Fokus i denna uppsats är paradoxen att välja att läsa ett studieförberedande program utan att vara intresserad av att studera. Ett forskningsproblem som rör sig mellan pojkars förhållningssätt till skola, maskulinitetsnormer och en förändrad skola till form och innehåll i ett samhälle som utmärks av senmodernitetens reflexivitet i identitetsskapandet. Syftet är att undersöka den sociala positionen

From a report presented by Public health agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten), it is common amongst female students to experience the study situation as stressful and filled with anxiety. Because of the discussion about female students study situation and the problems it brings is quite old, I experience it to be important for me as a ethnological student and furthermore to contribute with my ethnologica

This essay examines the rhetorical tools and how the different politics choose to use them. We have also chosen to investigate the role of good and bad leadership in individual behaviors and positions. Why does people choose to embrace a particular behavioral pattern and what is it that makes us trust and follow our leader even though it may not be the right thing to do. We choose to compare and e

There are many contributing factors, to why Northern Ireland is regarded as a prime example for conflict resolution. In this thesis, we will seek to test the factors, that several scholars and politicians, such as; Tony Blair, Peter Hain and Jennifer Todd, have argued were the most important to create piece. This will be done through a comparative study with Cyprus, which is still regarded an acti

Denna uppsats handlar om förslag till legitimering av undersköterskor och lärare, och huruvida dessa kan tolkas som ansatser till professionalisering. Vidare intresserar vi oss för legitimering som statligt styrmedel och vilka problem man försöker lösa med det. Analysunderlaget består av två statliga offentliga utredningar angående respektive yrke, där undersköterskeyrket står i särskilt fokus. I

Den 14:e mars 2017 publicerade EU-domstolen sitt beslut att ett förbud mot religiösa symboler på arbetsplatser inte utgör direkt diskriminering. Domstolsbeslutet tog avstamp och hänvisade till två fall i Frankrike och Belgien där arbetsgivarna sparkat två kvinnor på grund av deras val att bära hijab under arbetstid. Syftet med denna studie är därför att granska de två fall och se vilka faktorer so

New Public Management (NPM) is an approach to running public services which originates from the private sector, favouring ideas of competition, privatization, measurment of results etc. While there are benefits to this approach, it has also caused various problems within both the Swedish police and the public service in general. Thus, NPM in the public sector has been strongly criticized throughou

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how Sweden Democrats depicts the woman and analyzes if they use the woman to legitimize their policies. I do this by reconstructing the dominant narrative while striving to analyze how they legitimize the image of her and if they use her to legitimize their policies. The material that I use is the Sweden Democrats 'Principles Program (2011), the Swedish

Since independence, Georgia’s political trajectory of democratic development has become all the more aimed towards integration with the EU and further disassociation from the Soviet past and Russia. By the engagements facilitated through the EU’s Eastern Partnership and the Association Agreement, the narrative of Georgian national identity as fundamentally European is seen as an all-encompassing c

This essay examines why municipalities choose to work with daily occupations for adult asylum seekers, when the responsibility lies upon another institution, Länsstyrelsen. The aim is to find out for what reasons they work with daily occupations for asylum seekers. In approaching this research Lennart Lundquist’s implementation theory was used. According to the theory the civil servants must have

In this thesis, the relationship between bureaucratic structures and efficiency is evaluated through a case study of the Swedish Police Authority. The collected material consists of semi-structured interviews with police officers from four different stations located in Region Syd. A theoretical framework that posits that there exist two types of bureaucratic structures, enabling and coercive, and

Citizenship is subject of much debate in democratic societies. This can be explained by the fact that the school systems contribute to the reproduction of the political system through the education of good, democratic citizens. Sweden has gone through major ideological change in the past 30 years, the social democratic welfare state has been influenced by neo-liberal ideas regarding government. Th

In the autumn of 2015, border and identity controls were introduced at the Swedish border in order to control, and to some extent, also reduce the refugee flows to Sweden. This could be seen as a contrast to the Swedish identity characterized by solidarity and generosity in the national, as well as the international context. This paper aims to investigate the political discourse regarding the intr

In the 21st century more states are realizing the benefits with hosting “Sports Mega-Events” such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup. These events create an opportunity for a country to spread a carefully selected image and to gain influence and attraction in the international arena, or in other words, to exercise soft power. This thesis investigates how the Chinese government, through mas

The etiology of epileptic seizures is not completely understood. Literature results estimate that the main reason for epileptiform activity is a shift in the fine-tuned balance between excitation and inhibition in neural circuits, leading to hyperexcitability. Normal brain function is dependent on local inhibitory GABAergic input of interneurons on pyramidal cells. GABAergic interneurons and loss

The aim of this thesis is to set up a high-fidelity fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulation environment to study the gust load alleviation capability of camber-morphing airborne wind energy (AWE) wings. The simulation environment will enable studying the transient flow phenomena around the wing when encountering wind gusts and gives the possibility of investigating dynamic instabilities. To m

Since the Financial and Eurozone crisis that erupted in 2009/2010, Germany has seen the rise of a new populist radical right party; the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). In the years after its establishment in 2013, this party has experienced many electoral successes and entered not only thirteen federal state parliaments, but also the European Parliament in 2014. This development is atypical for

This study examines whether the new EU enlargement strategy has brought expected results and led to the changes that go beyond adoption of formal rules and institutions in Montenegro. It establishes whether improvement in the sphere of judicial independence occurred since the introduction of the new EU approach to enlargement, in the next most likely candidate, by analysing the impact of each comp

This thesis analyses how social policy in the form of benefit sanctions targeted at the long-term unemployed is made by case workers within the Swedish Public Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen). Since the 1990s, rising unemployment and fiscal pressures on the welfare states made countries more oriented towards policies of “activation”. In 2007, the Job and Development Programme (JOB), was init

The advent of the epoch known as the Anthropocene has been treated as a paradigm shift throughout the natural as well as parts of the social sciences. This shift entails mankind’s becoming of a geological force alongside others. Political theory and International Relations in particular have, however, been slow to pick this up. This thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. In this thesis I examine t