The purpose of this study is to explore the capacity to mentalize among twenty young adults, between 18 and 25 years, in one clinical group and one normal (control) group. The study also explores and compares differences in experiences of relationships during the life course. The study uses semi-structured interviews, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965), the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (2

During the past four years we have seen a developing economic crisis in Greece. The media have reported cut-backs in the public sector, increased unemployment, upcoming demonstrations and intense political debates regarding emergency loans. The media also portrays how the humanitarian situation in Greece is worse than ever. For example, in fostercare in the country has increased by 150 % in the pa

Denna studie analyserar två Internetbaserade livsstilsmagasin som bland annat porträtterar streetmode; mode på och från gatan. Placerat i en konsumtionssamhällelig kontext fokuserar jag på hur det estetiskt tilltalande, så som mode, blir ett sätt att positionera sig socialt. Inspirerad av Pierre Bourdieus teorier om smaken som distinktion diskuterar jag kring hur insikt om hur man bör komponera si

Author: Erika Kalliokulju and Jane Stensson Titel: Integration coaches work concerning asylum seeking children Supervisor: Johan Cronehed Assessorer: The aim of this study is to examine how Helsingborg, a town in Sweden, works with integration of unaccompanied asylum seeking children regarding a temporary home for refugee children and how integration of children which have received asylum is perfo

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the Swedish media's construction of football hooliganism as a social problem. Articles concerning the football related death incident of Swedish football hooligan, Tony Deogan in 2002 was chosen to serve as the main focus-point of the gathered material. The event was chosen based on it's qualities as a critical event which generated a large

Authors: Jannie Holmquist & Axel Schüller Title: A male therapist for a boy? A female therapist for a girl? – a qualitive study of how therapists creates and maintains the role of gender in their daily work. [translated title] Supervisor: Malinda Andersson Assessor: Carina Tigervall There seems to be a general belief in the practice of social work that the therapists’ gender is important in t

Recurring statistics in the media, which describes adolescent mental illness as a growing problem in the Swedish society gave rise to an interest to pursue a research which sought to explore how young people's mental illness is constructed as a social problem. The media appears to be important in the construction of a social problem, as they through claims-making current the putative condition

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka om beslutet angående att bolagiserade idrottsklubbar själva skall stå för kostnaden för polisinsatser vid sina arrangemang är samhällsekonomisk kostnadseffektivt. För att se vad konsekvensen av detta beslut kan leda till då det kommer till att förhindra våld i samband med idrottsliga arrangemang på ett kostnadseffektivt sätt har intervjuer med berörda parter

This masters thesis in Sociology of Law is a comparative study which explores Europeanization, or more specifically how an EU directive is interpreted by the relevant bureaucratic institutions of a selection of EU countries. Through a discourse analysis based on gender theory, it is shown that from currently developing EU legislation on work permits emerges a policy of differentiation between migr

With this bachelor’s thesis, my aim is to illustrate resources and problems associated with second generation immigrants, in regards of an immigrant heritage perspective. The analysis covers second generation immigrants born in Malmö, with two Portuguese born parents recruited to Malmö as labor migrants in 1960-1970. Six semi-structured interviews were carried out with respectively six second gene

Denna kvalitativa studie undersöker hur män som valt att ta ut minst 40% av föräldraledigheten och som deltagit i en separatistisk föräldraledighetsgrupp resonerar kring faderskap och föräldraledighet. Studien visar ett faderskap och en maskulinitet i förändring och försöker ge en förståelse för den funktion den separatistiska föräldraledighetsgruppen Dalbypapporna fyller. Jämställdhetsidealet har

The purpose of this essay is to compare the sacrifice story in Gen 22 with rabbinical commentaries on the binding of Isaac (Aqedah). More specifically, I want to examine what it is in the text of Gen 22 that may have influenced and inspired the early rabbinic tradition of Aqedah; that all subsequent animal sacrifices received its force and validity from the profits that Isaac won by his sacrifice.

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This study has examined how the right edge of a discourse topic is signaled through the use of F0, duration, and particles in the two Aslian languages Jahai and Mah Meri. The goals of this study were to contribute to the knowledge of these languages, compare them to the related Kammu language in the search for similarities that could be applied to Austroasiatic as a whole, and to explore what kind

Gaussian to top-hat beam shaping is widely used today in areas of cutting, welding, and laser patterning. Typically, single-mode solid state lasers are used whose Gaussian intensity distribution is transformed into a top-hat. In this thesis the transformation is applied in a single-mode fiber connector, where the aim is a uniform intensity distribution of the emerging light from the connector. Thi

En uppsats om att skriva en roman på författarskolan. Fokus är på författarens skrivprocess, skrivstil samt ambitioner inför sluttampen av utbildningen.

The aim of this study was to find out how girls with anorexia nervosa experienced response from their environment, including health professionals as well as family, friends and the society. The study focuses on the girls stories about the response, their experience from their illness; therefore we used a qualitative content analysis, based on five autobiographies. Our questions which we based our

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Governmental employees in Sweden are bound by law to report to the Social Services if they suspect child maltreatment. Studies have found that pre-schoolteachers to a lesser extent report suspected child maltreatment than other agencies working with children. The aim of this study is to examine pre-schoolteachers’ view of the law governing teachers responsibility to report suspected child maltreat