An individual's social capital consists largely of the social networks that may consist offamily, friends and acquaintances. The social network is of great significance on olderpeople's physical and mental health. Aim: The overall purpose is to examine the knowledgeof social network and the health of the elderly. Method: Litterature review, using threedifferent databases, CINAHL, PubMed and Scoupus for searching of articles, with differentcombinations of keywords. Results: Different types of social networks have both positive andnegative effects on health.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the packaging design´s communications related to the colloquially brand's symbolic capital and how they became meaningful through experience and perceptions that led to the identification processes in the consumer society. There were eight interviews of snuff users who became my main collections materials. My theoretical framework was discourse psychology´s emphasis on language and Bourdieu´s concept provided important tools in the analysis of the material.I could highlight that packaging design and the brand had influenced the informants and given them symbolic beliefs and what it meant to sniff a certain brand. Color, brand awareness and price were crucial in choosing where the informants attributed themselves the cans symbolic values to their identity. It could be inferred high and low status perceptions based on stereotypes in the design itself..

International expansion has long been associated with a positive trend that many companies, regardless of industry, choosing to realize mainly to expand its market share and hence its profitability. Various theories describe differentiated strategies to promote corporate expansion. Either they shall be financed by internal funds, or balancing equity with debt, or only increase leverage in order to achieve the desired results. This study focuses on the Swedish fashion market and its degree of internationalization. The purpose is to attempt to discern whether there exists a correlation between the degree of internationalization and its financial performance.The study was based on a quantitative approach where secondary data was collected so that we then would be able to perform regression calculations.

Demand has become increasingly difficult to forecast in today?s volatile markets. Being able to produce towards real demand is becoming vital for companies, since inventories of finished goods are expensive to maintain and because miscalculated products tie up capital that in the end is never repaid. More and more companies are using postponement strategies to delay the process of producing until real demand has become known. Tooling Support Halmstad is a company within the manufacturing industry, which has become aware of the benefits with postponement strategies for parts of their production.

Det här examensarbetet handlar om hur pedagoger ser på samlingens funktion i förskolan. Vidare handlar det om hur de resonerar kring pojkars och flickors talutrymme, samt hur det talutrymmet kan se ut i praktiken. Frågor som kommer att vara centrala i arbetet är: Hur resonerar fem pedagoger kring syftet med samlingarna på förskolan? Hur resonerar fem pedagoger kring pojkars och flickors talutrymme under samlingarna på förskolan? Hur ser pojkars respektive flickors talutrymme ut under samlingarna på förskolan? Undersökningen och intervjuerna gjordes i en medelstor stad och i en by i södra Sverige. Samlingar har videofilmats på två förskolor, på dessa förskolor arbetade även flertalet av pedagogerna som blev intervjuade.

Background and problem: The financial crisis 2008-2009 came out from an over-optimism among those who took the real estate loans in the U.S., and especially so-called subprime loans. After the 2008 financial crisis, it has become a global uncertainty in the financial market with low growth, and even financial crises in the euro countries have appeared. The real estate industry is a capital-intensive industry where companies have a high leverage to implement their investment. This means they have a larger proportion of debt relative to equity than companies in other industries. As investments require a lot of capital, real estate companies become dependent on having a working relationship with both the banks and the capital market.

The purpose of this paper is to view Karlstad Municipality and their financial support to non-profit organizations within equestrian sports. Despite the varying representatives of various equestrian sports in Karlstad, there seems to be a single beneficiary within the sport when it comes to financial support from the municipality. The policies and plans concerning cultural development are directly compared to the Karlstad Municipality and its contribution to these organizations within equestrian sports. Through interviews and reports I have studied the process of financial support from the Karlstad municipality using an intersectionality theory based on Nina Lykkes guide on gender studies and feminist theory. Pierre Bourdieu?s theories on field, habitus and capital are also used as a method to enhance the understanding of equestrian sports and its role in modern Swedish society. The conclusion is that the Karlstad Municipality is, for a several of reasons, promoting non-profit organizations within equestrian sports, which are operating as riding schools.

Until recently, the art market has expanded for several consecutive years. The primary art market is characterized by an unclear pricing mechanism and an infinite as well as limited supply. Previous business studies have so far primarily focused either on art as an investment or on the gallery?s activities. This thesis takes an explorative approach and aims to shed a light on the art collector?s behavior on the Swedish market for contemporary art.

This thesis analyses how a radiology department at the largest hospital in Sweden, Karolinska University Hospital, most profitably could expand its capacity for investigating cancer patients using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The queues today for patients waiting to be scanned are long, which delays the start of cancer treatments. Meanwhile the hospital has a budget deficit of half a billion SEK, which make any expansion hard. In this thesis we evaluate the alternatives of investing in new machinery; utilize the current machinery better by using them more days annually or through a shift work system. Finally we evaluate a combination of these.

Denna undersökning har till syfte att belysa hur lärare i idrott och hälsa ser på sin arbetsmiljö och hur individens bakgrund och nuvarande livsstil ser ut, samt vilken betydelse detta har för yrkesutövningen Undersökningen syftar även till att uppmärksamma på vilka sätt dessa id-rottslärare arbetar för att skapa en god fysisk och psykosocial arbetsmiljö. Dessutom under-söks om det finns några upplevda skillnader i arbetsmiljön bland de tillfrågade idrottslärarna med längre respektive kortare yrkeserfarenhet. I studien används en kvalitativ metod, för att fördjupa uppfattningen av frågeställningarna. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer används som ett metodverktyg för att besvara frågeställningarna. Resultatet analyseras utifrån Bourdieus (1993) teori om habitus och kapital.

Corporate failures pose a problem for banks, investors, customers, employees andinsurers. With a multivariate discrimination method, the study aims to find the specificfinancial ratios that most accurate reveals a company's financial health, which is ofinterest to all of the above parties. The data consist of 1042 Swedish small enterprisesand 30 different financial ratios between the years 2005?2007. The result shows thatbankrupt firms three years before bankruptcy have a disadvantaged capital structurewith poor solvency and high debt.

The structural rationalization of the agricultural sector in Sweden has led to many expansive, professional companies orientated towards growth. The agricultural sector is a very capital-intense sector and is characterized by the need for large sums of capital in form of buildings, inventory and arable land. The capital need is especially large for companies who have an ambition of growth and development of the company in the near future. The study is built upon six cases that all can be categorized as large agricultural farms with a turnover exceeding 20 million Swedish crowns. The companies are located in the middle and in the south of Sweden and are in the sector of primary production with focus on dairy-, pork-, egg-, chicken-, beef-, vegetables- and grain production as well as in the business of refining milk towards consumers. The study aims to identify the motives and driving forces that lies behind the growth of a farm-based company. The agricultural companies' motive for growth is studied based on which factors that influence the ambition to grow and to what extent these factors accord to the picture given by earlier research of small companies outside the agricultural sector.

Studien syftar till att ge fördjupad kunskap inom vilka förväntningar, erfarenheter,upplevelser och tankar klienter och studie- och yrkesvägledare har av studie- och yrkesvägledning. Frågeställningarna berör förväntningar, erfarenheter och bilden av studie - och yrkesvägledning som ges ur ett klientperspektiv och ur ett studie- och yrkesvägledareperspektiv. De valda teoretiska begreppen i denna studie är Donald E Super´s teori ? Life Career-rainbow som behandlar olika roller som människor avser att ta på sig från det att de föds och successivt blir äldre. Ytterligare ett valt begrepp är Pierre Bourdieus begrepp ? Habitus.

Sammanfattning. Syftet med examensarbetet är att analysera huruvida ålder påverkar en handledares yrkesroll på arbetsförmedlingen enligt den arbetssökande. Vi vill även undersöka skillnader och likheter mellan en handledare vars ålder är upp till och med 35 år och handledare vars ålder är över 35 år i relation till deras yrke ur arbetssökandes perspektiv. Vi kommer att analysera skillnader och likheter utifrån en handledares ålder med hjälp av olika frågeställningar. Dessa frågeställningar är baserade på arbetsmarknad, arbetssätt, kunskap och kompetens och genus.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad elever på mellanstadiet och högstadiet har för uppfattning om friluftsliv på olika skolor i Sverige. Frågeställningarna är: Vad är friluftsliv för eleverna? Vad gör eleverna på friluftsdagarna i skolan? Hur uppfattas kunskapskraven för eleverna om friluftsliv inom ämnet idrott och hälsa idrotten? Är eleverna med i någon friluftsförening? Har eleverna som är med i någon friluftsförening en annan syn på vad friluftsliv är i jämförelse med dem som inte är med i en friluftslivsförening? I studien används två olika teorier. Den första teorin som används är Bourdieus sociologiska begrepp habitus. Habitus är en teori som handlar om vad vi vanligen benämner som inlärning eller socialisation. Våra rörelser, vårt tal, val av kläder, mat samt partners och vad vi gör på vår fritid händer omedvetet om det vi kan uppleva som möjligt och passande.