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Concepts are important to help us understand the world around us. The way we define concepts has an impact on how we perceive reality. I have studied the concept ”labour party”, and how that concept was “hijacked” from the Social Democratic Party to the Conservative Party. I have searched for articles in Swedish printed press and internet sources between 01 January 2004 and the election on 17 Sept

This paper examines how the Swedish government speaks about so called “enablers” or “facilitators”, also known as infiltrators for criminal networks in legal structures, and what aspects of the discourse points to a securitization of the issue. In other words, the study aims to examine how the threat is constructed semantically through “speech-act”. Based on the Copenhagen School’s view on securit

This thesis investigates the performance of Hedge and Quant funds, as well as funds with a Fundamental approach (here called Value funds). The funds are also compared with a world index. Weekly data over a two year period (2011-2013), from about 25 funds out of every class, is used. The results show no statistical difference between Quant and Value funds, while Hedge funds have a lower risk ad

In January 2011 a film called Sex på kartan was shown on the Swedish public service network SvT. The purposes of making the film was to be a part in a project for sex education to young people, and also be used as a school supplie for sex education in Swedish secondary schools.The film was a coproduction by UR, that is the Swedish publicservice TV channel for education, and RFSU,which is an indepe

Människohandel är ett samhällsproblem där människor i en redan sårbar situation utnyttjas. Min undersökning behandlar människohandel för arbetskraft, jag har utfört en intervjustudie med tre fackförbund, där jag undersökt deras syn på skillnaden av skydd för olika kategorier av arbetstagare. Med hjälp av Hanna Arendts teori om medborgarskapets betydelse för att räknas som rättighetsinnehavare, har

Abstract This is a study about adults who have been raised in homes where one or both parents have been dependent on alcohol. The aim of this study is to investigate whether their childhood has been influenced by their parent’s alcohol dependence. I also wish to investigate the consequences of being brought up in a family with alcohol dependence. I am interested in their perspective on their fami

Francis Fukuyama argued in his book The End of History and the Last Men that history had effectively ended with the liberal democracies coming out on top of communism in the aftermath of the cold war. However, behind his argument stands a complex set of history philosophical ideas; ideas that formed the theoretical foundation for his argument. These ideas have not so much to do with economy as the

Religious communities or religious cults? Where do the first evolve into the other? The word cult has since the beginning of the movement had a negative sound, even though many people don't even know exactly what it is. We know what we read and hear from media, which sets the word cult in a certain negative mood. This is a thesis about religious cults and how children who are born into them ge