Author: Claes Magnusson Title: The legally sanctioned purchasing of women’s bodies continues. A critical discourse analysis regarding commercial photographically mediated pornography [translated title] Supervisor: Agneta Hedblom Assessor: Håkan Jönson In Sweden it is illegal to buy sex. In some cases, that is. There currently exists a double standard between regular prostitution, and the prostitu

Radical or oppressed? A study of how Muslim women are portrayed in media The aim with our study is to analyze how Muslim women are portrayed and imagined in Swedish media. We have been interested in researching how media affects the public opinion about the Muslim woman in Swedish society and also how it affects Muslim women. We have chosen to concentrate on Muslim women because they are often de

The field of international security has changed significantly during the last decades. New security issues has risen on the agenda, and the concept of human security has diverted the attention of security studies from an exclusively state-centric focus towards a broader comprehension of who should be protected, and from what. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate an aspect of such a novel s

My primary objective in this study was to investigate the impact of the upbringing environment on the development of children’s effortful control and achievement motivation. Twenty-five SOS Children’s Village- and 33 family-raised children reported on achievement motivation, whereas SOS Village and family mothers assessed children’s effortful control along with emotion regulation as an additional

The principal issue of my thesis is to identify the sources of economic growth in Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Review of YRD post-reform development is conducted. The empirical study examines total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which is decompoed into three parts: technical progress, efficiency change and the scale effect in 16 component cities in YRD. Panel data of 1985-2007 are analyzed using

Author: Martina Wikås & Anette Johansson Title: Stödcentrum for young crime victims- organizations cooperation for development Supervisor: Carina Tigervall Assessor: Katarina Jacobsson The purpose of this study was to examine how Stödcentrum for young crime victims were perceived by other collaborators that the organization cooperate with and how the collaboration works. The current participa

This study investigates the impacts of FDI on productivity and economic growth in comparative perspective by using two samples, namely “developing” and “developed” countries. The study employs panel cointegration and panel estimation methods. The panel cointegration test results indicate that there are long-run relations between “FDI and productivity”, and “FDI and economic growth” variables. The

I denna uppsats undersöks effekten av oväntade ändringar i den amerikanska styrräntan, federal funds target rate, på ett urval av 33 aktier från den amerikanska marknaden under perioden 1994 – 2009. Forskning har kunnat påvisa signifikanta samband mellan räntechocker och icke-normal avkastning på aktiemarknaden i ett flertal studier, främst just på den amerikanska marknaden. Marknadseffektivitet g

The concept of identity and a sense of belonging in a multicultural- and multiethnic society are complicated. The aim of this study was to examine how young Swedish-born women of foreign origin perceive their identity when they belong to two or several cultures. Six young women with foreign origin were interviewed through partly themed and semi-structured interviews to share their experience on ho

During the last couple of years gambling addiction has become a phenomenon that has been debated and paid attention to in the daily press as well as in Swedish gambling studies. “Spelberoendes riksförbund”, who is a union of non-profit organizations for gambling addiction, has participated in this debate by giving prominence to gambling addiction as a serious social problem which demands social at

Detta är både en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ studie av distansundervisningsformen inom Kriminalvårdens Lärcentrummodell. Undersökningen består av en enkätdel, som syftar till att ta reda på de studerandes attityder till undervisningsformen. Det framkommer av sammanställningen att de som har distansundervisning är något mer negativa än de som har lärare på plats. Den andra delen består av statist

“I’m different all the time” – A qualitative study of young people’s roles and collective identity formation in different parts of Gothenburg The purpose of this study was to compare young people’s view of their neighborhoods, and what significance the residential area has for their collective identity formation. Young people living in a residential area with a low proportion of native Swedes, lo

I dagsläget spelar medierna en central roll i våra liv. Därför är det intressant att granska hur företag kan utnyttja detta faktum genom att på mer komplexa och uträknade sätt placera sina produkter i exempelvis olika TV-serier. På så vis når de ut med sitt budskap på sätt som publiken har svårare att värja sig emot i jämförelse med traditionell TV-reklam. Denna utredning kommer att beröra exponer

The exhibition form ”the white cube” has become a convention in the design of art exhibitions, which has its foundation in the modernism‟s ideal where the artwork was meant to speak for itself. The convention has become such as the information about the work of arts doesn‟t belong on the walls because it then might disrupt and take over the experience of the work of art‟s visual appearance. The ai

In this thesis, I draw attention to what at first glance might look like the opposite of family life – those living by themselves – people who at times are stereotyped as deviants even in research. The aim is two-fold. Firstly, I am interested in how those living by themselves arrange and construct their social connections, such as friendship, family or kinship and work life. Secondly, I am intere

This paper will focus on a comparative analysis of the gendered social construction of parenting (mothering and fathering); in relation to possible relationship burdens faced by parents, in the process of care giving and administration of therapeutic mechanisms, to children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The gendered social construction of parenting and respective burdens will be a

This thesis is to look into media representation on issues that involve female marriage migrants, in particular, in relation to citizenship, in Singapore, one of the most popular destinations of marriage migration in Asia. Categorized and labeled as “foreign brides” in Singapore, these foreign-born women have long suffered from biased or one-dimensional representation in the local media, particula

Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to generate a wider measurement of welfare by carefully chosen variables in mainly three different areas: economic, socio-economic and environment in order to generate a welfare index which describes the world yesterday, today and tomorrow. Method: With the Principal Component Analysis 14 variables from 115 coun-tries are studied and verified and analyzed wit

The innovative efforts of the pharmaceutical sector have provided society with numerous new remedies and medicines. Innovation is considered to be of key importance to the sector. The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the relevant legal frameworks should be developed to account for the innovative need of the sector. In order to develop these frameworks it is important to understand the underlyin