This study aims to contribute one piece to the puzzle on why industry plants in the U.S. choose to comply with environmental laws under seemingly low incentives i.e., few inspections and low fines. This study investigates private enforcement, specifically citizen suits, as a possible determinant of plants' compliance behavior. Empirically, the study focuses on compliance with the Clean Water

Abstract Title: Threats and violence at day centres - A qualitative study of staffs’ experiences of their responsibility to report violence and threats from people with developmental disorders (Translated title) Supervisor: Lupita Svensson Assessor: Anna Rypi Threats and violence from people with developmental disorders towards staff are common (Lundström 2006). Nevertheless, the number of incid

Uppsatsen undersöker hur graviditet gestaltas i samtida svensk prosa, genom närstudie av romanerna Hysteros (2013) av Helena Granström, Förvandling (2005) av Eva Adolfsson och Värddjuret (1995) av Marie Hermanson. Aspekter av graviditetstematiken som ägnas särskilt fokus är kroppslighet, främmandeskap, bruk och underminerande av traditionellt könade dikotomier, subjektivitetsproblematik och identiThis thesis investigates how pregnancy is mediated in contemporary swedish prose, through a close reading of the novels Hysteros (2013) by Helena Granström, Förvandling (2005) by Eva Adolfsson and Värddjuret (1995) by Marie Hermanson. Aspects of the theme of pregnancy that are especially emphasized are corporeality, alienation, the use and deconstruction of traditionally gendered dichotomies, prob

Authors: Sofie Christensen och Josefine Hentzel Title: Cooperation and division of responsibilities between social services and clinics for maintenance treatment. A qualitative study of the professionals' experiences. Supervisor: Dolf Tops Assessor: Hans-Edvard Roos The purpose of this study was to investigate how the staff of the social services adult unit and clinics for maintenance treatme

I de nya växande branscherna finns det en förändrad syn på relationen mellan arbete och fritid, förändrad syn på arbetsmiljön och det sociala på arbetsplatsen. Syfte med denna studie var att genom en kvalitativ metod undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkar den upplevda arbetsmotivationen. Studien genomfördes på en mellanstor spelstudio i södra delen av Sverige. Datainsamling skedde genom såväl en obIn the new emerging industries there is a changed view of the relationship between work and life outside work, changed view of the work environment. The aim of this study was to use a qualitative approach to examine the factors that affect the work motivation. The study was conducted at a medium-sized game studio in the south of Sweden, using data obtained from both an observational study and semi

Images of togetherness - theories, ideals and practice The aim of this thesis was to examine images of togetherness and its practical roots in civil society. More specifically its aim was to find out how practitioners from the civil society themselves perceive and define the concept of togetherness and how they strive to create togetherness in their field of work. Also, its aim was to examine dif

The aim of this study was to examine and analyze the ongoing Swedish debate on the evidence- based practice (EBP), and thereby be able to present an idea of why the debate arose and continues. We used perspective analysis to analyze debate articles published in two of Swedens leading journals within the subject of social work, Socionomen and Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. The articles where publish

Studiens syfte är att visa på en breddad syn på begreppet läromedel samt att ge en bild av vilka typer av läromedel lärare på gymnasieskolor i Skåne arbetar med i kurserna ljudproduktion 1 och 2 och musikproduktion 1 och 2. Undersökningen genomfördes med en webbaserad enkät innehållande både öppna och slutna frågor vilket har resulterat i data med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ karaktär. EnkätsvaThe main objective of this study is to find out what kinds of teaching material educators in upper secondary school in southern Sweden use when teaching the subjects “Ljudproduktion 1 och 2” and “Musikproduktion 1 och 2”, both in the field of music production. Along with investigating educator’s ways of selecting material, the work also aims to provide knowledge about general attitude and opinion

Abstract Author:Erica Johansson Title: The Madonna‐figure and the latte‐father –A qualitative content analysis of the most read blogs in Sweden using a gender perspective [Translated title] Supervisor: Gabriella Scaramuzzino Assessor: Carina Tigervall The purpose behind this paper was to do a content analysis of six of the most read blogs in Sweden and how they portrait men, women and gender. T

Summary: The purpose of this study was to look at autobiographies through qualitative methods. The autobiographies have been written by women who have been victims of domestic violence. The main purpose has been to highlight how the women describe themselves (as victims or survivors), the psychosocial consequences of the violence they have experienced and their turning points: the way out of the r

Detta examensarbete syftar till att få en klarare bild på vad som är med och skapar hierarkier på Musikhögskolan i Malmö och vad som är med och påverkar eventuella hierarkier mellan de olika utbildningarna. Studien är grundad på de intervjuer jag gjort med fem olika informanter och jag har gjort intervjufrågor med fokus på status och hierarkier. Hur resonerar lärare och före detta studenter gällanThis thesis intends to shed light on the creation of student’s social status in school focusing on what forms and effects social hierarchies between different programs in Malmö Academy of music. The study is based on the interviews I have conducted with five different participants while the interview questions are based on social status and hierarchies. How does the teachers and former students re

Idag finns det ingen generell konsensus kring Palestinas statskaraktär. Somliga menar att Palestina är en stat, andra inte. Därför anser vi det relevant att försöka finna ett ställningstagande i denna fråga. Huruvida Palestina bör betraktas som en stat grundas i vad man avser med begreppet stat och dess användning. Därför har vi tänkt att göra en normativ analys genom att försöka reda ut begreppet

Honor related violence is a phenomenon that has been noticed to occur in Sweden for the last 15 years. Previous researches indicate a lack of knowledge from social welfare secretaries in these cases and a sense of insecurity how to deal with the problem. It also displays a criticism of the social services family oriented work and their inability to shift focus from the family to the youngster. Wit

This thesis focuses on the presence and significance of silence in the poetic work The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation (1964), by the Nicaraguan liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal, in which the biblical psaltery constitutes the base for a contextual interpretation. This study aims to prove the hypothesis that the white spaces in the psalms, created by the application of free verse, are possi

Amningsfrekvensen i Sverige är sjunkande och den sjunker i takt med barnets ålder. Rekommendationerna från WHO är att helamma sitt barn i sex månader. Syftet med studien var att få en djupare förståelse för hur mammor upplever att inte helamma sitt barn i sex månader. En kvalitativ intervjustudie har genomförts med 12 mammor. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys tillämpades för att analysera materialet.

Implicit Bias is the automatic and unconscious tendency to associate certain traits with members of particular groups, which affect judgements and/or interactions with members from the denoted group. In philosophy the concept of Implicit Bias has often been treated as a thick normative (negative) concept, which I refute in my paper. My suggestion is that Implicit Bias, when it is wrong, is wrong b

Collaboration between municipal and state administrators about young adults who receive financial assistance- a qualitative study The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate how social workers and employment advisors on the administrator level collaborate in their work with young adults who receive financial assistance. This study is based on two different forms of collaboration between

Studiens syfte var att undersöka sambandet mellan mentaliserings¬kapacitet och upplevd stress, samt studera om och hur socialt respektive innovativt arbetsklimat medierar eller modererar detta samband i en urvalsgrupp av grundskolelärare (n=113) i Sverige. Data samlades in med ett självskattningsformulär vilket innehöll sociodemografiska frågor samt tre instrument som mäter upplevd stress, mentaliThe purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between mentalizing capacity, stress, social and innovative workplace environment for primary school teachers in Sweden. In addition, the moderating and mediating effect of social and innovative workplace environment on the relationship between mentalizing capacity and perceived stress was also explored. Sample group (n=113) data was collec