Sverige beskrivs som ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Detta är av betydelse för förskolans uppdrag med att utveckla barnets medvetenhet och förståelse för andra kulturer och religioner. För att undvika fördomar och diskriminering är det betydelsefullt att redan i tidig ålder påvisa mångfalden av kultur och religion eller annan trosuppfattning Syftet med studien är att få en inblick i hur ett antal förskollärare talar om hur man praktiskt arbetar för att synliggöra och lyfta fram kultur och religion eller annan trosuppfattning i förskolan. Studien utgår ifrån ett sociokulturellt ? och interkulturellt perspektiv. Syftet och frågeställningarna har besvarats genom en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att titta på och jämföra hur Sverigedemokraterna och Feministiskt Initiativ konstruerar och talar om kultur och gemenskaper i politisk kommunikation. Intresset i studien är också att se huruvida man kan koppla dessa konstruktioner till reaktioner på globaliseringsprocessen. Materialet till denna studie grundar sig i politiska texter om kultur funna på respektive partis hemsida. Analysen utgår från ett diskursteoretiskt perspektiv och använder diskursanalytiska verktyg för att titta på konstruktioner av ?vi och dom? i texterna.

In Sweden there is an integration policy and a policy for national minorities. The integration policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlända invandrare), whereas the minority policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

We are two students named Susanne Grönlund and Anna Zaar and have jointly worked together this c-essay called "dignity and well-being according to whom? The paper is written at Högskolan dalarna in Falun.The purpose of this study was to investigate how the elderly and assistance officer describes dignity and well-being and how it is consistent with the government's bill on the national values that the National Board has developed.Our empirical study consists of four qualitative interviews, two older people dependent on community care and two assistance officers. The study's theoretical basis is Antonovsky's salutogenic approach and SOC. The survey focuses on different themes such as dignity, integrity, participation, treatment, wellbeing, security and meaningfulness which are also central themes in the Government Bill on the national values for elderly.The results show that the respondents believe that a life of dignity is difficult to define and also a subjective experience. The results also show a consistency between what the elderly, assistance officer and the national values that define dignity and well-being.

Hur skapar man arkitektur för sociala och kulturella sammanhang på en plats som framstår som en ogästvänlig boplats för människor?Syftet med studien var att få bättre förståelse för relationen mellan natur, kultur, landskap, människa, teknik och miljö i ett av världens nordligaste samhälle, Longyearbyen på Svalbard, vars extrema klimat med rådande istid och långa mörkerperioder framstår som en skrämmande boplats för människor. Finns det plats för arkitektur som är något mer än bara ett konstruktivt skydd mot rovdjur, väder och vind?Målet var att skapa en plats för aktiva och oförpliktade möten; ett Campus Kultur som fungerar som knutpunkt dygnet runt..

Syftet med denna uppsats är att synliggöra och problematisera vad kulturen sägs vara i svensk kulturpolitik, hur kulturpolitiken är utformad och för vem. Genom kvalitativ textanalys av 2009 års kulturproposition Tid för Kultur visar undersökningen att det i propositionen inte finns någon tydlig definition av vad begreppet kultur innebär. Det finns en uttalad medvetenhet om att kulturbegreppet är svårdefinierat men eftersom kulturbegreppet inte definieras i propositionen medför det en inkonsekvent användning.En viktig utgångspunkt för uppsatsen är att kulturen ? liksom kulturpolitiken ? kan utgöra en arena för maktspel. Av den anledningen är sociologen Pierre Bourdieus teorier om kulturella dominansförhållanden viktiga för undersökningen.

The aim of my thesis is to unveil orientalistic powerstructures in the new national curriculum for religious studies in Swedish upper secondary schools. Western imperialism and modernistic ideals has formed the Swedish perception of what constitutes as Swedish, this perception also influences the Swedish religious understanding. This understanding is imbedded in the national curriculum for religious studies which enables a western hegemony to prevail..

The aim of my thesis is to unveil orientalistic powerstructures in the new national curriculum for religious studies in Swedish upper secondary schools. Western imperialism and modernistic ideals has formed the Swedish perception of what constitutes as Swedish, this perception also influences the Swedish religious understanding. This understanding is imbedded in the national curriculum for religious studies which enables a western hegemony to prevail..

The focus of this master thesis is the library politics of the French Right wing party the National Front and the debate that followed the application of this politics. This qualitative study is divided into two parts where the critics to this politics represents one side and the adherents the other. The critics are composed by representatives from the French, Swedish and ? to some extent ? international library sector, while the adherent side is made up of politicians from the National Front and their adherents. The empiric material mostly consists of articles published in library, Right wing and daily press.

This is a qualitative study of how some journalists on the Swedish national media are using social media in news work. The study, carried out by using interviews, also covers how these journalists' work is influenced by social media. For the journalists in the study social media has become a tool to do research, get news ideas and find interviewees. At the same time social media affects the work of the journalists, as the social media increases the speed of news and flow of information. Even though they involve some challenges, social media facilitates news work and the journalists in this study have a positive attitude towards the phenomenon.Keywords: Social media, news journalism, the national media..

This thesis is a report concerning the practical aspects on exhibition techniques. During an internship at the National History Museum in Stockholm I participated in the work with their new, temporary exhibition Gränslöst - en global utställning på Historiska museet [Boundless - a global voyage of discovery at the National Historical Museum]. I was part of a small project team of museum staff. The purpose of this exhibition was to show how cultures have met and influenced each other throughout history. The National Historical Museum has in its collections and exhibitions several examples of objects that has been imported from or inspired by other cultural areas.

Political marketing has changed the way political parties internationally behave in relation to the voters. The purpose of this study was to investigate how political marketing is conducted on a local level in Swedish political parties, and how the local and national level of the political parties coordinate the message they send out to the voters. An explorative study was performed by interviewing experts in the field in the form of politicians on both a local and a national level. Initially the local parties' methods were investigated, followed by a second stage where we researched the link between parties on the local and the national level. Marketing of parties on a local level turned out to a large extent to follow traditional methods.

Abstract The growth of supra-national organizations, such as the European Union, has been a recent trend in today?s global environment, which has challenged traditional marketing concepts and product cues. One such cue that is significantly challenged is the 'origin cue'. An origin cue is conceived to be a socially constructed notion that consumers use to discern where goods come from and to accordingly evaluate products with. The origin cue is often predominantly materialized in the public sphere by a 'made in' labelling scheme.

The purpose of this essay has been to investigate the research and national initiatives regarding film and Cineliteracy in the Swedish curriculum.The results show that, after all research, national initiatives and the continual clarification from the Swedish National Agency for Education concerning film's place in the Swedish subject, the vision of students cineliteracy not at all obtain an obvious place in the curriculum.The research points out the main causes behind this result to be teachers' lack of expertise and the fact that the formal education for future teachers in the subject still upholds traditional views on the subject of Swedish.The initiative presented in this essay also show lack of continuity, lack of adequate professional development opportunities for teachers and lack of practical guidance manuals to help teachers to develop and educate their pupils in line with current research and visions. .

After Sweden became a member of the European Union, EU, the debate regarding the Swedish participation in the EU?s currency co-operation, the European Monetary Union, EMU, has been intense. One of the biggest issues has been how our national economic politics will work within such a monetary union. What instrument will remain for the national economic politics within the EMU are highly uncertain. The question whether we will be able to affect our own economy or not has long been the essence in the Swedish debate.