences of the staff itself. Our study took place in Miner

I flera sociologiska teorier möter man en människa fångad av förtryckande strukturer utan vidare utrymme för motmakt, i ett Europa präglat av framväxande fascism och nationalism. I den här studien för jag in ett posthumanistiskt perspektiv, hämtat från Gilles Deleuze filosofi och Rosi Braidottis sociala teorier, för att undersöka människans möjligheter att göra politiskt motstånd genom utomparlameIn several sociological theories you are confronted with an individual trapped in oppressive structures without much space for counter-power, in a european context with emerging fascism and nationalism. With this study I introduce a post-humanistic perspective, inspired of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and Rosi Braidottis social theories, to explore the possibilities for people to do political r

In a globalised world dominated by market-led growth, a rolled back state and a powerful business sector, production networks have become increasingly complex. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) evolved as a mainly business-driven response to civil society actors’ call for more ethical business practices that care for people and environment. As such, the business sector has successfully come be

Rapid urbanization has dramatically increased housing demand in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. To alleviate housing shortage, the city of Hanoi has developed a housing program of which the major part is housing development through new urban area projects. New urban area, or new town, projects are large-scale developments designed mainly for residential purposes, with integrated infrastructure

In this investigation, based on fieldwork during a five-month period, the impacts on school gardens on students’ relationships with food and the environment on the Big Island in Hawai‘i are explored. The focus is on the effects of garden based learning on student’s understanding and attitudes towards food and their local environments as well as how it encourages the Hawaiian concept of living pono

Content marketing är ett relativt nytt begrepp inom marknadsföring. Den kan beskrivas som redaktionell marknadskommunikation, och bygger på tanken att producera värdefullt information som konsumenterna finner intressant och roligt. Denna typ av värdeskapande marknadskommunikation sker genom bloggar, nyhetsbrev, kampanjer på sociala medier, events med mera. Innehållet består ofta av generell inform

Introduction Cluster analysis, a machine learning-based and data-driven technique for identifying groups in data, has demonstrated its potential in a wide range of contexts. However, critical appraisal and reproducibility are often limited by insufficient reporting, ultimately hampering the interpretation and trust of key stakeholders. The present paper describes the protocol that will guide the d

The aim of this Master's thesis is to study whether bibliometrics can serve as a method to analyse the humanities. To investigate this a literature study was conducted that examined previous studies concerning bibliometrics and the humanities. Furthermore a bibliometric analysis of comparative literature was carried out. These research findings were then further examined through the perspecti

Glimmingehus is one of the most well preserved medieval castles in Sweden. This essay examines why it was built ? what were the intentions of the Lord, Jens Holgersen? Even though we?ll never be able to ask him, the answer to the question ?why?? can give us an insight of how a man of his position thought in the Late Medieval time. To answer the question the castle are explored through three diffe

In today's society social movement are dependent on media as a channel to com-municate their political message and their discourse. Media is an arena for dis-courses but at the same time, along with Attac, one of the actors who struggle to be part of the dominant discourse of the society. This struggle is uneven due to media and the relationship is to some content hegemonic. Attac Sweden was