Purpose: The purpose of this research is to contribute to the knowledge about Generation Z in the consumer society context, through a critical investigation of the possible negative impacts of the internalization of the consumerist mentality within the digital capitalist society. This is relevant since such internalization could interfere with the capacity of individuals to maintain long-term rela

This master’s thesis in Sociology of Law aimed to examine how plural legal orders and discourses work in Myanmar and how they influence the Rohingya Muslims’ legal status and identity. The research of this thesis was conducted by analysing various documents from international and national actors involved in the processes in Rakhine. The objective of this thesis was to reach my set aim by conductin

Kristianstadsslätten breder ut sig i nordöstra Skåne och in i sydvästra Blekinge med sin komplicerade och varierade geologi. De komplexa förhållandena leder till att det finns ett flertal akvifärer i både jordlager och berggrund, där den mest vattenförande formationen är den av glaukonitsand. Syftet med arbetet har varit att undersöka vilket infiltrerat vattenflöde, vid vilket pumptryck, en brunn Kristianstad plain stretches from the northeast of Scania to the southwest of Blekinge with a complicated and varying geology. The complexity has resulted in multiple aquifers in both soil and bedrock, where the highest amount of withdrawable groundwater is in the formation of glauconite sand. The aim of this paper has been to investigate which infiltrated water flow at a certain pumping pressure,

Prisutvecklingen på bostäder i Sverige har under lång tid varit en framgångssaga för säljare. Med låga räntor, stor efterfrågan och begränsat utbud har priserna stigit. Sedan hösten 2017 har en oro utvecklats på bostadsmarknaden. Priserna sjunker, efterfrågan minskar och byggföretag får svårare att sälja sina nyproducerade bostäder, vilket i förlängningen kan leda till minskad bostadsproduktion. DThe price development of housing in Sweden has long been a success story for sellers. With low interest rates, high demand and limited supply the prices have risen. Since the fall of 2017, the market uncertainty has grown. Prices are falling, demand decreases, and housing developers get harder to sell their newly produced homes, which in the long run can lead to reduced housing production. The pot

Postindustrial Malmö relies heavily on stories and images as engines for economic growth. Cities use place marketing strategies to attract capital, investments and affluent residents. The evident focus on economic growth has led to a significantly polarized city in which people with low-incomes, usually ethnic minorities, live in segregated areas such as Rosengård. Segregated and poor areas become

Gruppbehandling, som utgår från KBT teorier, har blivit allt vanligare att erbjuda patienter med allmänpsykiatrisk problematik inom öppenvårdspsykiatrin. Syftet med denna undersökning var att undersöka i vilken grad symtom av ångest och depression, samt patienternas känsla av sammanhang och olika mått på funktionsnivå (t.ex. färdigheter, självomhändertagande etc.), förändrades under gruppbehandlin

The population of the world is growing larger and getting older. This growth is causing an increased load on the current healthcare system, thus lowering the standard of healthcare. One group, specially affected by this, is the elderly and their homecare service and retirement homes. To unburden these services, safety alarms were created. However, these are in much need of design, ergonomic and te

Distance-based accessibility measures are often built using vector representations of origin and destination features, and Euclidean or network-based distances. There are few comparisons of how the choice of feature representations and distance types affects results. Existing comparisons often use Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients. This study seeks to understand the effect of using differen

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka huruvida det föreligger något statistiskt samband mellan CSR och lönsamhet. 183 stycken företag listade på Nasdaq OMX Stockholm har undersökts mellan åren 2013 och 2014. Lönsamhet studeras ur det marknadsbaserade måttet, Tobins Q och CSR mäts ur både mänskliga rättigheter- och miljö genom Folksams Index över ansvarsfullt företagande. Vidare undersöker studi

This thesis explores the ontological assumptions made about the (sexed) nature of humans in four feminist theoretical accounts of sex and gendered power. The four works analysed are: Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Gayle Rubin’s ”The Traffic in Women”, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Elisabeth Grosz’ Time Travels. The ontological assumptions are analyzed with a critical realist approach an

Firms’ stock return volatility varies across countries, and the factors driving the volatility can contribute both positively and negatively to economic growth. We show that across 3,673 firms during the time interval 2001 to 2016, stocks of Swedish firms have on average lower volatility compared to stocks of foreign European firms of similar size, age, and market-to-book value. The lower volatili

How does Donald Trump’s passionate Twitter usage impact consumer confidence? This paper develops a new time series measure of Donald Trump’s Twitter based on a sentiment analysis using data from June 2016 to March 2018. Furthermore, we capture the economic sentiment based on computational text analysis using economic news articles from January 2000 to March 2018, assuming that Trump acts as an ext

This thesis empirically investigates the question if US firm’s capital structures are stable over longer periods of time and which firm characteristics drive optimal leverage. The analysis is based on a Compustat panel data sample consisting of 2,900 US firms between 1985 and 2016. After analyzing the stability of firm’s capital structure via a “narrow band” and a “relative bucket approach” an err

The purpose of this study is to examine how social workers in Sweden engage in policy practice to influence policies, guidelines and methods that contradict their professional values. Based on Hirschman’s theory of exit, voice and loyalty, we analyse social workers’ strategies for change. The study problematizes some challenges social workers face in order raise their voices, but focuses on possib

As globalization and technological innovations continue to support the rise of multinational corporations, it has become increasingly pressing for business to cater to a worldwide audience. Particularly, websites from these companies must be both navigable and easily comprehendible to individuals across cultures to cater to global audiences. Interestingly, however, few studies have explored how in

There has been previous research on the subject of preferred stock and its classification as debt or equity. This thesis adds to the discussion by incorporating a comprehensive measure for financial standing. In this thesis, preferred stock returns of 74 companies are regressed on the returns of bond and common equity and a measure of default probability. The result of the study is that the majori

In September of 2017, the Swedish government introduced a proposal for a new Consultation Act that would require the government and other state agencies to consult with the indigenous Sami people on issues of importance to them. The aim of the proposed law is to strengthen and promote the influence of the Sami people over their own affairs. This thesis analyses whether the proposal is in line with