This masters thesis aims at a discussion about whether the public library will be an educating and cultivating society institution in the future. The method used is a combination of interviews with library staff in leading position and studies of the public librarys relationship to cultivation and adult education in a changeable society. The work concentrates on two main questions. One is about what, and in which way, changes, that are important for the public library and that take place in society now or within the next ten years, affect the future activities of the library. The other is about the public librarys relationship to cultivation in general and in the future.

SYFTE: Syftet med denna uppsats är att med Decuma som utgångspunkt kartlägga de möjligheter och svårigheter, som är specifika för ett born globalföretags förmåga att skapa en konkurrenskraftig position. METOD: Uppsatsen bygger på en fallstudie av Decuma för att få djupare insikt i problematiken kring born globals och hur de kan uppnå konkurrensfördelar genom strategiska relationer. Vi presenterar en bred fallstudie som sedan analyseras med utgångspunkt från vår teoretiska referensram som berör internationaliseringsprocessen för små hig-tech företag med behov av samarbeten och relationer. SLUTSATSER: För att ett born globalföretag ska kunna skapa möjligheter på en global marknad är det viktigt att de har förmåga att bibehålla sin flexibilitet trots att de får större krav från marknaden i takt med att de växer. Det är även viktigt att företaget kan erbjuda en specialiserad och kundanpassad produkt.

This thesis examines the way that subversivity is produced in relation to the name of the author, as understood by Foucault, and what potential for ressistance that can be glimpsed there. This from the reading of three text that in different ways relate to that theme.Firstly, throught the reading of "Isis mamma a?r genusvetare, skribent och konstna?r, min mamma a?r f.d. sta?derska, kokerska och dagisfro?ken, numera fo?rtidspensiona?r med diagnosen fibromyalgi" by Lidija Praizovic?, a text that actively work with the internal production of different exteriorities.

The Animal Protection Agency was in 2006, commissioned by the Government to: Evaluate how free range animals in the winter, can be kept and managed with special emphasis to animal welfare. The Animal Protection Agency was closed later in 2006 and the commission moved to the Swedish Board of Agriculture. The keeping of free range out wintered cattle, certain basic requirement are needed: by regulation, cattle should have access to a lying hall or other building that gives protection against aversive weather and wind and should offer a dry and clean lying area. There is a possibility for farmers that get an exemption from this regulation. But cases regarding farms which have had difficulties for this exemption has led to a discussion about if the animals can get the same protection in the nature which is comparable to a lying- hall.

Denna studie handlar om psykosocial arbetsmiljö utifrån variablerna krav, kontroll och socialt stöd. Huvudsyftet har varit att undersöka hur vårdare som arbetar på privat drivna gruppbostäder upplever den psykosociala arbetsmiljön samt vilket slags psykosocial arbetsform som dominerar på gruppbostäderna. Karasek och Theorells (1990) krav- och kontroll modell och Johnsons (1986) teori om socialt stöd utgör de teoretiska grunderna för uppsatsens huvudsakliga syfte. Ytterligare syfte har varit att undersöka inlåsningsproblematiken, hur omfattande den är och vad som orsakar den. Att befinna sig i en inlåst position kan orsaka att arbetstagare upplever en bristande psykosocial arbetsmiljö (Astvik m.fl.

This master thesis deals with the Nobel Prize and highbrow culture as portrayed in Karin Alvtegen?s Skugga. From a sociology of literature perspective, it aims to analyze how these highbrow themes can be understood in relation to Alvtegen?s position in the literary field as a lowbrow crime novelist. The method used is hermeneutic, and the analysis is based on two theoretical models: Pierre Bourdieu?s cultural sociology, and the postmodern tradition where the distinction high/low and its traditional hierarchy is said to be decomposed.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the female experience as it is spoken of in the novel Sindhia written by Rut Hillarp (1954) and how the main character in the book violates the experience from a queer perspective. My aim is to through a close reading highlight a number of discourses that underpin the book's imminent theme of love and submission.According to Norman Faircloughs critical-discourse analysis, the text one reads produces a certain amount of discourses that one consumes. This way there is a dialectical interaction that can be set into a practical analysis together with a suitable academic perspective. This is the method I use in this thesis.The academic perspective I add isJudith Butler's queer theoriessupported by Michel Foucaults social genealogyin order to understand/analyze the woman?s position in relation to a social empirical history.I came to the conclusion that Sindhia produces the woman's discourse from an ancient biblical/ mythological time up to modern time.

Title: The auditor?s recommendations to small businesses in the choice of K2 and K3Authors: Christopher Dimovski and Dennis Carlsson Published: Spring 2014 Background: The background of this study is the introduction of the new K-regulations. For small businesses, there is a possibility to choose between the rule-based K2 and the principal-based K3. It becomes mandatory to apply the K-regulations from 2014. We want with this study understand and explain the significance of the auditor and its recommendations to small businesses in the choice between K2 and K3. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe how the auditor makes recommendations to small businesses in the choice between K2 and K3 and through that create an understanding of what influence the auditor have when it makes recommendations and at the end contribute to the building of models. Formulation of problem: How can we understand and explain the auditor?s recommendations to small businesses in the choice of K2 and K3?Methodology: We have used a qualitative method where we have interview eight auditors.

The aim of this study was to enlighten social workers experiences of social networks direct influence in Swedish social services, and in which ways those influences are manifested. Some of the issues that are being explored in this study are: The separation of the private sphere and professional duties; boundaries and dual relationships that occurs inside social networks; the use of social networks as a control-instrument in authority exercise towards clients; and social networks arising impact on social work. The empirical material was collected with nine qualitative interviews with social workers stationed at different social service departments in a Swedish municipality. Also one qualitative e-survey was sent out to, and answered by four social workers with a managerial position in the same municipality.The results reveal that several informants have experienced different problematic situations involving clients within the social networks. This study shows that the informants are very restrictive with what information (text and pictures) they publish on their facebook-profiles, because of their position of authority and the awareness of the possibility of always being watched.

Målet med projektet har varit att sammanföra information från flera olika källor till en enda vy i ett PC-program. I ett stridsfordon kan det till exempel vara intressant att presentera data från IR-kamera, dagsljuskamera, stridsledningssystem och/eller kartdatabas. Idag används olika vyer för att presentera dessa informationskällor. Om personalen i stridsfordonet istället kan delges allt detta via en enda vy så ökar deras möjlighet att fatta snabba korrekta beslut i kritiska situationer. Ett annat resultat kan bli att informationsmängden i datorbilden blir så stor att den till viss del minskar behovet av att inhämta omvärldsinformation via optiska utblickar, där synen kan skadas av fientlig laser.

Aim: The nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, raised global criticism against nuclear power. In Sweden, the criticism has not been very visible and the government now allows a renewal of the nuclear power plants. The purpose with the study is to have a closer look on how Swedes in position of power motivate their positive attitude to nuclear power and how they conduct themselves to each other and to their opponents. The rhetorical perspective will be in focus for the analysing.Method: Four different artifacts represented by Swedes in position of power having a positiveattitude to nuclear power were chosen. Three rhetorical theories (the rhetorical arena, stasis andethos, pathos and logos) were used with the research question in focus.Result & Conclusions: The analyses resulted in conclusions about the strategies used by the participants such as: the importance of contexts, meaning for example that the greenhouse effect legitimizes nuclear power as a source of energy with important benefits.

This case study examines how a group of upper secondary school students in a multiethnical suburb of Stockholm reason about the theory of evolution. The theoretical background of the thesis is postcolonial and the questions raised were how spread the creationist thoughts are in the group; in what way the backgrounds of the students are relevant to their thoughts; how the students construct the notion of the theory of evolution; how they position themselves and others in relation to the discourse of the theory of evolution; if there are any differences between students at the collage program of natural science and the collage program of social science, and in that case, what differences; and who or what inspires the young in their thoughts about the theory of evolution. To answer these questions both a survey poll and interviews were used. The result of the case study showed that a majority of the students at the investigated school has creationist ideas and that the students profiled on social science have creationist ideas in a wider extent. Another result is that the religious background seems to be relevant to develop creationist thoughts, while the variables gender, home district and educational level did not differ the creationist group from the whole group.

In 2013 a new emission standard for heavy trucks was introduced and hence a number of new parts was brought in to Scania CV AB. This created a need for modifications in the silencers flow. The flow is highly complex involving several suppliers, call off methods and different models of silencers. The aim for this project was to improve the existing silencers flow. The flow, from supplier to assembling, has therefore been mapped.

Syfte: På dagens fastighetsmäklarbransch finns det olika aktörer och samtliga säljare ställs inför ett val då de ska sälja sin bostad, sälja själv, genom en kontorsmäklare eller genom en Internetmäklare. Mitt syfte med uppsatsen är att öka kunskapen om Internetmäklare och dess förhållande till kontorsmäklare. För att kunna uppnå syftet har jag arbetat utifrån frågeställningen på vilket sätt kontorsmäklarens tjänst skiljer sig från Internetmäklarens tjänst.Metod: För att besvara min frågeställning har jag valt att arbeta utifrån en hermeneutiskt utgångspunkt. Genom att utföra 4 personliga intervjuer samt 30 telefonintervjuer har jag kunnat skapa en bild av hur marknaden ser ut idag. Hur allmänheten ser på situationen har jag kunnat få fram genom att genomföra en enkätundersökning med frågor kring en potentiell bostadsförsäljning.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur biståndshandläggare upplever att förhålla sig till både stadgade lagar och den enskilda individens behov. Biståndshandläggarna kännetecknas som gräsrotsbyråkrater, då de är tjänstemän som befinner sig i daglig interaktion med samhällsmedborgarna. Deras yrkesroll skapades under 1990-talet och det har påvisats i tidigare studier att de har många olika krav och förväntningar riktade gentemot sig. Vi ämnade därmed öka förståelsen för deras upplevelse av sitt yrkesutövande genom att studera deras upplevelse av makt och rollkonflikter. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna var sociologisk rollteori utifrån Aubert, Allardt och Parsons.