This study focuses on young adults with mild mental retardation and how their early adult life is a few years after leaving high school. They have grown up in a society where the view on mentally disabled has undergone big changes. Political decisions regarding handicapped, laws, official principles and social reforms have been dominated by the prinziple of normalization. The purpose has been to

Kriget i Tjetjenien utbröt 1994, som en följd av tjetjenernas krav på självständighet. Den tjetjenska sidan karaktäriseras idag av två vitt skilda drag, civilbefolkningens krigströtthet och de islamistiska extremisternas oförtröttliga kamp med terroristiska metoder. Ryssland å andra sidan håller hårt på sin territoriella rätt och situationen är därmed låst. Vi har, i en teorikonsumerande fallstud

In 1993 the 73rd Amendment to the Indian Constitution came into force, affecting the Indian rural governing bodies, the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). The Amendment, at focal point for this thesis, provides a 33% reservation for women as members and as chairperson in the PRI's three-tier system. The reservation has led to a tremendous mobilization of women in the countryside, resulting in

Hösten 2004 diskuterades Vänsterpartiets förhållande till kommunismen flitigt i medierna. En utlösande händelse var två reportage om Vänsterpartiet som Sveriges Televisions samhällsprogram Uppdrag granskning gjorde. Reportagen och de följande händelserna väckte stor uppmärksamhet i medierna. Vår undersökning är en fallstudie om agenda-setting. Genom att belysa och förklara agenda-setting för poli

This paper describes a factor analysis applied at the data of the European Union structural indicators. These are the official indicators for wealth and economic development in the European Union with main use to evaluate the outcomes of the year 2000 Lisbon goals for making the European Union the world’s strongest economy by 2010. The purpose of the data is to serve for comparing and “learning by

Landreformen i Västbengalen, Indien, påverkade inte bara produktiviteten utan även de sociala relationerna inom staten. Decentraliseringen av den politiska makten är även den starkt kopplat till denna diskussion. Denna uppsats diskuterar detta och försöker analysera vad som var så unikt med just Västbengalens reformförsök. Blev resultatet det väntade och i så fall varför?

There are many theories of time preference that are relevant for the problem of overweight. The DU-model explains how declining utility profiles can be consistent with an individual’s preferences. Such profiles are achieved through overeating and overweight. Through applying overweightness on Becker and Mulligan’s model (1997) with endogenous time preferences, possible directions of causality are

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 (

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

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

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

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

In this essay I will argue that any plausible moral theory should be able to provide a good answer to the question "why should I be moral"? This is the question of moral motivation. I will further suggest that a contractarian moral theory, such as that of David Gauthier,1 provides a plausible answer to this question. And that the ability to do this is due to the rational-choice framework

The purpose of this paper has been to examine the ways in which professionals describe their work with pregnant drug-addicts. The paper raises the following questions; · How does the deviant behavior, that using drugs during pregnancy can be described as, affect the professionals in their work with pregnant drug-addicts? · How do the professionals experience their own role, and the roles of othe

Som grund för denna uppsats ligger en tidigare undersökning med titeln Undersökning av mental arbetsbelastning under instrumentflygövningar (Andreas Johnsson, 2004). Denna uppsats utgör en fortsättning på ovan nämnda undersökning. Liksom i Johnssons (2004) undersökning har en subjektiv mätmetod baserad på en niogradig skala använts för att utvärdera svaren på den enkät som använts för att få fram

Neo-liberal policy as a means for development has been present in our society since the first experiment in Chile during the 1970s. This experience came to be known as an economic ?miracle? and the model was soon imitated by surrounding countries. In these countries income inequality has been a well-known feature and the Gini Coefficient in all Latin American countries exceeds the world average. T

The purpose of this essay was to investigate the opinions of young people, age 14-16, at a school in a middle-sized city in Sweden, concerning narcotics. The questions we asked ourselves were; -What are young peoples' ideas of narcotics? -What do young people imagine when they think of a drug addict? -What reasons do young people give to start using narcotics? -What gender-related opinions

It is claimed by several Western experts that the citizens are loosing confidence in their politicians. If true, it poses a serious threat to the legitimacy of the decisions made by politicians. The answer to this claimed lack of trust could be found in the politician role, because this role is the link between the mass and the political institutions. Politicians act as the representatives of the