The purpose of this study was to find out why the law that regulates downloading copyrighted material does not work and which of the most important main reasons lies behind downloading behaviour. The phenomenon being well investigated earlier has actualized a new demand for normative investigation in connection with the hot debated IPRED-law.Using qualitative method comprising of interviews with three typical file sharers and anchored in Max Webers action typology, rational choice theory and the norm model followed by two assessment models, we found that four important reasons lies behind downloading behaviour: 1) economical reasons was the most central and frequent determinant followed by 2) accessibility and comfort, and 3) social acceptance and moral and also 4) habits. Although the content of the law was correctly provided by the interviewees, it was clear that they did not perceive the impact of the law as meaningful or threatening.The results, being compatible with previous research, are discussed in terms of the named theories and assessment models. We suggest further research to take into account peoples norms as the new IPRED-law soon will be functional as well as studies from a perspective of the legal rights of the individual..

The purpose of this study has been to investigate how frequently, and in witch ways, theories concerning the "late-modern" society are being used in the contemporary research of social work. My thesis is that theories concerning the late-modern society could be useful in social work research, foremost to shed light on, and broaden the understanding of, dilemmas and problems that are specific to the contemporary society. In the study I'm investigating all doctoral dissertations on social work written in Sweden between the years 2003 and 2006, and to execute the study I've applied a text analysis method in four steps. Simplified the four steps of the analysis can be said to investigate, if, how frequent, and in what way theories on the late modern society is being used in social work study. I'm also specifically investigating how problems exclusive to the late-modern society is being taken under consideration in the dissertations.In the analysis of my results I take a critical theory approach and I also discuss if theories on late-modernity is to be seen as a paradigm in the field of social work science.

Studier om etnicitet och kollektiva identiteter präglas till stor del av det konstruktivistiska perspektivet. Denna uppsats inriktar sig till att förklara ett folkmords uppkomst utifrån nämnda teori, något som inte på ett metodiskt vis tidigare gjorts.Fallet vi har valt att analysera är folkmordet som utspelades i Rwanda år 1994. Med utgångspunkt från olika författare och forskare, med konstruktivistisk inställning, har vi identifierat tre centrala premisser för uppkomsten av vad vi kallar negativ oss och dem bildning, som i sin absoluta förlängning kan ge upphov till ett folkmord. Dessa tre premisser eller faktorer, framlyfta ur konstruktivismen är: historiken, socioekonomiska aspekter och den rådande diskursen.Vi har kommit fram till att den negativa synen mellan två folkgrupper till stor del uppstår utifrån dessa faktorer och kan i förlängning leda till ett folkmord. Därtill visar vi på att såväl strukturer som aktör spelar en viktig roll i processen som leder till folkmord..

The purpose of this study was to investigate the understanding of the diagnoses ADHD and DAMP within different professional categories in the educational system, how it is being addressed and how this affect their work with children diagnosed with ADHD or DAMP. We also wanted to shed some light on the debate between Kärfve and Gillberg, about whether the diagnoses of ADHD and DAMP are social constructed problems or biological and genetic disorders. More specifically, our study was of a qualitative nature and consisted of interviews with seven persons working in six different professions within the educational system. The respondents all worked in school environments but with varied roles and thus varied experience of children with ADHD/DAMP. The interviews and literature studies revealed the complexity of ADHD and DAMP and also the diversity of the debate regarding the diagnoses.

In the rural districts of Sweden, especially in Skåne, the political party Sverigedemokraterna is gaining more and more territory. The aim of this thesis is to examine if the presence of Sverigedemokraterna has had an effect on the other political parties in Kävlinge and Svedala municipality, with focus on images and collective identity. The aim is also to examine what influence Sverigedemokraterna might have on the political agenda of the two municipalities. In order to be able to fulfil the purpose of the essay, we chose to combine three kinds of qualitative methods; interviews, observations and literature studies. We used theories about images and collective identity to examine in which way the municipal politicians tend to classify Sverigedemokraterna in terms of different images and if their presence has effected the other politicians in terms of forming a collective identity.

The purpose of this article is to examine how social workers may experience fear in their profession, how they and their organizations handle the fear and how the fear may affect their practice. To obtain the purpose, in-depth interviews were carried out with seven social workers from the southeastern part of Sweden. The experiences of fear were many and are summarized in four categories. Fear of treats and violence, fear of the responsibility in complicated situations and without optimal solution, fear of being regarded and judged as worthless and fear of being scrutinized with the risk of being stigmatized. Five strategies were identified to handle the fear: Safety strategies (e.g.

The purpose of this essay was to see how the construction of elderly immigrants as a problem in healthcare and elderly care has been described in the relevant literature. In the course of doing so I tried to answer the following questions; What is said to be the expected problems or difficulties in work with eldely immigrants? How are the expected members of the problemgroup defined and identified? Whos perspective dominates the description of the problem, the users or the investigators? These questions were hard to answer and I had to conclude that the problem was not clearly defined; there was only an assumption of a problem. This, however, has not been a hindrance in the category of elderly immigrants being claimed to be a group with problems that need research and further investigation. The dominating perspective is that of the investigators as they are the ones who define and identify who is a part of the problemgroup..

Botswana anses vara en fungerande demokrati. Landet omnämns ofta som Afrikas mirakel. Vi har valt att utifrån Robert Dahls teori om polyarki granska och belysa Botswanas demokratiska brister. Som komplement till Dahls teori används även Andreas Schedlers sju kriterier för demokratiska val.Det resultat som presenteras genom tillämpning av dessa teorier visar att det råder klara brister i Botswanas demokratisering. Analysdelen av arbetet belyser de problem som finns inom politiska rättigheter, såsom medborgarskapsrättigheter, mötesfrihet samt åsikts- och yttrandefrihet.

In this master thesis, which is made in a qualitative manner, we have as purpose to investigate the nurses' estimation of the hospital welfare officer. We find it interesting to take a closer look at their opinion, because of our earlier, bachelor thesis, based on the same subject, only then in the welfare officer´s perspective on themselves. We have interviewed ten nurses and our questions at issue were the following four: Where in the hospital´s hierarchy do the nurses place the welfare officer? In what way do the nurses look at themselves and on the fact that they are leagally authorized? How do the nurses define the welfare officer´s occupational sphere and his part of the medical care? Which opinion do the nurses have on the co-operation with the hospital welfare officer? The primary information, together with two maintheories and a collection of litterature on the subject have helped us to answer the four questions of issue. We have found that the results we see, in some ways are compareable to our first investigation.

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Fritiden är ett väl debatterat ämne i dagens samhälle. Det blir allt mer påtagligt för oss om statens mål och ambitioner för välfärdsstaten och dess befolkning. Fritiden ses som en näringsgren mot detta. Ett föremål för att ytterligare förverkliga människan. Kultur- och fritidsarenan ses som ett möjligt område för människans identitetsskapande.

Denna uppsats analyserar Sveriges agerande i tvistemålet mellan Sverige och Finland kring Ålands statstillhörighet under första världskriget och dettas omedelbara efterbörd. Mer specifikt behandlas frågan om varför Sverige valde att hänskjuta ärendet till internationell skiljedom genom fredskonferensen och sedermera NF ? en analys som tar sin utgångspunkt i Erik Palmstiernas upplevelser av skeendet och dennes agerande därefter. Erik Palmstierna var behörigt statsråd i frågan mellan 1917 och 1920 och blir fokus för denna undersökning som tar avstamp i en modifierad form av Jakob Gustavssons modell för utrikespolitiskt beslutsfattande. Denna kombinerar internationella och inrikespolitiska faktorer, vilka postuleras kunna påverka ett förlopp med en kognitiv faktor i en individuell beslutsfattare, sedan det först är genom mänsklig tolkning som ett skeende kan få betydelse och implikationer för en nationell handlingslinje..

Syftet med denna studie är att studera argumentationen framförd av motståndarna till könsneutral äktenskapslagstiftning. Debatten mot könsneutralt äktenskap har huvudsakligen förts av förgrundsgestalter inom de religiösa samfunden, men debatten har trots detta haft en sekulär karaktär. Med utgångspunkt i en heterosexistisk teoretisk diskurs, har argumentationen analyserats. Studien utkristalliserar argumentationen och hur de formats för att bilda opinion.Slutsatsen visar också på att det stora flertalet argument som förs fram i debatten kan klassificeras som heterosexistiska. Heterosexism är ett symptom av heteronormativitet.

In the history of scientific visualization techniques there is a lack of social science practices and methodologies. The advent of modern computer graphics brought the use of visualizations into a whole new era, but even though the tools by which such modern visualizations are created become easier to access and use, the lack of social science researchers harvesting the benefits of such tools still remain. This ease of use, increase in power and accessibility plus the ever growing need within the natural sciences to augment the human senses has further complicated the relationship between scientific methodologies, validity, reliability and the use of visualization techniques. This relationship must be explored, demystified and understood in order to fully grasp the impact of visualization practices when incorporated into any given scientific method. Within the Social Sciences there is one example of a tradition that has since its conception carried within it a graphical notion and a visualization practice.

AbstractsUppsatsen är en teoriutvecklande studie som behandlar Boomerang-effekten, det vill säga fenomenet när forna allierade till stormakter vänder sig mot dem och blir dess fiender. Uppsatsen baseras på två fall; Osama bin Laden och Manuel Noriega eftersom de passar in på fenomenet i fråga. Teoriavsnittet behandlar det internationella systemet, dess egenskaper och komponenter samt alliansbildningar. I analysavsnittet belyses bland annat varför dessa oheliga allianser bildas och senare bryts samt faktorer som ligger bakom det nya fiendeskapet. Vi kommer fram till att kortsiktigheten som präglar politikers och tjänstemäns tänkande och agerande är en av anledningarna till att allianser bildas med opålitliga personer.