The scientific consensus on climate change is clear, but the social consensus in the United States has yet to concur. Mainstream explanations for the failure of the American public to engage the climate change problem often refer to an information deficit or lacking political will, but have not proven sufficient in accounting for such behavior. A deeper look reveals that the problem lies at the so

Uppsatsen undersöker hur nya ord och uttryck uppkommer i kinesiska Internetskämt, egao, samt vilka funktioner den här typen av skämt fyller i dagens Kina. Uppsatsen behandlar främst skriftliga former av egao (såsom ordlekar, dikter och påhittade ord och tecken) och försöker ta reda på hur dessa påverkar det kinesiska samhället och vilka funktioner de kan tänkas fylla. Slutsatserna blir att även omThis essay investigates the background as well as the present and potential functions of egao, Chinese Internet spoofing. It focuses on the forms egao assumes in writing and analyzes how its practice of playing with and inventing words influences the Chinese society. Discussing the emergence of new expressions in text-based egao, this essay concludes that this kind of spoofing pushes the boundarie

The purpose of this study has been to explore how different actors in a nursing home (i.e. Head of Unit, staff and residents) argue about elder residents’ care, autonomy and possibilities to influence and how this correlate with the increasing tendencies to view elder people as independent individuals. The study was based on eight qualitative interviews with two Heads of Unit, two staff members an

Studiens syfte är att undersöka legitimerade psykoterapeuters erfarenhet av att bedriva psykodynamisk psykoterapi med äldre som i den här studien definieras som 60 år och uppåt. Den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun användes som metod och intervjuerna syftar till att ta del av legitimerade psykoterapeuters kunskap och erfarenhet av detta. En intervjumall med öppna frågor utarbetades för att möjliggö

Aim of this study is to explore the term normalization as a social process that shifts the level of tolerance in societies through examination of the association between cannabis usage as daily life leisure activity and the growing tolerance of this substance use. Contemporary studies suggest that consumption and usage of cannabis should be examined as any other social processes, which are unavoid

Dams are pervasive features of the river systems in the United States. More than 80,000 large dams, and as many as 2.5 million small dams, are spread throughout every major watershed in the country. While this vast number of dams has made a considerable contribution to development, recognition of the environmental impacts has significantly increased. Furthermore, over 25% of the nation's dams

This thesis consists of an extended analysis of Khaver-Paver´s book Labzik. The emphasis is on the book´s didactic elements. Labzik is a Communist children´s book written in America in 1935 by a writer who devoted much of his creativity to the children. The book is written in a highly politicized environment. The economic-political situation for Jews in America during the great depression is clear

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze if and how globalization has a significant impact on nationalism. Therefore two dimensions of globalization are distinguished, political and economic globalization. Nationalism is analyzed as a feeling of superiority of the own nation. In order to test the impact a multilevel model using survey data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) from

Universities, the main providers of “local knowledge conduits, state-of-the-art science and technology”, and the Science Park, the main entity that stands behind the commercialization of knowledge and technology, are seen as central players that should be highly interconnected in order to determine the targeted economic growth of a region. Developing links between university and industry is seen a

Bakgrund: forskning visar att kvinnor önskar mer information om interventioner under förlossning samt önskar en ökad delaktighet i beslut som tas inom förlossningsvården. Syftet: med studien var att undersöka blivande mödrars kunskaper om positiva och negativa effekter av interventioner som frekvent används inom förlossningsvården samt att undersöka om kunskapen påverkas av mödrarnas utbildningsni

Existing immigration policy research often fails to recognise the analytical distinctions between two distinct, yet related, components of immigration policy: immigration control (IC), and immigrant integration. As a consequence research theorising the sources and outcomes of immigration policy either conflates these two components, or fails to address IC policy in its own right. Where IC policy i

The aim of our study was to investigate the image the Swedish media present of cannabis and in particular hasch. We gathered all articles published during one month in the year 2002 and in 2012 in three major newspapers in Sweden. The newspapers examined where Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet and Metro. Through a social constructive perspective and discourse analysis as method we divided the content in

Abstract Authors: Linnéa Lindvall and Josefine Persson Title: Genus i hemtjänsten - en studie om män och kvinnor som arbetar inom hemtjänsten. Supervisor: Tove Harnett Assessor: Anders Östnäs The aim of our study was to examine the difference between how male and females, working in a home care profession, view their role. To be more specific, the gender dimension between staff members, descriptio

Förevarande uppsats behandlar de utredningar om vårdnad-, boende- och/eller umgänge vilka kan företas i tvister om detsamma. Uppsatsen besvarar frågorna om när och hur reglerna om sådana utredningar tillämpas. Vidare behandlas de brister som finns i utredningar av sådant slag, samt delar av den kritik utredningarna utsatts för. Vid tvister om vårdnad-, boende- och/eller umgänge är vårdnadsutredninThe present essay aims to illuminate the custody reports possible to execute during a custody dispute, when and how the legal rules about custody reports applies, and how the custody report is executed. When a court has to decide if the custody of a child henceforth shall be joint or sole, or where the child henceforth shall live, and in which extent the child shall have right to visitation with t

Det här magisterarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av Frankrikes nationella anpassningsplan inför klimatförändringarna. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys som till stor del bygger på den analysmodell som Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledin använder sig av i boken Vägar genom texten (1997). Källtextanalysen följs av ett avsnitt om överväganden inför översättningen och ett om vilka översättnings

The aim of this study was to examine Social Work students’ reflections; concerning the impact their placement and tutoring during placement have had on their development of professional knowledge. The main questions in this study have been; in what degree do the Social Work students, from Gothenburg-, Stockholm- and Umeå University, think they have developed professional knowledge during their pla

Denna uppsats beskriver det vietnamesiska rättsystemet och utreder hur de vietnamesiska domstolarna förhåller sig till den västerländska idén om vad som kännetecknar en rättsstat. I uppsatsen beskrivs och analyseras det vietnamesiska rättsystemet med särskilt fokus på vilken roll domstolarna har i statsapparaten. Exakt vad som karakteriserar en rättsstat förblir odefinierat men ett antal karaktärsThe purpose with this thesis has been to investigate the court system in Vietnam to find out how it relates to the concept of judicial independence. The structure of the Vietnamese court system is described with focus on the role of the courts and analysed from a rule of law perspective. Even though the concept of judicial independence is difficult to define, some general features are drawn up, su

Noncitizens are excluded from the decision making processes inside the liberal democratic community. The aim of this study is twofold: to identify the premises for a citizenship extended to aliens, and, to identify the most viable approach to a citizenship extended to aliens in the context of the welfare state in Scandinavia. The objects of interest in the study are four theoretical approaches whi