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This project is an investigation in atmosphere, and an attempt to create a new architectural idiom through the vernacular Japanese building style minka, the ambiance and context of the woods, and, importantly, by exploring whether it is possible to keep the crookedness from the first sketches throughout the whole process, into the completed building. Minka are traditional preindustrial homes for

The aim of the study was to investigate how women exposed to violence in close relationships portray their experiences in autobiographies, to generate understanding of what is significant in their choice to stay or leave the relationship. To investigate this phenomenon, the following questions have been used as starting points: (1) How are the women’s inclination to report the perpetrator describe

This study sought to investigate unaccompanied migrant children’s experiences in different forms of Swedish Social Work. The primary goal of the study was to obtain a general picture of how the children perceived treatment from authority figures in their daily lives. The study was made in the light of current political events in Europe, where migrant children have been both criminalized and victim

The aim of this study is to explore relations between the Amazonian indigenous people Airo-pai and the animals and spirits inhabiting their natural environment. The thesis analyzes how non-human animals and spirits interact with Airo-pai during rituals and subsistence activities in their everyday life. The findings are based on empirical material collected from February to March 2018 in Bellavista

“- However, if you believe that relieving pain with pills is the cure, you are putting your head in a bush. A bush of thorns” – A critical discourse analysis of mental illness in the Swedish daily press The aim of this study was, from a discourse analytical approach, to investigate similarities and differences in how it was talked about mental illness in the past and how it¬ is talked about menta

I want to create a setting for relaxation and contemplation that promotes social interaction between different age groups. My project consists of formulating a modern sea bath house with saunas for the people in Rydebäck, a small urban area outside of Helsingborg. The old tradition of combining cold baths with hot saunas is being rediscovered by both old and young people, a practise in Sweden know

The aim of the study is to show how the diagnosis bipolar disorder can affect people’s way of looking at themselves and their identity, but also to show how the diagnosis affects the way these people get treated by others. The study was done by analysing five autobiographies written by people who’s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This was made with a qualitative content analysis. The study s

The aim of this study was to understand how staff in residential child care experience and relate to their profession and their daily work with the children. The method chosen for this study was semi-structured interviews with eight professionals from three different residential care for children in the southern part of Sweden. To analyse the results, we chose the following theories and concepts;

The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence of social services in debate articles that were part of the homelessness debate. This has been done by analyzing the content of 43 debate articles in the area of homelessness published during the period 2016-2018. The processing of the articles was done with a quantitative method in which the goal was to identify keywords that and main acto

The question this thesis seeks to address is the legal circumstances under which an individual can be subject to criminal responsibility for committing the crime of aggression. This question is primarily considered in the context of a British national, given the particular situation of the United Kingdom as a State Party to the Rome Statute which has not ratified or accepted the 2010 Kampala Amend

Denna studie ämnade till att undersöka vad studenter vid svenska universitet och högskolor värdesätter hos sina framtida ledare. Värdesättningen grundades i en uppdelning av egenskaper i grupperna agentic och communal traits, där agency traditionellt setts som maskulina och communal feminina. Studien ämnade undersöka om det finns några skillnader i vilka egenskaper kvinnor och män värdesätter och

A novel material composition has been investigated in terms of thermal, mechanical, economical and sustainable aspects to be compared to neoprene wetsuits. It is believed that a sandwich structure produced by a dipping method with rubber layers containing an insulating textile can insulate better than foamed neoprene. The hypothesis is also that this sandwich structure can increase durability and

The aim of this study was to examine how verdicts in the Swedish appeal court portrays the best interest of the child and child’s will in custody battles. This was explored through a qualitative content analysis and a thematic analysis of verdicts. This study was based on power perspectives. The results shows that the verdicts portrays the best interest of the child as individual based and having

This project investigates ethnic and gendered oppression in relation to the construction of cultural identity in the Bangladeshi diaspora as it is depicted in Monica Ali’s novel 'Brick Lane'. I read Ali’s novel as a 'feminist Bildungsroman' with the key focus on how the female migrant protagonist Nazneen’s changing self-conception and construction of a new identity in London leads

This paper gives insight into the historical research of the academic Ronny Ambjörnsson and his work in the swedish field of history of ideas. Applying an agent perspective it shows how Ambjörnsson constructed and aimed to show how an history of ideas that involves the broader communities of history, workers and farmers that constitutes ”the people”, could be done. The paper shows that Ambjörnsson

Sociologer hävdar ibland att kärlek i det senmoderna samhället genomgår en kris. En del av krisen handlar om en till synes svårlöst konflikt mellan närhet och självbestämmande. Människor vill å ena sidan stå varandra nära. Samtidigt kan närhet upplevas både kravfyllt och kvävande, men också riskabelt i den mån ett relationsval utestänger alternativa möjligheter. Frågan som ställer saken på sin speIn recent years, romantic love has been problematized and questioned by sociologists and activists. Part of this questioning comes from relationship anarchy, a phenomenon which can be described partly as a critical school of social philosophy, partly as a comparably small-sized social movement. Sociologists such as Beck and Beck-Gernsheim argue that romantic love suffers from a conflict between cl

Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka i vilken utsträckning en arbetsgivare kan bestämma vad en arbetstagare ska ha på sig på arbetsplatsen utan att inskränka på den anställdas skydd mot att bli diskriminerad. Fokus ligger på att bena ut vad som ryms under begreppet arbetsledningsrätt när det gäller arbetstagarens utseende på jobbet samt vilka begränsningar som finns i denna fråga. En vinkel som undThe aim of this essay is to investigate the extent to which employers can decide what employees wear at work before restricting the employee's right not to be discriminated. The main focus lies in figuring out what the term managerial prerogative entails when it comes to the employee’s appearance at work including the juridical limitations in this question. One angle of the matter is consideri

Abstract Author: Anton Bengtsson and Antonio Peralta Title: To grow up on the right or the wrong side of town: A comparative study between men that have grown up in deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods. [Translated title] Supervisor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of this paper is to highlight how masculinity can be different in different circumstances. We have interviewed four men who has be

The nomadic pastoralists of the Sahel are often identified as a group at the frontline of global climate change. Their existence in arid and semi-arid regions and their reliance on seasonal rainfall are among the factors that contribute to their vulnerability to drought and climate shocks. This study focuses on risks to pastoralists in Sudan, asking whether index-based livestock insurance, an innoPastoralism is a nomadic lifestyle and a livelihood system that revolves around raising livestock. By migrating seasonally in search of water and pasture for their animals, pastoralists are able to inhabit and make productive use some of the world’s harshest environments. In Sudan, where over 90% of the vast land area is covered by desert and drylands, pastoralism remains a vital feature of the co

The transmission function for a three and four rectangular barrier system of InP andInAs is computed using the transfer-matrix method and the transmission formalism. Thewidths of the wells and the barriers are varied while the barrier height is kept constant.Such a multi-barrier structure is designed in order to act as a filter in a nanowire basedsolar cell, where effective hot carrier transport w