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.

Behavioral economics tries to explain phenomena that neoclassical economics fails to. One such event is charitable giving, why do people donate money to a receiver that they never expect to meet? The proposed question in this thesis is: What influences an individual’s decision due to charitable giving? By a survey, this thesis investigates which variables impacts giving behavior. Three different a

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Syftet med rapporten har varit att författaren med hjälp av teori från utbildningen i Creative writing ska analysera och beskriva romanens skrivprocess. Analysen har utgått från den inre process och praktisk metod som använts av författaren i arbetet med prosans basenheter: tiden, handlingen, perspektivet, karaktärerna och platsen. Hur Författarskolans olika moment och handledning i utbildningen p

The purpose of this study is to identify how gender and national belonging are intertwined, and how they effect concepts such as citizenship and integration. The study aims to identify a cultural understanding of gender in Danish political documents regarding equality and integration. In pursuit of this aim I have used a discourse analysis to identify whether the documents create different possibi

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka medarbetarskapet på ett antal butiker inom samma koncern med olika storlek för att se om det förelåg skillnader beroende på organisationernas storlek. Vidare undersöktes också om det förelåg någon skillnad mellan organisationerna i det upplevda medarbetarskapet beroende av arbetsledning med personalansvar, arbetsledning utan personalansvar eller ingen arbe