This study analyzes how the social movement Black Lives Matter was portrayed in newspaper articles from the largest Swedish newspapers in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. This was done over a period of four weeks from George Floyd's death and the newspapers included are Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet and Expressen. The study is inspired by previous research and focus

The studies on political parties in the political sphere have for a long time been at the center of understanding why political parties act the way they do and how this affects their chances in upcoming elections. Instead, this paper aims to examine how representatives from the Social Democrats, Swedish Democrats and Liberals relate to the parties common positions regarding the European Union in t

Den sociala marknadsekonomi som eftersträvas inom EU har sin grund i begrepp som konkurrenskraft, välfärd och innovation. Just innovation anses utgöra en viktig och dynamisk del av marknaden genom att främja fri konkurrens. Patentpooler har av många ansetts vara ett gott medel för att gynna innovation och dessa utgör därmed en viktig spelare på den fria marknaden. Patentpoolen innebär i grunden etThe market economy sought within the European Union is based on concepts such as competitiveness, welfare, and innovation. Innovation is, in particular, considered to be an important and dynamic part of the market by promoting competition. The patent pool is based on an arrangement between competitors. Anyone who has become acquainted with competition law is well aware of its critical attitude tow

Denna uppsats ämnar utreda värdeöverföringsbegreppets historia, dess definition samt hur bestämmelserna rörande förtäckta värdeöverföringar förhåller sig gentemot rättssäkerhet. Sedan begreppets introduktion i den svenska aktiebolagslagen har detsamma varit föremål för diskussion. Diverse sakkunniga inom det associationsrättsliga området har både prisat och kritiserat värdeöverföringsbegreppet ochThe aim of this thesis is to examine the concept of value transfer, its definition and how the regulation regarding disguised value transfers complies with legal certainty. Since its introduction in the Swedish Companies Act, the concept has been a subject of discussion. Various experts within the field of company law have both praised and criticized the concept of value transfer and its function

När en entreprenad färdigställts ska den enligt AB 04 besiktigas innan den anses avlämnad och en mängd rättsverkningar inträder. Denna uppsats ämnar att kritiskt granska besiktningsinstitutet som det ser ut enligt AB 04. Entreprenadrätten som område har under 2000-talet fört en alltmer framträdande roll inom juridiken. Det har bland annat fått till följd att Högsta domstolen meddelat ett ökat antWhen a building contract is finished the building needs to be inspected, in accordance with the Swedish standard construction contract AB 04, before it is handed over to the buyer and other legal effects take place. This essay intends to critically examine the inspection process as it is stipulated in AB 04. Construction contract law as a legal area has come to play a more prominent role in Swede

Uppsatsens syfte är att studera hur myndigheter och lagstiftaren kan agera för att undvika misslyckade upphandlingar. Det uppnås genom att studera det nuvarande regelverket i LOU och två upphandlingar som uppmärksammats medialt som misslyckade upphandlingar. Inledningsvis studeras LOU och det påpekas särskilt att varken förberedelse eller uppföljning av upphandling omfattas av regelverket. DärefteThe purpose of this thesis is to study how authorities and legislators can act to avoid failed public procurements. This is achieved by studying the current regulation and two public procurements that are regarded as failed public procurements by the media. Firstly, an account of current regulations for public procurement is made. Particular attention is paid to that neither preparation of procure

Med hänvisning till statistik som påvisar en ökning av både antalet anmälda och lagförda våldtäkter efter senaste reformen av sexualbrottslagstiftningen ämnar denna uppsats skapa förståelse för den del av maskulinitetstillblivandet som resulterar i ett problematiskt beteende. Genom att intervjua fokusgrupper av män från två olika generationer har studien strävat efter att med hjälp av en tematisk

According to traditional research in subjective well-being, the more pleasant emotions we experience, the more satisfied with life we are. But according to newer research, our physical and mental health, including satisfaction with life, also depends on the emotional diversity between the positive and negative emotions we experience, and the difference between the emotions we desire and those we a

The aim of this study was to explore how first line managers in municipal elderly care describes the personnel situation when it comes to sick leave and staff turnover, and how first line managers work to create well-being among employees in the workplace. To collect data, seven qualitative interviews were made with first line managers who worked within municipal elderly care. The analysis of the

As social desirability has not received enough focus when estimating the predictive power of personality in explaining well-being variance, recent accounts of the relationship between ratings of personality and well-being might be overestimated. The current study investigated the influence of social desirability, operationalized as the evaluative factor of personality (i.e., the tendency to react

Dividends effect on stock prices and shareholders return is a disputed subject in finance. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on the existing research both the effect of dividends in general and on stocks on the Swedish market in particular. This thesis establishes an index of stocks with 5 or more years of dividend growth for at least the last 5 years on the Swedish market, by comparing this

The scope of this thesis was to examine how members of the Swedish Parliament construct the Swedish Activity Compensation scheme in contemporary legislative debate. This study sought to fulfil this scope by applying Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse analytical approach to fifteen records of proceedings portraying debate in the Swedish Parliament, ranging from the parliamentary year 2015/16 to 2019/20.

Bakgrund: Ångest är ett stort hälsoproblem i dagens samhälle. Patienter upplever att de många gånger enbart blir erbjudna medicinsk behandling, trots att de önskar andra behandlingsalternativ. Syfte: Att beskriva patienters upplevelser av komplementära och alternativa behandlingsmetoder vid ångest. Metod: En litteraturstudie har genomförts där resultatet är baserat på åtta vetenskapliga artiklar.

Den här studien undersöker betydelsen av högre bildkonstnärlig utbildning och social bakgrund för yrkeskarriärer inom det konstnärliga fält som informanterna verkar inom. Utgångspunkten är att professionella banor inom fältet präglas av osäkerhet och studien har som avsikt att diskutera den betydelse skolgången har för deras nuvarande och framtida position som konstnärer och vilka sociala, kulture

I uppsatsen studeras auktoritet i en jämförande semiotisk analys av fotografier av den amerikanska ursprungsbefolkningen mellan tidigt 1900-tal och 1930-talet. Analysen görs utifrån teorierna postkolonialism och representation. Studien tar även upp ackulturation och genom att studera fotografier av den amerikanska ursprungsbefolkningen försöker skribenten ta reda på hur förändringen till följd av The author studies authority in photographs of Native Americans between 1900 and 1930's and compares them using a semiotic analysis. The theories that are applied on the analysis is post colonialism and repesentation. The author studies the photos of the Native Americans to see how the changes brought on them by the acculturation is shown in the photos.

Denna uppsats behandlar företrädesrätt till återanställning och hur den påverkas av möjligheten att hyra in arbetskraft. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur företrädesrätten regleras, huruvida inhyrning av arbetskraft kan vara ett kringgående av lagen samt hur företrädesrätten påverkas av inhyrning av arbetskraft. För att uppnå detta används en rättsdogmatisk metod. Företrädesrätt till återaThis paper examines the priority right to re-employment and how it is affected by the possibility to hire temporary workers. The purpose is to investigate the regulation of the priority right to re-employment; whether hiring of temporary workers can be considered a circumvention of the law; and how the practice of hiring temporary workers impacts the priority right. This is achieved by using a leg

The aim of this study was to understand how the Swedish district court makes decisions concerning transfer of custody based on the best interest of the child, child’s will and parents rights of their child. The method for this study was a qualitative content analysis of 17 verdicts from the Swedish district courts when a child has been placed in a family home and the child custody case begins. The

Loneliness as a social issue has been gaining extensive interest in recent years, but the subject has lacked results stemming from qualitative research and the link between loneliness and low income has been understudied. This thesis is one minor part in covering these both gaps. I have aimed at using previous quantitative findings on loneliness among low income earners in order to expand on the l

In the emerging trend of smartphone use and a rising demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) power worldwide, this master thesis project explores the potential to utilize commercially available fisheye lens optics in combination with a smartphone camera to capture and analyze local shading conditions. Photogrammetric studies involving hemispherical sky photos have since long been used for environmental

This thesis analyzes how digitalization in elderly care affects cost-efficiency and quality of care. More specifically, digitalization in elderly care is divided into welfare technologies and E-services. The study goes into how well digitalization meets its promises of solving many of our society's future problems regarding elderly care, such as an aging population. In order to analyze this, I