Studiens syfte var att undersöka svenska studenters upplevelse av att studera i Los Angeles med fokus på vad de ansåg prioriterades inom högskoleundervisningen. Studien undersökte också de fördelar och nackdelar studenterna ansåg att utlandsstudier innebar samt av vilka skäl de valde att studera i USA. I studien ingick 10 kvinnliga studenter från Sverige som studerade eller hade studerat i Los Angeles. Alla intervjufrågor besvarades ur den intervjuguide som konstruerades för studien och de data som samlades in analyserades utifrån en bourdieuinspirerad ansats med fokus på habitus. Resultatet visade att studenter som väljer att studera utomlands har liknande kulturell bakgrund.

Examensarbetet behandlar olika faktorer och dess påverkan till elevers gymnasieval. Det hu-vudsakliga syftet är att jämföra och analysera dessa faktorer samt att besvara frågan huruvida faktorerna skiljer sig åt beroende på de bakomliggande faktorerna kön, klass och etnisk bak-grund. Undersökningen sker på två olika skolor bland elever i årskurs nio, boende i två olika områden, i en västsvensk kommun. Materialet som ligger till grund för undersökningen är enkäter och metoden är därmed kvantitativ. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt används Pierre Bour-dieus begrepp habitus, fält och kapital.

Fryczynska, Izabela, Persson, Sara (2008). Klass och etnicitet på utomhusförskola. En studie utifrån föräldrarnas bakgrund. [Class and ethnicity in an outdoor preschool. A study on the basis of the parents' background].

Abstract:According to the curriculum of the Swedish school the pupils should develop their historical consciousness. The aim of this study was to find out which pupils develop this consciousness by listing to an historical novel, talking about that book and writing stories. The study went on for four weeks and the subject of the teaching was the Middle Ages. 28 pupils took part and a variety of methods were used: 1: questionnaire about the lives of the pupils, 2: Making observations of their attitude to the teaching and 3: story writing. The results show that the social background does not influence the development of an historical consciousness.

Purpose: The study examines the risk a rising from the acquisition of shares, and its relation to the expected return. We would like to see how a high-risk portfolio is related to a low-risk portfolio. Although studying the portfolios annual performance.Theory: The theories that have been used in the study are, Capital asset pricing model, CAPM and portfolio theory.Method: The study is based on a quantitative method, the time interval is from 2008 to 2010.The annual reports, historical stock prices for companies and the index are used to perform calculations based on the essay theories.Conclusion: The beta value has positive liner correlation with the expected return. When there are bad times in the world, the companies are negatively affected regardless of industry. The Portfolios developed in the same direction during the time period..

Internetanvändandet har förändrats och allt yngre personer brukar internet. I dags- och kvällstidningar går det att läsa om barn och ungdomar som utsatts för diverse övergrepp som kan kopplas till internetkontakter. En stor riskgrupp är flickor i de nedre tonåren delvis på grund av intresset för kommunikation och sociala nätverk, samtidigt som internet är en viktig del i skolarbete och annat kunskapsinhämtande. Ofta vet inte föräldrar vad ungdomar gör på internet och det kan vara svårt att ha kontroll då tillgängligheten är stor i och med smarta telefoner och surfplattor. Med utgångspunkt i detta lades studiens fokus på föräldrarnas perspektiv på ålder och mognad, känslan av kontroll samt tankar kring risk kontra nytta med internetanvändningen.

The aim of this study is to explore hiphop music as an aspect of youth socialization and the relationship between music creation and identity. The study is conducted through five semi- structured qualitative individual interviews. Our theoretical starting points are Putnam?s (2000) bridging and bonding social capital symbolic interactionism. We also have used a model of learning presented by Fornäs, Lindberg and Sernhedes (1989).

Sammanfattning Vårt syfte med studien var att undersöka vad arbetslösa ungdomar upplever om de arbetsmarknadspolitiska insatserna på Arbetsförmedlingen. Studiens syfte är också att undersöka problematiken ungdomar upplever i samband med etableringsprocessen på arbetsmarknaden. Vårt intresse för studien väcktes då vi tidigare haft en praktikperiod på Arbetsförmedlingen i samband med vår utbildning på Malmö högskola. Vi använde oss av kvalitativa intervjuer för att få en djupare förståelse av de intervjuade individernas upplevelse. Vi hade som krav att ungdomarna var mellan 18-25 år och hade varit arbetslösa i minst sex månader.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att identifiera hur diskursen om gentrifiering framställs i tidningsmedier, där Södermalm i Stockholm figurerar som ett idealtypiskt exempel på en plats som anses ha gentrifierats. Studien har utförts genom tillämpandet av kritisk diskursanalys via Faircloughs riktlinjer, samt ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av sociologiska teorier angående urbanitet och social stigmatisering. Här tillämpas Georg Simmels och Pierre Bourdieus teorier som stadsliv, habitus och kulturellt kapital, Norbert Elias syn på etablerade och outsiders samt David Harveys formulering om rätten till staden. Analysen består av tio tidningsartiklar publicerade i tidningarna Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens nyheter, Metro, Mitt i Södermalm och Svenska Dagbladet. Resultatet indikerar att gentrifiering först och främst anses som en form av klassrelaterad urbaniseringsprocess, som tar form i utförsäljning av hyresbostäder, skapandet av en ny medelklass, och populärkulturella trender.

Differences between groups or individuals in a society with regards to access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) are known as the digital divide. The digital divide pertains to differences in physical access to computers and the Internet as well as knowledgein using technology. Important factors affecting the digital divide are disabilities, age, gender, socioeconomical background, ethnicity and geography. The digital divide appears on several levels: internationally, nationally, regionally and locally. Individuals who, for some reason, have limited or no access to information and communication technologies risk, among other things, to experience social exclusion.

The purpose with this study is to compare different systems of grain storage from a financial point of view. Grain that is supposed to be fed to laying hens. The systems that were compared were different airtight storage of grain and a system of conventional storage. To make this case study I choose to compare four different systems. In the case study there was one system with bin drying of the grain, two systems with airtight storage of the grain and one system where you buy dried grain during the season. I made several of capital investment appraisal where I found the cost of each system, then I took the cost and divided it with the total grain use and calculated the cost for each kilogram of grain, and also the cost of the feed. Then I compared the cost from my case study with the cost of buying feed. All the systems except for one, gave a lower cost for the hen feed than buying feed from a dealer The best system, witch were bin drying lower the cost with about 80 000:- SEK.

Labour and its conditions is a subject constantly in focus. Therefore this study aims to shed some light on different factors which constitutes the basis for the definition of optimal labour conditions, as well as creating a need for change of labour conditions. In this case these factors are changes in society and cultures. The study describes how different levels of society - government, employer and employee ? are affected by, or wishes to affect the labor conditions in terms of location, working hours and leisure.

Background: Increasingly, companies choose to finance their business with corporate bonds which has resulted in an increased demand on credit ratings. As such the rating agencies have a very important role in the financial markets. Examining the value of a credit-rating can be very interesting for both issuer and investor. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify and define the value of rating. Execution: The study is built upon nine interviews with rated and non-rated firms and investors.

When contemplating entering an alliance the rationale behind the decision should differdepending on the size of the companies involved as well as on other important factors. The importantfactors influencing the decision are related to the resource pooling potential of the alliance,the power structure along with the business network the companies are a part of. Theanalysis has shown proof of a need for cooperation if one wish to succeed in the telecommunicationindustry and it has also determined which resources that are deemed to be most important toget in touch with, for our study object, to facilitate its access to the market. Those resources aredefined as a direct channel to the customer, funds/capital and the access to relevant businessnetworks. To get in touch with these lacking resources, three alternative approaches has beenproposed; all of them involving a strategic alliance decision.

We have through our theoretical framework been able to create a simplified measuring tool for a KIZ; the S-TKL. We have found that the S-TKL is possible to implement on the Öresund Region but with some flaws. Even though the Öresund Region has implemented the mindset of a KIZ, accurate statistics are in some areas hard to find. We can also through our empirical findings say that it is difficult to use the S-TKL on Shenzhen. The data we have found gives a good indication of both of the regions.