The purpose of this study and the overall question was to find reasons why individuals become overindebted. The main method has been record research. Application forms from 60 individuals regarding debt adjustment have been examined and analyzed. Functionalistic and marxistic theories have been used to achieve an overall understanding for the phenomenon. On a concrete level, theories by Peter Dell

This essay explores the theory that Nick Carraway is an unreliable narrator, who creates the "greatness" of Mr Gatsby, based on the hypothesis that Carraway is partial to Gatsby for various reasons.

In the last decades Sweden has become a multicultural country. The immigrants come from many different places all-around the world and many have arrived to Sweden, during the 90´s, when they were relatively old. Many of those can not speak Swedish at all or only speak a few words. This demands specific qualifications when it comes to the caregivers, who take care of the elderly. Our purpose with t

Author: Anja Ferhatovic and Therese Stridh Title: Among bibles and holy cows - about maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare. [translated title] Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Eva-Malin Antoniusson The purpose of this study was to examine social workers experiences of maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare. More specifically, our aim was to find out how social worke

The aim of this essay is to study the key characteristics of the Bildungsroman and examine if the same traits still are in use in contemporary fiction and what values that are being mediated. The aim is also to focus on the style in which the pedagogical message is being delivered thus highlighting the possible differences and similarities between an old-fashioned Bildungsroman, Charles Dickens’ G

Poverty reduction, first on the list of Millennium Development Goals, requires access to modernized, stable energy to be realized. Rural areas are especially vulnerable, which is why renewable energy technologies (RETs) illustrate a promising solution for modernized energy access. Entrepreneurs play an important role in these sustainable development projects by helping build up an entire sector of

The Chinese Central Government has made the promotion of industrial utilization of bioenergy one of the priorities in the national plans on renewable energy. However, there is a general lack of understanding on how bioenergy entrepreneurship works on the ground level in China, particularly in rural areas. This thesis therefore aims to investigate the emergence and development of rural bioenergy bu

The successful implementation of CSR depends on the ability to ensure that the communication efforts associated with the programme are effective. As more and more companies practice CSR reporting, it is interesting to look at how CSR reports can have a potential to become useful in the b-t-b communication realm. With implications that relate to the core motivations of CSR implementation; enhanced

The indirect environmental impacts of industries or policies caused by the activities of a supply chain were sometimes neglected, although the prevention of direct impacts from industries was addressed and several measures were taken. IO approach is a powerful tool to analyze the activities in a supply chain. Industrial interdependence analysis and EIO LCA, which are IO approaches, are applied in

Conventional MSWM in the Southern urban cities is gradually moving upward the hierarchy of solid waste management as their disposal capacity diminishes and it becomes dauntingly difficult to locate new disposal site. In Thailand, many municipalities have initiated a source separation scheme as part of their waste management strategy to promote waste reduction. However, the success of the intervent

Abstract Authors: Marit Bjorgen Gulbrandsen and Hanna Andersson Title: Collaboration – giving and taking (translated title) Supervisor: Hilma Holm Assessor: Håkan Jönson Research shows that only about half of the cases where teachers suspect that a child is abused or neglected are reported to the Social Welfare Agencies. The purpose of this study was to illuminate School personnel and Child Prot

Denna uppsats ger en redogörelse för den forskning som stödjer ståndpunkten att UG inte är tillgänglig eller relevant när man lär sig ett andraspråk i vuxenålder. Uppsatsens teoretiska underlag grundas på the no-access view, som argumenterar att UG inte alls är tillgänglig för den vuxne L2-inläraren. I uppsatsens andra del förklaras UG och dess centrala koncept (poverty of the stimulus, principer

The main purpose of our study is to examine the attitude towards drugs found amongst a selected group of adolescents. We have utilized qualitative interviews in order to gather empirical material. The material thus acquired was then interpreted by means of symbolic interaction. The study shows that adolescents are generally averse to drugs, and that there is a substantial discrepancy between their

Energy cooperation is generally considered to be a solid base for further relational development between Europe and Russia due to the long history of this cooperation and the integrative nature of energy. Still, cooperative success has been modest despite that it is most likely to occur within this field. Hence, the main aim here is to find out why. Due to the empirical nature of research on the E

This study is based on nine interviews with counsellors in habilitation and education as well as teachers in special schools, with the goal of studying the extent to which the theoretical models of normalization - as formulated by Bengt Nirje (2003) and Wolf Wolfensberger (1972) - apply to their daily work of supporting and preparing mentally retarded youngsters for transition to adult life. The c

This Master’s thesis in library and information science deals with the relationship between research and practice of information literacy education. Information literacy is a common field of research and many theories and models have been developed through the years. The concept is widely used in society and one goal for educational institutions is to train students to become information literate.