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This study deals with the impact of overall processes of societal change on already existing patriarchal structures in Indian society by investigating the phenomenon of son preference and daughter discrimination. In India the natural biological sex ratio of slightly more females than males in the population is reversed, predominantly in the youngest age group. The 2001 Census reveals that the sex
The present study is a part-study of the EVEDMUS (evaluation of teacher education in music) project aiming to examine the music teacher education programmes across Europe and Latin America. The overarching objective of the EVEDMUS project is to learn about the different conditions and causes in which the musical and educational knowledge is being constructed and identify factors in the programmes
Youth unemployement in Sweden is at an all-time high, a fifth of all university and college students live in poverty and the number of young on welfare is increasing. This study attempts to answer the question of how youth deprivation has been made possible as a consequence of political action, focusing on youth unemployment. I critically examine the role of the Swedish government, the Swedish La
The liberal state, it has been argued, must be neutral between different conceptions of the good. Embodying ideals such as fairness and impartiality, state neutrality is intuitively appealing, but working as a restraint for state actions it is somewhat unsatisfactory. People make mistakes about their lives and people live less valuable lives than they could do. To then restrain the state from doin
This thesis is dealing with the programs of control regarding deceit and quality assurance within the Swedish social insurance administration in Skåne, the years 2002-2005. In 2005 the Swedish National Audit Office released a report regarding the lack of measures towards deceit and fraud, and the lack of quality in the data for decision making within the administration. The questions to be address
This thesis rests on the theory and methodology of discourse theory. By viewing social reality as constituted by discourses, meanings that are taken for granted can be challenged. The events of September 11th 2001 resulted in the American war on terror. This thesis explores the impact of 9/11 and the war on terror on the Russian image of the conflict in Chechnya. Discourse theory is applied to s
The main purpose of this thesis is to study the Internet governance regime. In order to achieve this, I have a theoretical and an empirical ambition. The first is to develop a process-oriented theoretical framework for studying the evolution of the Internet governance regime, which I argue is necessary in order to capture the dynamics of regime evolution. The framework is based on the structuratio
During the last decades there has been an ever-increasing amount of democratic transitions taking place all over the world. In connection to this phenomenon, transitional justice has developed as a subfield in post-conflict peacebuilding, dealing with the judicial aspect of transitions. In applying theoretical constituents of transitional justice, this study examines the concepts of lustration (i.
In the political world of today the discussion of Just wars are very present, since the international law and the UN Charter provides certain rules about when it is justified to go to war (jus ad bellum) and how a justified war should be conducted (jus im bello). The discussion about jus ad bellum and jus im bello derives from the theory of Just war. Both in international law and the Just war theo
The essay discusses underlying racism in the Swedish community and has, as a specific purpose, to illustrate and analyze how images of immigrants are constructed in a local setting. The questions at issue are: What established conceptions about racism exist and how are immigrants described by the youth in Sweden? Which racist manifestations are evident? To answer these questions, twelve interviews
In line with current tendencies of 'new modes of governance', this essay introduces judicial tools which strike a balance between the respect for national autonomy in individual assessments and the effective implementation of Community law. The balance is struck through the demands of structural guarantees&semic administrative safeguards, which weeds out arbitrary national decision-mak
Författare: Marie Isaksson Titel: Undermedveten kunskap i socialt arbete Handledare: Anders Lundberg Examinator: Anders Östnäs Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka vad den undermedvetna dimensionen av socialarbetarens kunskapsbas består av. Denna undermedvetna dimension är avgränsad till att fokusera på filosofen och vetenskapsmannen Michael Polanyis tankar kring att all kunskap bygger påAuthor: Marie Isaksson Title: Subconscious knowledge in social work Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assesor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of the essay has been to investigate what the subconcious dimension of the social worker's knowledge base consists of. This tacit dimension is limited to focusing on the philosopher and scientist Michael Polanyis thoughts on that all knowledge is based on a subcon
This thesis is to go head to head with metaphor theory and to humbly try to wrestle from the enormous structure of facts and hypotheses that such theories form collectively, one theory that might favorably be used to study another interesting phenomenon. This phenomenon is the variety of metaphor that is encouraging of synaesthesia, called simply synaesthetic metaphor. For the first part of this t
The information age witnesses both the growth of knowledge management systems (KMS) and social network websites (SNW), the former of which transformed the traditional way of knowledge sharing while the latter transformed the way people interact. This study explores whether and how the specific SNW, Facebook, can facilitate the use of KMS. Although KMS are gaining popularity and have real benefits,
Problem description: An optimal layout shall be developed for the plant with respect to the flows of materials, products and staff with consideration to the business, shipping and future expandability. The layout proposal falls into two groups that will interact: proposals for the design of the building and proposals for the layout inside the building. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to de
This study aims to identify barriers to small wind energy in Argentina, and provide recommendations for Argentine stakeholders and policymakers for promoting the development of small wind. Argentina faces a serious energy challenge with its high dependence on fossil fuels (especially natural gas) in the face of rising global prices and decreasing reserves, challenges in domestic production and exp
