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Att stå på scen och sjunga inför en publik innebär på många sätt att iklä sig en roll. Den västerländska konstmusiken och opera är traditionstyngda genrer med starka normer för hur sångare ska bete sig på scen. Normer i samhället i stort påverkar människors medvetna och omedvetna livsstilsval och värderingar, samt förmåga att förändra sin livssituation. De hänger ihop med makt och fungerar hämmandSinging on stage is in many ways equivalent to dressing up as a character. Western classical music and opera are both genres with heavy traditions of how to act on stage. Norms in society in general affect how people consciously and subconsciously lead their lives, what their values are and what ability they have to change their life. Norms are connected with power and impede and restrict deviatio

The study is based on interviews and is a qualitative study based on grounded theory and answer on why men and women live in high-risk rural areas in Tubu, Botswana. Tubu is a village in the northwestern part of Botswana close to the Okavango Delta. To answer the question the authors discuss risk perception and the differences between men and women. The interviews are about the respondents' li

The society’s population is growing older and it is more common with alcohol related prob-lems. Because of that, our purpose with this study was to describe how staff in municipal el-derly care perceives, manage and treat older people with alcohol use and abuse. We have cho-sen to interview staff in three retirement homes and three assisted living groups in three dif-ferent places, a total of six

A study of Sörmlandskustens emergency service’s preventative fire education regarding if participants of the education programs had a change in basic fire knowledge and attitude towards fire safety. Fire knowledge amongst participants had a marginal rise but their attitude remained the same as before participating in the fire education.

This essay begins with the author trying to find similar problem areas within the topic of children´s rights in Romania and in Sweden. The contrasting countries, both members of the EU turns out having one common similarity: discrimination. To investigate the topic further a thesis regarding institutional and structural discrimination by Masoud Kamali is applied. The thesis will provide the inform

Syftet med detta examensarbete som anlägger ett lärarperspektiv är att belysa och öka förståelsen om ett inom pedagogisk forskning i Sverige hittills föga uppmärksammat fenomen, som antas ställa gymnasielärare i moderna språk inför en rad didaktiska utmaningar: modersmålselever som deltar i andraspråksundervisningen, här benämnt L1/L2-fenomenet. Till grund för detta arbete ligger ett antal forskni

The aim of this study was to analyze the discourse of the theories by John Gray about relationships between men and women. The basis of this study was to analyze the social structures in our society today. I wanted to answer the questions following: In what way does John Gray construct male and female qualities in the literature? In what kind of discourse does John Gray discuss love? And how the t

The aim of this study was to depict the situation of people with a HIV-diagnosis in Sweden today. In my study, based on 6 biographies from HIV-positive people, 3 of these from men who has sexual contacts with other men and 3 from heterosexual women, I used qualitative content analysis to read the stories and find important themes. To find these themes I used my research questions. They were as fol

En hypotetiskt och teoretiskt utformad analys av historieskrivning i relation till läsarens samt textens villkor. Det empiriska materialet är begränsat till Peter Englunds debutroman "Poltava", och det teoretiska ramverket, i syftet eklektiskt, influerat av hermeneutik, dekonstruktion, post-klassisk narratologi, kognitionsvetenskap mm.

Bakgrund: Mötet på en akutmottagning präglas av högt tempo och kort vårdtid. Som sjuksköterska är det av vikt att arbeta med god kompetens för att ge bästa möjliga vård. Syftet: Beskriva relationen mellan patientens utbildningsnivå och bedömning av sjuksköterskans kompetenser samt att lyfta fram de kompetenser, som enligt patienten, brister eller utmärker sig hos sjuksköterskan. Metod: En kvantita

The purpose of this study was to study the factors which affect the decisions made by social workers who deal with financial assistance, as well as examine how the social workers perceive the discretion that the Social Services Act allows and how they think the discretion affects their work and their decisions. Since the purpose was to explore the experience of social workers, we have used a quali

The purpose of this study was to explore the professional and subjective thoughts and attitudes of professionals who are assigned to meet both men and women who suffer intimate partner violence (IPV) in a heterosexual relationship. The study focuses on men who are victims of IPV, and the professions that are interviewed range from police, social service, victims support and staff nurse. The study

This study is featuring six social welfare officer's stories about client's health and the organization’s resources regarding health. The aim of this study is to analyze how the social welfare officer´s describe their client´s health. We are using semi structured interviews and discourse analysis. Our theoretical point of view is social constructivism and street-level bureaucracy. The resu

The aim of this study was to examine how token economy is used in six different residential care for youths, what attitude staff members have towards the method and if there is space for the staff members to make their own assessments. The study was based on qualitative methods and consisted of semi-structured interviews with eight staff members from six different facilities. The results showed th

It’s important to have knowledge about the existing conditions before proceeding with various types of construction works. Geotechnical investigations are made to determine the soil properties and one method of doing so is to perform borehole drillings. Such drillings are expensive and unfortunately it’s not always known if similar procedures have been performed in the surroundings. A geotechnical

High-Order Harmonic generation (HHG) is an alternative and much more compact way of generating x-ray radiation compared to producing it in a synchrotron. In this report a two color inline interferometer is designed to superimpose electrical fields generated by a frequency doubling crystal, for the purpose of reshaping the pulse train generated in the HHG process. The challenges of this design is t

The aim of this paper was to understand how teachers work with children with special needs and how their work can affect the child. More specifically the focus was to look at how teachers work in a class where there are children with special needs, how teachers ' practices relate to a categorical or a relational perspective and how the teachers' working effect the student. Five teachers we

Ren intermittent kateterisering (RIK) är ett behandlingsalternativ för neurogen blåsrubbning/inkomplett blåstömning såsom Multipel Skleros, Parkinsons sjukdom, ryggmärgsskador och överflödesinkontinens. Neurogen blåsrubbning innebär en neurologisk sjukdom eller skada på nervsystemet som påverkar de nedre urinvägarnas normala funktion. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva patienters upplev

Abstract Author: Sara Möll Title: An analysis of five members and one staff member’s views on a Fountain House, through the term empowerment [En analys av fem medlemmars och en handledares synsätt på ett Fontänhus, utifrån begreppet empowerment] Supervisor: Anders Östnäs The aim of this study was to gather views of five members and of one staff member, on a Fountain House and describe and analy