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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how trainees in a big Swedish telecommunications company are being socialized into becoming the future leaders of the company Theoretical framework: In our theoretical framework we have focused upon existing research that theorizes the relation between leadership, culture and socialization, with particular focus on the way this relation has been es
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur låttexter om kärlek/förälskelse representerar genus, sexualitet och relationer. Utifrån en queerteoretisk utgångspunkt utför jag en kritisk lingvistisk analys av texter till populärmusik och hämtar inspiration från den kritiska diskursanalysen. Det resultat jag kommer fram till är att jag finner mönster i låttexterna där ett ouppnåeligt ideal gällande The purpose of this essay is to investigate how lyrics of love songs represent gender and sexuality. My method for examining the lyrics of popular music is a critical linguistic analysis with influences from critical discourse analysis. Throughout my analysis I found patterns which shows that love songs often represents an ideal of a relationship to be monogamous, heterosexual and everlasting wher
Authors: Shpresa Gucati and Pajtesa Panxhaj Title: One nationality- many devious gazes. A qualitative study about kosovoalbanian adolescents in Landskrona [Translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assessor: Katarina Hollertz The aim of this study was to examine how kosovo albanian adolescents looked upon the general public’s negative picture of Landskrona and how they have handled their repo
This paper investigates the possible gains from implementing an alternative student assignment mechanism in Malmö stad. The analysis is based on the school choice literature and data from Malmö stad. The overall result tells us that the current system for assigning students in Malmö stad is associated with problems. A Gale-Shapley Student Optimal Mechanism customized for Malmö stad would be the ap
The intention of this thesis is to explore how four self-defined BDSM practitioners describe and understand their practices. Furthermore, I want to explore if their point of view can help us to understand BDSM in other terms than violence and battery. The interviews are semi structured and were done through instant messaging. By using grounded theory method it turned up that the informants describ
This paper examines potential determinants of banking and sovereign debt crises for the period 1970-2008 using a multivariate logit model. In addition, the paper analyzes links between these types of crises through conditional and unconditional probabilities. The empirical results for banking crises suggest that higher inflation and real interest rates increase the likelihood of a banking crisis,
Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka ångests påverkan på uppmärksamhet. Deltagare med högt skattad ångest förväntades skilja sig åt från deltagare med lågt skattad ångest gällande deras uppmärksamhet. Deltagare förväntades skapa ett implicit minne för kombinationen av ansikten som presenterades för dem i experimentet. Ett modifierat dote probe test användes för att undersöka vad försöksperThe purpose of this study was to examine attentional biases in anxiety. Participants with high self-rated anxiety were predicted to differ in their attention compared to participants with low self-rated anxiety. Participants were predicted to have an implicit memory for the combination of faces that were used in the study. A modified dot probe task was used to examine high and low social and/or tr
To be able to improve a law, one has to understand it. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Treaty and Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM) specifically have become important in recent years mainly due to the massive subsidies and bailouts resulting from the on-going financial crisis that began in 2008. With the member states governments increased use of different relief and sti
This thesis analyzes whether the wages in the south of Sweden grew faster than in other regions in Sweden during the first decade of the 21st century. The hypothesis stated is that higher wages in Denmark and the opening of the Öresund Bridge in July 2000 have led to a process of wage convergence between the two regions. The study examines the wages of nurses in order to detect a Swedish wage adju
Den bakomliggande teorin om planetbildning är att planeterna bildas samtidigt som stjärnan och därför av samma material som stjärnan. Därför måste dessa stoft- och gaspartiklar bindas samman till planeter. Teorin säger att detta görs i en disk runt stjärnan vilken uppstår vid stjärnbildning för att bevara rörelsemängdsmomentet och sådana diskar har observerats och skulle förklara varför alla planeTurbulence which can increase the maximum particle density in some region is interesting for planet formation since the process for building up planets has some problem. Planets are formed by dust grains sticking together into planets during the star formation period and the major problem is the growth from cm to km scale. During this phase both the microscopic molecular forces and the macroscopic
Present thesis concerns one of the controversial topics of this era - the embryonic stem cell debate, more precisely in connection with their patents, ethics and human rights. The thesis deals with various alternative opinions that make this issue a hot topic. While different viewpoints will be discussed, I bring up human rights issues into this debate, which will emphasize a possible conflict bet
Denna studie ämnade svara på frågor kring samband mellan individers världsbild, moral och hur de bedömer att brott bör bestraffas. Som modell för världsbild användes Tomkins polaritetsteori (humanism och normativism) och för moral användes moral foundations-teorin (sammanbindande och individuerande moral). I studien jämfördes juridikstudenter och samhällsvetarstudenter i syfte att undersöka om ski
Utifrån Theory of Planned Behavior undersökte denna studie vårdpersonals intention och metodföljsamhet i att föreslå internetbehandling för patienter. 16 verksamheter uppfyllde inklusionskraven för studien, varav 14 accepterade. Data samlades in via en webbenkät som skickades ut till 214 personer, varav 42 svarade, vilket motsvarade 20%. Utfallsmått var intention och metodföljsamhet och prediktorUsing Theory of Planned Behavior, this study aimed to examine health care professionals’ intention and fidelity in proposing internet administered psychotherapy to patients. 16 organizations fulfilled the criteria for inclusion in the study, of which 14 accepted. Data was collected through a web survey sent to 214 persons, of which 42 responded, equivalent to 20%. Outcome variables were intention
The focus of this bachelor’s thesis is on ethnic Scandinavian women who have converted to Islam, and on which significance the addition of a Muslim identity component will have on the converts’ identity and life. Scandinavian society is characterised by freedom of worship for the individual, who thus has the right to practise any religion. The majority religion in Scandinavia through centuries ha
I huvudsak är derivatinstrument ett samlingsnamn som används för att definiera finansiella instrument, vars värde härrör från en annan underliggande tillgång. Det finns en stor mängd olika derivatinstrument. De tre mest grundläggande typerna av derivatinstrument är optioner, terminer och swapar. Andra derivatinstrument är egentligen bara variationer av dessa. Det huvudsakliga användningsområdet fö
Sammanfattning I Sverige råder fri bevisprövning med fri bevisvärdering. Det innebär att inga formella regler uppställs för hur ett bevis ska värderas eller vilka metoder som ska tillämpas av domstolen vid bevisvärderingen. Således är det teoretiskt möjligt att vid en ord mot ord situation finna det ställt utom rimligt tvivel att den tilltalade gjort som åklagaren gör gällande. Trots detta är det Summary In Sweden there is a free sifting of evidence with a free evaluation of evidence. This means that no formal rules are imposed on how evidence should be valued or the methods to be applied by the court at the evaluation of evidence. It is theoretically possible to find it beyond reasonable doubt that the accused made as the prosecutor alleges in a situation where one word stands against ano
