The purpose of this essay was to study how youths think about their youth and future. Our intention was to study in which order of priority today's high school students in Helsingborg ranked family life, education, career and vagabonding. We also investigated what the term adolescence meant to them.Our main questions were how our respondents looked upon their youth and their future. In which way did they give priority to family life, education, career and vagabonding and why did they give these priorities? Which meaning did the respondents lay in the term adolescence?The study was based on interviews with seven young people, studying at a communal high school in Helsingborg.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ongoing changes in German family policy. It explores the issue of whether the German welfare state, in this policy field, can still be regarded as a conservative welfare model or rather approaches a more liberal or social democratic model. A qualitative method is used to analyze the material, especially from the German government, including press releases, other public documents and also articles from the political weekly magazines Der Spiegel and Die Zeit. The changes analyzed are the new parental benefit, the expansion of child care, the concept of whole-day schools and the system of joint taxation. The point of departure is Gösta Esping-Andersen?s categorization of three types of welfare states: the social democratic, the conservative and the liberal.

Undersökningar visar att det är få företag som är förberedda för en attack frånaktivister. Tillvägagångssätten för att bemöta aktivisterna har också ofta visat sig varabristfälliga. Att se över sin egen verksamhet, med inriktning på företagsetik och specielltföretagets sociala ansvar gentemot sin omvärld, kan öka beredskapen hosorganisationen. Det finns också ett flertal principer, riktlinjer och deklarationer att följaför den som vill känna sig till freds med sin verksamhet. Omtanken om människor, djuroch miljö ökar nämligen, och utan rätt beredskap kan företaget bli rubbat avutomstående, som med bojkotter och andra påtryckningsmedel försöker påverkaföretaget i en viss riktning.Dessa aktivister är ofta del av en större social rörelse.

Trots ett allt mer urbaniserat samhälle går tillväxten i Sveriges glesbygder framåt. Att näringslivets satsningar på mindre orter kan vara avgörande för hela regioners fortlevnad skapade ett intresse hos oss för vad som attraherar företag att etablera sig på dessa mindre orter. Detta utmynnande i vår problemformulering; vilka drivkrafter har ett marknadsdrivande företag till etablering på mindre ort.Ett aktuellt fall av ett marknadsledande företags etablering på en mindre ort, är IKEA och deras val av etablering i Haparanda. Detta har både uppmärksammats och ifrågasatts varför vi fann sakfrågan intressant och givande att utreda.Syftet med vår studie är att identifiera och undersöka de bakomliggande faktorerna till Ikeas etablering i Haparanda. Våra delsyften är att utreda de avgörande faktorerna, undersöka hur företagets position på marknaden har påverkat beslutet samt hur Haparanda kommun har arbetat för IKEA:s etablering.Den process som bäst beskriver vår arbetsgång kallas för iterativ strategi.

The aim of our thesis was to describe how the connection between co-dependent relatives and the alcohol-dependent influences the family into changes in their teamwork.Our purpose was also to answer the following questions: How is it living with an alcoholic? Are there any differences in how men and women feel and behave in their relationship with an alcoholic? Are factors like cultural belonging, genre or social class important for how the co-dependent relatives feels and behaves and handle their co-dependency?To answer these questions we made twelve thematic qualitative interviews with six adult children to alcoholics and six people married to alcoholics. We compared the results of these interviews with earlier research. We also applied System Theory and Goffman's Role Theory, as well as Bourdieu´s Capital and Habitus concept.We believe that co-dependency is a family divergence that is very similar to family disease, but that a change in attitude can trigger recovery. According to the interviews many spouses stand by their alcoholic husbands and do actions that perpetuate the alcoholic dependence and thereby hold back any recovery.

Rapporten beskriver examensarbetet Gamla idéer med nya lösningar utfört av Erik Björk,avgångsstudent från utbildningsprogrammet möbeldesign vid Carl Malmsten Centrum förTräteknik & Design vid Linköpings universitet. Examensarbetet är genomfört i samarbete medIKEA of Sweden.Syftet med det designuppdrag som jag har genomfört i samband med examensarbetet har varit attta fram fyra möbler utifrån givna förutsättningar i 7 olika möbelfabriker, som alla arbetar medmassivt trä som råvara. Utifrån dessa förutsättningar skulle jag dels skapa produkter somtillvaratar materialets unika egenskaper och därigenom ej är möjliga att imitera i andra material.Dels ge produkterna originalitet och personlighet genom att utforska den skandinaviskaidentiteten och mitt egna ursprung samt kommunicera detta genom produkterna. Var produktskall ha en historia att berätta.Att ta fram fyra möbler parallellt under 10 veckor har varit en utmaning. Stundvis har det käntssom att en produkt hade varit nog men i efterhand är jag glad att det var fyra.

Rent generellt gäller att en stor förståelse för Kinas affärskultur är av stor vikt för att ett svenskt företag ska kunna lyckas skapa en framgångsrik affärsrelation med kinesiska leverantörer. Men om kapitalet inte finns är det näst intill likgiltigt huruvida förståelsen för affärskulturen finns, då kapitalet är en av de viktigaste prioriteterna. Studiens resultat visar att IKEA genom att sikta på långsiktiga relationer kan följa sina leverantörers arbete och på längre sikt effektivisera produktionen. IKEA vill även genom relationerna skapa starka band till sina leverantörer. Vi har genom studien kommit fram till några specifika nyckelbegrepp som vi anser är av stor vikt för att kunna uppnå lyckade affärsrelationer vilka är: medvetenhet om Kinas kultur samt lagar, tålamod, kunskap inom sitt område, dubbelkontroller av överenskommelser och avtal, vara tillmötesgående angående aktiviteter utanför arbetet samt att ej göra handlingar som leder till att en kines tappar ansikte.

This study aims to further Work-family conflict research for Social Workers by providing insight into what kind of impact the job role of social workers in Sweden has on their private lives and how they deal with it. The study operates from a qualitative approach and is based on three focus group-interviews and three semi-structured interviews with people working in different fields of social work. The empirical material has been analyzed through the Dramaturgical Perspective and Frame concept of Erving Goffman. The results of this study show that the job role impacts the psychological well-being of social workers, their family life and their social life to varying degrees, mainly due to organizational and client-based aspects, often resulting in role-conflicts and a lack of energy in their private lives. The primary strategies were found to be conversing with colleagues, spending time alone, embracing hobbies and having a clear understanding of individual responsibility. .

This master thesis is looking into the stories on the internet forum www.resedagboken.se. The stories of Swedish teenaged exchange students in the U.S. are studied and the main purpose is to see both what they are writing about and the reason for why they are spending their time writing down their experiences in a public forum.Even though most of the teenagers here are writing with a specific audience in mind, all the stories are free to anyone to take part of and this causes a difficult position for the teenagers who often seem to forget the public point of view when they are telling about their personal lives.The study is divided into two parts. The first one looks into the content of the stories and the other one focuses on the storytellers and their reasons for writing. The teenagers are writing both a lot about their everyday lives in their new environment, but also a lot of things to keep in touch with what their friends and family in Sweden are doing.

Background: Children in our present society spend more time sedentary, and food has become more accessible. It is important to pay attention to obese children, because of the risk for serious diseases in the future. Obesity can also cause mental suffering for the child. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the nurse?s care of obese children.

Since 2003 Saudi Arabia is under attack from domestic Al Qaida-cells which, by random shootings of westerners and bombings of compounds and official state buildings, is trying to challenge the stability of the royal regime. According to Al Qaida, the Royal family is attacked because of their friendly relations to the US and for not implementing Islam in the Saudi society as profound as they ought to. Political analyst finds it obvious that the Islamic Al Qaida-cells by terrorism is trying to erode the stability in the kingdom.An important foundation for stability for any government is legitimacy. The aim of this thesis is to examine the royal legitimacy strategy in the state bureaucracy of Saudi Arabia. The question at issue is: how has the royal family constructed the civil, military and religious bureaucracies to maintain and promote stability and legitimacy?The thesis focuses on the on three different units within these three bureaucracies and it surveys the way they are staffed and organized to strengthen and maintain legitimacy for the royal family.

The purpose of this paper is to see how differences are handled in preschools, with a focus on children with homo- or bisexual parents. By doing this we wanted to see how the conditions for a child with homo- or bisexual parents looks like, in order to have their family conditions mirrored, confirmed and visualised in the preschool.The foundation for the discussion is a questionaire which has been answered by 229 preschool workers from 24 different preschools in the City of Stockholm. The result of the questionaire has been handled in a statistics program. Our analysis is based on the statistical numbers and the written replies to the open questions in the questionaire.As a theoretical starting point we have used Iris Marion Young?s ideas about how our society is coloured by an ideal of similarity that defines liberation as the transcendence of group difference, where the dominant group cannot see how their perspective is just one of several perspectives.

For my advanced degree in archival science, I have organized and catalogued the Blomqvist family archive.  The Blomqvist family archive consists of records from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21th century. The records in the archive depict and describe different aspect of the Blomqvist familys life and work. Specific problems and theoretical questions that appeared during the cataloguing of the Blomqvist archive were related to the great presence of objects and photographs in the archive. A discussion concerning the role of objects in archives and within archive institution took place. The problem with cataloguing photographs as well as the problem of searching for photographs in archives, were also discussed.       .

This report brings up the question - ?Is BIM profitable when planning a single-family home??.The methodology for finding the answer to this question is firstly to state the definitions of BIMand the company that is projecting by using the BIM-model. The answer is then obtained byanalyses of the factors of profitability with respect to: time, opportunity of revision, problemvisualization, preference adjustments and energy. A BIM-model has been made simultaneously asthe writing has proceeded to get a perception of how a BIM-model really matters for the analysis.The analysis shows that the answer for the question depends on further factors. The factors thatare mostly discussed are the company?s intentions and the complexity of the house.

At the beginning of the 21st century, youth unemployment is paid attention to by the Swedish government and media. A grand part of the unemployed youth live at their parents´ house because of economic reasons contrary to their primary goal to be able to make their own living. It can be argued that the young unemployed´ s social citizenship is inferior to working citizens´ social citizenship. The thesis will not deal with suggestions on practical solutions, but rather seek for theoretical answers to whether the responsibility for the young people referred to should be a responsibility of the State or of the family. Communitarianism is a relatively young theory which is interesting for this thesis because it sheds light on the dichotomy individual - community.