The structure of the Swedish public library field has been evolving during the last decades. The traditional mission of educating the citizens to become responsible, democratic and knowledgeable members of society has in a way led to the integration between public and school libraries. Lately new co-operational models have been under debate and a sense of resistance has arisen because of the economical and market influences. In parallel with closure of library branches new libraries have evolved in malls and wash houses and some with self-service with no use of librarians. This work shows how co-operation in rural areas finds the common goals for the people living there who are concerned about keeping the service needed including the public library and thus using existing means and crossing borders of commercial thinking.

The conflict in the former Yugoslavia was characterised by extensive war crimes committed by all parties in the conflict. Two international courts, The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, have both judged if a genocide was committed in this conflict. This paper examines how these two courts relates to each other concerning their legal judgement of the crime of genocide. Two cases are analysed; the judgement of Radislav Krstic´ at the ICTY and the case Bosnia and Hercegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro at the ICJ.

Flera rapporter de senaste åren har visat att eleverna i den svenska skolan läser allt mindre. Ärdet så eller väljer eleverna bara andra sorters texter än vi är vana vid? Den här uppsatsenssyfte är att undersöka om några elever i skolår åtta och nio läser, och vad de då väljer för sortstexter. Vidare skall det även undersökas om det finns några skillnader mellan flickors ochpojkars läsning och vad som skiljer sig mellan skolår åtta och nio.Undersökningen har gjorts med hjälp av en enkätundersökning i två klasser, en åtta och ennia. Enkäten tar upp elevernas läsvanor vad gäller sex olika sorters textforum, både trycktaoch digitala.

Social control in different forms has existed in all known societies. This control has taken different shapes and expressions. In older smaller communities there was a collective control among the citizens. In modern societies the state is trying to control the lives of the citizens. These control mechanisms can be seen as both freedom-reducing and freedom inducing depending on which concept of freedom one upholds.

This is a discourse analysis concerning the visions for Malmö's future. Three concepts are studied to see which meaning these are given in the Malmö context. The studied concepts are ? development (utveckling), industry (näringsliv) and citizen (befolkning).The meanings of these concepts are studied against a backdrop of theories of inclusion/exclusion in general and inclusion/exclusion in the city more specific. Michael Foucault´s notion of a discourse which stigmatizes those not following a behaviour which is defined as being right and normal is central to this.

In the Swedish general election of 2006, the citizens were faced with the fact that there were two parties that called themselves a ?workers´ party?. It was not just the Social-Democratic Party, which we usually identify as a traditional workers´ party, it was also the Moderate Coalition Party, which we usually identify as a traditional conservative party, which during this suffrage also called them self the ?new moderates?. The central and the main election pledge for the new moderates took its standpoint in the idea that everybody should have a job.

The aim of this thesis is to examine whether law reforms in the detailed planning process can be an aspect that gets in conflict with the citizens rights to participate in the Swedish planning through dialogue, and how five chosen municipalities are working with citizen participation. To be able to answer the aim of the thesis a literature study and five semi-structured interviews was performed in purpose to get wide-ranging information from municipal officials working with detailed planning handling. Law changes that aims to make the detailed planning process more efficient has been implemented partly to satisfy the needs of dwellings since the detailed planning process among master builders seems to be slow and inefficient, which to the them means higher costs. The requirement on having a detailed planning program was taken away when the new planning law was adopted year 2011. The planning program was including a moment of citizen dialogue. The case studied municipalities have not been affected in this law change arguing that it?s still possible to bring a program if needed.

Syftet med vår studie har varit att undersöka teaterns roll för skapandet av identitet hos deltagarna i en teatergrupp på Kvartersteatern i Halmstad. Vår samlade frågeställning är att undersöka hur teatern som forum påverkar deltagarnas identitet. Vi har genom våra metoder fått ett rikligt material till att kunna skriva en kvalitativ uppsats om teaterns roll i skapandet av identitet.Vi började vårt arbete på Kvartersteatern genom att ha en första kontakt med en av ledarna på teatern, efter det första mötet så hade vi fått en bild av teatern och dess verksamhet. Vi gjorde sedan deltagande observationer vid tre tillfällen vilka följdes upp med kvalitativa intervjuer. Vi gjorde en intervju med en av ledarna sedan ytterligare sju intervjuer med teaterutövarna.Vi har i vårt socialpsykologiska analytiska arbete använt oss av fyra olika teorier, varav en av dem har fungerat som huvud teori.

The purpose of this report was to examine the schools views on its task to form good citizens and also the work with children and their souls and feelings. My question of issue was:? Which are the conditions from where you work with feelings and forming good citizens in school?In the Swedish learning curriculum for the compulsory grades, Lpo 94, there is a lot to be read about the schools task to form good citizens and human beings. One can also read that the schools have to work with the feelings of its pupils and also the issue of values. The results of my report show that the school has a responsibility to support the family?s work with the upbringing and the personal growth of their children.

Politicians Week in Visby has since the late 1960s developed to be a fairly unique concept in Swedish politics, which even in recent years has begun to be exported to other countries in Europe. Curiosity and interest around the arrangement of activities and actors have in the past decade become increasingly both nationally and internationally. The purpose of this study has therefore been to find out how ?Almedalsveckan? as a political arrangement emerged and developed. The question that the study mainly tries to answer is how ?Almedalsveckan? became a concept of the open democratic meeting between politicians, citizens, journalists and various organizations in the Swedish society.

The aim of this master's thesis is a comparative study on units for civic information in Göteborg. The study is based on a project currently in progress at the main public library in Göteborg. It is observed that according to the library's mission statement the library aims to become the most competent intermediary of civic information in Göteborg. This statement suggests a competitive strategy towards other intermediaries of civic information. The mission statement does, however, also state that their goal is to be obtained in cooperation with other intermediaries.

What role should science play in democracy? Political scientists often assume that it is possible to demarcate between ?instrumental? and ?moral? knowledge, and argue that citizens and/or politicians should use their moral knowledge to agree upon political goals and then apply the instrumental knowledge of scientists to achieve them. This straightforward view is challenged by writers in science studies, who identify three major problems in the use of science in democracy: uncertainty, risk and hidden values. They suggest that these problems could be solved through citizen participation.In this essay I perform an analysis of the internal logic of their suggestion. Is it likely that citizen participation enhances the democratic decision making process so as to reduce the problems? The internal analysis shows that it is rational to advocate citizen participation by reasons of legitimacy.

Local politicians are key actors in the democratic system and their ideas concerning democracy plays a central role in local democratic politics. The study's point of departure is the notion that local politicians are dependent of coherence between practice and theory concerning democracy and in the study of their ideas we acquire knowledge about the democratic practice.This study examines the local politicians? view of Swedish democracy and explores the logic of the discourse that makes statements concerning democracy possible. Twenty local politicians have been interviewed and from the material a discourse have been established through the use of formulation of problems and cause, nodal points and chains of analogy which is compared with democratic ideals.The study comes to the conclusion that a hegemonic discourse exists, in which central nodal points are representative and listening. The idea of the representative system is hegemonic and is based in the liberal democratic ideal although the view of the citizens rather can be traced to the radical, communitarian and deliberative ideal.

Titel: Det sociala intranätet ? ett forum för information, interaktion och identifikationFörfattare: Jessika Hällerö, Emmy Nordin och Anna SalomonssonUppdragsgivare: Semcon ABKurs: Examensarbete i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapInstitution: Institutionen för journalistik, massmedier och kommunikation (JMG) Göteborgs universitetTermin: Vårterminen 2012Handledare: Malin SvenningssonSidantal: 52Antal ord: 15 020Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur Semcons konsulter reflekterar över sin organisationstillhörighet och hur de identifierar sig med sin arbetsgivare, samt att öka kunskapen om konsulternas inställning till och användandet av Semcons intranät.Metod: Kvalitativa samtalsintervjuerMaterial: Resultatet baseras på intervjuer med tio av Semcons konsulter.Huvudresultat: Genomgående för studien är att det tenderar att finnas en positiv och en negativ strömning i förhållande till frågorna. Vad gäller organisationsidentifikation finns det konsulter som identifierar sig med Semcon, konsulter som identifierar sig med arbetsplatsen samt de som är osäkra över sin organisationstillhörighet. Det råder även delade meningar kring hur ett socialt intranät kan medverka till att identifikationen med Semcon stärks. Vissa menar att ett socialt intranät kan bidra till identifieringen som Semconit, medan andra menar att det finns för lite information på avdelningsnivå för att uppnå detta.

Bakgrund och problemformulering - Vi har valt att studera och analysera i vilket avseende det sker user innovation på ett forum skapat av företaget Salesforce. Forumet är ett brand community för användare som utvecklar Salesforce tjänster. Frågeställningarna behandlar om det sker olika typer av user innovation och vad det är som driver användarna till att innovera på det forum vi har valt att studera. Vår studie syftar till att bidra med en bredare kunskap och förståelse kring ämnet då det finns begränsad forskning kring user innovation inom online brand communities idag.Teori - Begreppet brand communities förklaras utifrån Muniz och O?Guinns (2001) synsätt som innebär att ett online brand community är en samlingsplats på internet dedikerat till ett specifikt varumärke.