Automatic milking systems (AMS) provide the opportunity for less manual labour and an increased milking frequency. But in order to reach an optimal milking frequency a well-functioning cow traffic is crucial. There are many factors affecting cow traffic but one factor that has not been studied thoroughly yet is the effect of different light intensities during the night, 22.00 h to 05.00 h. Therefore the aim of this study was to determine the effect of different light intensities during the night on number of selection gate passages (GP), milking frequency and milk yield. The study was conducted as a Latin square were three light intensities were applied: LOW (11 ± 3 lux), INT (33 ± 1 lux) and HIGH (74 ± 6 lux), in three different herds.

The aim of this study was to understand how social workers deal with honour-related violence, with special focus on the processing from sheltered housing. Our qualitative interviews with social workers that work with this kind of problems show that there are both obstacles and opportunities in the processing from sheltered housing. On the negative side are the loneliness, the shame and the guilt that the girls may experience when they need to leave their families. The social services can both be an obstacles and an opportunity. When the girls need to create a new life in a new city they have a lot of opportunities and in the same time it is hard to get to know new friends when you don´t know the city or have much money.

The purpose of this master thesis is to find out if library activities in civil society may be seen as a complement to public activities. The incitement lies in a discussion in the research activities of social sciences and among politicians, where the opinion is that civil society may function as a complement to governmental policy. The NGO-library Föreningen Miljöbiblioteket i Lund and the municipality of Malmö stad where chosen as units for examination. The common feature of the two units is the global task introduced by the UN, to create a sustainable development. The material used is exclusively concerning domestic information activities.

Arbetsförmedlingen är den myndighet i Sverige som har lägst förtroende bland samtliga myndigheter hos medborgarna, enligt undersökningar som genomförts av TNS SIFO. Myndigheten har de senaste tre åren, enligt TNS SIFO undersökningar, hamnat på bottenplacering. Syftet med föreliggande studie är att öka förståelsen för en grupp arbetssökandes upplevelser och erfarenheter i mötet med arbetsförmedlare på Arbetsförmedlingen. Ytterligare ett syfte är att belysa förtroendekapitalets betydelse i mötet mellan arbetsförmedlare och kund. De teoretiska perspektiv som har tillämpats i studien är Mathiesens teorier om hur makten påverkar individen samt förtroendets diskurs så som det uttrycks av bl.a.

The main purpose of this Master?s thesis is to analyse the portrayals of working-class life in a selection of works by the Swedish authors Ragnar Järhult and Per Gunnar Evander. The research questions are: * How is the working conditions described?* What political messages can be found in the works?* What image of the class society is shown?The second aim of this Master?s thesis is to analyse the concept of working-class literature and to investigate if the works of Per Gunnar Evander could be seen as working-class literature. Methodologically, the study draws on established theories, concepts and methods from the sociology of literature and the history of ideas.

As consumers we want to know from whom we buy, what we buy and the impact the company has on our planet. In recent years there been an increasing number of scandals concerning child labour, dangerous chemicals and falsely labelled meat. A good way for companies to communicate their environmental efforts is to establish a sustainability report, where they describe their work and their impact on our environment. By concentrating on H&M?s sustainability report, as well as conducting a rhetorical analysis, we have been able to focus on the following research questions:  ? Why do companies establish CSR reports? ? How do companies gain legitimacy through their rhetorical choices? ? How do companies try to influence recipients? attitudes to the company? We begin by studying the context, which is of importance when using a rhetorical method and thereby attempt to understand in what situation the text is created.

Det finns idag många i Sverige som bär på mer än ett kulturellt och etniskt ursprung. Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur unga med två olika etniska kulturer skapar sin identitet. För uppsatsen har fem kvinnor respektive fem män vars föräldrar kommer från olika kulturer intervjuats. Alla intervjupersonerna är uppvuxna i Sverige och har starka band till landet.De teoretiska utgångspunkterna består bland annat av erkännandeteorier, kulturanalyser samt identitetsstudier. Jag har för analysen använt mig av kvalitativa metoder såsom diskursanalys och textanalys.

The purpose of this essay was to find an understanding of what factors whichaffect refugee reception in two municipalities in the southern part of Sweden, themunicipality of Vellinge and the municipality of Landskrona. Three interviewswere made with three local politicians and these interviews were then analysedusing postcolonial theory. With the help of Matthew J. Gibney we identified sevenfactors which aided us in the analysis these were: Integration history, Ethnicaffinity, Determining who is a refugee, The wealth of the municipality, Thehousing market, The labour market and The action of other municipalities.We found that these factors were all useful in creating an understanding ofrefugee reception in the two municipalities. However they affected themunicipalities differently.

The overall aim with this essay was to study how counsellors at upper secondary school work with mental illness among youths and compare this with what research and theories advocate. This because there has been a rise in the number of people, especially in the age-group 16-24 years, suffering from different degrees of mental illnesses. The school can in some aspect contribute to cause mental illness but it also consists of good opportunities to offer counselling and work to prevent mental illness among the students. This study consists of five qualitative interviews and two short telephone interviews with school counsellors. During the interviews they expressed their thoughts concerning factors that causes mental illness among youths and gave an account of how they work with prevention, counselling and collaboration.

This paper discusses honour related crimes and the judicial process within the legal system in a Swedish context. The empirical base of the study is four cases, with an honour background, and we have used discourse analysis as our method. We have developed four tools for analysing the sentences with which we observed aspects such as; language, the roles of victim and perpetrator that the involved can undertake, the different identities that the sentence might create and finally how the stories change when they enter the legal context. We connect our results to our theoretic backgrounds such as Kolfjord who discusses the legalization of conflicts, the holistic and individual perspective, the legal system as a theoretic background and finally the UN:s definition of honour crimes. These four theoretic perspectives have helped analyse the empiric base.

The purpose of this essay was to study which arguments social workers used in the basis of their estimation concerning young people of the age 13-18 given an aid, a contact person (swe. kontaktperson). The purpose was also to describe how the legal paragraph, regarding contact person, is regulated and then compare the arguments made by the social worker with the intentions expressed by the legislator. To answer our purposes we studied the law and the intentions expressed by the legislator, which is the foundation for the legal paragraph that regulates contact person, 3 chap. 6 §.

Studien belyser hedersrelaterat våld ur ett rättssociologiskt perspektiv, där vi fokuserar på den samhälliga normen kontra den rättsliga. Vår övergripande forskningsfråga är skillnaderna mellan östs synsätt att se på hedersrelaterat våld mot västs. För att få svar på denna fråga har vi använt oss av en fallstudieundersökning, den genomfördes med hjälp av metoderna dokumentanalys och djupintervju.De svar vi fick fram genom fallstudien visade på att det finns klara skillnader mellan lagar och normer mellan öst och väst, detta ledde i sig till att det uppstår kulturkrockar.Hedersrelaterat våld handlar om att förtrycka kvinnan, de mänskliga rättigheterna respekteras inte. Lagstiftningen behöver effektiviseras och förstärka åtgärder för att garantera rättvisa och jämlikhet för kvinnor, deras ekonomiska, sociala, kulturella och politiska villkor måste förbättras för att vi ska få bukt med hedersrelaterat våld. Resultatbilden av hur lagen och socialtjänsten ser ut och vad som inte fungerar, visar på att det finns möjligheter till förbättringar, detta har både utrikesministern och jämställdhetsministern insätt.

Olika typer av projekt har blivit vanliga idag, och många är inriktade på att integrera invandrare inom skilda områden i samhället. Vi har gjort en empirisk undersökning av ett specifikt projekt i Landskrona som benämns IK ISI, och vars målsättning är att synliggöra idrottsrörelsen som en viktig samverkanspartner i integrationsarbetet. Vi ville ta reda på om projekt kunde vara ett meningsfullt sätt att integrera vuxna invandrare, samt vilka idéer invandrarna hade om integration.Resultaten fick vi fram genom tematiserade, semistrukturerade intervjuer med kursdeltagare och handledare, samt genom samtalsintervjuer med projektledaren. Vi har i slutdiskussionen analyserat resultaten med hjälp av litteratur och tidigare forskning inom området.Vi kom fram till att projektet inom flera områden var på väg att uppnå sina mål och att deltagarna i överlag endast hade positiva erfarenheter så här långt, och de tyckte att utformningen av projektet var bra. De deltagande invandrarna tyckte sig märka förbättringar i svenska språket och att deras nätverk delvis hade utvidgats, och förhoppningar fanns om kommande arbete inom föreningarna.

Unaccompanied children that arrives in Sweden are usually placed in homes for care and residence, called HVB. It is the municipality's responsibility to provide adequate care and protection for the children. The aim of the study is to examine how a workgroup on a HVB home for unaccompanied children is working to meet the needs of the children, and how the workgroup improves the children?s integration process. The study also aims to examine the emotional labour of the workgroup, which illustrates how they can manage their own emotional behavior when working with the unaccompanied children.The study is based on a qualitative approach with detailed descriptions of five semi-structured interviews with the workgroup and assistant managers.

SAMMANFATTNING Mobbing är ett dolt men välkänt problem på många svenska arbetsplatser. Syftet med denna uppsats är; hur informanterna upplever, beskriver och förstår mobbning på arbetsplatsen. Genom att låta ett antal personer som själva anser sig vara eller ha varit utsatta för mobbning själva berätta om detta. Jag har delat upp syftet i tre frågeställningar:Vad berättar de intervjuade om det de varit med om?Vad möjliggör mobbning på arbetsplatsen enligt informanterna?Vad saknas på arbetsplatsen enligt informanterna?En kvalitativ metod med en hermeneutisk ansats har använts.