På grund av att människor idag placeras in i olika fack, och därmed får olika förväntningar på sig, skapas ojämställdhet i samhället. Då människan på grund av sitt kön inte får samma förutsättningar i livet blir jämställdhetsfrågorna kring män och kvinnor till ett stort problem. Vad som sedan är manligt respektive kvinnligt är beroende av tid och rum vilket gör att vi också kan förstå att mycket a

Att arbetsmarknaden är i ständig förändring råder det ingen tvekan om. Produktionen av både tjänster och varor efterfrågar nya former för förvärvande av arbetsprestationer. Mer eller mindre nya grepp inom företagsvärlden som till exempel utkontraktering och projektanställningar vittnar om detta. Förändringarna gör att gränsdragningen mellan att vara arbetstagare och uppdragstagare inte kan förväntThe labour market is constantly changing. The production of both services and goods are now acquiring labour in new forms. More or less new tendencies in business management such as outsourcing and project assignments are realities today. These changes add complexity to the process of defining whether a person, the work performing part, is to be considered as employed by the principal or as an ent

Abstract Authors: Mia Lunderot and Rebecka Sandberg Title: “It might be more safe not to listen at all”- A study of how pedophiles are portrayed in media Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim with this study was to analyze and describe how pedophiles are portrayed in Swedish media. We wanted to look further into the way that media describe who the pedophile really is and

This essay examines the relationship between governance, aid effectiveness and economic growth using a newly developed governance index consisting of a variable for institutional quality from the Fraser Institute and three policy variables. The governance index is an extension to the policy index developed by Burnside & Dollar (2000). As earlier research has predicted, the author finds that ai

This Master Theses comprises a product development of heat recovery systems for a GRANULDISK dishwasher, starting from a mission statement and resulting in testable prototypes. Some competitor’s products with heat recovery systems are identified in the market research. Analyzing existing products gives an overview of the solutions on the market and how they work. Target specifications are establis

The Cocoon project was carried out as an entry to one of the World’s largest design competitions for industrial design students, The Electrolux design lab. The “Cocoon” won the first prize competing with almost 1000. The Cocoon is a sustainable response to the world’s growing population and its desire to consume meat and fish. The Cocoon prepares genetically engineered and pre-packaged meat and fi

Abstract Authors: Belma Dzafic, Lejla Huseinovic Title:”The flowers of Rosengård will bloom – a qualitative study about young people in a segregated residential area and their thoughts about the area, the surrounding and the future” Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall The purpose of this study was to examine how young people in the age of 16 – 17 in Rosengård think about their future, their reside

Föreliggande uppsats behandlar ämnet vågsurfing. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är frågeställningen: Vad motiverar personer till att vågsurfa och vad har aktiviteten för funktion i deras liv? Syftet med uppsatsen är att påvisa ett relevant sociologisk fenomen som tidigare är outforskat i Sverige. Uppsatsen förklarar fyra svenska surfares motivation till att de surfar och förklarar vad surfingen har

The aim of the thesis is to investigate livelihoods of rural households and the role agriculture and nonfarm economy play in them. More specifically, the paper investigates income generation and income diversification strategies employed by rural households in the northern part of Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan was one of the poorest Soviet Republics, which for nearly 20 nears since independence has been

Denna rapport handlar om att få fram ett välgjort förslag till ett studentboende i centrala Lund, där ett hållbart boende med en arkitektonisk gestaltning ska vara slutmålet. I början på rapporten kan man läsa en djupgående analys över området där själva byggnaden ska stå. Jag analyserar själva platsen och studerar grönområdena i närområdet. Sedan har jag gjort en rörelseanalys på plats där jag to

In Japanese, there is a unique type of relative clauses, a so-called ‘gapless relative clause’. The relation between the predicate in the relative clause and its head is not syntactic in the sense that the head noun does not have a co-indexed NP gap internal in the clause. The modification is established on semantic and pragmatic bases, since there is a semantic and/or pragmatic connection between

China’s present economic performance is frequently attributed to market reforms that have opened up the economy to foreign trade and investments. Some people say, "How Far is China from the Information Highway? - Just 150 Meters Ahead.” In this article the cluster approach will be discussed if it suits for analyzing the development of Zhongguancun current success. In the article, it will be d

The use of ICT for education delivery has become a reality both in the developed and the developing world. The purpose of our research work is to find out use and support of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Virtual University of Pakistan to deliver distance education. A research framework was developed with the help of literature review of the different approaches of technology us

Since the 1980s community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches have been adopted by a variety of development projects in developing countries. Notwithstanding in the last few years critics have emerged, either on the lack of local participation or of ecological results. Literature related to CBNRM shows that different authors have different views about the successes and failures of

”It is not normal” A survey about social work students knowledge about different sexualities. The purpose of this study was to examine Swedish social work students thoughts what extent they had knowledge about homosexual and bisexual living conditions. The study also aimed to examine heteronormativity in the University education for Social workers. Earlier research shows that there is little or n

The field of labour history has come to increasingly include the study of gender, a social relation that traditionally has been made invisible. At the same time the past decades of theoretical debate within gender studies and history have meant the marginalisation of class studies, at the benefit of other social relations. I wish to contribute to the field of research on the Swedish labour union m

Today evaluation is a popular phenomenon within the public sector, but is the instrumental use of the results the only purpose it fills? This case study aims to investigate the use of evaluation in practical social work in municipals with focus on supportive contacts without documentation requirements based on a new institutional perspective. What purposes for evaluation can be identified, what in