The Bachelor thesis ?Oh, it?s only student radio? is a qualitative study of the Swedish student radio and its members. The study aims to investigate the professionalisation of the radio hosts through Pierre Bourdieu?s theories of field and habitus as well as theories of profession. In order to do so, it?s also necessary to establish the radiostations? perceived role in today?s media landscape by analysing their ambition in relation to other media organisations.

Many dogs in Sweden are put up for adoption at the Swedish buy- and sales site?Blocket?. This because in Sweden, rescue shelters mostly takes in dogs that have been confiscated by the police. The aim of this study was to investigate what kind of dogs that are put up for adoption and why owners put their dog up for adoption and also compare the results with those from other countries. 800 dog advertisements from ?Blocket? were collected in the study between January 31st and April 10th 2012.

Public libraries are mainly employing women and have female managers. According to theories based upon so-cial construction we create our roles together in our society. The role of a manager has for a long time been viewed as the role of a man. The objective of my thesis is to gain knowledge on how a few women that work as managers in public libraries perceive and describe their roles. A parallel aim is to let a few future librarians de-scribe their managers and their own views on leadership, with a focus on gender issues.

 Prostitution has been intensely debated in Sweden for nearly four decades. Two major investigations have so far been initiated by the government and numerous propositions have been put forward in the Swedish parliament resulting in the sexköpslag from 1999 that criminalizes purchase of sexual services. The law aims at punishing the buyer and protecting the women in prostitution, thus making it possible for women to be helped by various social interventions rather than punished. Swedish society has undergone major changes in these decades. Globalization, the internet and the membership in the EU have changed the Swedish society and influenced the discourse on prostitution.This paper has a twofold aim, on the one hand investigating if and how these changes have had an impact on the prostitution discourse in texts produced by the government and analyze how female and male sexuality in connection to prostitution is constructed.

Abstract.The question in this analysis is which gender moai, the big statues on Rapa Nui, represent. My hypothesis is that they have developed from visual symbols to metaphores in mythologies from an polynesian context. That these statues were symbols for human origin and creation of ancestors ideological power, and gods in consideration male gender. In the long isolation, in both time and space, the mytologies in Rapa Nui was changed, and the pictures got a new meaning. These changes depended on clearing of wood and big trees and the following difficult situation in farming.

Bakgrund: Typ 2-diabetes är ett stort hälsoproblem över världen och den sjukdom som just nu ökar kraftigast. Fysisk aktivitet är viktig för det allmänna välbefinnandet samt i behandlingen av och för att förhindra uppkomsten av typ 2-diabetes med god motivation och kunskap och stöd finns det få hinder för att utöva fysisk aktivitet på rätt personlig nivå. Diabetessjuksköterskan har en viktig roll i diabetesvården för patienten. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur diabetessjuksköterskan inom primärvården ser på sin roll vid rådgivning av fysisk aktivitet till typ 2-diabetiker. Metod: En kvalitativ studie genomfördes med intervjuer av nio diabetessjuksköterskor i mellersta Sverige.

Uppsatsen baseras på en kvalitativ studie med en induktiv ansats där syftet med min uppsats är att undersöka och beskriva hur män som drabbats av en traumatisk ryggmärgsskada upplever sina funktionstillstånd över tid efter skadan, avseende funktion och förmåga. Detta i anslutning till hur männen upplever att deras funktionstillstånd påverkat deras subjektiva upplevelse av att vara självständiga och aktiva. Men också männens upplevelser av möjligheter till förändring samt upplevelsen av egenmakt i deras livsvärld. Uppsatsen som utgår från individnivå fokuserar på männens subjektiva upplevelser över tid, från tiden strax efter skadan samt deras upplevelser idag. Studien består av tre preciserade frågeställningar: - Hur upplever männen sitt funktionstillstånd avseende funktion och förmåga tiden strax efter skadan samt idag?- I vilken omfattning har männens upplevelser av att vara självständiga och aktiva förändrats över tid från tiden strax efter skadan samt idag?- I vilken omfattning har männens upplevelser av möjligheter till förändring och upplevelsen av egenmakt förändrats över tid från tiden strax efter skadan samt idag?Materialinsamlingen har gjorts genom en kvalitativ forskningsintervju och analysen har gjorts utifrån två perspektiv; Empowerment perspektivet och Crip teori.

The aim of this two years master's thesis is to examine whether there are any gender based differences in the waymale and female researchers within library and information science publish and reference to other researchers.This within the Swedish context. Further, the aim is to examine the probability of gender playing a part in choiceof subject, which thereby also would effect the act of referencing. This is achieved through an analysis ofreference lists in the journal Svensk Biblioteksforskning between the years 1989 to 2009. The journal containsboth peer reviewed articles, as well as articles of a more popular scientific kind. As guidance during the study, ahandful of questions were used.

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa hur kroniskt beroende av urinkateterisering inverkar på vardagen och hur sjuksköterskan kan stödja denna patientgrupp. Åtta vetenskapliga artiklar granskades och kvalitetsbedömdes enligt givna kriterier. Därefter tolkades artiklarna utifrån modifierad innehållstextanalys. Meningsbärande enheter eller begrepp togs ut som subteman som sedan reducerades till att skapa fem huvudteman, upplevelse, accepterande/icke accepterande, kunskap/information, empowerment, livskvalitet. Subteman tilläts ligga kvar för att öka förståelsen för urvalet i resultatet.

?VeckoRevyn ? your best friend in good times and bad?? is a BA thesis based on a weekly lifestyle magazine, VeckoRevyn, with a female demographic aged 18-25. Issues of the magazine, published in 2009 and on, is analyzed and dissected to better understand and be able to get answers for the questions of issue. What is said in the magazine, and how does the message reach the audience? Furthermore, the message, as well as the tone used to convey it, is reviewed as part of the discussion about consequence.

Using interviews conducted within the municipality of Nam Dich, Vietnam, this qualitative study explores how ethnic minority parents and children navigate around the state's supervision in order to preserve their traditional practices of child marriages. Moreover, the research explores the roles and expectations between individuals within an ethnic minority family as a collective unit. Using governmentality supported by the concept of state evasion, culture bearers and empowerment, I argue that understanding child marriage as a phenomenon requires analysis of cultural context. The paper starts with an introduction of the ongoing relation between the Vietnamese state and ethnic minority traditions related to child marriage. While the Vietnamese state ?s modernization projects aim to empower individuals by creating more freedom within the process of marriage and increasing the opportunity for education and work, certain ethnic minority groups want to uphold their cultural ways of marriage when parental arrangement occurs from an early age.

In today´s labour market, men and women are segregated, both vertically and horizontally. Exceptions to the rule of gender segregation are few. There is, however, one managerial group where women and men are equal in numbers: school principals. In a short period of time, the distribution in terms of sex among principals in Sweden has changed dramatically. How does gender equality in numbers affect gender equality in a qualitative sense? That is the focus of this thesis.

Though still well used in Swedish schools, textbooks are no longer under any governmental control or inspection. It is now responsibilities of the teacher, thus, knowledge is considered crucial. Therefore, the aim of this study was firstly to investigate if and how four biology/natural science textbooks, produced 1957-2008 for primary school years (3) 4-6, expressed any sex, gender and/or sexuality norms. Moreover, due to thoughts of queer theoretic Judith Butler, the study also investigated if and how these three norms interacted. By examining what the textbooks mediated, the purpose was finally to find out if and how the norms differed or not.

SammanfattningSyftet med denna uppsats är dels att ta reda på hur socialsekreterarna i två större och två mindre kommuner i Mellansverige arbetar med biståndsfrågorna utifrån aspekterna mottagning, metodanvändning, samverkan, klientinflytande samt uppföljningar. Syftet är även att undersöka hur socialsekreterarna arbetar för att utforma biståndet (för försörjningsstöd samt livsföring i övrigt) så att det stärker den enskildes möjligheter att leva ett självständigt liv. Metoden som valts för genomförandet av studien är kvalitativ forskningsintervju. Resultatet visar att det finns såväl likheter som skillnader mellan kommunerna gällande arbetet med försörjningsstöd. Exempelvis framgår att i de större kommunerna får klienterna först träffa en mottagningssekreterare medan klienterna i de mindre kommunerna får kontakt med socialsekreterarna på försörjningsstödverksamheten direkt.

Title: Familjära chefer och opersonliga ledare ? en studie om reproducering av stereotypa könsroller i intervjuer med kvinnliga och manliga chefer i Dagens industriAuthors: Linnéa Pettersson and Lovisa WaldeckSubject: Undergraduate research paper in journalism studies, Dept. of journalism, media and communication, JMG, University of GothenburgTerm: Autumn 2013Supervisor: Mats Ekström, JMG, University of GothenburgPages: 33Purpose: The main purpose was to identify and examine the difference between how thebusiness newspaper Dagens industri portray male and female CEOs and executives.The study focuses on longer interviews of more personal character.Method: Qualitative content analysisProcedure: Fourteen interviews in Dagens industri, with seven men and seven women, were described and analyzed.Results: By using qualitative content analysis we were able to find that stereotypic gender roles are being reproduced in many ways in Dagens industri. The interviews with the female leaders have a more personal character with a larger focus on their private life while men gets to answer more technical questions related to their company. Women are questioned about their children and home while men are not.