The purpose of this thesis is to analyze if and how globalization has a significant impact on nationalism. Therefore two dimensions of globalization are distinguished, political and economic globalization. Nationalism is analyzed as a feeling of superiority of the own nation. In order to test the impact a multilevel model using survey data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) from

Universities, the main providers of “local knowledge conduits, state-of-the-art science and technology”, and the Science Park, the main entity that stands behind the commercialization of knowledge and technology, are seen as central players that should be highly interconnected in order to determine the targeted economic growth of a region. Developing links between university and industry is seen a

Bakgrund: forskning visar att kvinnor önskar mer information om interventioner under förlossning samt önskar en ökad delaktighet i beslut som tas inom förlossningsvården. Syftet: med studien var att undersöka blivande mödrars kunskaper om positiva och negativa effekter av interventioner som frekvent används inom förlossningsvården samt att undersöka om kunskapen påverkas av mödrarnas utbildningsni

Existing immigration policy research often fails to recognise the analytical distinctions between two distinct, yet related, components of immigration policy: immigration control (IC), and immigrant integration. As a consequence research theorising the sources and outcomes of immigration policy either conflates these two components, or fails to address IC policy in its own right. Where IC policy i

The aim of our study was to investigate the image the Swedish media present of cannabis and in particular hasch. We gathered all articles published during one month in the year 2002 and in 2012 in three major newspapers in Sweden. The newspapers examined where Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet and Metro. Through a social constructive perspective and discourse analysis as method we divided the content in

Abstract Authors: Linnéa Lindvall and Josefine Persson Title: Genus i hemtjänsten - en studie om män och kvinnor som arbetar inom hemtjänsten. Supervisor: Tove Harnett Assessor: Anders Östnäs The aim of our study was to examine the difference between how male and females, working in a home care profession, view their role. To be more specific, the gender dimension between staff members, descriptio

Förevarande uppsats behandlar de utredningar om vårdnad-, boende- och/eller umgänge vilka kan företas i tvister om detsamma. Uppsatsen besvarar frågorna om när och hur reglerna om sådana utredningar tillämpas. Vidare behandlas de brister som finns i utredningar av sådant slag, samt delar av den kritik utredningarna utsatts för. Vid tvister om vårdnad-, boende- och/eller umgänge är vårdnadsutredninThe present essay aims to illuminate the custody reports possible to execute during a custody dispute, when and how the legal rules about custody reports applies, and how the custody report is executed. When a court has to decide if the custody of a child henceforth shall be joint or sole, or where the child henceforth shall live, and in which extent the child shall have right to visitation with t

Det här magisterarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av Frankrikes nationella anpassningsplan inför klimatförändringarna. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys som till stor del bygger på den analysmodell som Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledin använder sig av i boken Vägar genom texten (1997). Källtextanalysen följs av ett avsnitt om överväganden inför översättningen och ett om vilka översättnings

The aim of this study was to examine Social Work students’ reflections; concerning the impact their placement and tutoring during placement have had on their development of professional knowledge. The main questions in this study have been; in what degree do the Social Work students, from Gothenburg-, Stockholm- and Umeå University, think they have developed professional knowledge during their pla

Denna uppsats beskriver det vietnamesiska rättsystemet och utreder hur de vietnamesiska domstolarna förhåller sig till den västerländska idén om vad som kännetecknar en rättsstat. I uppsatsen beskrivs och analyseras det vietnamesiska rättsystemet med särskilt fokus på vilken roll domstolarna har i statsapparaten. Exakt vad som karakteriserar en rättsstat förblir odefinierat men ett antal karaktärsThe purpose with this thesis has been to investigate the court system in Vietnam to find out how it relates to the concept of judicial independence. The structure of the Vietnamese court system is described with focus on the role of the courts and analysed from a rule of law perspective. Even though the concept of judicial independence is difficult to define, some general features are drawn up, su

Noncitizens are excluded from the decision making processes inside the liberal democratic community. The aim of this study is twofold: to identify the premises for a citizenship extended to aliens, and, to identify the most viable approach to a citizenship extended to aliens in the context of the welfare state in Scandinavia. The objects of interest in the study are four theoretical approaches whi

Stress i arbetslivet utgör ett problem som genererar negativa konsekvenser på både individ- och samhällsnivå. Psykosociala arbetsmiljöfaktorer är en viktig del i denna problematik, där socialt stöd visat sig vara en viktig resurs relaterad till välmående. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att studera relationen mellan krav och stress, samt mellan socialt stöd och stress. Ytterligare ett syfte varOccupational stress is a problem that generates negative consequences for both individuals and society. Social support has been shown to function as an important resource related to well-being. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between demands and stress, as well as between social support and stress. In addition, the study aimed to see if social support could moderat

The main purpose of this study was to examine how femininity is constructed in Swedish women’s magazines. The purpose was also to study whether there was a hegemonic discourse in the magazine. This presumes that femininity is a social construction, which is why the study was based on a social constructionist perspective and it´s method was discourse analysis. More specifically the essay investigat

This essay presents a perspective in which knowledge is to be understood as abilities of the nervous system. Classic epistemology has not been able to shed sufficient light on a large number of conundrums that arise from its analyses on human belief, which motivates a different approach. An introductory discussion herein argues for a new naturalistic principle concerning what I have termed ‘congru

I och med teknisk utveckling har nya forskningsfält uppkommit som sociologer måste undersöka för att förstå samhället och nutida kultur. Genom internet kan individer interagera med varandra i realtid oavsett var de befinner sig. Det tidsfördriv som denna uppsats ämnar att undersöka är datorspelandet. Det sätt som spelarna använder sig av för att visa sitt missnöje är via text, vilket denna uppsats

The aim of this study is to examine norms about gender and sexuality, expressed and reproduced in relation between young people based on sex education in the danish primary school. By norm-critical approach the aim is to show how visability can challenge the binary idea of gender together with heteronormativity and open up to alternative views of gender and sexuality. The main empirical material c

Begging - A study about how begging is constructed as a social problem. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyze how ‘begging’ is constructed as a social problem in the Swedish society. According to the social constructivism perspective, our understanding of a social problem is constructed through a collective process. Therefore I chose to analyze the claims-making activity in the con