Ska människor ses som individer eller ska dem ses som grupper? Denna fråga har varit omtvistad gällande rättigheter och är skiljelinjen mellan liberal och kommunitär teori. När det gäller minoriteters rättigheter har de ofta fallit mellan dessa två tankegångar och det har visat sig att ingendera har lyckats respektera dessa människors rätt på ett tillfredsställande sätt. Ursprungsbefolkningar har därför fått leva förtryckta, förföljda, diskriminerade, marginaliserade och har upplevt allt ifrån deportationer till regelrätta massaker. Som ett försök till att skapa rättvisa förhållanden har FN etablerat organet ILO, som i sin tur utvecklat en konvention för ursprungsbefolkningars rättigheter nämligen ILO 169.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how masculinity and femininity are constructed in the magazine Veckorevyn, through a critical discourse analysis of 18 articles from six issues in 2011. This is done by using a variety of theories and previous research results, which is gender theory, the theory of late-modern society and media theory. The analysis shows that Veckorevyn depicts virility and feminine differently. Furthermore, pointing the results from the analysis that a change of manhood and womanhood takes place in the social practice. The selection of articles from the magazine also shows that Veckorevyn seems to promote gender equality. .

PURPOSE: To analyze how companies in the Swedish beer industry strategically workingwith CSR externally in order to increase their legitimacy.METHOD: Qualitative interviews and text analysis to enable data to stakeholder analysis.MATERIAL: Respondent interviews with key individuals, textual analysis of CSR-relateddocuments of the largest beer producers in Sweden.MAIN RESULTS: The study shows that it is possible to distinguish three main categories ofstakeholders to the beer producers. These have various high stakeholder values, wherecustomers are those with the highest value, then consumers and third critics. That these havevarious high values allows different strategic approach to the key issue of how preventivemeasures, that can be said to work against their own products, affects the beer producerslegitimacy among stakeholders..

The financial crisis in the beginning of the 1990´s the financial crisis had a strong impact on the Swedish economy. Some of the main actors in the crisis were the largest banks of Sweden which brought a huge amount of losses on themselves. One of the main reasons for this was that the banks focused on volume increases rather than on credit losses. The credit analysis process is performed differently these days and it is the development of this process that is the focus for the authors.This thesis is about the credit analysis process in the four largest banks of Sweden. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight which factors the banks include in the credit analysis process and in how small and medium size companies are treated in this process.

My thesis brings up the subject of power. In the 33 local authorities we have in Skåne, I have made a quantitative study, to see how many young people that are included in the power of politics, through local authorities parliament. This is the first of the two parts that I have devided my thesis into. The second part is qualitative and examines four young politicians, and their thoughts on holding a position that is so unusual to hold at their age. This is the basis for my analysis where I bring up age as a form of discrimination.

PURPOSE: To analyze how companies in the Swedish beer industry strategically workingwith CSR externally in order to increase their legitimacy.METHOD: Qualitative interviews and text analysis to enable data to stakeholder analysis.MATERIAL: Respondent interviews with key individuals, textual analysis of CSR-relateddocuments of the largest beer producers in Sweden.MAIN RESULTS: The study shows that it is possible to distinguish three main categories ofstakeholders to the beer producers. These have various high stakeholder values, wherecustomers are those with the highest value, then consumers and third critics. That these havevarious high values allows different strategic approach to the key issue of how preventivemeasures, that can be said to work against their own products, affects the beer producerslegitimacy among stakeholders..

The purpose of the study was to analyze how media, in this case, the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, produces the men and women in men's violence against women in close relationships in news articles and if there has been a change over time in this production. It is a qualitative study in which 40 news articles from DN were analyzed. The starting point in the tanks around the analysis is from a social constructive perspective. Critical discourse analysis is the method I chose to use in the processing of news stories. The result is divided into four different blocks where each block presents the results and the analysis for the following years: 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009.

The goal in doing this study has been studying public interpretations of media content in the commercials that this study uses. The analysis was based on two TV commercials for feminine hygiene products. Initially, they seemed to differ from each other, but soon the question whether or not they in fact did convey the same underlying message was raised. The theoretical premises on which the study was founded on are the gender perspective in advertising and the social construction of gender. To reveal the hidden signs appearing in these commercials and to find out their meanings, we used the method of semiotic analysis.

This paper examines the function of narrative discourse in television talk shows. Basing our analysis on five episodes of the Swedish talk show Skavlan, we illustrate how narratives are initiated and elaborated by the participants of the show. The analysis shows that the institutional roles are challanged and that the roles vary between the host ant the guests. The analysis also shows that when guests introduce and elaborate stories they use the same discursive actions and resources as the host. When participants enter an actvie role in their storytelling the hos takes a more restrained role in which he lets the the conversation evolve spontaneously.

Ett examensarbete om modebloggar för herrar/män. Hur ska modebloggen utformas för att uppfattas som en effektiv informations- och kommunikationskanal? Vilka betydelsefulla säljande argument är särskilt intressanta i modebloggar för män? Hur skall bloggen kommuniceras för att attrahera många läsare och aktiva deltagare?Vi har studerat om det finns ett behov av modebloggar hos män.A thesis about fashion blogs for men..

AbstractTitle: The Construction of Science in Television Crime Shows ? a Critical Discourse Analysis of CSI and Bones (Om konstruktionen av vetenskap i kriminalserier på TV ? en kritisk diskursanalys av CSI och Bones).Number of pages: 45 (50 including enclosures)Author: Lovisa SandbergTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communications Studies DPeriod: Spring 2006University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The aim was to explore the construction of science in the television crime shows CSI and Bones.Material/Method: The method used is critical discourse analysis based on the thoughts of Norman Fairclough. The analysis includes three episodes of CSI and three episodes of Bones,broadcast from between the 10th and 25th of April, in 2006 on Swedish television.Main results: The scientists in CSI and Bones are constructed as rational and calm; they are mainly concerned with finding the truth. On the surface, the truth is objective and reachable, although, in these TV-shows all observations are theory laden.Keywords: CSI, Bones, crime shows, television, science, discourse analysis..

The purpose of this thesis was to study descriptions of companies on their webpages on the Internet. This was performed from a socialconstructionist point of view with focus being on subject positionings and gender. A critical discourse analysis was carried out on two texts from the webpages of two organizations on the Internet. Using the three dimensional model for critical discourse analysis by Fairclough, the discourses and subject positionings that the texts included could be revealed. The purpose of this thesis was also to point out the importance of the use of language in recruiting personnel and to hopefully encourage organizations to put effort into text production to avoid discrimination.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om befintlig lagstiftning fångar upp de argument som föreliggerför och emot Försvarsmaktens möjligheter att stödja Polisen vid extraordinära situationer. Inom ramen förovanstående syfte kommer en diskussion rörande eventuella förändringar i det juridiska lagrummet attföras.Den teoretiska ramen utgörs av en modell för ledningsförmåga av Per Larsson, FOI. I uppsatsen användskvalitativ metod med en induktiv ansats.Uppsatsen beskriver ett antal faktorer som ligger till grund för Försvarsmaktens stöd till Polisen,dessutom ges en överblick av det nuvarande juridiska ramverk som konstituerar Försvarsmaktens stöd tillPolisen.Uppsatsens empiri bygger i huvudsak på intervjuer av personer som är aktivt involverade i processengällande utvecklingen av Försvarsmaktens stöd till Polisen.I uppsatsen genomförs en analys av det empiriska materialet utifrån uppsatsens frågeställningar och denvalda teorin.I den avslutande delen genomförs en diskussion med slutsatser som ger följande svar på uppsatsensfrågeställningar:? Dagens lagstiftning anses inte beakta de argument som föreligger för Försvarsmaktens stöd till Polisen.? En framtida ny lagstiftning som konstituerar Försvarsmaktens stöd till Polisen skulle kunna utformasliknande Räddningstjänstlagen.? Konsekvenserna vid en föreslagen förändring av det juridiska ramverket är små i förhållande till densamhällsnytta som uppnås. I huvudsak uppfattas konsekvenserna gälla en ökad tillgänglighet.? De samverkansområden som den föreslagna förändringen i det juridiska ramverket anses i första handvara inom områdena; utbildning, (sam)övning, utrustning och underrättelseinhämtning.? Försvarsmakten är en stor samhällsresurs som begränsas av det juridiska ramverket..

This study tests two financial valuation models empirically by valuing three stocks from three industries, with the purpose of studying how well valuation models work empirically and to make a forecast. The models which will be tested are residual income valuation and discounted cash flow. Nine stocks will be picked strategically from the Swedish stock market and additional analysis will follow in the analysis chapter.Based on analysis and valuation, the commodities industry has decent valuation as the healthcare industry is undervalued thanks to the high valuation of AZN. The energy industry has low value due to the capital intensive nature of the industry. When it comes to the models and their practical implementation, DCF has been the most problematic to apply empirically whereas RIV was better but it still shows extreme values, which teaches the student the clear difference between theory and empiri..

This essay examines how age, power and agency is represented and reproduced in contemporary Swedish picture books.This is done through a combination of discourse analysis and literary analysis.It uses theoretical perspectives from sociology, and views childhood as a social construct. It sees discourse and language use as both representing and constructing social reality in the tradition of Norman Fairclough and critical discourse analysis. The main results is that the discourses of childhood in the material construct children as a separate group in society, and childhood as a special time in life. Children is portrayed as both social actors and in need of protection from adult themes and worries..