Studiens syfte är att undersöka bilden av invandrare i Sydsvenskans lokala nyheter. Detta görs utifrån ett postkolonialt perspektiv med användning av diskursanalys. Uppsatsens har också ett konstruktivt inslag bestående av en granskning av tidningens mångfaldsarbete genom intervjuer med ansvariga. Invandrare blir de Andra vilket tar sig uttryck i Sydsvenskan genom att de skildras som annorlunda från den svenska normen. De beskrivs som icke-jämställda, passiva och uppgivna och figurerar ofta som offer och i artiklar som handlar om problem.

AbstractOil rich states all over the world share a common feature. They are less likely than other states, depending on other resources, to be ruled democratically. In this essay Saudi Arabia has been studied with the purpose of trying to find which mechanisms that lie behind why oil rich states do not have institutions or institutional change that promotes democracy.Saudi Arabia has the world's largest known reservoir of oil. The oil brings huge revenue each year to the Saudi Arabian government. Why have Saudi Arabia not developed democratically when their economic growth suggests that to be a natural step? Under the framework of historical institutionalism and path dependency theory, I have used process tracing trying to track the mechanisms behind Saudi Arabia's authoritarian rule down.

A current debate is going on in Sweden about the health-care organization, how it is structured today and how it should be structured in the future. Despite major changes in the county council structures, they still got problems with for instance economy and the providing of staff. As an answer to these problems new solutions are being developed.In this thesis I examine such a solution consisting of cooperation between county councils. The aim of the thesis is to examine how and why the county councils in Sörmland and Västmanland have made a decision regarding cooperation over the administrative border.My contribution is to construct a model over change and decision processes that can be used in other cases as well. The conclusion is partly that the decision to cooperate is built on changing structural factors, such as economy, demography and medical development.

Texten är utformad som en postkolonialistisk fallstudie av jämställdhet och etnisk mångfald i Malmös arbetsliv. Malmös arbetsliv utgörs i denna uppsats av Arbetsförmedlingen och Malmö stad som arbetsgivare. Det postkoloniala perspektivet innebär en utveckling av genusperspektivet. Vi har i banor av ett forskningsmässigt nydanande begrepp, kallat intersektionalitet, sökt mot-svarigheter i praktiken genom intervjuer utförda med representanter från Malmös arbetsliv. Vidare utförs en diskursanalys av Arbetsmarknadsverkets integrations- och antidiskrimineringsarbete och en viktig slutsats är att den saknar ett interagerande maktperspektiv där kön och etnicitet samverkar.

Denna uppsats är en fallstudie av upplösningen på konflikten på Nordirland. Den söker med hjälp att teoribildningarna kring ?track two diplomacy? och underrättelsetjänst utröna vilken roll ?track two diplomacy? spelade för fredsprocessen på Nordirland, och om underrättelsetjänst krävs för denna form av diplomati i polariserade konflikter ska kunna verka.Konflikten på Nordirland var en mycket polariserad och långdragen. I fredsprocessen har track two diplomacy varit förekommande, och i konflikten var underrättelsetjänsten en utmärkande faktor, detta gör Nordirland till en god fallstudie.Studien visar att utan track two diplomacy hade inte fredsprocessen givit så goda resultat som det reella. Samt att underrättelsetjänsten genom MI6 officeraren Michael Oatley haft en viktig roll för denna diplomati, genom att skapa och utnyttja kontakter med IRA vilket ledde arbetet till konkreta diplomatiska resultat.

Vår uppsats är en komparativ studie av Rwanda och Burundi. I fokus står på vilket sätt etnisk polarisering har skapats och lett till återkommande konflikter. Den övergripande frågeställningen lyder: Varför har Rwanda upplevt svårare konflikter än Burundi? Vad har de båda länderna gemensamt och vad skiljer dem åt? Båda Rwanda och Burundi är rankade etniska system där social klass och etnicitet sammanfaller vilket har lett till konflikternas speciella karaktär. Rankade system kan utvecklas åt olika håll dess två länder är goda exempel på detta.I fråga om polariseringen av etniska grupper visar vi att det är myter som har spelat stor roll.

The aim of this thesis is to study through discourse analysis how users talk about librarians and the librarian profession and what perceptions they have regarding it. I have tried to do this by asking the questions: How do the users describe librarians and the librarian profession? Are there any patterns in what they say? The method and theory I have used is Laclau and Mouffes? discourse theory and partially structured interviews. The material consists of interviews with eight users that are both women and men, both students and members of the public and they were between 25 and 50 years old. In the material I found two discourses: the discourse about librarians and the discourse about the librarian profession.

Terrorattackerna 11 september 2001 kom att innebära dramatiska förändringar av den amerikanska utrikespolitiken. Syftet med denna uppsats är att med hjälp av två olika teorier förklara denna förändring. För analysen av George W. Bush används kognitiv teori och för att analysera förhandlingsspelet mellan de centrala aktörerna inom USA:s utrikesförvaltning används Graham Allisons modell Governmental Politics,Analysen visar att Bush efter 11 september omtolkar förutsättningar för USA i världen och sin egen roll som president. Han tar en mer aktiv roll i skapandet av en ny utrikespolitisk strategi.

The purpose of this study was to analyse the concept of empowerment and its meaning in the political document "En Förnyad Folkhälsopolitik" from the present Swedish government, containing guidelines and politics in the area of public health. The underlying question was if it could be considered as representative for some kind of general "empowerment approach" since the concept is central to the very definition of social work by the International Federation of Social Workers IFSW and International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).By comparing its definition and consequences in the document with a historical review of different contexts of empowerment the conclusion was made that such a common approach doesn´t exist at all. The meaning of empowerment in the central document showed some similarities with the "northamerican" version of the concept represented by the social scientist Charles Murray, which is just one of the political meanings of empowerment. Alternative ways of understanding the concept was also presented such as being a tool of a constant conflict between central political principles or as a fashionable but not important word. Another alternative was to consider it a means of power through witch different political discourses tries to dominate the world..

The main purpose of this study was to establish to what extent undergraduate students use reference services, what knowledge they have about those services and what their views of them are.The survey took place at Lund University Library, UB1, the main library responsible for collections in social sciences, humanities, theology and law. A total of 476 undergraduate students were asked to fill in a questionnaire, 273 accepted. The study is quantitative and was carried out during the autumn semester, 1996.The results show that the service used most frequently by undergraduate students is the reference collection. The least used service is the Internet, more than 50 percent of the students never use Internet at the University Library. In general, students are very pleased with the service given by the reference librarians, and with the collection of reference books.

Uppsatsen behandlar frågan om vilka föreställningar om barnen som finns i styrdokumenten för den svenska skolan.

This bachelor thesis focuses on the ethics concerning the possession of nuclear weapons seen from a deontological and utilitarian perspective. I have also considered the aspects of International law, the Just-war Theory, and Michael Walzer's Legalist Paradigm. The research question that guides my essay is: Is it possible to ethically justify a country's possession of nuclear arms, which results in direct and indirect threats against other countries?I have chosen to focus my essay on the period of 1945 to 1990, also referred to as the Cold War. I find the bipolar system that existed between the USA and the Soviet Union as a good empirical example, during which the nuclear arms debate constantly took place.The result that my thesis brings is rather ambiguous.

The purpose of this analysis was by qualitative semi-structured interviews with twelve children 5-years old and six pre-school teachers at three pre-schools, a total of six departments, find out how pre-school teachers worked with waste separation, if it motivated the children to take care of the environment, and if the work was understandable for the children. The results showed that the children did not comprehend what the pre-school teachers expressed that they worked with regarding waste separation and actions connected to caring for the environment. The pre-school teachers also expressed that the children was not mature enough to learn about the process when waste separated garbage is recycled, and that the work with the subject therefore had been carried out on a lower level. The children however expressed knowledge that did not come straight from their actual every day life, but since dialogue about the subject did not seem to exist between pre-school teachers and children, the pre-school teachers appeared to have failed in making the learning meaningful and understandable for the children, from their knowledge, experiences and interests..

AbstractBackground: Relation means the relationship between two parts. By creating a good relation between nurse and patient you can conduce a better caring. Aim: The aim of the study was to illustrate the relation within palliative care from nurse- patient perspective. Method: The study is a literature review where ten articles were analysed with qualitative content analysis. Results: The findings showed that knowledge, communication, continuity, silence and availability were the most important thing for the nurse in the relationship.

Syftet med föreliggande systematiska litteraturstudie var att belysa brister i omvårdnaden av patienter med borderline personlighetsstörning (BPS) och vad bristerna beror på. Vid Högskolan Dalarnas fulltextdatabas Elin och PsycInfo söktes vetenskapliga fulltextartiklar som omfattade BPS och omvårdnad. Av 35 artiklar valdes 14 ut varav 9 kvalitativa och 5 kvantitativa. Dessa artiklar kvalitetsprövades med 28 kriterier från granskningsmallar modifierade efter Forsberg och Wengström (2003), Willman, Stoltz och Bahtsevani (2006). Av artiklarna framkom att den viktigaste aspekten i omvårdnaden utgjordes av personalens patientbemötande.