In this essay I discuss the expression ritual landscape regarding the burial and gathering site of Döserygg and its surroundings in south-western Scania, Sweden. Döserygg is dated to the early Neolithic-mid Neolithic period. I have studied literature, searched the Swedish National Heritage Board’s database, and studied maps to answer my questions: What is a ritual landscape? What other Neolithic s

More than 4,000 children living on the street despite the fact that Bolivia has ratified the Convention of the child in 1990. The purpose of this study was to examine what different profesions that works in contact with streetchildren in diffrent levels have as declarations and how they describe children's living conditions. The aim was also to find out how they work with the situation and wha

The demand for sex education targeting immigrants is a debated issue in Sweden. Generally sex education targeting immigrants has been carried out through Swedish for immigrants (SFI), since it is an educational institution which reaches a lot of newly arrived adults in Sweden. In this essay I examine two pieces of sex education material which have been used in SFI. The main purpose is to scrutini

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the growing participation of international non-governmental organisations (INGO) in peace-building operations and if their growing participation can be combined with their non-party mandate in conflict areas. The discussion is based on Jonathan Goodhand’s theory which is a critique of the minimalist and maximalist strategies. Firstly, the intention is to ana

The purpose with this essay is to investigate if there are conditions for freedom of religion in Sudan after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005. My methodology is to investigate the question of religions liberty in Sudan on the basis of three social levels: state level, religious actors and individual- level. I will use Cole Durham’s comparative Model for analyzing religions liberty and app

Denna uppsats är författad av Ebba Mann, Lovisa Wachtmeister och Malin Wennberg vid Enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet. Titeln på arbetet är ”Om man är snygg är man fett cool” – en studie i kläder. Uppsatsen behandlar den roll som kläder har i gymnasieflickors sociala spel. Hur kommunicerar vi med våra kläder? Den hypotes som rapporten tar sin utgångspunkt i är at

This paper investigates how compassion with and understanding for the suffering of the other is constructed by the media and why certain choices are made with respect to coverage and framing. Articles published in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in relation to three different cases that all take place in Haiti have been surveyed by using quantitative content analysis and qualitative textual a

Denna uppsats kommer undersöka vad Facebook har för inverkan på gränsen mellan privat och offentligt. Virtuell kommunikation gör att man kan välja att visa valda delar av sin personlighet och detta behöver inte betyda att man är ärlig i sitt framträdande. Därför valde vi att undersöka hur ens framträdande påverkas i denna offentliga miljö och vilka risker detta medför. Dessutom undrar vi varför ma

India is the home of over 1 billion people and is a mixture of ethnicities, religions, languages, castes and tribes. In the 1980’s the country was one of the poorest countries in the world but during the last twenty years India has gone through a huge economic growth, bigger than the world had ever seen before. According to these measures, India has no similarity with any other country in the worl

Syftet med denna uppsats är att närmare granska hemsidan Politiskt Inkorrekt, och hur de rapporterar nyheter. Till grund för detta ämnar vi att använda traditionella medier som jämförelseverktyg för att se om skillnader finns. Fokus ligger på olikheter hur de försöker sätta allmänhetens dagordning för kriminaljournalistik och huruvida de följer eller bryter mot pressetiska regler. De mest utmärkan

The ambition of this thesis is to discuss state – making from an historical point of view. The aim is also to point out the historical lineages in the world. This has been done by comparing the state – making of today in Afghanistan with the state – making in medieval Europe. Charles Tilly’s four stages of state – making has been applied and the result is that Afghanistan’s state – making is divid

Vi har gjort en kvalitativ undersökning som behandlar tre nationers kommunikationsarbete inför kommande nationsobligatoriets fall. Nationerna är Göteborgs Nation, Östgöta Nation och Malmö Nation. Vår studie behandlar huruvida respektive nation använder sig av och kommer att använda sig av intern och extern kommunikation för att behålla och rekrytera medlemmar efter obligatoriets fall samt vilken i

The essays purpose is to highlight the complexity of illicit weapons and it´s usage during conflicts that can be argued as just. The criteria’s of Jus in Bellum and Jus ad Bellum from the Just War theory is used to examine if conflicts containing illicit weapons can be argued as just. Apart from the theories view on what is just the illicit arms trade and the UN: s efforts to combat the arms trade

Many minority groups are subjected to discrimination in today’s society. The reasons behind this unfair treatment are often based upon morally irrelevant grounds. These grounds are in most cases shared by all the members of the minority group. The focal points of this essay are in the court cases that concern affirmative action at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Lund University

Titel: ” Jag märker att människor som kanske inte skulle ha pratat med mig annars gör det nu.” En kvalitativ undersökning om bloggars betydelse för individen efter dess ankomst i människors vardag Institution: Enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Lunds universitet Kurs: MKVA21:4, B-uppsats Författare: Marie-Louise Nilsson och Sandra Nilsson. Handledare: Veselinka Möllerström Problemomr

Civil-military cooperation is nowadays a core function in peace support operations (PSOs). This is a result of changes in the global political context, in part due to such things as the end of the Cold War, and the increased number of intrastate conflicts. Furthermore, the introduction of the concept of human security has had an impact on which grounds PSOs are initiated. The new context in which

The development of the constitution of Zimbabwe reflects many aspects of the political turmoil currently troubling the country. The constitution as an institution can therefore be analyzed in a perspective of historical institutionalism where the theory of path dependency provides an understanding of the choices made by different political actors throughout Zimbabwe’s independent history. The adop

The garment industry is one of the most vulnerable sectors in the world, with bad working conditions. Low wages and not allowed union organizing is every day for most workers, especially in Bangladesh. The workers are considered to living on a minimum wage, which does not cover the basic needs for workers and their family; therefore we need to talk about a living wage. This study is to examine ab

Kommunikationschefen Johan af Donner som arbetat på Röda Korset blir häktad, misstänkt för att ha stulit flera miljoner kronor från Röda Korset. Detta är starten till en hetsig nyhetsrapportering, där Röda Korset granskas in i minsta detalj av journalister. Vi har lagt vikt i att kritiskt granska journalisters utförande av artiklarna som publicerades. Vi har gått ner i artiklar och lyft fram detal

Vi har genom kvalitativ metod undersökt huruvida bloggen, i vårt fall tre kvinnliga bloggar, agerar som en arena för genuskonstruktion och om detta kan härledas till en diskussion om bloggen som utmanande och skapande faktor av genusmönster, kvinnoideal och kvinnlig identitet. Vi har genom ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt använt oss av innehållsanalys på tre av de största kvinnliga bloggarna i de