The purpose of this report was to explore the process of stigmatisation of Jamaican women who are involved in tourism-oriented prostitution in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. I wanted to examine how these women perceived themselves, other prostitutes and the tourists using their services as well as briefly examine professional viewpoint on these dimensions. Further I aimed to assess the stigmatisation of thes

I denna uppsats undersöker vi olika elevers uppfattningar kring implementeringen av värdegrund och normer i den svenska gymnasieskolan. Vi definierar läraren som en förvaltningstjänsteman och tar upp implementeringsproblematik som kan tänkas uppkomma inom skolan, i synnerhet de problem som uppkommer genom lärarens ställning som närbyråkrat. Vi har valt att göra en kvantitativ fallstudie där vi lå

Genom att skildra 1930-talets och dagens tidsanda avser denna studie belysa hur den svenska folkhemspolitiken ändrat karaktär. Likheter och skillnader mellan de båda tidsandorna beskrivs för att belysa karaktärsändringen. Fokus ligger på områdena familj och bostad, med betoning på den senare. Exempel på likheter är hög arbetslöshet, bostadsbrist, låga nativitetstal, konjunktursvängningar och slago

The aim of this work is to study present Rwandan social identities. The aim is made operational by posing the question; how are group identities produced and reproduced in Rwanda? In order to answer this the study uses the bourdieuesian notion of habitus, incorporated products of history that are active principles for unification of practices and representations, as the analytical concept of socia

Mot bakgrund av att en allt större del av det offentliga åsiktsutbytet sker på och via den arena som nyhetsmedierna utgör, och att nyhetsmedierna i viss mån bidrar till att göra världen mer överblickbar för de människor som tar del av dem, undersöks i uppsatsen vilka regler, rutiner och föreställningar som styr och påverkar nyhetsförmedlingen. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga dessa regler och

This paper is a part of the joint research project between the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration and Lund University. The aim of this paper is to examine the team climate, measured in teams at the Air Traffic Control Centers (ATCC) at Stockholm and Malmö, and also if there is a difference between the teams with regard to the employees' age. We also investigate if there is a connection betw

An experiment was conducted to see which impact the basic emotion of disgust has on moral judgment. Earlier studies have been dominated by the belief that moral judgment is caused by moral reasoning alone, and not by emotions. The social intuitionist model (Haidt, 2001) constitutes an alternative to such theories. 60 university students (30 male and 30 female) participated in the experiment. They

This thesis is an explorative phenomenological study of 11 managers that are in an in between position within different organizations and that in some way are responsible of other staff members. The aim of the study was to examine and get an understanding of how each individual experience her/his situation at work. The results showed that the managers often refer to the same areas when they talk a

This Master Thesis investigates changes in Thailand's foreign policy towards its neighbouring country Burma. It argues that Thai foreign policy towards Burma has experienced major changes during four periods between 1945 and the present. The thesis investigates these foreign policy changes during the four periods. What changes occurred? What were the reasons for the changes? What reasons domin

This essay aims to examine and compare Swedish and Norwegian social work with children. It is a comparative study between two social welfare offices, in districts with similar population and problems, one located in Stockholm and one in Oslo. The main questions were; how is the work organized and carried out, what type of help and assistance is available and what kind of discretion and powers do t

The Swedish public library was founded in the years when the society in Sweden went from being a society of agriculture to industrialism. Modernism was sweeping over the country, everything was possible, which influenced the new society that was built. Now Sweden was going to be a true democracy with responsible and empathic citizens. One of the main tools in this process was to educate people, to

Bakgrunden till denna uppsats är en utvärdering av kvinnoverksamheten hos en Sydindisk frivilligorganisation, Village Community Development Society eller VCDS, som jag på uppdrag av en svensk samarbetspartner, Föreningen Svalorna, Lund, genomförde under 1989. Utvärderingen genomfördes under ett tre månader långt besök och redovisades i rapporten "Kvinnor på marsch!" (1989). Redan vid pre

Trots att andelen kvinnor i de tyska och svenska parlamenten på senare tid ökat, är kvinnorna fortfarande i minoritet, dock i högre grad i Tyskland än i Sverige. Tidigare förklaringar som belyst denna problematik har bl.a. fokuserat på begränsningar i kvinnors möjligheter att få tillträde till den politiska maktens rum. Denna studie fokuserar istället på den situation de kvinnor som redan fått en

This masters' thesis, "The New Economy of Vision : New Urban Spaces in post-1992 Shanghai", authored by Johan Vaide, draws on the economic reforms initiated in the late 1970s to show how Shanghai has experienced a rapid and well-calculated change of its cultural landscape. Due to the launch of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" in 1978 and the construction of an entir

The Social Insurance Office (FK) is responsible for the rehabilitation among long-term sick citizens. Two studies were performed with the aim to study the relation between the employees of FK and their clients. A further aim was to describe factors that the employees can bring into the relation with the client. In the first study a questionnaire was distributed to 302 employees. The Change-, produ

Följande studie ger inblick i ett stycke av den verklighet som svenska industriföreträdare lever i. Deras verklighet är, i likhet med alla andra människors, en verklighet som tolkas och uppfattas på unika och egenartade sätt. I studien beskrivs hur ett antal industriföreträdare vid f d Industriförbundet uppfattar den komplexa och politiskt brännande frågan om klimatförändring och koldioxidutsläpp.

The aim with this thesis was to investigate the land surface model used in DAYCENT. Through comparing the simulated soil moisture and soil temperature results with observed data, at the depth of 30 and 60 cm at the Demokeya site in semiarid Sudan, it was possible to evaluate the model. The ecosystem model uses soil texture data, land management information, and daily weather data to simulate plant

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Geografiska informationssystem på internet är ett relativt nytt fenomen som främst har utvecklats från ett behov att distribuera geografisk data, dvs utbyte av digitala geografiska data och tillhörande tjänster. Men det är även ett kraftfullt verktyg för att presentera information på internet. Detta examensarbete i naturgeografi syftar till att skapa en webbaGIS on the Internet is a rather new phenomenon, which has evolved from the need of distributed geographical data. It is also a powerful tool for presenting information on the Internet. This master thesis aim to create a web based GIS application with information on lime spreading and the situation concerning acidification in the county of Kronoberg, Sweden. The web based GIS application will be us

This is a qualitative interview study about intellectually disabled parents and their children. I have conducted interviews with six professional staff who have some experience working with intellectually disabled persons. In my investigation I used vignettes and those I interviewed had to read the same story about Anders and Britta in preparation for the interview. The six persons whom I intervie