Purpose/Aim: The aim with my study is to reveal changes in the construction of gender in weekly press over time. To do so I study the picture of the woman on front pages of the Swedish magazine Veckorevyn.Material/Method: Qualitative research method, semiotic picture analysis.Main results: There have been a lot of changes in the picture of the woman in Veckorevyn over the years and the results points to a more objectifying picture. The woman has gone from doing something and actually having a role, to simply being there to be looked at, all passive..

Syftet med min uppsats var att undersöka vilka bilder socionomstudenter på termin 3 och 4 uppfattade att socionomutbildningen på Göteborgs universitet gav av Socialtjänsten. Jag har gjort en kvalitativ studie där jag haft 4 fokusgruppsintervjuer med studenter. Jag har undersökt hur studenterna uppfattar att bilden av socialtjänsten framställs, i relation till socialtjänsten som samhällsfunktion och socialtjänsten som framtida arbetsplats. Jag har analyserat mitt material med ett avstamp ur Bourdieus teorier om fält, habitus och kapital. Det framkom i min studie att socialtjänsten framställdes som en viktig samhällsinstans, men med oförmåga att fullfölja sitt uppdrag, på grund av inkompetens, stress och otillräckliga resurser.

AimThe aim of this study was to examine the views on bullying in the context of physical education among pupils studying at intermediate level through a gender perspective.The following questions where used in the examination.In what ways does the views on bullying differ between girls and boys?How is bullying manifested during classes in physical education?How do girls and boys experience cross-gender and same-gender bullying?MethodThe study is based upon a survey with questions of both quantitative and qualitative disposition. A total of 210 pupils from areas in and around Stockholm participated in the study, all studying at intermediate level. The participants consisted of 92 girls and 116 boys (two declined). The selection of participating schools where made out of convenience.

The purpose of this study was to assess which basic principles collide when home care service users have requests about how their help is going to be performed. The requests involve gender and ethnicity of the personnel. The study is based on the experiences and reflections of the managers regarding this issue.As the study is focused on the reflections of the managers, I have used a qualitative research method based on interviews. I have also used two case examples as a compliment (vignettes).I was interested to explore how the managers reasoned and argued about gender and ethnicity of the personnel, and their importance in home care situations. I have investigated whether it is considered to be appropriate that the service users chose if a man or a woman helps them in intimate situations (such as showers), and if they are entitled to refuse to receive home care services from people with a different ethnic background.

The first aim of this study is to describe how the public employment service (PES) producesoccupational descriptions. The second aim is to analyse the conditions for that production.Method: The empiric material consists of seven qualitative interviews with employed at PES,operational plan for the team working with descriptions on occupations and observation notes.The overall theme in the study is Foucaults perspective on power. The conditions forproduction of occupational descriptions are understood in the light of the governmentality perspectiveand the concept of employability. Bourdieu´s concept habitus, symbolic violence and capital are usedto articulate the officials? values and experiences.Eight officials at PES produce the occupational descriptions.

The portrayals of women in lifestyle magazines has been a continuous subject in genderresearch, but have mainly been focused on research about heterosexual women. However, how women are being portrayed through editorial content in an LGBT magazines have shown to be a gap in gender research.The purpose of this study was to find out how female identities were portrayed in theeditorial content in the LGBT magazine QX ? Sweden?s largest magazine aimed atmembers of the LGBT community in Sweden.The analysis of the material was conducted through a semiotic and a narrative analysis. Patterns and reoccurring themes were selected, and furthermore were analysed againstfeminist theories and views such as queer theory, radical feminism and post-modernfeminism.Four different gender archetypes derived from the result of the study: The strongfemale, The passive female, The stereotypical female, and The intimate female. Thestudy did show that women featured in QX magazine were portrayed throughheteronormative patterns, although the magazine represents a larger alternative group..

This examination studies the gender balance of contemporary art exhibitions in Sweden. To what extent genders are equally represented assumes to be based on how the curating process considers equality work. Three categories of art organisations are studied with the intention to determine differences in equality approach between the categories. Official documents of each organisation are examined to understand how they formally relate to equality work. Statistics of the actual gender balance of each organisation are produced based on the last two years exhibition archives.

The purpose with this essay is to study if the exhibition, Maria-Drömmen om kvinnan has a gender perspective and if it contributes to the history of art. The study shows what kind of women the exhibition illustrates and what kind of perspective it has. By telling about the black Madonna I also show that there is another representation of the middle age women in the Roman Catholic Church at this time that the exhibition not have included. The study is also going to illustrate the difference between a genderperspektiv in art and a women?s perspective.

Utifrån vår forskningsgenomgång framstod bilden av barn och vuxna barn till drogberoende föräldrar som övervägande negativ, sjukligförklarande och stereotypifierande. I kontrast till tidigare forskning sökte vi att med vår studie uppvisa en så komplett och balanserad bild vi kunde av ett antal vuxna barn - studiens syfte var att belysa positiva och negativa upplevelser hos ett antal vuxna barn till drogberoende föräldrar. Undersökningen genomfördes med en kvalitativ ansats, där empirin samlats in genom intervjuer med fem kvinnliga vuxna barn till alkoholberoende föräldrar. Materialet tolkades med Pierre Bourdieus begrepp habitus, sociala fält och kapital, samt den tidigare forskningen. Vi fann att nästan alla deltagare upplevde ensamhet eller utanförskap under barndomen, att alla hade olika många kompisar under uppväxten och att knappa hälften hade problem med relationer i vuxen ålder.

The aim of this Bachelor essay is to examine the portrayal of women and men constructed in two textbooks aimed for religious studies. The aim is also to examine how the image relates to the curriculum directives on gender equality. The theory consists of gender theory based on work by Catharina Raudvere, Jeanette Sky and Yvonne Hirdman. Previous research on gender and textbooks has shown that male perspective often dominates and that the female perspective is insertions in the rest of the text.?Genustrappan? (gender stairs) are used as analysis method.

The Security Council?s resolution 1325 addressed the major negative impact that armed conflict has on women and children. This in turn complicates the Council?s work on maintaining international peace and security. The resolution therefore highlights women?s rights as participants in peace- and conflict processes.

Safe in the cityscape? Gender aspects on spatial city planning In this thesis, theories regarding gender and spatial planning are applied to the comprehensive plan Fortuna och Hemgården in eastern Malmö. Independent of factors like class, ethnicity and age women experience lack of safety to a larger extent than men do. Today, safety aspects on housing projects is scarcely a controversial issue, quite the contrary. However seldom are the central terms such as safety and security defined. Research has shown that women feel safe when they experience little risk of being subjected to violence; security is deeply interconnected with feeling safe.

I detta arbete undersöks pojkars och flickors socioekonomiska bakgrund, attityder till läsning, läsaktiviteter och deras betydelse för resultat på läsprov samt för betyg. Undersökningsgruppen är elever i årskurs nio i två kommuner på fyra skolor. Eleverna har besvarat enkäter rörande socioekonomisk bakgrund, attityder till läsning samt läsaktiviteter.  Resultat på läsförståelsedelen i det nationella provet i svenska samt elevernas betyg har samlats in. Faktoranalys har använts för att undersöka materialet. I den identifierades tre faktorer, som summerades till variablerna, Kulturellt kapital, Läslust och Läskompetens. Dessa undersöktes i sin tur, i relation till kön, resultat på läsprov och betyg med multipel regressionsanalys. Resultatet visade att variabeln Kulturellt kapital har störst betydelse för resultat på läsprov och betyg, särskilt för flickor. Ekonomiska resurser i hemmet i form av kapitalvaror hade inte betydelse alls.

This essay has it purpose to view the assessment and grading in physical education in the Swedish school. Recently published reports from skolverket prove that boys have higher grades in the physical education than girls. Some mean that the reason of this is that the teachers don´t follow the curriculum. The problems we chose to examine are how much do teachers know how to use and connect the curriculum to their teaching? How much of the information and criterion in the curriculum do the teachers use to grade their pupils? And most importantly we wanted to examine why boys gets higher grades then girls, when the curriculum doesn?t seem to suit boys any better than girls.We have interviewed teachers in a certain district and our study shows that the teachers have good knowledge about the curriculum.

The aim of this study is to examine physical education teachers? and students? views on the thesis and its part in the physical teacher education program at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences.Does the view on the thesis differ between techers/students and the program with its curriculum and other policy documents?What does students/teachers value in a thesis?Does teachers/students have a mutual habitus concerning the thesis in the form of essay writing and how is this expressed?The study is based on a qualitative survey in which the respondents mainly answered open-ended questions with written answers. These answers have been categorized and analyzed with the aims of the study and the previous research in mind. The views on the purpose of the thesis differ, both within the group teachers/students and to a certain degree in relation to policy documents. The value of the thesis differs within the group.