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The aim of this phenomenological research was to study immigrant women with satisfactory lives and to explore their emotions, impressions, thoughts and experiences of a cultural transition to gain more insight in how they have managed to deal with the initial acculturation process. An open question was sent to the participants (n=8) via e-mail, and the self-reports were analyzed with MCA-Minerva (

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine the contemporary educational tasks of the Swedish public library as they manifest in Swedish library journals. Our main question at issue is: Which educational discourses are there? And in relation to our main question: how do the concepts of information literacy, lifelong learning and adult education relate to each other? Is there an antagonism be

Problem/Bakgrund: År 1993 gick startskottet för den "första omgången" av den så kallade "pigdebatten" som kretsade kring huruvida hushållstjänster skulle skattesubventioneras eller inte. Idag är debatten återigen aktuell och frågan har allt mer kommit att framställas som ett feministiskt krav. Frågan har dock starka kopplingar till maktrelationer som grundar sig i genus-, klass

The objective with the study was to evaluate what key persons at LFV Group (Luftfartsverket) think about-presented core values and their implementation within the company. Another objective of the study was to describe and compare the process of implementation of core values and how this affects organization culture at two selected reference companies. A qualitative method was applied in the form

The purpose of this essay is to examine the concept of competence within the social services. More specifically it aims to find out how the social workers themselves look upon their own competence in social investigations concerning children. As the study was based on focus groups the main questions were vague at the beginning and were cleared later on during the group sessions. In three focus gr

This essay focuses on a träffpunkts-activity within LSS's disability care, which started a year ago. The study has an evaluating perspective. The purpose of this essay is to describe the activity, study its intentions and to describe how far it has come reaching its intentions/goals. The questions we have focused on are: What were Träffpunkten's goals and how far has it evolved during the

I denna studie har det huvudsakliga syftet varit att undersöka hur de danska diftongerna i det fonologiska inventariet realiseras fonetiskt. De primära faktorer som har studerats är dels hur öppningsdiftongernas respektive slutningsdiftongernas "bana" ser ut, dels vilken variation det finns beroende på hur diftongen börjar eller slutar, dvs om t.ex [w]-läget kommer att uppnås oberoende a

Despite its achievements the exact status of the EU's international role remains highly contested in the academic debate. For some analysts, the EU can be legiti-mately considered as a global actor in both economic and security terms, but for others the notion of an EU foreign policy still seems distant. Hence, there are good reasons for this thesis to focus on the European Union and its role

Populärvetenskaplig sammanattning: Syftet med detta arbete är att dels försöka finna dygnsvariationer i koncentrationen av fina aerosoler, dels att försöka förklara vad dessa kan bero på i den mån det är möjligt. Syftet inkluderar även att undersöka aerosolernas långväga transporter för att härigenom ta reda på varifrån partiklarna kommer ur ett regionalt perspektiv. För att lösa uppgiften utnyttjThis work aims to obtain information on diurnal variations of aerosol concentrations in the city of Lund (Sweden) and trying to locate the origin of the aerosols long distance transports. The study shows that the aerosol concentrations varied quit strongly over the entire measurement period, reflecting air masses of different degrees of pollution, mainly as a result of the diurnal rhythm of the tr

Problem: Underhållningsutbudet i TV ökar och televisionens möjligheter att stimulera till debatt och fungera som kunskapskälla riskerar att försvagas. Paradise Hotel, en så kallad realityserie, sändes flitigt i TV4 under våren 2005. Detta program och dess deltagare får stort offentligt utrymme medan många andra program, människor och idéer utesluts från televisionen. Syfte: Vårt syfte är att unde

The purpose of this study was to investigate how pupils with social dysfunction were defined and described and how the responsibility of the school concerning the needs of these pupils was apprehended. For this matter, in depth interviews with four headmasters and four teachers at three different schools were carried out. The possibilities to help pupils with social dysfunction were regarded as l

The main environmental problem for aviation is the great amount of exhaust gases, mainly nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons - mostly "greenhouse gases" leading to climate changes. I decided to sort out what is being done to decrease these problems and what regulations there are concerning air pollution by the means of searching the internet and using public

This paper is partially a literature study of human error and interruptions and partially an investigation of pilots and Air Traffic Control. The aim of the investigation was to find out where interruptions occur and how to reduce or eliminate them. The objective of this paper was to investigate what type of interruptions pilots and ATC deals with and during which phases they occur. The paper has

För ett flygbolag är det viktigt att ha en effektiv planering av sina resurser. Att kunna utnyttja personal och flygplan på rätt sätt är en förutsättning för en fortsatt överlevnad på marknaden. Flygbolagens tjänstebestämmelser regleras idag enligt nuvarande BCL-D 1.15. Under våren 2004 har Luftfartsverket behandlat en remiss som utgör ett förslag på en eventuell förändring av dessa tjänstebestämm

This Master's thesis aims to investigate the reference interview using the discourse analytical method discourse psychology. The reference interview has been studied thoroughly, and its importance has been proven repeatedly within the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). However, it has never been studied from a discourse analytical point of view before. The material for our study

Denna uppsats behandlar skillnader i polisens konstruktion och behandling av våldsbrottslighet beroende på om denna sker på allmän plats eller i hemmet. Skillnaderna förklaras med Randall Collins teori om bestraffning av brottslighet som ritualer som upprätthåller stratifierade samhällen, där det svenska samhället betraktas som ett samhälle bland annat stratifierat enligt kön. Undersökningen har

The aim of this essay was to examine how the decision-making in LVU cases are motivated in the judicial decisions. How has the principle of whats in the best interest of the child been noticeable in these judicial decisions and how are the child's needs and the consequences for the child of the drug abuse been described? When the parents have been judged to have given a non acceptable consent,

Engelsk titel: Greater opportunities than interests : Civic culture and deliberative discourse on Swedish NGO websites This is a critical and normative study, which examines a selection of Swedish NGO websites as potential forums for civic culture and deliberative discourse in the public sphere. Sociocultural, political and sociological and media and communication theories are combined. The work

Title Factors for success : a study of school libraries at compulsory schools and how to integrate them in the education Abstract This Master's thesis aims to identify success factors for the integration of school libraries in the education. The search for factors are concentrated to three areas: control documents for the school and school library, the Principal and organisation and the col

Denna uppsats har som syfte att undersöka och jämföra Lijphars och Horowitz teorier om etniska konflikter. Uppsatsen tittar dels på teorierna och deras grunder och dels på fallen av etniska konflikter i Bosnien och Makedonien. Uppsatsen försöker att urskilja viktiga detaljer och utgångspunkter som ligger i grunden för teorierna och deras förslag på lösningar av etniska konflikter. Genom att unders