Demografiska, kulturella och samhälleliga förändringar sker i stor utsträckning i dag i våra städer. I och med dessa utvecklingar finns ett ökat behov av mer flexibla bostäder anpassade för en bredare målgrupp. Kärnfamiljen har ersatts av singelhushållet, som numera är den vanligaste hushållstypen i Sverige och även andra familjekonstellationer blir allt vanligare. Detta ställer ökade krav på den kommunala planeringen och bostadsmarknaden att möta dessa behov. Men trots dessa förändringar står bostadsmarknaden och stampar och de bostäder som byggs i dag följer ett ideal konstruerat för fyrtio år sedan.

This thesis examines Swedish composers' modes of work and production within the Swedish film industry. It starts off with a historical overview treating live music in early silent film, the conversion to sound and the Swedish production climate until present time. The analysis consists of contemporary empirical studies; interviews with people writing music for film, TV and commercials. The musician's perspective is in focus but directors and other film workers are heard as well. The situation for female composers in a male-dominated industry is also discussed.

AbstractIn this text the attitudes towards and using of blogs in teaching Swedish toteenagers will be explored. The results are based on a survey made amongst 17teachers and 58 students from all over Sweden. The end results show that theusage of blog still hasn?t found a permanent way into the classrooms, but has anappeal to and is being used by predominantly younger teachers both, male andfemale, with a positive response from students regardless of gender. Theconclusion is that using web tools like the blog is an easy first step for schools toconnect to the digital society of the 21stcentury and take advantage of the perksavailable in the digital classroom.Svensk titel:Blogg + Svenska =Sant? ? Bloggande i undervisningen i svenska.Engelsk titel:Blog + Swedish =True? ? Blogging in teaching Swedish.Ämnesord: Blog, Web 2.0, digitalt klassrum, svenska, undervisning,kompetensutveckling.

This study aims to look at female executives? view of their leadership in the male-dominated construction industry. The study is  qualitative and focuses on the respondents' subjective perceptions. We have conducted six interviews with women in different companies whose positions within each company varied. Using theories of subjectivity, emotions, impression management and organizational structures, to support the analysis conducted, this study shows that there are obstacles for women in the industry, but it also shows that it  seems to be facing a brighter future.

Bedömning av yngre barn ökar och den nya reviderade läroplanen för förskolan har fått ett nytt avsnitt som handlar om utvärdering där det ställs krav på att dokumentera varje barns utveckling och lärande. Vad denna ökande bedömningskultur kan få för konsekvenser i relation till barns olika förutsättningar, är en av frågor som problematiseras i studien. Studien har hämtat inspiration från poststrukturalism och som metod används diskursanalys. Sammanlagt har genomförts fem gruppintervjuer där tjugofyra pedagoger har medverkat. Pedagogernas egna bedömningsmaterial har använts som diskussionsunderlag.

AbstractTitle: What TV-glasses do you wear? A study in how party-political people decode the TVshow Scooby Doo (Vilka tv-glasögon har du? En studie i hur partipolitiskt aktiva personer tolkar tv-serien Scooby Doo)Number of pages: 47 (54 including enclosures)Author: Christopher LandstedtTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2007University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University.Purpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to make a study in how party-political people, 18-25 years old, both female and male, decode the messages in the TV-show Scooby Doo from 1969. Do they decode the show differently because of their political view, their gender or, and their social background? Is there a pattern in the decoding or is it based on a more individual level?Material/Method: A qualitative method containing a total number of 16 individual interviews with young adults, 18-25 years old, half of them female, the other half male, were used. All of the participants are members of political youth parties/organizations, equally divided in left and right wing parties.

The purpose of this research is to analyze six children?s books from a gender perspective and thereby investigate in what way boys and girls respectively are portrayed in books.My general question is:How are boys and girls portrayed in children?s books?This question has been broken down into four minor questions:What type of clothes are the people wearing? Are people predominantly male or female? Have people specific attributes which are linked to their sex? Are people performing specific actions which are linked to their sex?In my research I have combined quantitative and qualitative methods and my theoretical framework has been gender.This study reveals a change in children's books with respect to how the different genders are portrayed. The progression is towards a more equal portrayal but despite this, patterns typical for the respective genders shine through..

I have statistically worked up a material from 228 graves from the late Iron Age in the area of Mälardalen.In my material I have gathered the incidence of combs, knifes, beads, weapons whetstones and torshammarsrings.I have found that beads are overrepresented in graves of women and whetstones in graves of men. I only found weapons in graves from male.I found no indication from my statistic hypothesis (Z-test) that a grave that contains more than three beads should define the grave of a woman. A grave that contains a lot of beads, more than 20, consider I as a female gender.Combs, knifes and torshammarsring are considered as gender neutral..

Background: Studies that have been made in male-dominated organisations shows that only few women have succeeded in advancing to the higher positions in all businesses. Statistics shows that merely 4 % of the managers in all building companies are female. The manager role has earlier always been classified as most suitable for men resulting in barriers for women who strive for management positions. This problem is now very renowned and is called the glass ceiling. To improve the current situation, both the organization's structure and culture, have to be modernized for more women to succeed and get the courage to get into the industry.

The purpose of this study has been to increase the awareness of what significance models of explanation have for intervention programmes, aimed at perpetrators of intimate partner violence, within the Swedish social services. The study is not gender neutral, it centres on male batterers in heterosexual relationships. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five people working within the topical field. I analyzed their statements using an ecological model of understanding violence. The main finding was that the people I interviewed had a multiple understanding when it came to comprehending the violence, but that when it came down to the actual intervention they targeted mainly on elements in the individual spectra, such as feelings of frustration.

Author: Camilla AnderssonTitle: The depiction of female and male elite soccer players in Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter ?  A quantitative and discursive analysis of the World Cup 2002 and 2003Level of education: CSubject: Media and Communication Studies Umeå University: Department of Culture and Media Studies Term: Spring 2004 Pages: 70 The purpose of this essay is that from a gender theoretical and critical discourse analysis perspective  study how the image of the Swedish football national teams and players in the 2002 World Cup (men) and 2003 (women) were constructed in the media coverage. I analyze articles published in Dagens Nyheter, Swedens biggest morningpaper and Aftonbladet, biggest eveningpaper. The method is based on a quantitative content analysis, and critical discourse analysis in which I use van Dijk's analytical approach. Issues :1. What constructed the World Cup in 2002 and 2003  players and teams, from a gender theoretical perspective in the mediatexts?2.

In the literature it is not possible to find something about Swedish UN Military Observers (MO) experience of life is changing after their service. The aim of this study was to investigate if this has happened. The selection is of type ?snowball?. Interviews were made with twelve MO by telephone, both male and female.

Bedömning av yngre barn ökar och den nya reviderade läroplanen för förskolan har fått ett nytt avsnitt som handlar om utvärdering där det ställs krav på att dokumentera varje barns utveckling och lärande. Vad denna ökande bedömningskultur kan få för konsekvenser i relation till barns olika förutsättningar, är en av frågor som problematiseras i studien. Studien har hämtat inspiration från poststrukturalism och som metod används diskursanalys. Sammanlagt har genomförts fem gruppintervjuer där tjugofyra pedagoger har medverkat. Pedagogernas egna bedömningsmaterial har använts som diskussionsunderlag.

Eftersom tolkanvändning är vanligt förekommande i socialt arbete ville vi undersöka socialarbetarens erfarenheter av tolkanvändning. Syftet med vår studie var att få ta del av socialarbetarens uppfattning om sin egen roll som tolkanvändare, hennes syn på tolkens roll och på tolkförmedlingens indirekta roll i tolksamtal. Studien baserades på tidigare forskning i området och kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta social-arbetare inom socialtjänsten som var vana vid att tala genom tolk. Intervjusvaren analyserades med hjälp av socialkonstruktivistiska och handlingsteoretiska begrepp. Vår slutsats var att socialarbetaren saknade norm för tolkanvändning och därmed ställde orimliga krav och förväntningar på tolken, vilket kunde vara en av orsakerna till att gränsöverskridanden sker.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of sensory modality on short-term memory recall. An exploratory, cross-sectional study was performed. A total of 119 individuals participated. There were 70 female and 49 male subjects, aged 4 to 80 years (M=34,3). The participants were presented with 12 different objects in auditory, visual or auditory/visual mode over a period of 24 seconds.