The purpose of our essay is to describe and analyse the experience of adults growing up with alcohol abusing parents and how their adult lives have been affected by this. The essay consists of both theoretical and empirical studies and we have used a qualitative method. We used a semi structured interview where we interviewed eight persons. We used symbolic interaction to analyse the collected data. The result is to a large extent consistent with previous research.

Titel Något stort, runt och varmt - En uppsats om social tillhörighet, humor och kommunikationEngelsk titel A terribly funny essey ? about social class, humor and communicationFörfattare Emma Aronsson och Nina LagerstedtHandledare Eva LundbergExaminator Tanya ElderTermin Vårterminen 2012Kurskod 2MK300Universitet Linnéuniversitetet i Växjö, institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapIntroduktion Vitsen med humor är inte bara att skämta och roa utan det är också ett sätt att kommunicera med andra personer i vardagliga situationer och att skapa sociala kontakter. En persons sociala förhållanden, till exempel våra föräldrars och vårt eget yrke, utbildning och inkomst kan påverka den enskilde individen i hur den tänker och handlar. Eftersom humor är kommunikation så borde en persons sociala tillhörighet påverka vad en person har för humor.Problem Vad tycker kvinnor med olika sociala tillhörighet är roligt och varför? På vilket sätt spelar social tillhörighet roll när det kommer till vad kvinnor tycker är roligt och inte? I vilka sammanhang och på vilka sätt använder kvinnor humor för att kommunicera med andra personer?Teori Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i teorier om kommunikation, humor, social tillhörighet, social klass och genus.Metod Genom fokusgrupper där deltagarna fick diskutera kring nyckelfrågor och videoklipp som vi valde ut på förhand.

This paper deals with the use of Internet at Swedish public libraries. The author asks whether public libraries should or should not limit access to information available on the Internet. Starting from the American discussion, concerning Internet at public libraries, the author shows the Swedish attitudes. The paper demonstrates that many Swedish public libraries have adopted rules forbidding retrieval of certain kinds of information, such as hard-core pornography and racist propaganda. The persons in charge of such actions claim that public libraries should provide high-quality educational literature and should not spread mass-produced, provocative information.

13 individuals from the Viking Age trading place in Fröjel, Gotland, were examined for this thesis. The aim was to gain a deeper knowledge about the individuals, and the main focus was to study their health. Three men, eight women and two children were examined. The age of the two children was estimated to around birth, and was no longer relevant for this thesis. The age distribution showed that two individuals were young (10-24 years), seven individuals were adults (18-44 years) and two individuals were middle-aged or older (35-79 years).

This thesis is my exploration of the immaterial heritage that is the craft of bending of ?dn?ris? out of spruce. It?s a broken tradition that is scarcely described, mainly through Yngve Ryd?s report T?ltk?tor (1999) that contains interviews with two knowledge keepers, Nilas Tuolja and Johan Rassa. Yngve Ryd?s report went against the earlier opinion by the mid 20th century ethnologist Ernst Manker who claimed that they were only made exclusively out of mountain birch that has curved growth. As a background, I discuss the special importance of heritage conservation, both material and immaterial, in a S?mi context as being an indigenous people.

Children undergo great developmental changes during the preschool and early school years. It is also the very same period in which their pragmatic abilities develop. This study aimed to examine the relationship between Theory of Mind and syntax. Fifty-four preschool and school children aged between 3:11 to 9:0 years participated. TROG-2 and a False Belief assessment of Sally Anne design using three conditions: narrative, silent and distortion were used.

Detta kandidatarbete handlar om hur spelupplevelsen påverkas av en ljuddesign som är skapad genom en persons öron, en sån kallad binaural ljuddesign. I spel och film påverkar ljuddesignen 50% av det man ser och upplever. En stor del av de som spelar spel idag använder sig av hörlurar och headsets för att uppnå den bästa ljudupplevelse och för att de enkelt ska kunna kommunicera via olika röstchatt. Trots detta satsar spelföretag idag på att man ska få det mest kvalitativa ljudupplevelsen via surround-system och för att man enkelt ska kunna höra direktionellt ljud. Detta kan även en binaural ljuddesign återge genom vanliga hörlurar.

Equality between men and women has as an ideal won an increasing impact on the contemporary Swedish society and has established as a factor influencing all areas of society from politics to business and private life. The focus of this essay is to explore the impact of equality on hegemonic masculinity and relations of masculinities. The aim of the essay has moreover been to investigate the consequences of an increased focus on men and critique of masculinity due to a growing influence of feminism and women?s movement in Sweden. The study is based on interviews with four members of staff working in a men?s clinic for sexual and reproductive health in Stockholm, Järva Mansmottagning.

This study aims to explore purposes of daily workshops for persons with disabilities. The method used was qualitative interviews. An inductive research strategy was used. Half-structured interviews with six managers of daily workshops were carried out, wherein they expressed their intentions with the daily workshops and the reasons for people to participate. The interviews were analysed with Antonovsky´s salutogenetic perspective, in which Sense of Coherence, SOC is a main concept, and with the normalisation principle.

This essay aims to investigate the perceptions of responsible personnel in a primary school about the use and importance of EQ, emotional intelligence, in the school's early years. With a hermeneutic approach and by qualitative interviews, we have taken note of the respondents perceptions about EQ. The result shows that EQ can be understood in different ways. Instead of having a common understanding of what EQ is the respondents mention that there are different areas associated with EQ.  Two major results are 1.

The purpose with this research was to find out what advantages and/ or disadvantages there might be as playing the role as a lecture. In everyday life we give eachother different roles. During the last years the lecture has become a current and outstanding role. This has made me more curious about the lectures´ thoughts about there role. In this work I have tried to explore about the lecture playing the role.

I uppsatsen undersöks och analyseras fotografiska självframställningar, detta genom semiotisk bildanalys med syfte att visa på olika strategier, att i fotografiska självporträtt använda sig själv som motiv. Uppsatsen fokuserar därmed på tre bildserier skapade av tre till uttryck skilda konstnärer; Cindy Sherman med serien Untitled Film Stills, Hannah Wilke med bildserien Intra-Venus och Jan Saudek med bildserien Pornographer.Uppsatsens teoretiska grund bygger på identitet och identitetsproblematik, samt poststrukturalism och queerteori med vikt på att se en persons identitet som en sammanblandning av sociala och kulturella företeelser kring denne, samt genus som en konstruktion..

The aim of this thesis is to investigate how children experience librarians, their knowledge, assignments and appearance. The children?s thoughts about libraries and librarians in general are also studied. Empirical data has been collected by interviewing children aged 8-12 years old. The method used is qualitative interviews performed individually, in pairs and groups.

The purpose of this study was to investigate women's experiences of pain, bleeding,to discover the fetus, hospitalization associated with medical abortion at home and toexplore differences in experiences between different groups of women, as age orprevious childbirth. The study was conducted at two gynecological clinics in Uppsalaand in Stockholm. A questionnaire was distributed and analyzed using a quantitativeanalysis method. The response rate was 30 %. Most women were satisfied with thepain relief given to them from the hospital.

Portable IT devices such as laptops, smart phones and computer tablets are becoming ever more ubiquitous. At the same time, the population of the Western world is growing older, with aging bringing about changes with regards to individuals' physical and mental capabilities. These facts raises important questions about how well suited these devices are for use by elderly people. This study focuses on the cognitive aspects of the devices' usability, using the concept of mental models to analyze the users' understanding of a computer tablet. It also draws upon theory of graphical user interfaces in its analyses.