Our intention with this essay was to examine how children were affected due to their parent’s substance abuse. Studies show that these children were particularly vulnerable and harmed throughout their upbringing because of their parents drinking problem. Our aim with our study was to gather further knowledge regarding people who grow up under these conditions and to better understand how it has af

Den här uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka hur maktstrukturerna ser ut och förändras i filmen Land of the Dead och hur de samverkar med konstruerandet och upplösandet av kategorier. Genom att använda mig av poststrukturalistisk, feministisk och intersektionell teori utforskar jag hur makten omvandlas då kategorier löses upp. Materialet utgår från en tematisk filmanalys av George A Romeros Land ofThis study examines how the power structures are made and how they change in the movie Land of the Dead, and how these changes co-operate with the construction and deconstruction of categories. By using poststructural, feminist and intersectional theory, I explore how the power transforms as the categories dissolve. The material is constituted by a thematic movie analysis by George A Romeros Land

Denna uppsats undersöker hur individen framställs i ett körutbildningsmaterial med tolkningsföreträde, publicerat av Sveriges Trafikskolors Riksförbund. Utifrån en kritisk diskursanalys har jag sökt närma mig skrifternas diskurser och föreställningar om individen i förhållande till trafiken. I samverkan med ett socialkonstruktionistiskt synsätt och genusperspektiv har jag kunnat uttyda att två av This essay examines how the individual is portrayed in a driving education material with preferential right of interpretation, published by Sveriges Trafikskolors Riksförbund. On the basis of a critical discourse analysis, I have tried to get close to the discourses and conceptions regarding the individual, in relation to the traffic. In cooperation with a social constructionist outlook and gender

”Evanisering”, lånat från bibliska Eva, definierar den långa utveckling av patriarkal hegemoni som beskriver kvinnor som underlägsna och sexuellt lägre stående och enligt patriarkatets krav på en tämjd, passiv och underdånig feminin figur under mannens totala kontroll. Uppsatsen är en genealogi över kvinnoförtrycket, dess orsaker och implementeringar, men tar även upp den evolutionärt kvinnliga se“Evenisation”, borrowed from the biblical Eve, can be defined as the long-developed patriarchal hegemony describing women as inferior, sexually debased, and the patriarchate’s urge for domesticated, passive and subdued female figures that are under the total control of men. This thesis is a genealogy of oppression of women, its causes and implementations, emphasizing the evolutionary women´s sexua

This master thesis was done in cooperation with the Danish district heating company, Vestegnens Kraftvarmeselskab I/S. VEKS is a transmission company supplying heat in western Copenhagen, Denmark. VEKS wanted a global analysis over the possibilities to decrease the cost and carbon dioxide emissions from purchased heat through decentralized accumulation. To cover all economical and environmental re

A brief description of the physical flow phenomena in a blade row that creates losses in an axial gas turbine and correlations to estimate these losses in a mean line calculation are given. Investigation and comparison of the loss correlations for 1D mean line calculation between the in-house program (CTC) used at Siemens and loss correlations present in the open literature were made. The investig

The aim was to study how social workers were constructing self harm among teenage girls. This social constructionist study was based upon five qualitative interviews with social workers employed by in total four different communities. A perspective of problem (Jönsson, 2008) was chosen as model for analysis. Self harm was constructed as heterogeneous in its character. I found three entries in thei

The Purpose of this survey was to look at the social meaning of alcohol within a group of young people in the age area 18 to 20. I chose a quantitative survey among youth to investigate attitudes to alcohol habits of other youths. The survey was performed with 96 young persons. Every year the federation of alcohol and drug awareness (CAN) do a nationwide survey of alcohol and drug habits among stu

The aim of this essay is to investigate the prison chaplain’s work in the pastoral care treatment in Swedish prisons. The theoretical frames conclude modern theories and ideas from Thomas Luckmann and Anthony Giddens which explains how the modern human beeing relates to religion in different contexts. Interviews with inmates and prison-chaplains represented the qualitative method which I applied i

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga och skapa förståelse för hur kommuner, som ägare, bedriver ägarstyrningen i sin organisation. Metod: För att uppnå syfte har en kvalitativ metod med fallstudier nyttjats. Data har samlats in via intervjuer med personer i organisationerna och via litteraturstudier. Uppsatsen är baserad på en deduktiv ansats då arbetsgången inleddes med införskaffande av

This paper explores and compares the effects of two financial crises (the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2007-2010 Subprime Financial Crisis) on short-run and long-run linkages between equity markets in China (mainland and Hong Kong) and US. In particular, we not only investigate the return causality relationships by applying vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis, but we also examine the volat

The purpose of this essay was to study what knowledge and understanding social workers think they have when it comes to honor-related problems and how they handle cases with these issues. We made a qualitative study and interviewed six social workers who work with young people and honor issues. We also did an interview with Maria Hagberg, who is a main figure and author in the field. To analyze th

This thesis is endeavoring to compare the competitiveness of the wind power industry from two very different countries China and Denmark, through the Porter Diamond Model as the methodological framework. The aim is to see why both countries seem to be so committed with wind energy, yet the outcome is so different up until now. Ultimately it is going to explain if there is any way that China could

In a study it was found that only 16% of IT projects in UK were considered successful (Al-Tameem et al, 2008). Underestimating IT adoption problems when implementing a project has been recognized as one of the reasons for the failures (Fink, 1998). The current research aims to study adoption by students of a new portal implemented in Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). Qua

Abstract Author: Ingela Martinsson Title: "The last alternative”- the process around a decision about compulsory care (translated title) Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of the study was to investigate the process when social worker makes a decision whether or not to treat a youth with compulsory care. Through my own empirical study of qualitative interviews with

Daring to walk towards the unknown - a qualitative study of recovering from an eating disorder A common conception amongst people suffering from an eating disorder is that there is no recovery from the disease. Therefore the purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of being completely well from an eating disorder. More specifically its aim was to find out what factors may be crucial f

The purpose of this master thesis is a study in strategies for digital preservation over time, from the standpoint of different institutions. The institutions we are investigating are Kulturen Museum in Lund, Skånes Regionarkiv and Malmö Stadsarkiv. We have studied the institutions from two perspectives: digital preservation and cultural heritage. The study has been carried out through qualitative

The cases of sexually transmitted diseases and abortions among teenagers in Sweden are increasing. Mainly among youth in the ages 15 to 24 years. Our purpose with this study was to look at the reason for this by answering the question; why do youth expose themselves to the risks associated with unprotected sex? To answer this question we chose to do a quantitative survey by letting students in Lun

Studien vill genom analys och komparation av två litterära verk, sprungna ur olikartade genrer, visa hur berättelsens förhållande till verkligheten kan te sig. Diskussionen förs kring de sanningsbegrepp och sanningsanspråk som kommer till uttryck i de två verken, liksom kring författarroller och genretillhörighet. Studien utgår från det grundläggande antagandet att det föregår en ständig växelverk

Detta är en etnografisk studie vars syfte är att ur ett miljöpedagogiskt perspektiv analysera vad djur har för medverkan på ett behandlingshem och vad djuren kan betyda för de människor som finns på behandlingshemmet. Denna undersökning ska alltså belysa djurs betydelse inom socialt arbete. Detta intresse är under utveckling i Sverige men vi ligger långt efter många andra länder inom detta område.