The field of coping has become more developed during the past decades but there is still a lot to be discovered and discussed. Theories of developmental psychology describe the possibility to map a general developmental structure of how the human mind expands. The aim of this study is to contribute to further research in whether there is a reason why we cope the way we do in relation to age. The questions answered in this study was, what coping two girls, whom lived during the Holocaust, used and how the coping found, were possible to interpret from theories of developmental psychology. In order to answer the questions asked a method called Template Analysis Style and three different theories have been applied.

The purpose of this paper is to examine how contemporary attitudes towards death andsexuality is made visible and connected in the vampire novels Interview with the Vampire andDead Until Dark. The aim is to investigate why the vampire novel has reached today?samount of popularity and if it can be explained by theories of death and sexuality in modernsociety and in popular culture.The most important theories in this examination are Zygmunt Bauman?s theories aboutmodern society, Jean Baudrillard?s thoughts about death in the postmodernity and MichelFoucault?s studies regarding sexuality in the Western societies. The conclusion presented isthat sexuality and death are well connected in the examined novels and in popular culture as awhole and death?s popularity in popular culture could be a result of repressed emotionsregarding death and sorrow, which can be helped by us working on handle death more visiblyand with higher regard..

The field of coping has become more developed during the past decades but there is still a lot to be discovered and discussed. Theories of developmental psychology describe the possibility to map a general developmental structure of how the human mind expands. The aim of this study is to contribute to further research in whether there is a reason why we cope the way we do in relation to age. The questions answered in this study was, what coping two girls, whom lived during the Holocaust, used and how the coping found, were possible to interpret from theories of developmental psychology. In order to answer the questions asked a method called Template Analysis Style and three different theories have been applied.

This essay captures the process toward a democratic transition in South Africa and tempts on analyzing the efforts made by civil society before the negotiation with the government in the beginning of the 90´s. The method used is a case study.By applying the theory of Elisabeth Jean Wood about the importance of continued mobilization, I try to answer the question: to what extend did civil society influence the democratization process. The focus of the study lies on the years of intensified popular mobilization, from the start of the 80´s until the beginning of the 90´s.The results following this study shows that COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions) and ANC(African National Congress) played both a crucial role for the democratization process in South Africa. UDF, however played a role in the process, but not in the same significant way that COSATU and ANC..

Is the Swedish author Stig Dagerman an existentialist? This work takes a close look at Dagerman?s novel Island of the Doomed to see if it is possible to consider it an expression of existentialist thinking and to see if it interacts with any specific existentialist tradition. Dagerman?s novel was compared with select works of five existentialist thinkers ? Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Karl Jaspers, all read in the light of the four categories of existentialistic thinking identified by the Swedish scholar Lennart Koskinen. All the four categories appeared to be central themes within the novel and a few subcategories were identified.

My essay is written from a basis of one of my own experiences were a child is perceived by us pedagogues as lonely and introverted, as well as having trouble socialising because of, what we can see, difficulties making himself understood verbally. I want to highlight how I as a pedagogue can respond to and strengthen children who are outside but still with the group, in a certain sense. I want to reflect on how we can deepen our understanding of these children and how we can facilitate for children who do not follow the norms of society when it comes to communication. I will analyse and draw conclusions with the help of theorists such as Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotskij and interpretations of these, but also look at it from a sociopsychological perspective as the interactions between people and environments play a large and distinctive role in preschool. The purpose of this essay is to enlighten how different we can see and experience situations in preschool.

Sammanfattning Studiens syfte är att få en förståelse för hur pedagoger i förskolan använder sig av och resonerar kring utomhuspedagogik. Vår problemställning är hur pedagoger använder utomhuspedagogiken i den dagliga verksamheten och om de tar tillvara på barnens intresse i utomhusmiljön samt vad utemiljön och utomhuspedagogiken har för möjligheter och/eller hinder för barns utveckling och lärande. Utomhuspedagogik är ett viktigt komplement till barns lärande i förskolan. Att som pedagog arbeta i en utomhusmiljö och bli en medupptäckare tillsammans med barnen bidrar till deras utveckling och lärande. John Dewey och Jean Piaget ansåg att barnen framförallt utvecklas och lär genom att göra.

The aim of this study is to analyse how pornography is used in the American comics X-Men, published by Marvel under the authorship of Chris Claremont.I have applied Butler and MacKinnons theories about pornography as a performative speech, to this special art form. I have also investigated how censorship has influenced the comics evolution and whether it has affected the way women and sexual and ethnical minorities are represented. To corroborate how these theories apply, I have analysed three main female fig-ures in The X-Men comics - Storm, Phoenix and Shadowcat - and I have tried to identify how they relate to existing stereotypes.The conclusion of this essay is that the women characters in X-Men break the existing stereo-types and create new implications. This reinforces Butler?s theory about the possibility to re-verse hate speech and diminishes MacKinnons perspective of pornography as an imperative..

Författare: Louis EberstålTitel: ?Från ett nationellt och samtida problem till ett globalt ochframtida hot?Nivå: KandidatuppsatsSpråk: SvenskaAntal sidor: 36Syfte: Åtskilliga teorier bekräftar att medier har ett stort inflytandepå den allmänna opinionen, de avgör vad publiken sersom miljöproblem. Syftet med denna studie är därför attundersöka hur dagstidningar i Sverige gestaltar miljöfråganoch miljöproblem.Metod: Kvantitativ innehållsanalys samt en kvantifiering avkvalitativa variabler. Undersökningens material är tvåsvenska dagstidningar (Dagens Nyheter och Aftonbladet) under tre utvalda tidsperioder; 1994, 2004 samt 2014.Empirin analyseras med en teoriram bestående av följandeteorier; gestaltningsteorin, elitkällor, dagordningsteorin samtteorin om gatekeeping.Huvudresultat: Resultatet i denna studie visar att miljöjournalistiken har gått från att vara ett nationellt och samtida problem präglat av politik, till att bli ett globalt och framtida hot som är präglat av klimat- och hållbarhetsfrågor. Studien visar även vikten av relevanta elitaktörer som i viss mån får ta över rapporteringen genom debattartiklar när kunskapen hos journalisterna inte räcker till för att beskriva detta komplexa och abstrakta ämne.Program: Kandidatprogram i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapUniversitet: Linnéuniversitetet, VäxjöPeriod: Vårterminen 2015Handledare: Göran PalmExaminator: Helena Meldré.

This essay is about the modern Swedish Nazi movement in relation to the German Nazi movement before and during the Second World War. The analysis is made using the Nazi Myth theory as described by French philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe & Jean-Luc Nancy. Theory and method are aimed at analysing the Nazi movement as a religious one. In this essay I have identified five main Nazi Myth elements required to realize Nazi ideals and embraced by original German Nazis. Through text analysis I have studied how Swedish Nazis use and reproduce these elements.The result will show that the main elements are well represented in modern Swedish Nazi texts and must be considered as central and bearing in modern Swedish Nazism. However, modern Swedish Nazism is also different from original German Nazism in some ways, for example in view of race, land and art..

The study is aimed at investigating the images of God, or how God is percepted, that is beingpresented in the artistic work of Ingmar Bergman, and how they differ from each other. The filmsthat are being analysed in this study is The seventh seal (1957), The Magician (1958), Through aglass darkly (1961), Winter light (1963), The Silence (1963), Persona (1965) and Cries andwhispers (1973).To examine the images of God that are being presented throughout the scope of the study Iam mainly using common cinematic theories that are presented in James Monacos How to read afilm (2000) and Louis Giannettis Understanding film(1993) which basically are structuralistapproaches to discussing film as a language and interpretation.I am studying each movie as it is presented to us, the viewers, and only speaking of the film.I am also looking into Ingmar Bergmans personal life, not to examine if he was a Christian believer,but for clues to interpret themes, characters and the event taking place in each of the films. Thestudy is investigating the series of films as a connected unity, a connected unity that explores therelationship of God and mankind as it is presented in the films.The result of the study is that the image of God presented in the films of Ingmar Bergman isa God that moves from the transcendent sphere to the immanent sphere, a God, or ?the Holy? thatover the years transforms into something materialistic. This new God, or holiness, is something thatexists in the interpersonal relations of mankind in the latter work of Ingmar Bergman..

Examensarbetet handlar om barns lek och är inriktad på två olika I Ur och Skurförskolor, där har vi undersökt hur utomhuspedagogiken och pedagogerna påverkar barnens lek. Frågeställningar som vi har utgått ifrån är: Hur upplever pedagogerna leken i inomhusmiljön i jämförelse med i utomhusmiljö? Vad gör pedagogerna för att stimulera barnen i deras lekar? Vilken är pedagogernas roll i barnens lekar i inomhusmiljö i jämförelse med i utomhusmiljö? Vad är pedagogernas resonemang kring den fria leken? Vår tidigare forskning har innefattat utomhuspedagogik, leken och pedagogernas roll i den. Vi har utgått ifrån teoretikerna Jean Piaget och Lev Vygotskijs tankar om barns lek. De metoder som har använts för att besvara våra frågeställningar är kvalitativa intervjuer med två pedagoger på olika förskolor och naturalistiska observationer av barn och pedagoger när de interagerade med varandra. Vi har observerat skillnad i barnens lek i inomhusmiljö i jämförelse med i utomhusmiljö, och även pedagogernas delaktighet i den.

The object of investigation in this essay is the epic novel sequence Jernbanan written by Sara Lidman. More specifically the investigation takes on the idea of a ?sam-vett? as it is formulated in Jernbanan. The ?sam-vett? is an idea about the undivided unity of man, nature and animal, and with a kind of primitive trait.

Denna studie syftade till att undersöka hur pedagogerna tankar kring barns språkliga utveckling och hur de arbetade mer konkret med böcker och samtal för att främja barns språkutveckling. Jean Piaget och Lev Vygotskij är de pedagogiska teoretikerna som vi har utgått ifrån gällande teorier inom läro-processer. När det gäller arbetssätten för att främja barnens språk stimulering utgick vi från forskning. Studien är en kvalitativ metod med en fenomenolo-gisk ansats. Genom ostrukturerade intervjuer med pedagoger har empiri insamlats.

Denna studie syftade till att undersöka hur pedagogerna tankar kring barns språkliga utveckling och hur de arbetade mer konkret med böcker och samtal för att främja barns språkutveckling. Jean Piaget och Lev Vygotskij är de pedagogiska teoretikerna som vi har utgått ifrån gällande teorier inom läro-processer. När det gäller arbetssätten för att främja barnens språk stimulering utgick vi från forskning. Studien är en kvalitativ metod med en fenomenolo-gisk ansats. Genom ostrukturerade intervjuer med pedagoger har empiri insamlats.