Purpose: The aim of this bachelor thesis is to explain how advancement factors affect men and woman to advance in their careers in the accounting profession.                                Methodology: A positivist approaches and a deductive approach, with a quantitative method was used to obtain the results of the analysis. Theoretical perspective: The theory describes the career stages, audit assistant, approved auditor, registered auditor, manager and partner. Their responsibilities and what it takes to get there is explained. Theory section also describes the different advancement factors from a gender perspective. Empirical: The empirical material is based on a survey conducted in respondents who represent the five career stages. The collected data is then analyzed using statistical tests. Conclusion: The analysis shows that the identified career advancement factors that limit and stimulates the male and female auditors? career ladder.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine the function of public libraries on the social web, focusing on reading promotion and reading stimulation. For an understanding of the larger context regarding public libraries on the social web, we conducted online interviews via email with people in the Swedish library profession, together with a content analysis of various texts on the subject found in library journals and on the Internet. Furthermore to identify the public library's practice on reading promotion and reading stimulation on the social web, we did interviews with librarians at a public library on their use of a blog for this purpose, together with a questionnaire handed out to the library's users on their use and conceptions of the blog.The conceptual framework of this study consists of four key aspects in the theoretical and empirical definition of Library 2.0 presented by Holmberg, Huvila and Widén-Wulff. The results showed that the public library can create a substantial value through its use of the social web, but it?s necessary to have a clear vision of the desired outcome.

Background: Previous research has shown that the understanding and knowledge about the spiritual needs is not given high priority among nursing staff. During the latest years the body and its functions has controlled the healthcare and the spiritual needs has been placed in the background. All humans have spiritual needs that must be satisfied irrespective of religious background. Aim: The aim of this study was to in a caring perspective illustrate patients? spiritual and existential needs in palliative care.

Kamratposten is a swedish magazine aimed at youth aged 8-14. They write about almost everything that concerns youth, all the way from dealing with loneliness to animals and celebrities. This study concentrates at how they write about love. With a qualitiative narrative analysis of the 12 articles that concerns love from the 2013 issues of Kamratposten, I have tried to answer the questions: - What narratives about love are being constructed in Kamratposten 2013?- How do they construct males, females and gender in their articles about love?What I found was that the hetero normativity, or the heterosexual matrix as Judith Butler calls it, was very strong in the articles.

Problem: The Swedish wage-setting has changed since the time for the breakthrough of the industrialism until today. Before that, wages often consisted of perquisites or goods that could be exchanged against other goods. Rural people were often self-sufficient. In some cases the farmer owned the land, in other cases they where tenants. At the time for the breakthrough of industrialism the demand for similar labour were increased.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka meänkielis ställning bland barn och ungdomar i Norrbotten. Undersökningen bygger på enkätsvar från elever i de fem Norrbottenskommuner där meänkieli är förvaltningsspråk. Både elever med och elever utan anknytning till meänkieli besvarade enkäten. Frågorna rörde deras förståelse och bruk av meänkieli, deras attityd till språket samt vad de tror om framtiden för språket.  Av undersökningen framkom att målgruppen i högre utsträckning förstår meänkieli än vad de själva kan tala språket. De flesta av respondenterna anser det inte viktigt att meänkieli i framtiden lever kvar som talat språk. Av de som i någon utsträckning förstår meänkieli tror drygt hälften att deras framtida barn i någon mån också kommer att förstå språket.

Problem solving is a big part of design, however a lot of emphasis is put on creativity in research related to the effects of stress. Research has shown that the amount of stress we feel affects idea generation. Stress may also affect the ability to solve problems, however the researchers don?t seem to agree about what the effect of stress actually does.The study was made through experimental sessions where the respondents were asked to solve 4 matchstick puzzles of similar difficulty. Depending on their outcome they experienced more or less stress.

The aim of this paper was to examine the specific experience of being bicultural, what ackulturation strategy the person utilized and what influenced the use of this strategy. The findings were analyzed with the help of Pierre Bourdieu?s concepts of habitus and cultural capital. The empirical data was collected through qualitative interviews with four women of Chilean background, who either were born in or had been living in Sweden since childhood. The results of the interviews showed that all the respondents predominantly utilized the integration strategy, meaning that they participated in and felt a connection to both the Swedish and Chilean culture.

This paper starts where previous research in this scientific field, research about individuals who managed to end their criminal lifestyle, ends ? by talking in terms of Pierre Bourdieu?s forms of capital. In former studies the researchers pointed out access to a job and parenting as helpful factors to end a criminal lifestyle. Our purpose with this paper, however, was to find out if it is possible to understand criminals successfully ending their criminal lifestyle from Bourdieu?s capital metaphors and Mark Granovetter?s concept of strong and weak ties.

Vid ett oplanerat generationsskifte när arvingen är omyndig är risken stor att den reella beslutande makten tillfaller en oönskad person. Anledningen till detta är den betydande förmyndarförvaltning en efterlevande förmyndare kan utöva över tillgångar den omyndige fått via legalt arv/testamente eller gåva. De möjligheter som ett borttestamenterande av förvaltningsrätten ger, kan tyvärr ge en falsk känsla av trygghet för testator. I flertalet av fallen finns möjlighet för den efterlevande förmyndaren att utnyttja laglottsmöjligheten föra att tillskansa sig beslutande makt över företaget och på så sätt motverka testators vilja. Trots att lagstiftaren på olika sätt försökt att trygga den omyndiges situation genom regler för hur förmyndare och överförmyndare skall handla anser jag dessa regler vara otillräckliga.

This thesis is about cover illustrations of DVD movies as examples of visual communication. I have studied the cover illustrations of the three movies Gran Torino, Secret Window and As White As Snow. My research assignment has been to find out how the cover illustrations of DVD movies communicate in relation to the story. I have also been looking for what makes a cover illustration interesting and if the interest in itself is individually considered or if there are certain general rules regardless of the observer.To reach a conclusion I have been studying components in advertising pictures, visual communication and how the commercial producers use advertising to communicate with the observer. Semiotics, advertising and comparisons between the cover illustrations have been my method for analyze.I have come to the conclusion that cover illustrations are meticulously produced, and that every single part of them is important for the observers? over all impression and interpretation of the cover illustration.

Idag lever vi lite grann på var sitt håll i Sverige. Var generation för sig. Platserna där barn, vuxna och pensionärer umgås är få. Förebilder och närstående är begränsat av kärnfamilj och karriär. Barnen får husera i baracker omgärdade av stängsel, medan föräldrarna arbetar heltid på annat håll. I det här projektet kombineras en förskolas program med danslokaler, restaurang och ett publikt torg. Danslokaler därför att det har med pedagogik, tradition, självkänsla och identitet att göra och utgör tillsammans med musik några av de viktigare pedagogiska verktygen på förskolan.Restaurang för att höja standarden på barnens mat och locka andra generationer till förskolan.Publikt torg för att skapa en mötesplats generationerna emellan omgärdade av barnens värld istället för tvärtom, vilket oftast är fallet. Ambitionen med det här projektet har varit att genom olika arkitektoniska grepp höja statusen på barnens rum, barnens plats i staden, och med det, förstärka deras kontakt med omvärlden.

I och med den stora generationsväxlingen som den svenska arbetsmarknaden står inför ville vi undersöka kompetensöverföringen mellan de avgående 40 ? talisterna och den nya arbetskraft som ska ta över. Vi utförde vår undersökning på Uddeholms AB i Hagfors och undersökningen berörde de anställdas syn på kompetens, vad de tyckte var viktigt att föra över till nästa generation samt vilka skillnader som fanns generationerna emellan. Som utgångspunkt har vi använt oss av fem stycken teoriområden som alla rör kompetens men har olika infallsvinklar. Vi använde oss av en kvalitativ metod och utförde sju stycken intervjuer med både yngre och äldre representanter ur arbetsstyrkan samt på både tjänstemän och kollektivanställda.

Genom att undersöka hur ungdomar mår i dagens samhälle kan både negativa och positiva faktorer upptäckas. De negativa kan förebyggas och förändras, de positiva bibehållas och förbättras. Ungdomarna är de som ska ta över samhället efter nuvarande generation. För att främja ett välmående samhälle i framtiden bör välmående ungdomar främjas idag. Syftet med studien var att göra en jämförelse mellan hur det var att vara ung i Piteå år 1993 och år 2006.

Since time immemorial, nature has been conceived of as a female entity. This ancient concept is also a recurring element in contemporary Swedish horror fiction. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the feature of nature in the selected works of Anders Fager, Andreas Marklund and Frida Arwen Rosesund and in what ways these respective depictions rely on a tradition where nature is gendered female. The theoretical starting-point for this comparative study is ecocriticism and its subcategory ecofeminism, which are modes of literary criticism where the role of nature in general, and its female connotations in particular, are appreciated as significant literary features. For executing an analysis that goes beyond what is explicit, the exploration of these three writers? texts also adopts a psychoanalytical perspective.