Studien undersöker utvecklingen av afrikansk-amerikansk religion i början på 1800-talet i USA. Materialet som studien är konstruerad på består av en undersökning gjord på sex olika slavar som blev predikanter och pastorer. Undersökningen i Studien svarar om dessa individers yrkesroll och socialisering var av betydelse för det religiösa engagemanget och dess utveckling. Slavarnas yrkens betydelse undersöks med hjälp av Etzionis teori om tvångsorganisationer och med Durkheims arbetsfördelningsteori. Studien avser att bidra med information om hur afrikansk-amerikansk religion utformades i början av 1800-talet. .

I denna empiriska studie undersöker vi den reala växelkursens och reala BNP:s påverkan på Sveriges bilaterala handelsbalans med 11 länder mellan år 1995-2011. Med en felkorrigeringsmodell i ARDL-format testar vi för långsiktig kointegration. Därefter estimeras den reala växelkursens och reala BNP:s påverkan på den bilaterala handelsbalansen. Vi finner endast stöd för J-kurvsfenomenet och uppfyllt Marshall-Lerner villkor i 2 av 11 handelsförbindelser. Istället observerar vi ett starkare samband mellan real BNP och handelsbalansen.

This study examinates technology's traumatic impact on the male subject in The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. In my analysis I show how the protagonist uses a fetischistic strategy in order to make sense of the trauma that technology embeds. Paradoxically it proves to be the agent of his trauma, but also functions as his shield. The machine is thus in a position of the hinge, the point in a structural system that both enables and deconstruct the system.

Med bakgrund att det sker en hög befolkningstillväxt i Stockholm väcktes intresset för fenomenet urbanisering. Syftet för denna kvalitativa undersökning är att utifrån individens upplevelse fördjupa förståelsen i vad som lockar och driver individer till storstaden och hur storstadslivet ter sig. Vald metodansats är hermeneutik vilket ger möjlighet att genom tolkning nå en ökad förståelse. Teoretisk ram utgörs av Georg Simmel och Marshall Berman. Datainsamling har skett i form av intervjuer med fem deltagare som flyttat till Stockholm.

The subject of this dissertation is the autobiographical novel Arnold by the Swedish writer Emilia Fogelklou (1878-1972). By combining Gérard Genette?s narratology and Andrew Gibson?s narrative ethics this study seeks to examine through what means the relationship is being told and with what ethical consequences different strategies are used to tell one?s experiences from life. The narrative analysis focuses on how the narrator is engaged in the narrative, how the bond between narrator and characters can be described, what is known to whom and how, and what is beyond the narrative?s limits.

Studien undersöker hur ICA:s reklamfilmer är utformade utifrån ett retorisk perspektiv och diskuterar även varför vissa grepp väljs framför andra i samtidens reklamfilmer. Undersökningen utgår från Marshall McLuhans medieförståelse som teoretisk förankring och diskuterar Chaïm Perelmans topiker samt ethos för vidare förståelse av reklamfilmerna. Uppsatsens slutsatser och resultat förklarar att ICA-filmernas främsta mediekanal; tv-mediet i sig är en betydande faktor för att lämna känslosamma avtryck hos publiken. Studien identfierar samhällsnormer och företagshierarkier och hur ICA nyttjar dessa i sina filmer. Avslutningsvis diskuteras filmernas färgstarka karaktärer och hur de etablerar ett sant ethos inför konsumenterna..

The relationship human has to animals are complex and I discuss this from a theological and philosophical perspective in this essay. I ask on what grounds, with what arguments and how one could live with an inclusive ethic. I discuss the philosopher Peter Singer and the theologian Andrew Linzey to see their agreements and differences. Linzey has a mystic influence built into the theological perspective. Swedish activists and authors Pelle Strindlund and Annika Spalde call their way of life the ?Way of love? and show an animal-inclusive ethic built on a Christian mystic ground..

The purpose of this paper is to examine the subject indexing in the bibliographic databaseKVINNSAM at Kvinnohistoriska samlingarna. the documentation and information centre·of Women's studies in Sweden.The focus of the study is the list of index terms produced at this centre. The paper tries to answer the following questions: a) How has the indexing developed? b) How can it be improved? c) Is there a need for feminist indexing? The method of the study is primarily observations and interviews. Texts and ideas by Birger Hj¢rland, D.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine the collaboration between school librarians and teachers in primary school, in order to illustrate how the two professions can work together, how they see their own roles and how they look at the other professionals´ roles. We also discuss earlier studies in LIS concerning collaboration between teachers and librarians. The method of investigation is qualitative interviews with practicing school librarians and teachers, we interviewed three school librarians and three teachers from three different schools in the same county.  As a basis of the discussion and analysis Andrew Abbott's theory of professions is used. The thesis shows that collaboration differs between the schools.

The reason behind this essay has been to study if previous research is relevant for Jehovah?s Witnesses in Sweden and see if secularization has affected the organization or not. The empirical material is made from two qualitative group- interviews and open observations during two meetings in the Kingdom Hall. These studies were performed in Oskarshamn and Mönsterås during the month of February. The reason that these studies have been limited to Oskarshamn and Mönsterås is mainly because they were the only ones willing to do an interview.  According to previous research by James A.

I detta examensarbete har jag skrivit, spelat in och producerat tva? la?tar a?t gruppen Hey Mary, arrangerat tio la?tar skrivna av Andrew Lloyd Webber a?t Stockholms Estetiska Gymnasium samt programmerat en prototyp pa? en iPhone-app, som i framtiden kan anva?ndas som ett nytt sa?tt fo?r artister att na? ut till fans pa? men som i dagsla?get a?r en portfolio fo?r mig som la?tskrivare och producent.Syftet med den ha?r skrivna rapporten a?r att o?vergripande beskriva det konstna?rliga projektet och att analysera huruvida relationen mellan producent och artist/besta?llare samt klimatet i studion pa?verkar slutresultatet samt att reflektera o?ver hur mycket man som komposito?r och musikproducent kan kompromissa med sin konstna?rliga integritet i fo?rha?llande till besta?llarens/artistens o?nskema?l/krav, till mina egna tekniska och materiella fo?rutsa?ttningar och begra?nsningar samt till givna tidsaspekter..

This degree project focuses on the importance of being professional doing a job at the same time as being able to express one self in a professional way. The degree project also focuses on how the work as an environmental- and health inspector could be made easier by making the inspectors aware of their language and open to change. Finally the focus of this degree project lies on how positive contacts can be made with people despite them being informed of difficult or unwanted things.In order to get an overview of the inspectors? communication skills today the environmental- and health inspectors at the environment office in Laholm´s municipality were evaluated. The inspectors´ communications styles and languages were checked on the basis of the ?nonviolent communication model? by Marshall Rosenberg.The content and the result of this report were presented for the head of the environment office, the chairman of the committee and the participating inspectors in Laholm´s municipality.

The purpose of this essay is to study the film culture in South Africa in a national cinema-context, focusing on the relationship between anti-apartheid film from 1974-1994 and the film in South Africa today. By pitching the South Africa-specific works of Lucia Saks and Jacqueline Maingard against the over-arching debate on national cinema as formulated by, amongst others, Stephen Crofts and Andrew Higson, this study aims to find whether or not a specific South African national cinema have existed, and exists today, or not. The study finds that an underground culture of documentaries and short films made by and for the black population has been in place since the apartheid, and the distribution method on video and television is still being used to reach the black population today. By re-examining the concepts of both the national, and of national cinema to also include film on video and television, the study shows that South Africa has indeed a film culture that can be called a national cinema..

BAKGRUND: Vi blev inspirerade att göra denna studie då vi under ett flertal föreläsningarunder vår utbildning kom i kontakt med empatisk kommunikation(giraffspråket). Det var Marshall B. Rosenberg?s Nonviolent communication(NVC) som fångade vårt intresse och vi ville undersöka om pedagogeranvänder sig av empatisk kommunikation i förskolan. Vi valde att göra vårstudie i en förskola där pedagogerna hade gått en mindre fortbildning inomNVC.SYFTE: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka sex pedagogers uppfattningar omanvändningen av empatisk kommunikation i förskolan.- På vilket sätt uppfattar pedagogerna empatisk kommunikation?- På vilket sätt uppfattar pedagogerna betydelsen av empatiskkommunikation?- Upplever pedagogerna en förändring i arbetet med empatiskkommunikation efter genomförd fortbildning?METOD: En intervjustudie inspirerad av fenomenografi.

The main purpose of this essay is to examine, in what way the paintings by Karin Broosand Markus Åkesson are images of autentic situations and furthermore in what way themediespecific essence is performed photografically. Questions occuring: 1) How are thecreations of reality shaped in the two chosen photorealistical paintings? 2) In what waycan you distinguish the iconicity and indexicality in the paintings Den vita klänningenand The Passage? 3) How does the photografic presence occur in the paintings andfuthermore how can you distinguish the mentioned parts above according to thepaintings? The theoretical standpoint is based upon Charles Sanders Peirces ideasconcerning iconicity and indexicality. The methods used are based on thoughtspresented by Andrew Benjamin and Mieke Bal. The signs of iconicity and indexicalitycan be studied in various ways in the two paintings, depending on how abstract andobvious different parts occur in the paintings.