This is a descriptive paper based on a questionnaire- and literature study regarding how dogs are trained, what type and frequency of injuries that occur as well as how the dogs are best prepared for work. Using the results from the questionnaire, an overview is given on how members of Working dog clubs train their dogs and what kind of injuries that occur most frequently. The average age among the dogs included in the study was only about three years. This could indicate that older dogs are not trained in the same extent as young dogs. The results show that only a third of the dog owners warmed up their dogs before training.

Utbudet av dieter och hälsobudskap finns idag överallt. Oavsett om syftet är att gå ner i vikt för att minska framtida hälsorisker eller för att optimera kosten inför en tävling, så finns det information, råd och riktlinjer i överflöd. En av de senaste trenderna i USA är att utesluta vete i kosten.Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa en förståelse i varför elitidrottare, utan konstaterad födoämnesallergi, väljer bort vete ur kosten. Kvalitativa intervjuer genomfördes med fem elitidrottare på landslagsnivå inom tre olika sporter. Materialet tematiserades och analyserades.De intervjuade elitidrottarna ansåg att konsumtion av vete har en negativ inverkan på deras idrottsliga prestationer.

This thesis is an investigation of Bosnian immigrants and their use of libraries in Borås and Anderstorp. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate if people from Bosnia read in their mother tongue Bosnian and if they read in Swedish too. The essay is based on questionnaires concerning both young and older immigrants' reading and library habits. The survey encompasses 30 Bosnians. In the theory I have described relevant literature and confirmed the importance of identity, language and culture for immigrants.

I denna studie analyseras gymnasiekatalogers bilder som beskriver tre gymnasieprogram (Barn- och fritidsprogrammet, Byggprogrammet och Naturvetenskapsprogrammet) ur ett genusperspektiv. Syftet är att undersöka huruvida bilderna ger uttryck för den könsuppdelade gymnasieskolan genom att visa det kön som är i majoritet på programmet.Resultaten visar att representationen av det kön som är i minoritet är högre på bilderna än den faktiska representationen på programmen i stort. Dock syns en tydlig skillnad i hur tjejer respektive killar porträtteras och i vilken miljö de befinner sig. Budskapet katalogerna sänder ut är att tjejer och killar bör välja, om inte olika program så olika inriktningar. Ett exempel som visar detta är Barn- och fritidsprogrammet där det nästan uteslutande är tjejer som visas med barn medan killar oftare befinner sig i utemiljöer där sport och friskvård är inblandat..

I denna uppsats undersöks representationen av de brasilianska demonstrationerna i svenskpress 15 juni-19 juli 2013. Fokus är även att utgöra hur nyheten har vinklats och hur dennavinkling tagit sig form, samt en jämförelse mellan sportjournalistik och övrig journalistik,p.g.a. nyhetens koppling till sport.Till min teoretiska ram har jag främst använt mig av tre medieforskares verk ? Anna RoosvallsUtrikesjournalistikens antropologi, Mattias Ekmans Den globala rättviserörelsen i svenska medieroch Kai Hafez The Myth of Media Globalization ? som sammanfattningsvis berörnyhetsvärdering, utrikesjournalistisk, diskurs, hegemoni och globalisering.Uppsatsen använder sig av först en kvantitativ innehållsanalys, därefter en kvalitativdiskursanalys. I den kvantitativa separeras artiklar från sport- och övrig journalistik.

The purpose of our study is to describe and understand whether, and if so, how social workers in school and in social services construct computer gaming adolescents as a social problem. We chose social workers who encounter adolescents with different problems. We have conducted qualitative interviews with vignettes to capture the social workers' reasoning about computer gaming adolescents and how they handle this in their work. The study shows that all social workers we interviewed had encountered adolescents with troubling computer gaming habits. In the study, all agree that computer gaming becomes a problem when it leads to deviant behaviour such as not going to school, staying up all night and so on.

This is a qualitative study about how young men in the age of 16-18 years can construct their masculinity. How do these young men describe a ?real man?? What are their thoughts about themselves as adults? The purpose of this study includes a gender perspective in surroundings that cope with the sport football. To answer this study, six young men in the age of 16-18 years, whom are active football players in different levels, have been interviewed. The findings showed that the young men seemed to construct their masculinity in cooperation with the surroundings and the nearest family members seemed to have a very strong influence of the boy?s development to become a man.

The term ?health maintenance? was introduced in the 1960?s. A common conception nowadays is that health maintenance is always beneficial. Gestaldo (1997) meant that health education on one hand could give the individual a feeling of autonomy, but on the other hand also put the individual in an inferior position where the teacher represented ?the truth?.

The foundation for this thesis lies in whether or not, and how, the body representation in printed commercials, specific products directed to the body (shampoo, body lotion etc.), has changed during the last fifty years. Four years have been chosen because of the changes in society that we believe might have had an impact. The commercials that have been picked out are the ones that best represent the general view of the body. We have found that the changes when it comes to body presentation has followed the social development to a certain degree, but it is difficult to say how much the society has had an affect on the body ideal in advertising. Representations of the male body is something that has escalated since the early 70?s, fifteen years earlier few commercials was made with male models, and the few there were, never showed more than the face.

Tidigare forskning visar att kvinnor oftare reser kollektivt och att män kör mer bil till och från arbetet. Det framgår att vanor och miljömedvetenhet förklarar en del av människors resmönster. Studier visar också att kvinnor värderar bilens symbolvärde lägre än män. I samarbete med Eskilstuna kommun genomfördes en enkätundersökning med 2299 anställda vid Eskilstuna kommun, varav 491 män. Syftet med studien var att närmare undersöka motiv bakom bilanvändning och om dessa motiv skiljer sig åt mellan män och kvinnor i Eskilstuna kommun.

Sports Marketing is a growing part in the world of sports today. Our main purpose of this paper was to analyze which role marketing plays for an ice hockey organization in the Swedish elite today. For this study we did a case study research on the Swedish team Södertälje Sportklubb, where we interviewed seven people. In addition to the people in the organizations we chose to interview two sport journalists. This research was made from an organizations point of view and all of the interviews were of qualitative character.

There are several man-made environmental problems in today?s society. Tourism gives a lot of people serenity, creates jobs and better social circumstances but also has a dark side, a dark side that is harming our environment. Mass tourism creates large amounts of harmful gasses through transportation of tourists, littering ends up in pollution and acidification and the list goes on. Ecotourism has during the latter part of the last decade been marketed as a counter pool to the harmful kind of tourism and offers connectedness to nature.

The purpose of this research has been to investigate possible reasons for why honour related oppression exist in Sweden as well as to find out how some voluntary organisations work to change honour oppression related attitudes. The questions that the reserachers were trying to answer were (1) What are the possible causes for honour related oppression in Sweden? (2) How can honour related oppression be identified? (3) What are the voluntary organisations doing to change these attitudes? To answer these questions a qualitative method was used. The reserachers examined what leading researchers in this area thought were the reasons to why honour related oppression exist and then carried out interviews with participants from four voluntary organisations. A social constructional approached were chosen as the theoretical framework for this research and the results were also analysed from several perspectives.

The aim of this thesis is to study librarians attitudes towards fiction and reading. I have examined librarians fiction reading habits and how they handle the expectations that users may have regarding their knowledge in fiction literature. There have been many studies concerning the librarians information literacy. This work explores librarians competence in fiction literature. The primary question posted in this thesis is: What kind of fiction are librarians reading and how do they feel that they can correspond to the users expectations? The data collection is based on literature on the subject and qualitative interviews with eight librarians from different kinds of libraries.

Bandyn sägs av många vara lirarnas sport där artisterna får utrymmet att briljera. Bandyn är också ett av få varumärken inom Idrotts-Sverige som kan visa upp världsstjärnor på hemmaplan. Ändå får inte bandysporten den uppmärksamhet som den förtjänar.Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om och vad som görs ifrån klubbarnas och förbundets sida för att stärka varumärket bandy så att den får den uppmärksamhet som den förtjänar. För att uppnå syftet har jag ställt mig frågande till hur varumärket uppmärksammas idag och vad klubbarna och förbundet gör för att utveckla det. Kubbarna/förbund som intervjuats är Edsbyns IF Bandys ordförande Jerker Persson, Bollnäs GIF: s ordförande Olle Nilsson Sträng, Sandvikens AIK ordförande Ingrid Amren samt Svenska Bandyförbundets ordförande Håkan Ramsin.Det visade sig att problemen inom bandyn inte var externt utan beror på interna konflikter.