My essay is an investigation of American Psychos Patrick Bateman. Why is Patrick Batemans identity one so easily described as shallow and superficial? I discuss theese questions from a marxists point of view putting Bateman in the context of Georg Lukács theories of reification. I compare the structure of Patrick Batemans identity with the idea of an reified identity to se how the mechanisms of reification creates the entity that is Patrick Bateman.My conclusion is that one answer to Batemans shallowness is the phenomenon of reification. To get a grasp of how shallowness might be understood I combine the theories of Lukács with Bakhtins idea of the aouthorative discourse.If one look upon reification as an aouthorative discourse and one also presume that human existence is social and verbal the conclusion is that Patrick Bateman cannot exist because of what he is an example of.

The novel American Psycho was first published in 1991. It recieved harsh criticism and was viewed as a work of heterosexism, misogyny and pointless violence. Despite the criticism, the protagonist, a wealthy serial killer yuppie namned Patrick Bateman, fascinated the readers. He hides his monstrosity behind a façade of heteronormativity, but this essay shows that the norms in American Psycho are fragile. Batemans relationships are shallow, his identity is constructed out of traditional masculinitynorms and even though he?s homophobic there?s a homoerotic undertone in the text, as well as gothic patterns that give the novel a fair amount of queerness too.

I det här examensarbetet undersöks möjligheterna med framtida storskaliga 3D-skrivare i byggindustrin. Mycket händer just nu på området och vi är på väg mot en ny revolution i byggnadskonsten där robotarna och 3D-skrivarna kommer att ha en allt mer betydande roll. Arbetet undersöker i detalj hur vi skulle kunna använda oss av tekniken. En villa har fått stå modell för olika typer av experiment och redovisar olika tankar och idéer kring ämnet..

In order to be a good teacher according to preferences from outside the school area, there are many different voices to listen to. The different roles that are assigned for teachers are colliding with the latest research from the pedagogical institutions and therefore the role as a teacher of today is in a complex state of mind. Somewhere, between the traditional role of teaching and the moderating ideal image, reality is revealed in the ambivalent role of the teacher of today. In this pedagogical essay on advanced level we are focusing on obstacles that are hindering the moderating teacher?s role, to be fully developed in the classroom.

Dokumentärfotografiet befinner sig i ständig utveckling. I takt med att människan blir mer rörlig ökar även dess kontakt med andra kulturer. Den här rapporten undersöker hur människor med olika kulturell bakgrund uppfattar kulturella konnotationer i dokumentärfotografier. Området studien avser att studera är delstaten New Mexico i USA. Rapporten inleder med att definiera den dokumentärfotografiska utveckling av landskapet som skett i delstaten.

Denna uppsats behandlar hur en måltexts tänkta position inom målkulturens litterärapolysystem påverkar hur källtexten översätts. Enligt Lindqvist (2002) översätts högprestigelitteraturmed en mer adekvansinriktad, källtexttrogen, översättningsstrategi änlågprestigelitteratur, som snarare översätts med en acceptansinriktad, målkultursanpassad,översättningsstrategi. Högprestigelitteratur är den litteratur som det s.k. bildadekretsloppet anser har ett högre kvalitativt värde och definitionen bygger på utomspråkligafaktorer.Uppsatsens syfte är, med utgångspunkt ur ett eget översättningsarbete, att undersökai vilken grad det stämmer att högprestigelitteratur snarare översatts med en adekvansinriktadöversättningsstrategi. Uppsatsens material består av en egen översättning av deninte tidigare översatta novellen La Seine, skriven av Patrick Modiano (1981).

This essay will examine the social organization in the archipelago of Tonga. To accomplish this purpose, archaic societies and structures such as ancient Egypt and Hawaii will be examined to obtain a closer understanding of the building blocks which constitute a chiefdom or kingdom. Since Patrick V. Kirch (2010) recently redefined the Hawaiian archipelago as a kingdom this essay will examine if the same can be done with the chiefdom of Tonga since it have similarities to the Hawaiian social organization.To do this the essay will examine and describe both the geographical organization of the states and the social organization. Social organization in this essay will be defined as an archaic state organization that requires several levels of administration to rule the society..

Mentaliseringsbaserad terapi (MBT) har under de senaste åren fått stor genomslagskraft i Sverige och flera MBT-behandlingar har upprättats i landet. Mentalisering innebär förmågan att förstå sig själv utifrån känslor, intentioner och tankar. Behandlingen inriktar sig främst på personer med borderline personlighetsstörning eftersom de ofta har en bristande mentaliseringsförmåga. Syftet med studien var att undersöka upplevelser av mentaliseringsbaserad terapi hos patienter som genomgått MBT-behandling. Peter Fonagy och Anthony Bateman är de som har utarbetat terapiformen och därför lades stor vikt vid deras forskning kring ämnet.

Det här arbetet behandlar frågan huruvida man kan använda etablerade studier av spelartyper och spelarbeteende av främst Bartle och Bateman, för att på ett praktiskt sätt hjälpa spelare att optimera sin spelupplevelse. Målet har varit att ta fram en metod för att hjälpa spelare att hitta den roll i onlinerollspelet World of Warcraft som passar spelarens spelartyp allra bäst och som denne har störst chans att uppskatta spelupplevelsen mest igenom.Detta har gjorts genom ett personlighetstest innehållande 21 frågor baserade på forskning av spelartyper och spelarbeteende. Utifrån testtagarens svar bedöms dennes spelartyp och den klass i World of Warcraft som bäst bedöms passa spelarens preferenser föreslås. Personlighetstestet har testats av en 15 personer stor testgrupp och resultaten visade på ett övervägande positivt mottagande och merparten var nöjda med den föreslagna klassen och tyckte spelartypsbeskrivningen passade dem.Utifrån resultaten av undersökningen dras slutsatser kring att det finns ett stort intresse för en personlighetstest av den typen, och att det har en stor potential att hjälpa både spelare att hitta sin roll i spelvärlden och för spelutvecklare att se vad som lockar i sin spelvärld och vilka spelartyper som de kanske bör satsa mer på att locka om de vill utvidga sin spelarbas..

Purpose: This thesis aims to study how students in upper secondary school evaluate sources in their everyday school work and how the role of the school library and librarian officiate in this context.Methodology: A web questionnaire was conducted and 155 students from different schools, with or without school library and school librarian, participated. We coded and aggregated the questionnaires according to the strategies that are used when evaluating sources, identified by Francke, Sundin and Limberg. Cognitive authority, a theory by Patrick Wilson, was also a part of our analysis. Conclusions: The study shows that students use different strategies, separately or combined, as a way to evaluate sources. The teacher is regarded as a cognitive authority and is the main influence concerning source evaluation. It also shows that the role of school libraries and school librarians, in this context, seem to be non-existent.

Fantasy literature has a rather strong position in countries with an English-speaking population but not in Sweden. The supply of fantasy in Sweden is much smaller than that in for example United Kingdom. Does this affect the Swedish readers of this genre? If it does, how does it affect them? The aim of this thesis is to find out how a few fantasy-reading students at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science get hold of the fiction they want to read and who and/or what influence their decision of which book to read. In order to avoid confusion we are also going to try to find out how they define fantasy since it varies from person to person what is included in the genre.

AbstractCities are once again becoming the locus of economic, social and political processes. The effect of these processes on the city is two-fold: one one hand they threaten to fragment and dislocate the city and the actors within them, on the other hand they give actors within cities new opportunities to react and mobilize resources towards different strategies of integration. The latter gives rise to what Patrick Le Galès calls the collective actor-city. The aim of this thesis is to explore the notion of the city as a collective actor in a swedish context by utilizing Le Galès theory of european cities as collective actors in an abductive case study on the city of Malmoe. By utilizing Le Galès five dimensions that make up a collective actor I analyze interviews conducted with city officals aswell as documents produced from the city wide plan of action Welfare for everybody.

The main purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine how Swedish upper secondary school librarians and related staff relate to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The research is placed in the all-embracing context of information literacy and source criticism on the Internet. The study was carried out in the form of qualitative interviews and based on two theoretical bases: firstly, the concept of cognitive authority stipulated by Patrick Wilson, and secondly the idea that Wikipedia has a draw towards late modern epistemological assumptions. The latter theory was also associated with the perceptions of knowledge among the library staff interviewed.

This Master?s thesis concerns the information behaviour of pastors in nonconformist churches (especially new evangelical and Baptist church communions) in Sweden in their spiritual service to the local parish. The thesis also looks into how the information flow functions in the pastors? context and why the information need appears as it does. The theory used in this study is contextual analysis based on Buckland?s, Weber?s and Patrick Wilson?s theories on authority and power structures.

The thesis aims at, from a user perspective, examining how a group of industrial researchers understand the information seeking in their every day work. A qualitative method is employed. The empirical material consists of open-ended interviews with in all ten researchers. All of them work at the Swiss-Swedish Technology Company ABB's research laboratory in Västerås. The thesis is based on the opinion that the scientific knowledge production has become commercialised and that the scientific communication is going through certain changes.