Research Aim and Questions: The research aims at addressing the question of dialectics between formal political culture and civic culture through internet as a new media with a concentration on the US government’s war discourse and the US anti-war activism. The main research question is: what are the dialectics between the US anti-war activism and the US state from February 2009 (Barack Obama’s in

Relationships between personal factors creative potential, expertise, social desirability, and the factor group climate studied in real life work teams dedicated to creativity and innovation. Sample of four groups, three with five members (n = 5), one with three members (n = 3), in total eighteen people (N = 18); nine women (n = 9), nine men (n = 9). Prominent instruments used: for creative potent

This thesis analyses the effect of new construction of housing on housing prices in Sweden from 1991 to 2009. This is done by analyzing the links between house prices, net migration, supply of housing, income, unemployment rate and new construction of houses in 288 Swedish municipalities from 1991 to 2009. A quantitative approach using a Heckman Sample Selection model and panel-data from Statistic

The aim was to study how socialworkers were articulating their horizontal change of work. Following questions were used: How does social workers explain and after explain their change of work? How does the social worker give meaning to the process? Which considerations were undertaken during the process? This socialconstructivist study was based upon seven qualitative interviews with social worker

Authors: Emelie Ekroth Coloma and Pauline Conradsson Title: H I S S- Heteronormativity in the junior high school sex education Supervisor: Tabitha Wright Nielsen Assessor: Lars Harrysson Sexuality is something that affects everyone in some way during most of their lives, no matter age, sex or language. Heterosexuality is currently the sexual orientation that is norm in Sweden. This is called hete

Every year about 1400 students in Sweden leave elementary school without grades high enough to begin high school. It is a fact that the risk of ending up with psychosocial problems increases without a high school education. The intention with this paper is to study how a special method called EDUQ can help troubled youths to get back to school and stay out of trouble. To collect the data to this p

Under 2008, fick uthyrning av lyxväskor mycket uppmärksamhet efter att det diskuterats i filmen Sex and the City. Sedan dess har flera uthyrningssidor som specialiserar sig på väskor startats. Detta har gjort det möjligt för vem som helst att bära en lyxväska och inte enbart de väldigt kapitalstarka. Litteratur och tidigare forskning menar att det mest centrala hos människan är att äga sina saker.

Relationsmarknadsföring är ett betydelsefullt verktyg i dagens hårda konkurrens. Att skapa relationer har blivit viktigare då det finns fler aktörer att konkurrera med på marknaderna. Vad som är viktigt att ta hänsyn till är att relationsbyggande är ett pågående och kontinuerligt arbete som kräver tid och ansträngningar. Relationsbyggande måste finnas med i arbetsplaneringen och i budgeten för bäs

The aim of this thesis is firstly to demonstrate how an ideal of symbiosis permeates our cultures writing of love stories, and to demonstrate the oppressive mechanisms within this ideal. I suggest an ideal of symbiosis as being oppressive in itself, by placing it under the psychoanalytical subject-object paradigm, where the subject can never perceive of the other as anything but a rejected or inco

Den här uppsatsen syftar till att med hjälp av kritisk diskursanalys studera hur fyra medier beskriver händelserna i Beslan mellan första och tredje september 2004 för att se vilka skillnader och likheter som finns emellan dessa medier och om en indelning i västerländska och ryska medier är möjlig. Det skall även undersökas ifall dessa skillnader och likheter är tillräckliga för att dra slutsatsen

Author: Dennis Andersson & Simon Larsson Title: Contact wanted- a study about social secretaries and contacts perceptions regarding the intervention contact person Supervisor: Norma Montesino Assessor: Lars Harrysson The purpose of this study was to examine social secretaries and contact persons in their perception on the intervention contact person. More specifically the study’s aim was to i

This paper is an analytical study of the Indian cultural elements in Ginsberg’s life and work, focusing on Indian Journals: March 1962 - May 1963. The aim is twofold: firstly the study explores close-readings of poetry and prose from Indian Journals. The study also focuses on his poetic aesthetics and specific themes in Indian Journals and relates them to incidents of his personal life in a larger

This study aims at using facial material to see if the material can be remembered and intentionally forgotten through a think/no-think task in which participants are cued to think about some face pair combinations and not think about other face pairs combinations. To do this a think/no-think paradigm is used. An experiment has been conducted in which the participants learned pairs of faces (one ma

This study will try to determine the volatility of the stock returns of various financial institutions in Germany during the time period 1998-2007. The reasoning behind targeting Germany is that it is commonly known as one of the most stable and reliable economies in Europe, where Germany has been chosen as a representative case. The study employs a multifactor model, which incorporates interest r

This Report presents an evaluation method for fire and rescue service management. It focuses on success criteria and lays the groundwork for answering the question What is good management? In this report fire and rescue service management is defined as complex and the fire and rescue service as a complex system. This complicates evaluation, which now has to include complexity. A major part of this

ABSTRACT The paper will describe the comparative study of the GST bill 2010 of Pakistan and the EU VAT. The Bill is drafted for the purpose to introduce the modern VAT in Pakistan. The comparative study has been made to analyze the basic concept and difference of both these legal instruments. The difference between both these legislations makes the GST Bill vulnerable to the tax abuse or tax evasi

Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av ett utdrag ur en amerikansk kriminalbok som är grundligt baserad på en verklig händelse. Uppsatsen består av två delar – först en analys av källtexten som framför allt utgår från Hellspong och Ledins (1997) textanalysmetod, och sedan följer en kommentar på översättningen där jag diskuterar mina tillvägagångssätt med sådant som varit problema

This essay analyses to what extent the Latin American countries of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, within the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), fulfil the criteria for an optimum currency area (OCA). It does so by applying the theory of optimum currency areas (Mundell 1961), and by examining the different factors of asymmetric s

The objective of this comparative study has been to investigate how and if cannabis use constitutes a social problem in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The purpose was to gain an understanding of how different political, institutional and legal environments might affect the understanding of cannabis use and the constitution of social problems. The empirical material consists of 21 interviews with cannab

According to the World Bank Group, social capital is an important factor in the process of fighting poverty in developing countries, and some researchers mean that cooperative organizations are the ultimate business model to create social capital (Majee & Hoyt, 2011). The aim of this study is to investigate whether or not social capital is emerging in a Philippine water cooperative, funded by