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This Master's thesis concerns the classification of compact discs according to the Swedish classification system, SAB. The purpose of this thesis is to critically study and discuss category Y of the SAB-system and its application in Swedish public libraries. The classification system has undergone great changes from the first edition in 1921 until today. In 1921 there were no musical recording

This study is about the work of including immigrants to the Swedish society. The reason that we chose Landskrona community is that it is a town with a high population of immigrants. The purpose of this work has been to examine how projectleaders reflect about the work of integration in Landskrona and their point of view regarding the term integration. Our questions were: what is the projectleaders

I denna uppsats studeras två fotbollsföreningar hemmahörande i Malmö, Husie IF och Kvarnby IK. Dessa föreningar har under den senaste 10-årsperioden haft väldigt olika utveckling vad gäller medlemsantal och föreningsprofil. Vid analysen används Bourdieus teorier med begrepp som kapital, fält, habitus och agent samt Webers teorier kring tjänstemän och byråkrati. Frågeställningarna är "Hur ser

To describe your profession can sometimes be hard. Everyone knows what a music teacher is and what her work includes. But what about a eurhythmic teacher - who knows what she does? By experience my answer is: not many. In this essay I have outlined differences in method and lecture planning between a eurhythmic and a music teacher, to be able to find out the answer to my research question - what

The purpose with this essay is to describe how the principal, social worker and the teacher work to prevent bullying at school. The following questions have been discussed: Does the school have an action plan for bullying, and if so, what does it say? Who has the practical responsibility for making sure that the plan is followed, and how does that responsibility work? How is the responsibility di

Uppsatsen behandlar konfirmationen inom Svenska kyrkan och dess förändrade teologiska betydelse. Materialet sträcker sig från handboken 1942 till det senaste nytrycket av "Riktlinjer för Svenska kyrkans konfirmandarbete" år 2000 och utgörs av i första hand kyrkans offentliga dokument. Fokus ligger på konfirmationsgudstjänsten och därtill hörande ritual.

It seems like Swedish municipalities are dominated by beliefs that all citizen participation is good for the development of local democracy. A critic of this certainty is rising among Swedish scholars of political science. However, a critic with an ambition of such generalization is harsh. Different democratic projects contents different qualities and thereby diverse problems in the democratic pro

The object of this essay was to illustrate and analyse what determines that a contract treatment investigation for a drug addict is initiated and what factors influence the investigation itself, from the probation service officer's perspective. We selected the following two questions: - What does the probation service officer see as being the deciding factor for a contract treatment investig

Because of a more globalised world the national states have been forced to make structural changes at both national, regional and local level to cope with different challenges. The regional community has become an important area which has resulted in a policy of more self governing, both for the regional and the local level. The aim of the thesis is to study the relation between regional and loca

This thesis is dedicated to analysing the relationship between Islam and democracy and the role played by Civil Society in a process towards democracy. This theme is further elaborated through a comprehensive study of three modern Muslim intellectuals: Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Hasan Hanafi (Egypt), and Tariq Ramadan (Switzerland), and their thoughts about and views on Islam and democracy. Islam

Studien koncentrerades på den ökade uppmärksamheten kring pokerspel i media. Intresset tycks ha ökat kring detta "fenomen" vilket fört med sig både kommersiell uppmärksamhet och kanske en ökad nyfikenhet för dem som tidigare inte varit spelintresserade. Föreliggande analys diskuterade varför ett sådant intresse plötsligt fått genomslagskraft. Diskussionen inleddes med ett teoriavsnitt dä

This thesis deals with democratic responsibility and accountability in a globalized world. The ambition is to provide the reader with tools to analyze responsibility issues at the global level. To achieve this, three types of analytical approaches are used; empirical-, normative-, and constructive. The thesis starts out by concluding that to be democratically responsible is to be responsible f

The aim of the thesis is to examine how central collective actors in the Swedish subsystem of renewable fuels use their positions of power and influence to their own specific interests and needs. In particular the thesis looks at the problems of climate change and oil scarcity and how renewable fuels are described as a potential solution. Using agenda setting theory and Steven Lukes three dimensio

The purpose of this study was to enlighten the views of male social work students on; the social work profession, social work status and their career options. Also, the study aimed at getting these students angles of approach on the fact that they, being men, are a minority group within the profession of social work. Some of the main questions were: Why does not social work as a profession seem to

Are NATO and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) destined to be roommates or rivals? The transatlantic relationship between the EU and the United States permeates this question, which is examined by three theoretical approaches. Firstly, a realist perspective is used to answer: What are the national interests of the four pivotal states regarding the ESDP and NATO? For France, the ESDP

För cirka ett år sedan, hösten 2004, skedde en intensiv debatt i Sydsvenskan kring hur stadsdelen Rosengård i Malmö presenterats i media. Man menade att mediebilden som presenterats var skev i jämförelse med hur verkligheten faktiskt såg ut. Problemet med att den mediebild som presenteras av förorterna i dagspressen är skev i jämförelse med hur verkligheten ser ut är ingen ny frågeställning. Debat

This thesis examines the possibility of Bolivian indigenous women’s social movements’ getting their demands of a gender equal society fulfilled in the new state which was initiated in 2005 when Evo Morales became the first president representing the indigenous people of the country. By using a qualitative method I have showed that although the Bolivian indigenous women’s social movements’ historic

This essay examines the international communitys intervention in Bosnia. The purpuse i to give the reader a deaper understanding of the problems appeared in re-building the bosnian state. Office of the higher representive (OHR), was to become the koordinator of the recontruction of the institutions and governance. The theory used fore the examination is state-building, whith an alingnment of st

In Jaunuary 1995 Sweden became part of the European Union. Consequently Sweden agreed upon beeing part of a greater integration project with influences of federalism. However, many argue that the discourse that has been been dominant in Sweden is the discourse where we focus on the national state instead of the EU. In my essay I question whether the discourse about ?nationalstatslogiken? is found

Allteftersom makten i viss mån har förskjutits från "government" till "governance", bör det följaktligen medföra ökat krav på demokrati inom governance. När internationella organisationer med tiden får mer makt och inflytande i olika delar av samhället bör dessa också ta mer ansvar för att främja demokratin. Detta eftersom demokrati anses vara grundpelaren i "moderna"