The current field of research concerning the impact of railroads in Sweden beside from the State main-line network is relatively narrow. Including cultural impact to the area narrows the results even further. The purpose of this study is to open the field even more into the local societies and to what extent the impact of the introduction of railroad might have had on smaller county villages. Sweden holds a unique position concerning ?station towns? or ?railways towns? in terms of railway policy and the industrial development in towns that were affected by the railway, as the affected towns continued development were based on a hybrid between direct democracy and adaptations of city-law policies.This study takes place in Kisa, a small town in southern Östergötland that during the beginning of the 20th century turned into a municipal community due to the building of Östra centralbanan (roughly translated Eastern central-line).

The sexuality of hivinfected people is quite controversial but nevertheless important when speaking of hivprevention. The aim of this work was to survey and analyze support and counseling practices around sexual issues given to hivpositive people by their treating medical doctors. We wanted to bring the question of hivinfected peoples sexuality and sexual behavior sometimes unprotected and the Swedish legislation and hivprevention efforts under discussion. Based on the results of a questionnaire answered by the doctors, previous research and different social constructionistic and interactionistic theories about the nature of sexuality we made our analysis. We found that the Swedish legislation offers a positive basis for successful hivprevention, but that there are some important obstacles to be overcome in order to really succeed and further reduce the number of new hivinfected people in Sweden.

The study is aimed at investigating the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?eks theories ofthe ontology of the subject, the crisis of our modern society and his views on how theology,especially Christian theology, can provide the answer for the threats to our society.My main object is the article Descartes and the post-traumatic subject (2008)where ?i?ek elaborates thoughts about the subject and our capitalistic society. To be ableto grasp these thoughts in full I have undergone an investigation not only on the writingsof Slavoj ?i?ek, but also on the philosophers to whom he owe much of his theories,such as G.W.F. Hegel, Friedriech Schelling, Karl Marx and Jaques Lacan.In the study I have shown how the subject is, according to ?i?eks psychoanalytictheories, decentered.

Det sker omfattande omstruktureringar i samhället vilket har medfört att förhållandena i skolan också påverkats. Antalet elever har minskat i de flesta inlandskommuner och som en konsekvens medför det totalt sett besparingar, vilket innebär skolnedläggningar. Staten styr vårt handlande genom formella regler och på arbetsplatserna har informella regler utvecklats under lång tid. Genom arbetsmiljölagstiftningen görs det möjligt för samhället att reglera kommunernas sätt att sköta arbetsmiljöarbetet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om formella och informella regler kan ha betydelse vid omfattande omstruktureringar.

Studien grundar sig i problemen med omplaceringar inom Nordvästra Skånes Polisdistrikt. Det har flera gånger rapporterats om att få, eller inga, poliser från Helsingborg varit villiga att omplaceras till Landskrona och det är detta problem som uppsatsen behandlar. Vad är det som gör att flertalet poliser inte vill förflyttas till Landskrona och hur tänker poliser kring kriminalitet, sitt arbete och om förflyttning i allmänhet?Genom en kvalitativ gruppintervju med poliser stationerade i Helsingborg framgick tre teman och dessa har varit genomgående för uppsatsen; både när det gäller teoretiska aspekter och uppsatsen upplägg. Problemområdena är oviljan att bryta de sociala relationer man skapat på sin nuvarande arbetsplats, praktiska problem vid förflyttning samt den sortens kriminalitet som är utmärkande för just Landskrona.Med utgångspunkt i sociologiska teoribildningar behandlas ovanstående teman och genom studiens gång blev det tydligt att Landskrona, som stad, inte var problemet.

Denna uppsats behandlar skillnader i polisens konstruktion och behandling av våldsbrottslighet beroende på om denna sker på allmän plats eller i hemmet. Skillnaderna förklaras med Randall Collins teori om bestraffning av brottslighet som ritualer som upprätthåller stratifierade samhällen, där det svenska samhället betraktas som ett samhälle bland annat stratifierat enligt kön.Undersökningen har ett konstruktivistiskt perspektiv och det analytiska kunskapsobjektet är strukturer, såsom de definierats av William Sewell som bestående av scheman och resurser. En jämförande metod i kombination med växelvis parantessättning av det substantiella respektive konstruerande tillämpas på en hierarkisk kedja av styrdokument samt ett antal intervjuer genomförda med poliser i olika befattningar inom ett närpolisområde. Skillnader i såväl konstruktion som hanterande av våld på allmän plats respektive i hemmet blottläggs. Skillnaderna är av en sådan art att mål och åtgärder relaterade till våld i hemmet är mindre specifika och konkreta, vilket innebär att sådan brottslighet bestraffas i mindre utsträckning.

This paper intends to provide a better understanding of how to rebuild a crisis affected area and how to plan for the inhabitants of a wounded city. It will also examine the landscape architect's tasks in this work to provide a planning perspective. The discussion of reconstruction is significant because the insight and knowledge in the subject is needed in order to help nations after a disaster. Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo is a city recovering from a civil war where the city's situation was complicated by an ethnic conflict that has been segregating it. The restoration of the city's structure can free people from their tragedy and make them live again.

The subject-matter of the following essay is to investigate the relationship between what is commonly called Deep Ecology or Biocentric Philosophy, as articulated by the co-founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess, and later proponents of the biocentric school of environmentalist thought. I contrast Naess? concept of Self-realization as founded in his Ecosophy T to the ideas of american conservationist and co-founder of the radical green movement Earth First! Dave Foreman, and to the controversial finnish environmentalist and ecofascist Pentti Linkola?s ideological agenda of population-reduction respectively.According to some critics of the movement, especially the social ecologist Murray Bookchin and French liberal philosopher Luc Ferry, the Deep Ecology ideology is essentially misanthropic and totalitarian in structure. A central idea among deep ecologists is that ecosystems and natural entities have intrinsic value in themselves, even outside a human social context. This idea is thought of among deep ecologists to create a philosophically sound basis for counteracting the environmental global crisis.

AbstractThis paper is a comparative study of the final reports of the Norwegian and Danish power studies performed in 2003. While the Danish study found that democracy is thriving, the conclusion of the Norwegian power study was that democracy is in a crisis. The purpose of this paper is to find explanations to why the studies in two Nordic countries arrived at such different results.Methodologically, the paper consists of an ideological text analysis and critical analyses of the discourse. In order to study how the results of the power studies can differ so considerably, the following aspects have been surveyed; 1) external contexts (government inquiries); 2) work process (the researchers? background, role and co-operation); 3) the problem areas and themes studied; and 4) power perspectives.

När döden inträffar plötsligt, har efterlevande inte fått någon chans till mental förberedelse inför dödsfallet. Efterlevande löper därmed stor risk att drabbas av komplicerade sorgereaktioner, med psykisk och fysisk ohälsa som följd. Denna grupp möts inte i tillräckligt stor utsträckning av strukturerad evidensbaserad omvårdnad, i proportion till efterlevande vid väntade dödsfall. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att belysa närståendes behov vid plötslig död samt att understryka relevanta omvårdnadsåtgärder i akuta skeden. Litteraturstudien är baserad på 13 vetenskapliga artiklar som på olika sätt behandlar närståendes behov vid plötslig död.

This thesis explores some key aspects of early Heidegger?s interpretations of Kant from a phenomenological perspective. In general terms, it analyzes Heidegger?s claim that Kant?s faculties share a common root in the transcendental imagination, as a critical development of motives found in Husserl?s phenomenology.More precisely, the thesis argues that the motive for deriving Kant?s first faculty, intuition, from the synthesis of imagination can be understood as an attempt to account for the receptivity of a finite subject, without yielding to a causal description of sensibility. Phenomenology shares this problem with Kant?s critical philosophy.

Uppsatsens syfte är att utifrån det sociala kapitalet belysa individuella och sociala aspekter av en omvändelse och anslutning till en religiös organisation, i mitt fall församlingen Fristaden i Uddevalla, från ett tidigare ickereligiöst liv. På samma gång omfattar syftet att ge en inblick i hur kristna i en församling som tillhör trosrörelsen ser på sin omvändelse, anslutning och på samhället. Mitt syfte bryter jag ned i tre frågeställningar som jag söker svar på. Dessa är: 1. Hur upplevde individen sin tillvaro runt omvändelsen? 2.

During the last decades the importance of IT has increased for businesses all over the world. It has transferred from only being used in administrative purposes to become more integrated to the core business. Due to the financial crisis in 2009 and increasing globalization, IT is facing the challenge of lower costs and increased efficiency. This requires IT-departments to embrace new strategies in order to fulfill these new tougher demands.Lean is a business development concept that aims to lower costs through more effective processes by removing all activities that does not create any value from the end customer?s perspective.

The climate crisis represents a serious threat to both people and nature and it will exacerbate existing inequalities, especially for women and girls who are most at risk yet have contributed least to the problem. Climate adaptation is critical to addressing the challenges of climate change, and it requires integrating a gender perspective to take into account the specific vulnerabilities faced by women and girls, as highlighted in the Paris Agreement. This study examines the implementation of gender perspectives in Swedish governmental climate change adaptation strategies. By applying a qualitative content analysis to 24 government agencies? action plans, the study investigates how gender equality is addressed in the context of climate change adaptation.

Essay in Political Science, C-level, by Camila Alvarez Cea, spring semester 2010. Tutor: Alf Sundin?Reality or a Political Mirage? ? A Study of the Swedish Press Views on the Health Insurance Reform in the USA? The purpose of this essay is partly to examine whether the picture that Swedish press presents of the health insurance reform in the US, which is part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Act bill, will be of crucial importance to the possibilities that the American population has to receive health insurance. The main research question is accordingly: ?Does the picture that Swedish press presents of the health insurance reform in the USA, seem like something that will be of radical importance to the possibilities of the population to receive healthcare?? The purpose is also to examine in which model (demand or market) the opinions of the Swedish press fits. This purpose will be answered by using three specific questions asking whether their opinions differ when it comes to three criterions: organization, financing/resources and delivery systems.