The purpose of this thesis is to propose some feminist tools to study possible sexism in the album Motomami (2022) by Rosalía. In order to achieve the purpose, the most controversial songs and music videos of the album are critically analyzed: “Saoko” and “Hentai”. Both textual and visual aspects are analyzed. The analysis itself is connected to feminist literature. Additionally, it studies how Ro

Denna studie undersöker vad som driver kriminalitet hos människor. Studiens syfte är att, genom kvalitativa intervjuer, analysera vilka emotioner som aktualiseras i kriminaliteten, på vilket sätt de brottsliga handlingarna neutraliseras och hur vägen bort från kriminalitet gestaltas. Det empiriska materialet består av livsberättelser från fyra kvalitativa intervjuer med människor som påbörjade s

Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka definitionen av handelsagent i 1 § Lag (1991:351) om handelsagentur och hur denna förhåller sig till motsvarande definition i Direktiv 86/653/EEG om samordning av medlemsstaternas lagar rörande självständiga handelsagenter och dess tillämpningsområde. Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i det faktum att den svenska definitionen av handelsagent förefaller innehålla eThe purpose of the thesis is to examine the definition of commercial agent in 1 § of the Swedish Commercial Agents Act and how it compares to the corresponding definition in the Council Directive 86/653/EEG on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents and its scope of application. The thesis starts out from the fact the Swedish definition of com

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka relationen mellan män och kvinnors interdependence, det vill säga deras prioritering av nära relationer eller grupprelationer, samt nivå av tolerans mot en oliktänkande vän. För att göra detta skapades och distribuerades en enkät till universitetsstudenter vid olika lärosäten i Sverige. Enkäten bestod av frågor om deltagarnas prioritering av sociala relatiThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between men and women’s interdependence, meaning prioritization of close relationships or group relationships, and level of tolerance towards a friend with dissimilar views. To do this, a survey was created and distributed to students at different universities in Sweden. The survey included questions about the participants' prioritizati

Support in an organizational context has been a topic of academic discussion for many years. While there is no doubt that organizational support has been researched thoroughly, it seems that the focus always seems to land on the employee-manager perspective. In this thesis, we aim to provide a new and intriguing perspective on support in an organizational context, by using the manager-manager and

Inom arbetsrätten har användandet av hyvling på arbetsmarknaden varit omdiskuterad. Uppsatsen behandlar de lagstadgade regler kring hyvling som trädde i kraft 2022, 7 a och 7 b §§ lag (1982:80) om anställningsskydd (LAS). Paragraferna innebär att turordning måste följas vid omreglering genom sänkt sysselsättningsgrad, samt att arbetstagaren har rätt till omställningstid. Lagändringarna innebar äve

The meeting between Dr David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in the village of Ujiji in 1871 is widely seen as one of the most influential events in the history of British colonialism. The aim of this essay has been to analyse the travels that Livingstone and Stanley undertook in connection to this meeting, and study how the two explorers depicted Africa in their travel reports. How did they

Vad har Sense of Belonging för betydelse på arbetsplatser? Studier på Belonging är omfattande och har visat sig ha många positiva effekter, trots detta har det länge funnits en lucka inom studier på vad Belonging har för inverkan på just arbetsplatser. Syftet för denna studie var att undersöka Sense of Belonging och dess potentiella påverkan på Organizational Identification (OID), Self-Efficacy ocWhat significance does Sense of Belonging hold in workplaces? Studies on Belonging are extensive and have revealed numerous positive effects. Despite this, there has long been a gap in the research focusing on the impact of Belonging in the workplace. The aim of this study was to investigate Sense of Belonging and its potential influence on Organizational Identification (OID), Self-Efficacy, and w

The Hawkes process, also referred to as a self-exciting point process, is a class of point processes where the intensity is conditioned on previous events. More specifically, an event occurrence excites the process, temporarily increasing the probability of more events occurring. One application of Hawkes processes is to model occurrences of crimes, such as burglaries or shootings. The present the

This paper examines weather the increased dept in Swedish households has an impact on the Swedish exchange rate. A hypothesis is formulated based on several empirical studies, which claims that the Swedish banks use market financing in foreign currency to cover Swedish house loans. By using data from the period 2002 to 2022 on the Swedish exchange rate index and data from the largest banks in Swed

The phenomenon of global framework agreements has emerged through the difficulties of regulating the global labour market where the multinational enterprises' operations have been driven by an economic agenda and profit. The challenges of creating transnational legislation have brought social actors, such as the United Nations and the International Labour Organisation, to initiate self-regulat

Our thesis aimed to investigate how the Swedish district courts and appellate courts present arguments for visitation rights while safeguarding children's rights in custody cases involving instances of violence. The analysis and concluding discussion focused on three research questions: How do the district courts and appellate courts argue on visitation rights in custody cases involving instan

This study’s purpose was to examine how 3 female managers subjectively thought about and related to femininity in relation to their leadership role. The emphasis was put on how the respondent viewed perceptions about leadership as a socially constructed concept, upon gender norms and a traditionally masculine leadership stereotype, and if, and how, they themselves consider this to have affected th

Bakgrund: Psykisk ohälsa står för nästan hälften av sjukfrånvaron i Sverige, varav de flesta fall beror på stressrelaterad ohälsa. Arbetsterapeutiska interventioner är ett alternativ för individer med stressrelaterad ohälsa då de kan vara i behov av förändringar som kan främja en god aktivitetsbalans. Syfte: Undersöka arbetsterapeutiska interventioner inom primärvården för vuxna individer med strBackground: Mental illness accounts for almost half of sickness absence in Sweden, of which most cases are due to stress-related illness. Occupational therapy interventions are an option for individuals with stress-related illness as they may be in need of changes that can promote a good activity balance. Aim: To explore the effects of occupational therapy interventions in primary care for adults

The purpose of this study was to gain an increased understanding of how adult children describe stigmatizing experiences from their childhood. This is in terms of the strategies they employed to handle stigma, and how these strategies could be perceived from an adult’s point of view. The research questions: "How do the authors portray strategies from childhood for handling stigmatization abou

The consultation process in Swedish planning provides an opportunity for citizens to participate in the planning process. Yet the influence of the citizens is varied and their ability to interact with the planners and the developer can sometimes be problematic. Using Haberma’s theory of communicative action, this study analyzes the interactions between the planners, contractors and citizens in the

This study aimed to examine the presence of self-medication and in Swedish autobiographies, the understanding of the self-medication process. A narrated qualitative research method, with a content analysis of the autobiographies, was used to investigate the authors' descriptions of their drug and/or alcohol addiction and life story. The self-medication hypothesis and the learning model were ap

This paper examines the effect of the recurrent tax on immovable property on wealth distribution. It also investigates how the wealth distributive effect of property prices is affected by the homeownership rate in a country. Data on the mean to median wealth ratio, tax sizes, property prices, homeownership rate, and economic freedom of 36 OECD member countries over the years 2000-2021 are used to

De arbetsområden där chefer och HR delar ansvar och behöver samarbeta är många. Detta beror i huvudsak på att både chefer och HR besitter personalansvar, där HR:s roll primärt är att stötta chefer i deras arbete på olika sätt. Det har nyligen pågått en debatt kring förväntningarna på HR:s ansvarsområden där det råder delade meningar kring vilken funktion HR bör fylla i organisationer, som legat so