An investigation of the female characters in the fictional works of American author Jack London. The paper mainly focuses on how female characters to some extent must acquire masculine characteristics to be considered valuable - and how they, at the same time, can not deviate too far from their suggested essential femininity.

Over the last 10 years there’s been a lot of research on whether there is a link between chewing gum and a higher cognitive function. Several different researches have showed that a significant affect exist whereas others have shown no such results. The purpose of this research is to get further results on the subject, by using word recall after verbally presenting the words. Repeated measures whe

Bakgrund: Minst en femtedel av sveriges befolkning lever med psykisk ohälsa. Trots det visar upprepade studier att det råder negativa attityder i samhället gentemot personer som drabbats av psykisk ohälsa. Syfte: Att undersöka förekomsten av upplevd diskriminering bland psykiatriska öppenvårdspatienter i Region Skåne. Metod: Undersökningen genomfördes i form av telefonintervjuer av 51 psykiatriska

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is a novel portraying the relationship between Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the novel from a gender perspective and examine if the theme of BDSM is influenced by normative conceptions about men and women. The essay investigates how perceptions of masculinity and femininity are reproduced in the novel.

Anthony Giddens skriver om senmodernitetens reflexivitet i ”Modernitet och självidentitet - Självet och samhället i den senmoderna epoken” från 1991. I boken beskrivs begreppen ”Livspolitik” och ”Ödesdigra ögonblick”, och utifrån dessa analyserar studien åtta individers intervjuer. Syftet är att förstå individuella perspektiv på hur livet levs i en tidsålder som präglas av att individen är friare

Purpose: To investigate what effects the introduction of Fairtrade brings into a market with non-certified producers and to see whether these effects appear to their advantage or disadvantage. Methodology: To compare the effects of two different models, as well as the assumptions behind them. Thereafter apply these effects on previous case studies to compare the models’ relevance and future use.

SAMMANFATTNING Titel: Valutariskhantering – en studie över huruvida volatilitet i nyckeltal påverkas av valutariskhantering i små och medelstora företag Seminariedatum: 2013 – 01 – 15 Kurs: NEKH01 Nationalekonomi: Examensarbete kandidatnivå 15hp Författare: Adam Lidén, Hampus Asphage Handledare: Erik Norrman Nyckelord: Valutarisk, riskhantering, små- och medelstora företag, valutasäkring, valutahe

According to the curriculum of the preschool, one of it's purposes is to work with equality, and to challenge traditional gender roles. Despite this, many preschools still lack active work with gender/equality – the difference amongst pre-schools is sometimes extreme. I tried to find elements that influence preschool teachers to choose to work with gender and equality. Some of these elements a

Som ett led i forskningen kring självskadebeteenden har man börjat fokusera på det fenomen som brukar kallas ”självdestruktivt sex” och ”sex som självskadebeteende”. Detta är ett dåligt definierat och utforskat område, där det saknas systematiserad kunskap och vedertagna begreppskonventioner. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka vad som karakteriserar sex som självskadebeteende, och varför pers

This paper is an anthropological study of the mythical discourse about women showinghow it was established in the culture of the Faroe Islands and how it got spread among the ethnic people in connection with the arrival of nationalism possible because of the increasing print-capitalism and industrialization of Europe. The method and theory is a combination of French structuralism and discourse an

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the use of commercial devices as user interfaces on a quadrotor and to investigate solutions to the problem of slung load control. A slung load is a uniform mass attached with a wire which is allowed to swing freely to the bottom of the quadrotor. The purpose of substituting the radio control (RC) controller with a commercial smartphone is that they a

Spain has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world in 2012. This study asks, why, through studying, which food environment some Spanish parents create for their children. It studies the historical perspective of resources of food and the image of body and health this interpretatively has generated. Moreover, it studies the social circumstances of the studied parents, how they de

This study is based on texts that concern experiences of sex in the grey zone between bad sex and rape. My aim is to elucidate how shame, age and the positions victim and perpetrator are used to tell stories about unpleasant sexual experiences. I also investigate how the authors renegotiate the conditions for how it is possible to talk about these experiences. The results show that the social con

Our aim with this study was to follow seven mums who are blogging about their everyday life and all of them are struggling with different traumatic crisis. Their blogs can also be called a personal blog because it contains a high level of self-disclosure to the publics. We wanted to examine the fine line between public and private and how the mother balances this line in their emotions, intimate s

The purpose of this essay was to get a better understanding of online harassment on blogs by investigating how the readers see themselves and the people that they meet on blogs. The aim was to discover what kind of factors increased the risk of being harassed online, on blogs. The study was based on a web-survey, which was posted on three blogs, and answered by 218 respondents. The main outcome o

The aim of this study was to illustrate viewpoints and arguments in debate articles in Swedish evening – and daily press about opioid substitution therapy the past 12 years. We think that it’s relevant to elucidate the substitution debate, because the vision on drug abuse and it’s causes influence which interventions and method of treatments that are used. And social workers are affected by the de

The aim was to gain insight into how specialist-teams intervening in psychiatric illness among individuals with disabilites handled and viewed service-user participation and how the view of the service-user effected service-user influence. Also other factors like authority and organizational context and limitations were recognized and accounted for. Data were collected by use of semi-structured in

The purpose of this paper was to understand how gender is done and reproduced in the assessment of parental ability in child maltreatment investigations within social services. Also to what extent norms and ideas of gender and parenting cohort and influence social secretaries´ assessment of parenting skills. The method I have used is a vignette study in six individual interviews combined with a gr

En liten studie av elva ungdomars bilder/uppfattningar om Jesus, Kajafas, Pontius Pilatus och vem som var skyldig till Jesu död. De fick se filmen The Passion of the Christ och svara på frågor innan och efter filmen, för att se huruvida deras uppfattningar förändrats på något sätt.