The purpose of this essay is to describe the organization of the Swedish Animal WelfareAgency during the time it was in operation. The Swedish Animal Welfare Agency was established in 2005 by the government who saw it as necessary in order to strengthen the protection of cruelty to animals in Sweden. However, the agency was shut down already in2007 and its responsibilities as an agency was moved back to the government and the department of agriculture. During its time in operation, the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency, received much criticism, among other things because of its interpretations of the law which were seen as too focused on details and thus ?bureaucratic?.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the lived experiences and treatment of Muslim women in their encounters with the social services. The primal themes for this study was: How does Muslim women experience the treatment of their case in the social services in a situation of need? How can the encounter and experience with the social services affect the clients trust in the social services?  What is the ideal treatment of women with a Muslim identity by the social services?The aim of this study was to investigate and capture the respondents lived perceptions and experiences with the social services, and thus the qualitative interview methodology was implemented to answer the research questions and hypotheses. Seven interviews with Muslim women were conducted in various districts of Stockholm, a city in northern Sweden. Five of the respondents were of ethnic Swedish origin and two were of other ethic origin.The results show that the majority of the respondents experienced a negative response at least once when in contact with the social services.

The purpose of this study is to interogate the tension-laden relationsship between men (of the dominant classes and ethnicities) and feminism. Closely linked to this lies the question of how valid and relevant official Swedish goals of gender equality can be to the Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research in Sweden.The essay is mainly an in-depth qualitative study concerned about questions such as; how does feminist researcher in Sweden perceive the question of men in/doing feminism and what are the implications of these perceptions for the Swedish goals of gender equality? Thus, in this study I´ve interviewed six feminist researchers, five women and one male, about their view of men doing/in/and feminism and about the adequacy of equality goals to the Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research in Sweden.The main questions I posed in this essay was prompted by the Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein accusation of two feminist Swedish researchers, Yvonne Hirdman and Maud Eduards, of deliberately harassing men interested in feminist theory and striving to create women-only spaces at the different Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research around Sweden. This would according to Rothstein violate the Swedish goals of gender equality where equal representation is essential.However, the empirical material shows a benign attitude towards men doing feminism and the interviewed all stressed the importance of diversity among feminist scholars and students.As for the Swedish goals of gender equality, the interviewed expressed diverse and contradicatatory answers concerning how valid those goals should be to the Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research in Sweden.Contrasting the empirical material, my own argument in this essay circles around a critique of the validity of the Swedish goals of gender equality to the Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research in Sweden. Seeing men as a group with groupbased experiences, perspectives and interest puts the female dominance at the Centres for Women´s Studies and Gender Research in Sweden in another light, making the absence of men not a question of harassment but a question of male privilege to stay ignorant and indifferent of gender relations..

The title of this study came about from the title of Robert Putnams book Bowling Alone, where Putnam mentions that less people are bowling in teams than before. Bowling is still a large leisure activity in the USA but people tend to bowl more and more in small groups and less in organized teams. This study deals with social capital and leisure time. Its aim is to find out if some Swedish people create social capital on their leisure time and also how do they spend their leisure time. Robert Putnams book Bowling Alone serves as main background material along with the work by Bo Rothstein.

Miljonprogrammet tillkom genom en storslagen politisk satsning under det expansiva 60-talet. Produktionen lades utanför städerna och vilade på funktionalism och stordriftsfördelar. Trots minutiös social ingenjörskonst hade ingen kunnat förutse att många av de hyresgäster, som befolkade miljonprogrammet till en början, inom några år skulle flytta till egna småhus. Kvar blev de socioekonomiskt svagare hyresgästerna. Dessa områden präglas idag överlag av många in och utflyttningar.

SOM-mätningar som Göteborgs universitet genomfört visar att polisen har ett högt förtroende från allmänheten. Men i Norrbotten är avstånden väldigt stora och den allmänna uppfattningen är att det inte finns tillräckligt med poliser. För att skydda sin egendom när polisen inte räcker till startar allmänheten medborgargarden. Det kan ses som ett tecken på missnöje. Dessa faktorer borde kunna påverka förtroendet för polisen i Norrbotten negativt.

Sverige har sedan början av 1900-talet haft en stark folkrörelse där det ideella arbetet har varit en självklarhet. I dagens samhälle tyder mycket på att de äldre folkrörelsernas organisationsprinciper förlorar mark. I dess ställe har principer som centralisering och avlönat ledarskap kommit att ta över allt mer. Uppsatsen syftar därför till att försöka analysera hur det ökade ekonomiska inslagen i det ?traditionella ideella föreningslivet? påverkar utvecklingen av socialt kapital i samhället? Teoretiskt har främst Putnam kommit att användas som anser att deltagandet i frivilliga sammanslutningar utgör grunden för skapandet av socialt kapital.

My aim for this essay is to investigate if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a religious sect, on the basis of literature and information about the Mormons organisation and their religious standpoints. My conclusion is that Mormon Church is a religious sect. Their organisation has several sect characteristics according to sect definitions; see for example Göran Gustafsson (2000), Mikael Rothstein (1997) and Bryan R. Wilson (1970). Other researchers in religious studies think that the Mormon Church is not a sect but a cult.

Our study examining how well the guidelines, from Skolverket (School Department), aboutgrades in the course "Samhällskunskap A" are implemented in the Swedish Upper SecondarySchool. The study focus on both teachers and students. To discover which knowledge the bothgroups have, we have used two different methods. The students have answered a survey,which was based on the phrases from the course plan "Samhällskunskap A" about grades. Thesurvey wanted to see how well the students could match the correct phrases with the gradesteps (the Swedish school uses three grade steps).

Syftet med denna studie är att se hur det sociala kapitalet ser ut i Sverige utifrån länsuppdelningen. Syftet är även att studera sambandet mellan det sociala kapitalet och ett antal faktorer, på individnivå och länsnivå. I denna studie har jag använt mig av material från SOM-institutet och gjort en jämförande studie för att dels beskriva hur det ser ut men även pröva teorier. Jag har använt mig av teorin kring det sociala kapitalet som främst Robert D. Putnam och Bo Rothstein har problematiserat och definierat.

During the past twenty years the immigration to Sweden has changed significantly. Earlier immigration mainly focused at filling the vacancies in the Swedish industry, today immigrants primarily come to Sweden as Refugees. This change of immigration combined with the restructuring of the Swedish industrial sector has resulted in great a deterioration of the chances for immigrants to gain entry to the Swedish labor market.This study aims at examining how the cooperation between authorities in the municipal of Hörby in Sweden fosters integration. The study primarily examines how the cooperation between authorities in a integration project can contribute to a better integration to the labor market.Through a qualitative study, five persons who occupy important roles in the project have been interviewed. The results of these interviews have been complemented by internal documents as well as extern material to validate the results.The most important findings that have been revealed are the importance of language in the process of gaining entrance to the Swedish labor market.

Our study examining how well the guidelines, from Skolverket (School Department), aboutgrades in the course "Samhällskunskap A" are implemented in the Swedish Upper SecondarySchool. The study focus on both teachers and students. To discover which knowledge the bothgroups have, we have used two different methods. The students have answered a survey,which was based on the phrases from the course plan "Samhällskunskap A" about grades. Thesurvey wanted to see how well the students could match the correct phrases with the gradesteps (the Swedish school uses three grade steps).

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to describe the library development in Sandviken, during a period from 1865 to 1945. I will mainly focus this examination on the two most significant libraries of the period; on one hand the library facilitated by the ironworks company, and on the other hand the library of the Workers? Educational Association (ABF). This study is carried out within a theoretical framework consisting of the two concepts paternalism and the formative moment, as formulated by Lars Magnusson and Bo Rothstein, respectively.

The purpose of this essay is to describe the organization of the Swedish Animal WelfareAgency during the time it was in operation. The Swedish Animal Welfare Agency was established in 2005 by the government who saw it as necessary in order to strengthen the protection of cruelty to animals in Sweden. However, the agency was shut down already in2007 and its responsibilities as an agency was moved back to the government and the department of agriculture. During its time in operation, the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency, received much criticism, among other things because of its interpretations of the law which were seen as too focused on details and thus ?bureaucratic?.

Titel: Propagandaministerierna? En studie av tre myndigheter och deras opinionsbildande verksamhetFörfattare: Pontus HaagUppdragsgivare: MOVE ? Svenska myndigheters opinionsbildande verksamhetKurs: Examensarbete i Medie? och kommunikationsvetenskap vid insti?tutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation, Göteborgs uni?versitet.Termin: Vårterminen 2009Handledare: Magnus FredrikssonSidantal: 63 exklusive bilagorSyfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka huruvida opinions?bildning av mer ideologisk karaktär förekommer samt om det finns ett aktivt arbete med att påverka människors uppfattning om de tre myndigheterna.Metod: Kvalitativ metodMaterial: Genomförda samtalsintervjuer med sex representanter med an?svar för information och kommunikation på Energimyndigheten, Fiskeriverket och Försäkringskassan.Huvudresultat: Studiens huvudsakliga resultat visar att de tre undersökta myndigheterna inte kan karakteriseras som den typ av ideolo?giska myndigheters som Bo Rothstein hävdar att många svens?ka myndigheter har förvandlats till. Energimyndigheten är den myndighet som faller närmast beskrivningen av en ideologi?producerande statsapparat. Myndigheten saknar också helt le?gala styrmedel och använder sig nästan uteslutande av opini?onsbildning för att uppnå sina mål.