The aim of this paper is to expand the debate on globalization and its consequences from a theoretical perspective emphasizing social processes of exclusion and inclusion. I explore these social processes in dialogue with the Spanish social movement for the rights of irregular immigrants. The paper also aims to explore new forms of resistance in the context of globalization. "The declinist t

Europe's violent history led to the European cooperation in order to maintain peace in the diverse Europe, after World War 2. The 4th of October 2003 the European Convention presented a Draft Treaty establishing the European constitution, in Rome, aiming at establishing a constitutional framework for the Union. Consociational theory explains how stability in diverse societies is accomplished a

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how the European Union through the Directorate- General (DG) of Education and Culture, are calling forth a constructed sense of European identity amongst the citizens of the Union. It is a discourse analysis, which can be described in twofold. Firstly, it is a mapping of the European discourse; i.e. how the European Union defines the identity it seeks

In 2003 the parties in Sweden were invited to debate reforms of the Constitution. The purpose of this essay is to study the debate concerning reforms of the Constitution and identify values expressed by the parties. Moreover the goal of the essay is to connect the identified values to the three democratic ideals, which are; electoral democracy, participation democracy and deliberation democracy. T

Uppsatsens syfte är dels att undersöka om utbildningen och forskningen inom socialt arbete kan betecknas som heteronormativ och dels att föra en mer teoretisk diskussion kring om en förändring av denna utbildning och forskning kan göra socialt arbete till en möjlig förändringspraktik. Detta genom introduktion av teorier kring heteronormativitet. På grund av uppsatsens dubbla syften har texten dela

Mitt syfte med denna uppsats är att analysera den statliga offentliga utredningen SOU 2001:10 Barn i homosexuella familjer, för att se hur den normala respektive den onormala familjen skapas genom olika distinktioner. Jag fokuserar på hur kön/genus och begär kan ses som betydelsebärande konstruktioner i skapandet av den hetero- och den homosexuella familjen, samt den heterosexuella normens makt at

This essay is an in-depth, qualitative study concerned with questions about female ?class-travellers?. A class-traveller is a person who is born and raised in a particular social class but changes his/her social belonging through studies, marriage etc. In this study I have interviewed three female class-travellers, all of which have made their ?journey? through studies at the University of Lund.

The current curriculum requires a well functioning school library and an active use of it. In junior school grades 1-3 the children primarily learn basic skills. Knowledge about libraries and how to use them and different media is part of these skills. Therefore my intention was to investigate how school libraries in junior schools look, how they are used in the training and how they could be used

The aim of this study is to explore if and how library managers market their competence in communication with local politicians. It is also our aim to find a definition of the competence of librarians. The report identifies and describes problems and possibilities with marketing of competence to politicians on the basis of one Swedish municipality's library managers. In order to fulfil this a

Uppsatsens syfte är undersöka hur herrtidningarna Café, Slitz och Moore skildrar maskuliniteter och vidare problematisera dessa. Detta görs med att titta närmare på begrepp som heteronormativitet och maskuliniteter. Uppsatsen bygger på en innehållsanalys av tre svenska herrtidningar från år 2002-2004. Först diskuteras innehållsanalys med inriktning på kritisk diskursanalys som metod. Sedan finns e

The purpose of this master´s thesis was to investigate the role and function of the annual reports of public libraries: for what purpose are they put together and how are they evaluated and utilised. The study presents different views on the structure and content of library annual reports. Focusing on a specific public library and its municipal administration, the authors identify and describe pro

The Internet offers an abundance of information. This information is easy to access in technical terms, however it is difficult to find. At present there is a wide variety of search services to choose from. This master's thesis is about selecting the appropriate search service for a certain question. Are different types of services suitable for different types of questions, and if so, which se

Queer theory has in resent years become popular within most academic disciplines. Its aim is to problematise, denaturalise and denormalise heterosexuality to dissolve the heteronormative. The concept of heteronormativity draws upon Foucault's theory of normative judgment and refers to heterosexuality as a social institution with particular forms of practises that divide the ?normal? from ?abno

Deliberative politics offers a new and exiting way of overcoming the problems that the western democracy of today is facing. A lot of research in the most recent years have had the goal to replace the representative democracy with a decision-making frame built on decentralization and deliberation. The goal for this essay is to create a framework for local decision-making, based on deliberativ norm

Cataloguing electronic documents makes new demands on libraries. This thesis discusses the metadata formats Dublin Core and MARC which are, individually or in combination, commonly used for object description in the digital library. The formats are studied with particular emphasis on characteristics such as underlying reasoning (ambitions during the development of the formats), flexibility (possi

The EU-funded project European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) aims to integrate resources from various domains within the field of cultural heritage, and make them available on the Internet. To accomplish this integration it is necessary to describe the various resources in a way that will achieve cross-domain interoperability. This description of digital resources is commonly referred to as

In Sweden, prostitution is politically defined as a social problem, more precisely, as a form of male violence against women. The definition is distinctly manifested in the government bill Kvinnofrid, characterised by the unique Swedish law that prohibits the purchase of sexual services. This thesis examines how the Swedish solutions of prostitution are carried out. By interviewing central actors

The purpose of this study is to interogate the tension-laden relationsship between men (of the dominant classes and ethnicities) and feminism. Closely linked to this lies the question of how valid and relevant official Swedish goals of gender equality can be to the Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research in Sweden. The essay is mainly an in-depth qualitative study concerned about question

An increasing number of scholarly publishers are beginning to make their journals available electronically. At the same time there is a growing amount of exclusively electronic journals freely accessible on the Internet. These are facts that librarians have to take into consideration. This master's thesis aims to describe the electronic journal and its role in Swedish academic libraries. In a

Arbetslösheten är ett stort problem i dagens samhälle både för samhället och för flertalet av dem som hamnar utanför arbetsmarknaden. Det finns både fördomar och myter om hur de arbetslösas situation ser ut och hur denna grupp upplever sin situation. Forskning visar på att de arbetslösas upplevelser påverkas starkt av ekonomisk påfrestning och skamgörande erfarenheter bland flera andra påverkande