This essay examines the historical development of group rights for cultural minorities in Sweden between the years 1970 and 2010. The purpose of the study is to analyze the development of political measures taken at government level for different minority groups, foremost explaining the division that have arisen between measures aimed at the five national minorities, the Sámi, the Swedish Finns, the Roma, the Jews and the Tornedalians, and measures directed at other ethnic groups.My conclusions are that the division in Swedish public policy between one the one hand national minorities, and on the other hand immigrant groups, is in no way self-evident. The division has arisen from an international standard on how democratic states, such as Sweden, should treat their cultural minorities. Further, this division has had an immense impact in shaping public policy as well as determining the type of group rights introduced for minority groups in Sweden.A difference has also been found in how the minorities are perceived by state actors. Immigrant groups are currently perceived as less entitled to group rights due to their short presence in Sweden, whereas national minorities are seen as more entitled to group rights due to their long historic presence in the country.

The subject of this thesis is studying how physical libraryenvironments express ideas on the function of the library, asstated in guiding documents. The ?physical library? isdefined as everything inside the library building, andexcludes the library architecture, focusing on things likefurniture, furnishing and the arrangement of physical media.The two questions asked in this thesis are: What aspects ofthe idea of a public library?s function, as expressed in theguiding documents of the library, are possible to study in thephysical library environment? In what ways can theseaspects be studied in the physical library environment?The study of the thesis is divided into two parts, a ?prestudy?and a ?main study?. In the pre-study aspects areidentified by reading guiding documents from differentpublic libraries, and analysing the result together withprevious studies on physical library environments. In themain study three Swedish public libraries (located inHelsingborg, Åstorp and Klippan) are visited, and theirenvironments are studied based on theory on what items andmeans of expression can influence the experience of thelibrary function.The four aspects that are identified in the pre-study areculture, education, accessibility, and development.According to the results of the main study, culture isexpressed in the library environment through aesthetics,education through the environment being inviting andstimulating for studies, accessibility by the environmentbeing inviting, functional and democratic, and developmentby modernity.

Citizens are in need of information to form an opinion about how society works. As a reviewer of the Public power the media plays an important role in a democratic society. The communicative power shift appears in contemporary media landscape, where technology offers great opportunities for actors to use their own channels to communicate their own image and thereby influencing power over the agenda. Alongside this, the number of communicators is increasing which makes power of resources affects the communicative whole picture. The study is based on a media profile case of the described assault and looks at what can happen strategic communicative at a police department when journalism offers a negative image.

The purpose of this essay is to explore how social media affect the political orientation and commitment of youths. Three scientific questions highlight the purpose from different angles. The didactic perspective is discussed in the initial and closing discussion, and is analyzed in the corresponding chapter. Two methods are involved in the study; one survey and one interview with a focus group. The survey had a total of 98 respondents from four different classes, all in the first grade of upper secondary school.

The aim of this study is to investigate differences that exist in Estonia and Russia with regard to civil society, democracy and corruption and try to find out what can be possible causes to the vast differences in these two countries. Many political scientists claim that civil society plays a key role in democratic transitions. This paper takes its point of departure in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Estonia and Russia became independent. Since then Estonia has had a flourishing economy which attract many foreign investments, with Sweden as the greatest investor. The country has also managed well to adjust quickly from totalitarianism to democracy.

This essay will explain the effects of decentralisation, and what impact it has on the efficiency to create a better integration for immigrants on the Swedish labour market. Examples of literature that has been examined are Marcus Gossas and Jon Pierre. From these authors, I have been trying to explain the relationship between decentralisation, cooperation and efficiency.Since the end of the Second World War until the middle of 1980, Sweden mostly received labour immigrant. Since then, the immigrant pattern has changed to consist of mostly refugees. Changed immigration patterns together with increasing debts for the Swedish government has lead to decentralisation and cooperation between public authorities has therefore become a target to reach better efficiency.

This essay studies the practice of both the political and the administrative leadership at the municipal level from the point of view of the politicians and the chief officers leadership role, and the relationship between politicians and administrators. I discuss and analyse how politicians and senior officials practice leadership, differences or similarities and if their practice of leadership raises any challenges in a democratic framework at the municipal level. I conducted interviews with the municipal political leader and the head of administration at the municipal level in Karlshamn and Sölvesborg. In the analysis I discuss communication as a leadership process which highlights ?enabling elements? and potentials of the leadership process.

This Master?s thesis has governmental cultural policy in focus and concludes a textual idea analysis of the governmental bill Time for culture. (Tid för kultur.) The aim of the study is to examine how the government is seeking legitimacy concerning the cultural policy. One of the starting points is that the society has changed over time in terms of for example increased globalization and multicultural and even the market adjustment is more evident. Also the economical basis in the society is different nowadays.

I kursplanen för bild anges att undervisningen ska genomföras så att elever ska samtala om bilder. Lärare är fri i sin tolkning av skolans styrdokument. Det finns olika sätt att samtala om bilder och olika sätt att förhålla sig till bedömningen av dem. Syftet med studien är att få insikt i och kunskap om hur bildlärare resonerar kring och arbetar med bedömning av muntliga framföranden och framställningar i bildundervisningen. Från den traditionella muntliga redovisningen uppe vid tavlan till ett förhållningssätt med samtal och dialog där det formativa lyfts fram.

Att föra en dialog med en virtuell karaktär blir ett allt vanligare fenomen, till exempel som interaktiv kundtjänst på en hemsida, att testa agentens gränser och vara otrevlig och förolämpa den virtuella agenten är en förekommande händelse likaså. Virtuella karaktärer blir ofta representanter för könsstereotyper, i värsta fall kopplas den förolämpning som ges till agenten också till stereotypens motsvarighet i det verkliga livet. Denna uppsats har som syfte att ta reda på om virtuella agenter med olika visuella genus blir behandlade olika. Loggade chatdialoger mellan högstadielever och virtuella agenter analyserades, resultaten pekar på att ju fler feminina drag en virtuell agent har desto mer förolämpningar får agenten. Detta visar att det är viktigt att ta hänsyn till virtuella agenters genus vid design av dessa agenter, då förolämpning uppstår i olika mängder trots att agenterna i övrigt är identiska..

Vi har studerat praktiskt värdegrundsarbete och för att understryka vardagsnivån har vi använt ordet ?snällhet?. Vi har gett ordet en innebörd som hjälpte oss i våra undersökningar. Vårt syfte är att undersöka hur personalen på fritidshem hanterar situationer som involverar ?snällhet? och dess relation till värdegrunden.

Syftet med arbetet var att få inblick i hur pedagoger i förskolan diskuterar med varandra i ämnet barn och sexualitet. Ambitionen var att få veta vad pedagoger tänker om barns sexualitet och vilken syn de har på förskolans ansvar och delaktighet kring barns könsrollsskapande. För att besvara mina frågeställningar användes fokusgrupper och enkäter som undersökningsmetoder. Mitt resultat visar att det finns ett behov och en viss vilja att prata kring ämnet men att det inte direkt görs i nuläget. Det ansågs även viktigt att föra en dialog med föräldrar i frågor som rör kön, könsroller och barns sexualitet. Detta stämmer även väl in med riktlinjer från Läroplanen för förskolan (Skolverket, 2010) om att samarbeta med hemmet för barnets bästa. I frågan om ifall det finns några direkta direktiv om barn och sexualitet i något styrdokument, drogs slutsatsen att det kan tolkas in under ord som respekt och privatliv.

This is a study about the relation between the Swedish school and the political system of Sweden. I wanted to see if the relation had changed since the election of 2010 as it was in that election the Sweden Democrats got over five percent of the votes and took seat in the Swedish parliament. The thing that is unique about this election is that it was really the first time a right-wing party had been elected into the Swedish parliament. Many experts argue that this is the first xenophobic party that has been elected into the Swedish parliament. This led to a problem for schools and their principals and a difficult question to answer because xenophobia is contrary to the school?s core values and the school?s democratic mission.Should the school still be open for political parties? How do schools manage to distinguish between political information and political propaganda? If parties still are welcome into the schools, which parties should be allowed? The equality ombudsman has said in a report that the schools have to comply with the principle of objectivity, which stipulates that the public sector has to be unbiased.I have chosen to make use of a qualitative method because I think the study then gets a deeper understanding of the topic.

I denna komparativa analys av den interpersonella nivån jämförs Polisens och Arbetsmiljöverkets kommunikation med allmänheten på Facebook. Analysen har som syfte att undersöka hur de två myndigheterna försöker förlika sig med Facebookanvändarna och skapa relationer genom språket. Utgångsunkten för analysen och jämförelsen är att myndigheter verkar ha svårt att anpassa sitt språk på Facebook eftersom myndigheter är en offentlig verksamhet medan Facebook är en verksamhet som främst är privat. Resultatet visar att Polisen och Arbetsmiljöverket har olika strategier för att kommunicera på Facebook och att Arbetsmiljöverket har kommit längre i sin anpassning till idén om webb 2.0. Polisen utövar mer kontroll på vilket sätt Facebookanvändare kan interagera med dem.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att ta reda på vilken funktion den pedagogiska dokumentationen fyller i förskolan. Vi har tittat närmare på hur pedagogisk dokumentation fungerar i praktiken utifrån både lärares perspektiv och barns perspektiv. Målet med undersökningen var att få djupare kunskaper inom ämnet. Under undersökningens gång har vi genomfört både lärare och barnintervjuer där vi har fått svar på hur de arbetar med pedagogisk dokumentation i förskolan. Lärarna använder sig av observationer för att följa upp det individuella barnet och förtydliga den verksamhet som bedrivs.