The purpose of this paper was to analyse ?Identity- about trademarks, signs and symbols?. The project was a co-operation between the National museum of Art and Stockholm School of Economics in the spring of 2002, which consisted of an exhibition, a book and a series of seminars. The goal was to illustrate how the trademark had developed through history, which role it has in the modern society and how the trademark serves as a creator of identities. The project, mostly the exhibition, was exposed to criticism, which was directed towards the sponsorship deals between The National Museum of Art and five companies..

This thesis is performed as a case study in Västerbotten Museum's textile storage space. The intention with this study is to investigate the relationships between the museum?s tasks: to collect, preserve and make the collections accessible. The aim is to reveal the problems that exist in museums today with increasing collections, less resources for the preservation of the collections and increasing requirements on accessibility. The aim is to deduce the problem by finding out how the different tasks relate to one another today.

The aim of this Master thesis has been to analyse the debateon Wikileaks as it occured in the Swedish daily press during2010 and early 2011, as well as to identify what differentdiscourses influenced the discussions. The empirical materialconsisted of fifty-three articles, taken from three nationalnewspapers and has been analysed using the discourseanalysis theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Thearticles were analysed in four stages which included:identifying statements concerning Wikileaks and itsoperations; identifying additional groups and individualsappearing in the debate and the statements made about these;grouping statements into themes and on the basis of thesethemes construct chains of equivalence and identify subjectpositions. The last stage consisted of identification ofdiscourses and the relationships and possible conflictsbetween those discourses. The results showed that fourdiscourses could be identified: the good democracydiscourse, the traditional diplomatic discourse, the goodjournalism discourse and the power-critical discourse..

Familjen ses som en naturlig enhet och det finns en tanke om att när ett barn inte kan bo hos sin familj av olika skäl, ska institutionsvården barnet vistas i efterlikna en familj och ett hem. Det finns olika åsikter om huruvida en institution bör eller har möjlighet att likna en familj/ett hem. En del forskning menar att det inte går att efterlikna familj och hem inom institutionsvård medan annan forskning menar att det är fullt möjligt och nödvändigt. Syftet med studien är att belysa hur personal på HVB-hem konstruerar familj och hem som fenomen på HVB-hem. Vidare belyser studien personalens föreställningar kring hur relationer på institutionerna kommer till uttryck utifrån ett familjebegrepp.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore how the media through a certain discourse constructs a view of the labor market and the power relations between companies, unions and employees. The goal is to explore this through studying the media coverage of SAS? financial situation between September-December 2012 and our research question is the following: What view of the labor market and its power relations was constructed and reproduced by Swedish newspapers through their portrayal of SAS during September-December 2012?Method: This study analyses the findings with the help of questions based on theories of social constructivism, discourse, agenda-setting and power. A content and discourse analysis was compiled of 360 articles from five Swedish newspapers that addressed SAS and their situation from September-December 2012. The results of these analyses were further processed using power analysis and John Gaventa?s power cube.Results: In this study we conclude that the medial discourse constructs identities of the different actors and affect power relations between them, in favor of the company.

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, issues related to religion and violence has beenactualized in the media. Do Islamic texts and sources legitimate violent actions? In responseto these questions, some professional scholars of Islam argued that the 11 September terroristswere not really Muslims, but hijackers of Islam. According to other scholars, such argumentsreflect a common sui-generis discourse in religious studies which stresses the autonomy ofreligious phenomena, the priority of faith over cultural production, interior experiences andbeliefs over social practice. The scholars in favor for a naturalistic approach in religiousstudies argues that, in order to approach religion in a naturalistic way, we have to be critical ofrepresentations of religion ? and in this case representations of Islam ? drawing on a suigenerisdiscourse.

Democracy is a term that has been researched, and still is researched, a lot. In my education to become a teacher it has been the subject that interests me the most and I would like to be able to contribute to this research. The starting point of this essay is that in my experience there is a difference in how the national curriculum describes democracy and how the students I have met describes it. Therefore I wanted to investigate whether this also applies to a wider context than the students that I meet in my everyday life. The purpose of this essay is; to examine whether students in the ninth grade has the same view on democracy as the national means of control. The result I have attained through my work is that they somewhat share the same vision.

In this paper I will examine the five Pussy Riot music videos that the group has published online on their official You Tube website. I will examine them through a ?gender lens? looking at their visual representations of gender vis-à-vis the hegemonic gender discourse in Russia. In addition I will examine their potential effects and if/how these visual representations can be understood as resistance.In my study I will take on a constructionist approach and the main theories being used to understand and analyze the Pussy Riot music videos are discourse- and representational theory including deconstruction, performativity and the social construction of gender as well as ?in-between? and deviant representations.

This essay examines if there is any difference how the two biggest tabloids in Sweden, Aftonbladet and Expressen is portraying the Swedish national football team for both woman and men. The purpose is to compare and see if there is any difference regarding what gender you have. We have also examined what gender the authors for the articles have. We have used a quantitative content analysis to get our results. In conclusion, there is a big difference in medial space regarding what gender you have.

Syftet med studien var att utifrån ett könsperspektiv undersöka ungdomars erfarenhet och upplevelse av miljöterapeutisk behandling på institution. Fokus låg på ungdomarnas tankar kring syftet och nyttan med miljöterapin, aktiviteterna i den, relationerna med personalen och de andra ungdomarna på institutionen. Skillnader och likheter inom och mellan könen studerades sedan. Undersökningen byggde på semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra ungdomar som är eller har varit placerade på institution. Resultaten analyserades i relation till tidigare forskning om ungdomar på institution och Judith Butlers teoretiska perspektiv om kön, performativitet och könslikheter.

Henriksson, I & Jönsson, M. Den svenska glasburken. En diskursanalys av Statens Offentliga Utredningar/ The Swedish glass jar. A discourse analysis of official government reports. Examensarbete i Socialt arbete 30 poäng.

Studiens syfte var att kartlägga ungdomars upplevelser av sin institutionsplacering samt sätta detta i relation till socialpsykologiska begrepp som stämpling och självbild. Undersökningen bygger på halvstrukturerade intervjuer med fyra ungdomar placerade på institution. Resultaten analyserades i relation till socialpsykologiska begrepp som stämpling och självbild, utifrån symbolisk interaktionism och stämplingsteorin samt om disciplinering utifrån social responsivitet. I studien har framkommit att ungdomarna ofta har en problematisk relation till sina föräldrar. Ungdomarna har en klar uppfattning om hur människor i deras sociala nätverk skulle beskriva dem och det verkar som att de är vana vid att se sig själva utifrån andras ögon.

Denna studie handlar om behandlingsassistenter inom institutionsvården och deras tankar kring professionalitet och förhållningssätt. Behandlingskollektivet på en institution undersöks också med fokus på faktorer som utbildning, yrkeserfarenhet och målsättning med arbetet. Institutionen som undersöks i den här studien riktar in sig på vård och behandling av unga pojkar. Studien bygger på metodtriangulering genom både en kvantitativ del och en kvalitativ del, samt teorier hämtade från flera olika håll. Ansatsen är abduktiv i och med att vi utgår från empiriska data men samtidigt låter oss vägledas av teoretiskt grundade antaganden.

The concept of national security has been a matter for debate during recent years, especially in academic fields. Criticism has surfaced since the end of the cold war, directed towards the traditional perspective's dogmatic focus on armed threats and interstate war. Questions concerning an oncoming paradigm shift have been raised, regarding a widening of the security agenda among national states to also include alternative threats, such as environmental hazards. In this thesis, the focus lies on the effects that climate changes have caused in the Swedish national security agenda during the last 15 years. Swedish policy documents show that there have been some major changes, not only the widening of the security agenda but the entire security domain seems to have changed.

The Internet is a constant source of information about the world and has contributed to the globalization of texts and pictures. A part in the tourists process of consumption involves looking at pictures and read about places that create an image of places that they have never been to. Websites are therefore important as a first impression and it is here that places are being represented. Places are created on the Internet and the Australian outback is an example of this. The study is interesting because it can be used to understand the relationship between people and places.