Antalet överviktiga har i Sverige sedan slutet av 1980 talet fördubblats. Övervikt är något som dels påverkar den enskilda individen men är även något som kan medföra stora problem för samhället om utvecklingen fortsätter. Denna uppsats är tänkt att förse en bit av svaret till vad denna viktökning kan bero på. Uppsatsen ämnar utröna hur svenskar förhåller sig till en automatisk association gälland

The aim of the study was to analyze the collaboration of professionals working with children and young people using Lotsmodellen. Lotsmodellen is a collaboration model in northeastern Scania to facilitate the work of professionals in organizations related to children and young people. A comparison of structured and unstructured collaboration was also done to see which method might be better. The g

Studiens övergripande syfte var att studera fenomenet challenger bias. Challenger bias kan förklaras som att de individer som är för en förändring (utmanare av status quo) upplever en högre grad av attributionsbias än de som är emot en förändring (försvarare). Resultatet bekräftade att attributionsbias och challenger bias existerar. Studien hade även som syfte att studera om gruppidentifikation ha

The purpose of our paper was to examine how these unaccompanied teenagers were integrated and countered by the Swedish authorities based on the teenager´s perspective. To carry out our study, we have focused on male teenagers who were previously resident in a temporary home for unaccompanied refugee teens. We conducted a qualitative interview with four teenagers and we asked questions about their

I Sverige berörs 200 barn per år av att en förälder utvisas ur landet. Barn har en del rättigheter dels genom vissa bestämmelser som finns i svenska lagar som FB, SOL och UtlL men även i EKMR och barnkonventionen. Möjligheterna att utesluta utvisning i ett mål kring utvisningsfrågan på grund av brott där utlänningen har barn i riket finner man främmst i 8kap 11§ UtlL. Denna lagändring infördes eftIn Sweden there are 200 children every year which is affected by a parent will be expelled from the country. Children have some rights partly through provisions in Swedish law such as FB, SOL and UtlL but also in EKMR and the child convention. The possibilities of limiting deportation order when the alien has children in the country are found mainly in the aliens act 8 chapters 11§. This provision

It has been observed over decades that, poverty forces poor families to send their children to work, which results in a serious problem the world is facing nowadays. Child labour can leave many severe consequences on children and their families. When children work, it does not mean as a standard, they support their families economically, neither all of them get paid for their work since many of th

I denna uppsats undersöks hur sociala, politiska och ekonomiska förändringar kommit att forma dagens moderna universitet. Detta i bemärkelser som forskning, undervisning och lärar – och forskarprofessionen. Genom en studie av aktuell litteratur på området, kombinerat med intervjuer med representanter från några av Lunds universitets fakulteter, har vi diskuterat hur man idag betraktar frågor som s

There is no illness without a name – A study in the importance of diagnosis The aim of this study was to examine and gain knowledge about the psychiatric disabilities in social work. More specifically we wanted to examine how the diagnosis could impact on a persons prospects of treatment and to see the advantages and disadvantages with being diagnosed. The study was conducted by interviewing eigh

As a response to limitations of the conventional food system, alternative food networks such as community supported agriculture and direct selling box schemes have emerged in Romania, involving close producer-consumer connections and an emphasis on local and organic produce. Through a multi-case study of two such networks in the city of Cluj-Napoca, their contribution to the establishment of a sus

Development, with its links to capitalism and Western conceptions of progress, is both impossible to achieve and restricts possibilities of other socially and ecologically just worlds. Neoliberal development has long been promoted in agriculture, leading to corporate concentration and is perpetuated under food security discourses. In South Africa, this maintains apartheid racial inequalities. Alte

This thesis investigates the relationship between social capital and peacebuilding, and the potential contribution peacebuilding efforts can make in terms of generating social capital in post-conflict countries. Using a qualitative methodological approach, seven local civil society organizations in Guatemala were interviewed with the purpose of understanding in what way the organizations are contr

This is a case study of child marriage in Tanzania aiming to explore how failures to implement laws prohibiting child marriage can be understood in the Tanzanian context. The study is of a qualitative nature and primarily based on interviews with development actors, working on community and national level with the issue of gender based violence and child marriage. A theoretical framework combining

This aim of this research was to investigate possible reasons for the large gap between legal frameworks and policies in comparison to the practical implementation of Legal Aid Services in Zimbabwe. The responsibility of the state to provide legal aid, protection and civil legal aid necessary to ensure this provision for those who cannot afford such is affirmed by international legal instruments,

The treaty of Lisbon introduced several significant institutional changes to the EU. The main research question of this thesis is therefore the following: How has the institutional changes in the treaty of Lisbon affected how the EU debates norms and what norms the EU refers to? In order to approach the research problem this thesis uses a comparative case study design which looks at how the EU deb

Lag(1993:387) om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade trädde i kraft den första januari 1994 som en rättighetslag. Syftet var att människor med funktionsnedsättning skulle få ökad livskvalitet. Genom lagen ville samhället skapa en möjlighet för de som får insatser ”att leva ett liv som andra”. Lagen var planerad som en del av en helhet, där handikappolitikens generella och individuella deLag (1993:387) om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade, which is an Act of individual rights, came into effect in January 1994. Its purpose was to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and to create opportunities for people with disabilities to enable to live a life like any other. The Act was intended to be a part of a whole in which the general and individual parts of

Bemanningsbranschen har under de senaste årtiondena vuxit kraftigt i Sverige och är idag en etablerad del av arbetsmarknaden. Behovet av att reglera bemanningsbranschen rättsligt insåg EU redan tidigt och efter många turer och skilda åsikter i frågan så kunde EU 2008 beslutaom bemanningsdirektivet. Direktivet skulle vara genomfört i Sverige senast 2011 men blev klart först i januari 2013 då uthyrnThe temporary agency work business has grown considerably over the last decades in Sweden. The need to regulate the business by law was recognized early on by the EU. After a long process and many divergent opinions, the Temporary Agency Work directive was finally agreed upon in 2008. The directive should have been implemented in Sweden in 2011 but the law enforcing it, uthyrningslagen, was not fi

This paper deals with the development of gender attribution in French in child second (cL2) language acquisition. Recordings of two Swedish speaking children with an AOA at the age of 3;5 have been examined between the ages of 4 to 6, and compared to the development of a bilingual first (2L1) language learner during the same period of age. An analysis of the use of noun phrases between the ages