The purpose of this study is to examine the effect the Nazi threat had on the swedish labour movement between 1932 and 1939 and to enrich what kind of pre-understanding they had about the fall of the Weimar Republic and the upcoming and effects of the Third Reich.Brought by the development in Germany, a debate and struggle took place in the Social Democratic journal Tiden over the meaning of concepts and there ability, in the hands of demagogs, to overthrow democratic structures. The concept of socialism and its concepts attribute play a major part in this investigation. By establishing fields of tension such as - nation vs internationalism, socialism in theory and in practice, political democracy vs evolved democracy and the diverse principles of neutrality, the first principle meaning the defending of national boarders, the other meaning not only defending your own country but taking an active part in defending democracy in the world - I was able to observe the movement and change of concepts within this fields. The result showing that the concept of socialism and near related attributes, in the hands of national socialists had undertaken a wast change of meaning, which applied in the Swedish debate threatened to undermine the power and force of the Social Democrats applied in the political discourse in Sweden. To defend itself and strengthening the Social Democratic hegemony as well as maintaining the goal of evolved democratic expansion, they were forced to win the confidence and votes of the middle class.

 The aim of this two-years master?s thesis is to examine the role of the body and the importance of nonverbal communication in the library workplace and to explore the possibility of becoming more nonverbally skilled. For this purpose a course was developed and presented to nine librarians in a public library in the vicinity of Stockholm in February, 2011. Qualitative interviews with the librarians were conducted after the course.Important theories for this work were Annemaree Lloyd?s thoughts on corporeality, Erving Goffman?s dramaturgical sociology and John Dewey?s learning by doing.

The purpose of our master?s thesis is to study the diversity discourse, used in Sweden, particularly the so-called ethnic diversity at the work place discourse.Our aims are to map and analyze the conceptualization of difference used in the diversity rhetoric. We intend to pursue our aim by studying the rhetoric of diversity, used for diversity promotion in the private and public sectors. Also, we will investigate into what conceptualizations of difference are used in the organizations in the name of ?diversity?.

Den 1 februari 2003 trädde den lagändring som innebar att homosexuella par fick lov att prövas som adoptivföräldrar i kraft. Inför lagändringen tillsatte regeringen 1999 "Kommittén om barn i homosexuella familjer" som ledde utredningen vilken resulterade i SOU rapporten (2001: 10) "Barn i homosexuella familjer" som jag har valt att analysera.Uppsatsens syfte är att visa på att vad som menas med familj och föräldraskap är en konstruktion. Målet är därför att framhålla att det som antas vara neutrala fakta tvärtom är resultatet av åsikter, normer och värderingar. I anslutning till syftet har huvudfrågeställningen varit att titta på hur familj och föräldraskap konstrueras och (re)produceras i SOU-rapporten.För att besvara frågeställningen har följande underfrågor ställts: hur beskrivs homosexuella familjer och föräldrar i rapporten, hur konstrueras normalitet genom det avvikande samt hur kan man förstå rapporten som en del av kärnfamiljens upplösning?Uppsatsen utgår dels från Foucaults teori om skillnad där begreppen normalitet och avvikande varit vägledande och dels från familjesociologisk teori om familjens individualisering.

Engelsk titel: Greater opportunities than interests : Civic culture and deliberative discourse on Swedish NGO websitesThis is a critical and normative study, which examines a selection of Swedish NGO websites as potential forums for civic culture and deliberative discourse in the public sphere. Sociocultural, political and sociological and media and communication theories are combined.The work is made within a Habermasian tradition, but the importance of a hermeneutic methodology is stressed, along with the sociocultural perspective to reach an understanding of why citizens engage in politics. In contrast to much of the earlier research concerning deliberative discourses on the Internet, a more informal understanding of how people discuss politics is stressed.The questions are: What kind of civic role do the websites discursive dimensions address? What kind of civic identity do the users address in the websites resource dimensions?The empirical results are both discouraging and encouraging for advocates who put their trust in the Internet as a potential civic tool, in these times when neoliberal models of citiziens are prioritizing citizens as consumers, thus neglecting citizens as political actors. The study reveals that the websites show good results in general, regarding the civic roles and identities of the websites as both discourse and resource for the users.

Min B-Uppsats i Sociologi behandlade ämnet arbetsdelning i hemmet ur ett kvinnligt perspektiv. Under arbetet med denna uppsats kom idén om att göra ytterligare en studie kring samma ämne fast ur ett manligt perspektiv. Därför har jag nu i min C-Uppsats valt att utföra en studie som fokuserar på fem män och deras upplevelser av arbetsdelning i hemmet. Metoden som används är kvalitativ och jag har utfört intervjuer med fem män i åldrarna 24 år, 27 år, 29 år, 54 år och 77 år. Att männen är i olika åldrar beror på att jag vill relatera arbetsdelning i hemmet till könssocialisation. Studien innehåller en kort presentation av min B-Uppsats eftersom jag också har för avsikt att jämföra kvinnornas och männens upplevelser av arbetsdelning i hemmet med varandra.

Today in Sweden the concept of the greyzone students that stands between the nine-year compulsory school and special school for mentally retarded children is recognised in different studies and reports. It is not obvious for this group of students to decide which category best can comply with their needs. Should they go in nine-year compulsory school or special school for mentally retarded children? In the last years there have been alarming rapports about how the share of students in special school increases. A study shows that the greyzone students are a group that distinctly is on the increase in the special school.

I detta arbete ligger fokus på upplevelseutbildning, mer specifikt de äventyrliga aktiviteter som erbjuds vid företaget ?Naturlig Utveckling? vid Borgen och dess betydelse för deltagarnas sociala identitetsutveckling.Fritiden står idag för ett begrepp som kopplas samman med utveckling. Företag har skapat ett allt större intresse för människors fria tid, då forskning visar att arbete och fritid påverkar varandra och utgör en helhet i människors sociala liv.Syftet med den här undersökningen är att med kvalitativa metoder belysa om ett eventföretag som Borgen med dess aktiviteter bidrar till social identitetsutveckling bland deltagarna. I arbetet utgår vi från begrepp som identitetsutveckling, rolltagande, giltighetsanspråk samt rörelser mellan olika livssfärer. Arbetet är kvalitativt till sin art och bygger på kvalitativa undersökningar med intervjuer och observationer som huvudsakliga analysinstrument.Teoretiker som vi valt att lyfta fram är framförallt George-Herbert Mead (1995), Erving Goffman (2000) och Jürgen Habermas (1996).

The aim of this paper is to expand the debate on globalization and its consequences from a theoretical perspective emphasizing social processes of exclusion and inclusion. I explore these social processes in dialogue with the Spanish social movement for the rights of irregular immigrants. The paper also aims to explore new forms of resistance in the context of globalization."The declinist thesis" argues that globalization has lead to a declining importance of the nation-state and the national citizenship as guarantees of rights. "The anti-declinist thesis" oppose to this picture arguing that rights still depend on national policies. I also discuss the functions of exclusion and inclusion inherited in the concepts of citizenship and nation-state.I outline the historical and political context of the movement and explore the ideas and organizational dimensions of the movement's "knowledge praxis".I conclude that national citizenship - in a broader sense as a description of the relationship between the individual and the state - seems to play a crucial role in the life situation and the possibilities of irregular migrants to organize and protest.

Title: Every second week. A study on how co-parented children do family. The aim of the study is to explore children?s day-to-day experiences of co-parenting. It focuses on how the children actively participate in the process of shaping family life and their own childhoods in the context of family change.

The purpose of this study was to examine how commitment to a cause on a local basis had developed in four smaller groups during one decade. In 1996 I interviewed representatives in Åsele, Borrby, Hasslarp and Tving about their commitment and citizen initiative. Now, ten years later, I followed it up by interviewing them again. I wanted to know if the groups/associations still existed, if they had achieved their goals as they where pronounced ten years ago and how a strong commitment on a local basis can develop during ten years. Which phenomena decide whether the group develop or phase out? I use the term citizen commitment instead of citizen initiative to stress the fact that it is no longer an initiative but an on-going commitment.

Young people?s political influence has been surveyed, studied and discussed several times in Sweden during the last decade. There is a fear among the politicians that the young people are not interested in politics, especially not in party politics. On the other hand there is, among the youngsters a feeling of invisibility, not being seen or heard or for that sake respected. There are a lot of formal possibilities for young people?s political influence, but there are not as many real possibilities or situations to actually practice these possibilities.

During the 21st century, Society has again begun to focus its attention on working class literature and on issues related to social class. In the media contemporary working class literature is often mentioned as a distinct phenomenon. I my view, the meaning of this phenomenon have not been adequately formulated. The aim of this Master?s Thesis is to reconstruct, using a discourse oriented text analysis, a picture of how the contemporary working class literature is described in today?s society.

Mer och mer fokuserar media och politiker på hårdare tag mot kriminalitet, i debatten förekommer ofta en bild av att det är bättre att kontrollera eller bestraffa en individ som begått en kriminell handling än att fokusera på omständigheterna kring eller varför handlingen begicks. Brottsprevention har inte fått samma massmediala utrymme. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att titta närmare på hur olika institutioner, i det här fallet i Lund, arbetar med brottsförebyggande åtgärder. Fokus ligger på brottsprevention för unga som kan anses vara på väg in i kriminalitet eller har börjat få kontakt med myndigheter såsom polis och socialtjänst på grund av sina förehavanden. Material till uppsatsen har inhämtats via intervjuer med representanter från olika institutioner som på olika sätt arbetar eller kommer i kontakt med brottsförebyggande arbete.

An overwhelming majority of all male piglets are castrated without anaesthesia when they are very young. In Sweden this means that approximately one and a half million piglets are castrated every year. The reason the piglets are castrated is the strong and unpleasant smell and taste, the ?boar taint? that the meat from intact boars sometimes exhibits. Boar taint is chiefly cause by androstenone and skatole, two compounds that are mostly produced by sexually mature boars and are accumulated in the subcutaneous fat.