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.

Syftet med uppsatsen ?r dels att genom analys s?ka de budskap som finns i tre oljem?lningar som ing?r i en serie som Banksy kallat Crude Oils, dels att genom intervjuer unders?ka hur ett antal betraktare uppfattar verken. De tre m?lningarna ?r Banksys versioner (parafraser) av tre k?nda konstverk av Claude Monet, Edward Hopper och Diego Vel?zquez. De teorier och metoder som anv?nds i den analytiska delen ?r framtagna av Roland Barthes respektive Charles Forceville vid studier av annonser. I den empiriska delen till?mpas semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet av analyserna visar att det i m?lningarna finns budskap som kritiserar konsumtion, klassamh?lle och den hysteri som figurerar inom sk?nhetsbranschen.

The purpose of this essay is to examine whether and how labor consultants, job coaches, guidance counselors promote the possibility of self-realization of the clients they encounter in their work. By analyzing, based on the theoretical framework, six semi-structured interviews of people having the chosen professions answer the questions "Do counselors promote client's opportunities for self-realization in their work?" and "If so: how is this practiced?". In the theoretical framework three important concepts are addressed: "identity", "recognition" and "self-realization". These are explained with the help of works by including Emma Engdahl, Anthony Giddens, Axel Honneth and Allison Weir.

The purpose of this essay is to examine whether and how labor consultants, job coaches, guidance counselors promote the possibility of self-realization of the clients they encounter in their work. By analyzing, based on the theoretical framework, six semi-structured interviews of people having the chosen professions answer the questions "Do counselors promote client's opportunities for self-realization in their work?" and "If so: how is this practiced?". In the theoretical framework three important concepts are addressed: "identity", "recognition" and "self-realization". These are explained with the help of works by including Emma Engdahl, Anthony Giddens, Axel Honneth and Allison Weir.

Genom att intervjua sex personer med iranskt påbrå har jag försökt presentera dessa individers subjektiva bild av historieundervisning och de krav som de ställer på skolan. Frågornas svar har gett oss en uppfattning om hur historieundervisningen kan påverka elever med iraniesvensk bakgrund. Dessutom har vi iakttagit vad de iraniesvenska personerna förväntar sig få från historieundervisningen. Den kvalitativa forskningsprocessen har vävt samman följande teoretiska utgångspunkter: kapitalbegrepp, symboliskt våld, orientalism samt Charles Taylors diskussion kring liberalism. Undersökningen visar att IP uppfattar historia i skolan som eurocentrisk och att iranskt kulturarv beskrivs som underlägsen.

The aim of this study was to understand how three selected football associations in three counties in Sweden work to include children and adolescents with disability in the age of 7-20 in their organization.  For this study we have used a qualitative method. The data have been collected through using semi-structured interviews with coaches and representatives from the board. When analyzing the data, we used Charles Tilly's theory Durable Inequality and research within the area of inclusion within sports, the significance of activities and the inequality within sports. The conclusions of the study showed that there was a stated lack of knowledge in the associations when it comes to their work with young people with disabilities and also in their work with the policies.

This paper deals with Will Kymlicka's and Charles Taylor's theories of multiculturalism, and the criticism of these theories by Jürgen Habermas and Seyla Benhabib. It also gives a brief background to the Swedish integration and minority policies and places them in relations to the academic discussion. Taylor advocates cultural survival to be a legitimate policy objective and Kymlicka argues that rights should be diversified in order to adapt to different needs of cultural minorities. The thesis aims to confront the theories with interviews of four persons who voluntarily or by profession work for the interest of minorities. The theories have been operationalized as questions and structured in four themes with the purpose of analyzing the interviews.

This study aims to show what differences, if any, there are between how men and women are decribed in new litterature history textbooks for upper secondary school and then to compare them with and older textbook where differences already have been spotted. The books we anlyze are Svenska timmar litteraturen by Svante Skoglund (2012) and Ekengrens svenska by Hans-Erik Ekengren and Britta Lorentzson-Ekengren (2011) and the one we compare them to is Den levande litteraturen by Ulf Jansson (2007). To help us anlyze these textbooks we use Charles Tilly's theory about categorical inequality where he states that inequality exists because of people's fondnes for placing their fellows in different categories such as e.g. man/woman and old/young. We also use De los Reyes' and Mulinari's theory which states that to get rid of the categorical inequality we need to think intersectionally.

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..

In his recent article Professor of International Affairs Charles Kupchan claims that Party Politics has become increasingly important for American Foreign Policy since the end of the Cold War. This assertion makes it valuable to assess how the substance of the Foreign Policy differs between the two American parties in various cases and if this difference is characterized by consistency or by change. In this thesis I examine these Party positions in relation to the European Security Policy.In order to examine this I compare the positions of the Democratic and Republican Parties? policy concerning both the European Defence Community (EDC) and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The purpose of this thesis is to examine the hypothesis that the Democratic Party to a higher extent than the Republican Party is more concerned to maintain good relations to Europe respectively EU.The results show that there are small indications that my hypothesis concerning the two parties is valid.

The aim of this thesis is to discuss selected parts of cataloguing both from a practical and a theoretical viewpoint. It presents the basic grounds for cataloguing of printed as well as non-printed materials. The focus lies on the main entry heading and its author/title problem concerning film. The thesis theoretical part consists of an analysis of central documents dealing with the author concept from both a library- and information science perspective and a film science perspective. The practical part consists of interviews from two Swedish public libraries, which have different approaches on presenting films.

The aim of this essay is to study diaries and letters from Swedish soldiers during the Great Nordic War, more specifically those written during the campaign 1707-1721 against Russia, in search of religious coping and religious parables. The theoretic framework is evolved around Kenneth Pargament?s theory about religious coping, and Ana-Maria Rizzuto?s theory about object relations. The method used can be described as hermeneutic.The questions at hand were:- How did Swedish soldiers during the war against Russia relate to God, and express image of God and religious concepts?- Did the soldiers express themselves in terms of spiritual coping and in that case to what extent?The conclusions were that the soldiers used religious coping as a method of survival.

Bakgrunden till studien härrör i att människan förändras mot bakgrund av sociala sammanhang, exempelvis i form av fritidsintressen, familj och vänner, som hon är en del av eller tar del av. Utgångspunkten har i det här fallet varit att undersöka hur den personliga utvecklingen kan påverkas av en tids studier på högre nivå. Således syftar undersökningen till att utforska om det, utifrån studentens motivation, finns någon relation mellan vägen till självförverkligande och högre studier. Undersökningsmaterialet innefattar empiriska data i form av intervjuer med studenter från skilda utbildningsinstitutioner vid Karlstad universitet som har minst 80 poäng, varav 60 poäng i ett ämne. Intervjuerna behandlar frågor som berör studentens förhållande till familj, vänner, fritid och studiesituation.

Uppsatsen granskar åtta pedagogiska modeller för att hjälpa läraren till ett bra klassrumsklimat. Fokus ligger främst på vad det ögonblickliga bemötandet av konflikter. Det görs även en jämförelse mellan modellerna för att se om det skett någon förändring i synen på bemötandet av konflikter under de senaste decennierna. Mot bakgrund av detta besvaras söks det svar på följande problempreciseringar: Vad skrivs om det ögonblickliga hanterandet av konflikter i de pedagogiska modeller som finns beskrivna i C M Charles bok Ordning och reda i klassen (1984) och den pedagogiska modell som beskrivs i Treating Explosive Kids (2006), samt har någon utveckling skett i synen på bemötandet av konflikter under de senaste decennierna? Undersökningen bygger på en litteraturstudie.

BakgrundRichard J. Rendleman, Charles P. Jones & Henry A. Latané påvisade i en studie år 1982 med hjälp av en regressionsmodell att tidsförskjutningar i prissättningen av aktier existerat på den amerikanska marknaden vid kvartalsresultat som avvek från en trend. Det inspirerade oss att med samma metod undersöka om liknande tidsförskjutningar även existerat på den svenska marknaden.SyfteSyftet med denna uppsats är att empiriskt studera om det existerat tidsförskjutna aktieprisjusteringar kvartalsvis, baserade på standardiserade oförväntade kvartalsresultat respektive standardiserade oförväntade kassaflöden, på den svenska aktiemarknaden under åren 2004-2006.