This thesis studies how the development of globalization has affected sovereign states patterns of armed conflicts. The hypothesis is that the effects of globalization have helped to decrease the number of inter-state conflicts, since states will be forced to cooperate, while the intra-state conflicts will increase because of the internal pressure that globalization creates inside the states. The

The use of entertainment media is an increasingly integral part in the marketing of parties and politicians. By participating in talk shows, game shows and life style magazines politicians are trying to market both the image of themselves and their opinions. Entertainment is an important part in the formation of people’s opinions. This study aims to analyze how Swedish entertainment media portrays

The European Court of Justice has increasingly gained influence in the European Union, and it is therefore interesting to see what affect this has on the EU as well as the member states. The purpose of this study is to see how the ECJ has balanced the interests of the EU as a whole with the interests of the member states. Due to the ECJ’s increasing amount of power, our hypothesis is that the ECJ

I ”Nationella världsbilder – en jämförelse av den svenska extremhögern och Sverigedemokraterna” undersöker författarna hur de världsbilder som ligger till grund för extremhögerns (i denna uppsats representerade av Svenskarnas parti och Svenska motståndsrörelsen) samt Sverigedemokraternas invandringspolitiska ställningstaganden förhåller sig till varandra. Världsbilderna uttolkas genom läsning av o

Denna uppsats handlar om skuldens betydelse för hur ett liv värderas. Ett värdigt liv är också ett liv som sörjs när det går förlorat. Vi utgår från två fall som illustrerar hur skulden konstrueras och fästs på två pojkar, Trayvon Martin och Ardiwan Samir. I och med att dessa två pojkar ansågs vara kriminella utestängdes de från offentligt sörjande. Ardiwan Samir blev av Malmös kommunalordförande,

The recycling sector and the solid waste management systems (SWMS) in developing countries greatly rely on scavengers, a vulnerable and marginal urban population that recover items or materials to be reused or recycled. As a new mindset towards waste emerges, considering it a resource instead of something useless and undesirable; governments, NGOs, private companies and other stakeholders slowly r

Syftet med projektet är att undersöka vad användandet av EPS - cellplast som isolering i platta på mark kan ha för risker och konsekvenser ur byggnadsfysikaliska - och konstruktions aspekter i ett långtidsperspektiv. Arbetet har fokuserat på minskad isoleringsförmåga av fukt, och sättningsskador som beror på krypning av isoleringsmaterialet. Detta undersöks för att kunna uppskatta EPS - cellplaste

Idag används sociala medier av människor över stora delar av världen och nu mer i en rad olika syfte, det handlar inte längre endast om att kommunicera med vänner eller skriva blogginlägg. Den stora mängd information som genom sociala medier sprids över internet kan således utnyttjas på olika sätt, av olika aktörer vid olika tillfällen, så som vid rekrytering. I denna uppsats vill vi undersöka hur

Abstract Authors: Linnea Lasson och Zandra Stifanic. Titel: Boys and girls, different or alike? – a gender perspective on children acting out or acting in [Translated title]. Supervisor: Johan Cronehed. Expectations of children in today's society has increased and children who, in some way, express any antisocial behavior that in any way could arouse negative feelings in their surroundings co

Social work in groups is a well-known method to many social workers. A certain type of this method is parenting education programs. One of these programs is COPE – The Community Parenting Education Program. COPE is to be found in a lot of municipalities in Sweden and also abroad, being created and established in Canada. It allows for parents to seek and receive help from educated “COPE-facilitator

Abstract Author: Marit Bachs Title: Honorrelated violence or men´s violence against women - a discourse analysis of the public debate in media. Supervisor: Mats Hilte Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed This paper studies the debate surrounding the murder of Fadime Sahindal from a discourse-analytical and post-colonial approach. My purpose has been to investigate and discern how honor related v

The aim of our study was to examine the attitudes towards the gender-neutral pronoun “hen” among social work students at Lund University. “Hen” is a gender-neutral pronoun that is used instead of “he”, “him”, “she” or “her” in situations where gender is irrelevant or unknown. Over the past three years “hen” has been increasingly mentioned, used and debated in Swedish media. Our perception of the o

A granny job with soft issues, feelings and stuff - A qualitative study of men in a female-dominated profession The purpose of this study was to examine how professional social workers and students in social work education relates to and understands the idea that social work is considered feminine. Another aspect considered in this study is how the widespread predominance of women in social work

Employee benefits can be seen as an HRM practice that has received increased attention among practitioners, while scholars’ interest in this theme has been moderate. The previous research focus has mostly been on how benefits contribute to organizational outcomes such as commitment, retention and attraction of employees. As opposed to this dominant view, this study sets out to explore employee ben

ABSTRACT Author: Louise Jonsson Title: The grief has got a water lily in its lake: a qualitative content analysis regarding children growing up close to a parent with a mental illness [Translated title] Supervisor: Hanna Wittrock This bachelor thesis examines the situation of children growing up with a parent with mental illness, a group that has been left out from research during a long period of

Since the beginning of movie-making there has been depictions of ambivalent relationships between young girls and adult males. In the middle of last century the stir caused by Nabokovs novel Lolita (1955), one of the last centurys most famous, and infamous, novels about an adult man obsessed with a not yet pubescent girl, shed light upon this practice. These nymphic girls and their lovers, when ap

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

Purpose: This research explores how status is manifested within the foodie culture. More specifically, we explored how foodies claim status and express inconspicuous meanings through their food consumption practices. Methodology: A hermeneutical epistemology approach was pursued, with the use of Interpretivism to generate insights into the foodie lived experience. A constructionist ontological pe