Title: I saw it on Facebook ? Youth presentation of self on FacebookAuthors: Nicole Dreher & Anders SkoglundPresented: 01.06.2010Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the, in the study, participating youths make their presentation of self on their Facebook profiles.Methodology: The method used in the thesis was a social semiotic analysis focusing on the social semiotic concepts: semiotic resource, semiotic potential, affordance, denotation and connotation. A social semiotic analysis of composition was also used with the purpose to gain a deeper knowledge of the social semiotic affordances of Facebook?s composition.Theoretical perspectives: The theoretical base of this thesis consists mainly of Erving Goffman?s theory on presentation of self in everyday life as well as relevant theories to youth culture in sociology and identity in social psychology.Conclusions: The results show that the youth?s presentations of selves mostly takes place in their profile picture, status updates, groups, fan pages and through their communication with other users on their wall. The borders between front and back stage on Facebook entirely depends on the norms that the reader expects the profile owner to uphold.

The findings in this case study are mainly based on material collected during a field trip with a fellow student to Laos in February-March 2005, which was sponsored by Sida through a Minor Field Study scholarship. The original interest was to study a political aid project (Governance and Administrative Reform Project Luang Prabang, GPAR LP) in a country like Laos with very complex preconditions such as one-party polity. In Laos my interest in evaluation of political aid grew mainly because I found out that the two donors in the project, Sida and the UNDP, had reached different conclusions in their respective evaluations of the project.The main interest in this thesis has been to study how donors have evaluated a political aid project. The study shows that Sida and UNDP used, what in the literature usually is referred to as, Conventional evaluation as methodology when they conducted their evaluations of GPAR LP. The study also shows that the main reason for the different points of view that are expressed in the evaluations depend on a lack of dialogue and consensus, regarding for the project crucial concepts, rather than choice of evaluation methodology.

Abstract: A public service sector in constant reformation is a common phenomenon in Sweden. This also includes the municipal care organisations. A central role in those reformations has the public middle chief who often is the one to implemented reforms to the organiza-tion's staff.This study is examining the role of the public middle manager in care organisations dur-ing the implementation of common ideologies value foundation in a present organisa-tion's reform. The study tries to elucidate in which way the public middle managers in municipal care organisations experience their roles, which expectations the management of the organisation has on their roles and how a present organisation changes inflict on the contents of the role. If the middle manager in a municipal care organisation feels like normative for the personal group is another aspect.There are four concepts used as theoretic framework in the study, organization, imple-mentation and public middle managers in a general aspect and the middle manager in a municipal care organisation in a specific aspect.

The aim of this study was to explore how young students can be taught during their first year of learning English towards the A1 level according to The European Framework of Reference for Languages, and how the students understand their own learning. The study was carried out in two different classes but with the same teacher, who is qualified to teach English to young learners. The result is based on the analysis of a total of twelve observations of English lessons in two classes in school year one and eight group interviews with the students. Recurrent ingredients through all lessons were activities such as listening to teacher talk, watching films or film clips, singing songs and doing rhymes, using drama activities, talking about the meaning of learning English, practicing guessing competence and learning new vocabulary. The teacher consistently talked about and taught different strategies for language learning.

Newspapers have undergone big changes with the progress of Internet and the newspapers establishment on the Internet. This adjustment to the Internet has resulted in differences between the content in newspapers and Web news sites. A quantitative content analysis and questions to Web authorities have been used in this study to describe what these differences are. During three days, three different newspapers were analysed and the conclusion was that many of the articles that were published in the newspapers also could be found in the newspapers Web versions. At the same time a lot of the articles on the Web news sites were not published in the newspapers.

This study examines how social workers in child and youth units within Social Services perceive and experience working with violence in young people's intimate relationships. The study aims to highlight whether there is a need for a domestic violence team within the child and youth units. Violence in young people?s close relationships is a growing societal issue, with limited establishment within the research field. While research on the frequency of such violence has increased, studies focusing on tailored support measures have lagged behind.

Den aktuella studien bygger på en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med en analytisk induktion. I undersökningen har den aktuella forskningssituationen kring skolinspektion granskats. Källmaterialet bygger på nationell såväl som internationell forskning, som undersökt effekter och bieffekter som är förenade med inspektion. Med utgångspunkt i forskningssituationen har även föräldrars, lärares samt skolledares åsikter kring inspektionen undersökts. Vidare har möjligheterna till att verkliggöra skolutveckling via inspektion undersökts.

Sverige har likt många andra europeiska nationer brottats med hög ungdomsarbetslöshet under de senaste 20 åren. I ett försök att underlätta ungdomars inträde på arbetsmarknaden valde regeringen att i två steg sänka arbetsgivaravgiften för ungdomar. De båda sänkningarna innebar sedermera en dryg halvering av det samlade uttaget för arbetsgivaravgiften från 31 till 15 procent. Tidigare forskning påvisar försumbara sysselsättningseffekter. Detta till följd av att skattesänkningen på längre sikt övervältras till löntagaren i form av högre lön.

Entreprenörskap är ett begrepp i den nya läroplanen vilket ska genomsyra skolan efter ett påbud från regeringen 2009. Den nya läroplanen för gymnasieskolan trädde i kraft med reform år 2011. Entreprenörskap är ett koncept som kan tolkas på olika sätt i skolan. Det kan ha en snäv betydelse i att vara ekonomiskt och syfta att utbilda i hur man driver företag eller en bred i att syfta till företagsamhet där ett flertal olika kompetenser hos eleven ska utvecklas genom undervisningen. Exempel på kompetenser är kreativitet, ansvarstagande och problemlösning.

This study has dealt with a phenomena that is regarded as new in the Swedish context of social work called honour related violence because of sexual orientation. The purpose was to critically examine a project that offers a variation of assistance for individuals between 13 and 25 years of age who suffers from the above. The project mentioned is run by an organisation called RFSL Rådgivningen Skåne. The aim was to examine the practice and to gain knowledge concerning the target group and relate it to that described by the project. Another aim for the study was to look into how the employees and the author of a report that is commonly used as background material in the practice used the complicated terms involved in the field and how that may effect the individuals that are the target for the resources.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka betydelsen av revisionsberättelsen och revisionen i allmänhet samt att utreda vilka konsekvenser avskaffandet av revisionsplikten har haft på små aktiebolag, små och stora revisionsbyråer, banker, Skatteverket, Företagarna och Svenskt Näringsliv. Studien har skrivits utifrån en kvalitativ forskningsmetod där datainsamlingen belyser olika perspektiv av det undersökta fenomenet och bidrar till djupare helhetsförståelse inom området efter avskaffandet av revisionsplikten. Studiens resultat visar att revisionsberättelsen bidrar med ett mervärde för företagen och dess intressenter men samtidigt att den, som den är utformad nu, inte passar för små aktiebolag eftersom den främst är skriven för större och noterade företag. Revisionsbyråerna är en av de intressenterna som har påverkats mest av reformen. Först och främst har införandet av reformen bidragit med att samtliga revisionsbyråer i studien har förlorat ett antal kunder.

On three occasions, in 1973, 1993 and 2005, Swedish parliament and government has resolved to integrate the, previously independent, foreign offices beloning to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the Swedish embassies. The implemenation of the integrationreform has however been a lengthy process. This thesis adresses two main issues: how has the integrationreform been able to remain a viable recipe for organizational change over time and why has the integrationprocess taken so long? Lastly I assess the possibility for effective implementation following the decision 2005.Based on New Institutionalism I conducted an historical analysis of the integrationprocess to explore the conditions for reform. My results indicate that the integrationreform primarly suited the interests of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, making the Foreign Serivce more effective and clarifying the Ministry's responsibilty for Swedish development cooperation policy.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine how The Trilogy of Pippi Longstocking, written by the author Astrid Lindgren, has been received by the critics in the Swedish daily press. A second aim is to examine how the critics could be of importance for the consecration of Pippi as a literary character. The study is mainly based on reviews from the daily press with nationwide coverage. The theoretical framework consists of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu?s theories of the literary field, and the method of the reviews is a qualitative text analysis.

Stressful routines for animal handling can reduce immune function and productivity of animals. If stakeholders are handling animals aversively, animals will show increased expressions of fear for humans and higher stress levels which lead to the compromise of animals? welfare. In Ethiopia, there are no legislations to protect animals from suffering or discomfort. The main objective of this study was therefore to analyse welfare of cattle on animal markets in Ethiopia and map out supply chains of animals to these markets.

Detta är en undersökning som berör kvinnliga skribenter under senare delen av 1800-talet i Stockholmsregionen. Undersökningen är baserad på två tidskrifter som kom ut 1859 och framåt. Den ena tidskriften är Tidskrift för hemmet (1859) som var den första tidningen i Sverige med kvinnliga skribenter och en kvinnlig utgivare. Den andra är Dagny som blev en uppföljare till Tidskrift för hemmet (1886) och som gavs ut av Fredrika-Bremer-Förbundet. Undersökningen görs genom att analysera tidskrifternas första utgåvor under deras första år för att ta reda på vad kvinnorna skrev om och om de ville tillföra något till den rådande hierarkin som fanns i samhället med manlig dominans. Syftet med undersökningen är att visa vilken kvinnosyn skribenterna hade och vad de skriver om gällande kvinnorna i samhället eftersom mycket tidigare forskning enbart berör vilka dessa kvinnliga skribenter var. För att analysera texterna har jag använt mig av en ideologikritisk textanalys som innebär att man läser texterna med vetskapen om att det finns en rådande ideologi i samhället där texterna ges ut och att också försöka se om texterna visar någon form av ?reform? för att förändra ideologin. Min undersökning visar att skribenterna i tidskrifterna skrev om och för kvinnor, de behandlar ämnen som kvinnors rätt till arbete och utbildning och att kvinnor ska få fler rättigheter i samhället, såsom rösträtt.