The purpose of this master?s thesis is to describe by a gender approach what ideas and values are expressed in the novel One Night at Bullar Lake and how they do coincide to a tendency. We also want to discuss authority and class divisions and how these can be connected to the novel and the author. Our final question is to examine in what way the voice of the female author is represented in the novel. To approach our material we use Yvonne Hirdman?s theories about the construction of sexes and Susan Sniader Lanser?s work about voices of female authors, as well as Horace Engdahl?s studies about the silent voice in literature.

Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years in China. Written documents concerning veterinary acupuncture has been found dated around 650 B.C. Acupuncture has gained greater acceptance in the western world the last decades and many countries have established their own veterinary acupuncture organizations. Many studies report good results after acupuncture treatment and back pain in horses is considered a good indication for acupuncture treatment. In studies published, the results are subjectively evaluated. To get a qualitative, scientific evaluation of acupuncture treatment, objective measurements, control groups and statistical analysis are needed. This pilot study presents a case where acupuncture has been used for treatment in a horse that was diagnosed with back pain.

This study, a narrative analysis of it, deals with the term, home, its importance and the use of it by Child welfare investigators in the city of Malmö between the years 1930-1936. Commonly used and acknowledged, home stood for security and order while the term, street, had just the opposite meaning. Living in the countryside symbolized health and sensibility, while city life was considered to be cramped, dirty and immoral. The responsibility of achieving the liberals and conservatives ideal of a sunny, clean and orderly home was given to the woman of the house, as was the task of keeping the home morally correct, and providing the necessary atmosphere for proper upbringing of the children. Consequently, the basis of theory, using Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in regards to the conflicts between the upper and lower classes, and even theories of Jane Lewis of woman´s connection to home and family, have been the grounds for the study.

Sweden is going through big changes within the bank sector. Increasing card usage, decrease of cash acceptance in the society, an attempt to reduce money laundering, and a possible increase in profitability has lead to the rescindment of cash management among three of the four major banks. This has lead to a big debate in the society, a lot of frustration from customers, and a drop in customer satisfaction for every bank that started the process of removing cash management. The purpose of this study is to find out how the banks could keep their customer satisfaction when removing cash management. When doing the study, the rescindment of cash was a deduction of a part of the service, compared to the normal adding or starting of a service. The study was done through a focus group that was the base of a questionnaire that got answered by 125 respondents.

It gets more and more important for companies to get involved in Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, when stakeholders now are more aware of the responsibility companies should take. Through their communication companies show how they take responsibility. Reflected by their goals by which they want to achieve acceptance and understanding through an open dialogue. The paper examines this issue. CSR is an abbreviation for Corporate Social Responsibility which is engagement in responsibility for companies and organisations.

The food industry is one of the fastest growing industries in Swedish e-commerce today. However, e-commerce still represents a very small part of the total food sales in Sweden. Experts have noted that, in order for e-commerce to expand in this field, Internet food sales must increase.The aim of this study is to form an understanding of why Swedes do not purchase more food products online. The theoretical framework consists of various marketing theories concerning consumer behavior and the acceptance of new innovations. The methodology used for the purpose of this study has a qualitative approach and in order to answer the questions at hand two focus groups were assembled.

The aim of this study is to examine and map out the different ways that theconception of information literacy (IL) is used in the governing documents ofthe Swedish elementary school. IL is a controversial concept around which thereis no proper consensus. Despite that fact, the word is used in a vast number ofcontexts. In the school world as well as in the library sphere the different waysof using the concept often appear to overlap although rarely in ways that seemconducive to one another. My work therefore, is aimed at finding out how theconcept is used within these two discourses and if or in what ways the usagescoincide and are compatible.

Den högre utbildningen och dess bildningssyfte har i enlighet med tidigare forskning och mediedebatter i viss mån skiftat från att vara en arena för bildning, för att mot modernare tider allt mer anpassats till nyttoinriktade och samhälleliga krav, såväl nationellt som globalt. Det som inspirerade till uppsatsen var då frågor som vad händer med talet om bildning i den högre utbildningen i denna utveckling? Hur talar utbildningspolitiken om bildning idag? Syftet med studien var att undersöka talet om bildning i relation till den högre utbildningens syften och mål från 2005 fram till nutid. Med hjälp av diskursteoretiska utgångspunkter och åtta utbildningspolitiska dokument för den aktuella tiden visar resultatet att diskurser om bildning i den högre utbildningen är mångtydiga och betydelseskiftande. Artikulationerna om bildning anger inte en entydig bild om dess innehåll där diskurserna som påträffas sker parallellt med varandra.

Bilden av ?manligt? och ?kvinnligt? har i skräck- och action-filmer/TV-serier länge varit väldigt stereotyp. Kvinnan har ofta spelat rollen som den utsatta, den svaga, det som kallas ?Damsel in distress? i karaktärsbeskrivningar. Mannen har å sin sida varit den mer eller mindre felfria hjälten, som alltid vet råd.

Our starting point has been to use the football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic as a model person for individualism that seams to break the ordinary socialization pattern in Sweden. The purpose of this study is to examine how the team leaders handle the socialization of more individualistic focused individuals/young persons into groups, since the Swedish School Curriculum is designed to meet each individual on his or hers former experiences. Is the socialization of individuals within team sports affected by their cultural background? And, in that case, should those facts have consequences for the sport subject at school? Those are the questions we want to explore. Besides a survey of documents, we have been seeking answers to our questions through interviews with the team leaders Roland Nilsson and Peter Bergander, the pedagogues/teachers Karin Jutterström and Håkan Jensgård and the professional football player Abgar Barson.Our study shows that the leaders and teachers of today have begun to change their view about individualists.

Over the past thirty years the political parties in Sweden have lost five out of six members. In order to retain existing members leadership in these organizations has become increasingly important. The aim of this paper is to identify what group leaders for party groups within the municipal council believe are the driving forces that underlie the councillors' voluntary commitment, identify the group leaders' leadership style and identify whether there exist a relationship between these driving forces and the leadership style. The approach applied is qualitative consisting of twelve interviews with twelve group leaders from six different municipalities in Stockholm county. The theoretical framework of this paper includes the Volunteer Functions Inventory and the Full Range Leadership Theory.

Idag betonas medborgarnas möjlighet, rättighet och ansvar att delta i samhällslivet och ha inflytande över frågor som rör vardagslivet. Detta kan ses som en fördjupning av demokratin mot en deltagardemokrati. Antologin syftar till att problematisera diskussionen om vikten av medborgares delaktighet genom att titta på hur delaktighet konstrueras i olika sociala sammanhang. Utifrån kommunala tjänstemän som arbetar med samhällsplanering, medlemmar i en pensionärsorganisation, föräldrar i skolan, ungdomar i politiska ungdomsförbund och ideellt arbetande eldsjälar i ett bostadsområde har vi belyst delaktighetens variationer. Antologin baseras på kvalitativa studier med intervjuer och observationer.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att se hur migrationsverkets dokument förhåller sig till personer som söker asyl i Sverige på grund av könsidentitet eller sexuell läggning. Våra frågeställningar är: vilka begrepp framstår som viktiga i vår empiri och hur används dem? Hur förhåller sig migrationsverket till heteronormativitet i de dokument som vi analyserar? Presenteras det en ideal person som söker asyl på grund av könsidentitet eller sexuell läggning i dokumenten? För att få svar på våra frågeställningar så har vi använt oss av kritisk diskursanalys som metod och queerteori och makt som teoretisk tolkningsram.Våra huvudresultat i uppsatsen är att migrationsverket använder sig av trovärdighet och öppenhet utifrån en bestämd uppfattning kring vad dessa begrepp ska innebära. Detta leder i sin tur till gränsdragningar och en heteronormativ uppfattning gällande den asylsökande. I och med att man har en tydlig bild av vad som ska ingå i trovärdighet och öppenhet så sker det automatiskt ett osynliggörande av människor som inte uppfyller de rätta kriterierna..

This study aims to examine attitudes and conceptions of staff who work with mentally disabled persons, concerning normalization and gender. Six qualitative interviews with such professionals were performed and subsequently analyzed. Since the method of this study is qualitative, no claim of generalizability is made. The interview material has been categorized into themes by means of coding. The result of the study is presented according to those themes.

This study aims to examine attitudes and conceptions of staff who work with mentally disabled persons, concerning normalization and gender. Six qualitative interviews with such professionals were performed and subsequently analyzed. Since the method of this study is qualitative, no claim of generalizability is made. The interview material has been categorized into themes by means of coding. The result of the study is presented according to those themes.