Taiwan has over the past thirty years experienced a substantial political transformation. Being ruled by Chinese nationalists since World War II, Taiwan started its democratic transition in the late eighties. The new democratic system did not only provide people with freedom to vote, it also marked the beginning of a search for a new national identity. Based on the international theory of constructivism, this paper defines and studies the Taiwanese people?s progression away from a dominant Chinese national identity towards a uniquely defined Taiwanese identity.

Can we harm future people? According to our commonly used contractarian theories, it seems we cannot. This is because our actions of today not only influence what they are supposed to influence, but also who mates with whom and when, and thus which particular persons will ever live in the future. Had we not performed a particular action, the future people born as a result of that same action, would not have been born. It therefore seems they cannot reasonably reject our actions.

This bachelor thesis in tourism studies focuses on people's use of social media related to travel. The paper aims to provide a wider knowledge of tourist?s propensity to display destinations through social media and how they perceive others that display travelling. This is put in relation to the term of social status in order to find out if there is a possible link. The intention was to provide an insight into the phenomenon to contribute new awareness that destinations can exploit in their marketing.

Punktskatter Àr ett omdiskuterat omrÄde, trots det Àr det fÄ som vet vad det Àr. I den hÀr uppsatsen tar jag upp vad punktskatter Àr för nÄgonting och varför de finns. Punktskatt pÄ alkohol och tobak Àr harmoniserat inom EU och dÀrför kommer sÄvÀl svensk lagstiftning som EU-rÀttslig lagstiftning behandlas. Slutligen kommer problemen med punkskatter via privatinförsel och distansförsÀljning behandlas..

The Swedish real estate market has experienced an intense increase of demand during the last ten years. Thus, people regularly visit real estate websites, as well as home improvement and interior design have become extremely popular. However, the Swedish real estate agencies still have not developed a theoretical framework on how to most effectively market the properties. The main purpose of this study was to investigate how interior in apartment advertising affects the buyer's interest in the apartment, and furthermore to start building a framework for how to effectively use interior as a marketing tool. The study connects theory regarding social identity, advertising effectiveness and product personality in order to investigate consumer behaviour in the real estate market.

Title: ?? Then came the realization that I was just like them. That I have a gambling addiction?? This is a qualitative study of four former gamblers and their experience of getting out of the gambling addiction. The study is about how individuals have overcome a gambling addiction.

The aim of this study is to examine how zodiac signs are depicted through social interactions from an identity perspective and if zodiac signs can be seen as a form of divination. Our method was based on the answers of seven informants (six interviews in total), all of whom were interested in astrology with two of the informants having the title of astrologer by profession. After the implementation of Erving Goffman?s dramaturgical theory regarding identity and Jesper Fr?kj?r S?rensen?s divinatory perspective, we found evidence in the orrelation between zodiac signs and identity, along with astrology having little to no correlation with divination. The results show that although the majority of the informants were hesitant to the assertion that astrology can provide divinatory evidence, many of them still consumed and followed astrological advice based on prognosis.

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka hur gymnasieelever upplever sociala medier utifrÄn Tajfels (1974) Social identity theory (SIT) samt vilka negativa och positiva aspekter gymnasieelever upplever med sociala medier. Med hjÀlp av en kvalitativ intervjumetod utgör svaren frÄn tolv gymnasieelever i södra Sverige empirin för studiens resultat. Tidigare forskning har visat att responsen av andra medlemmar pÄ sociala medier spelar stor roll för ungdomars psykiska vÀlbefinnande. Resultatet visade att anledningen till informanternas anvÀndning av sociala medier till stor del berodde pÄ att andra i deras umgÀngeskrets var aktiva, att informanterna upplevde krÀnkningar som ett oacceptabelt, men vanligt förekommande, beteende pÄ sociala medier. Allt material bearbetades utifrÄn Burnards (1991) innehÄllsanalys dÀr författarna utifrÄn empirins basala koder konstruerade följande huvudteman/underteman: kommunikation/anonymitet, etik/olÀmpligt beteende och tillhörighet/gruppidentitet.

This thesis in social anthropology is based on a field study on the Internet exploring Tibetan identity. With a post-modern approach the thesis explores the possibility fora non-tibetan to create a Tibetan Internet identity and become a part of the Tibetan community that exist on the Internet..

Googling their employees and job seekers are becoming more common andin that we live our lives more and more on the internet it becomes moreimportant how we act and to think about what you publish on the internet.Each time you press a key, will leave a digital footprint behind and thereforeit?s important to know how to deal with this. The purpose was to describehow a person strategically can proceed to build an identity on the internet toget benefits in the job seeking process in the media industry and to describethe importance of the digital identity in the recruitment process in a smallertown. We?ve used a qualitative approach and made eight interviews withrecruiters from the media and also people who have built a digital identity.We?ve used Bauman?s theory about consumer society, Montoya?s eight lawsof personal branding and also theories about profiling, and communicationsplanning to analyze the material.

Syftet med det h?r arbetet var att visa hur ett varum?rke kan byggas och att prova detta genom en kollektion m?bler och inredningsprodukter under arbetsnamnet ĂźTextila sammanfogningar ñ Gone BananasĂź. MÂlet var att p examensutst?llningen kunna presentera en kollektion m?bler. Vi skulle ocks vid examensarbetets slut ha utvecklat en grund till vÂrt varum?rke i bild och text om oss och vad vi g?r.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka grundskolans tobakspolicy i Hallands lÀn, detta med utgÄngspunkt frÄn tvÄ frÄgestÀllningar: om grundskolorna i Hallands lÀn hade en dokumenterad skriven tobakspolicy samt om tobakspolicydokumenten var utformade utifrÄn statens folkhÀlsoinstituts rekommendationer kring vad som bör ingÄ i ett policydokument gÀllande tobak. Resultatet av studien visade att 33 av 49 tillfrÄgade skolor angav att de hade ett policydokument innehÄllande tobak. 3 av 49 skolor svarade att dem inte hade nÄgon policy pÄ omrÄdet och 13 av 49 svarade inte pÄ förfrÄgan. Utav de 33 skolor som utgav sig för att ha ett dokument gÀllande tobak, svarade 90 procent av skolorna att de utgick frÄn ett samlat policydokument för kommunens grundskolor. Ett av dessa dokument hade i vaga ordalag nÀmnt tobak som drog i sin drogpolicy medan fokus i ett annat dokument endast lÄg pÄ alkohol och narkotika.

Normal children acquire the necessary social habits without being consciously aware of this, they learn instinctively. (Author?s translation from Swedish to English) (Asperger & Frith, 1998, s. 21) This essay is about people who do not learn to socialize, the social habits, instinctively but through conscious learning. We have interviewed three adults with the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome with the aim to let them tell us about what it means to have a neuropsychiatric disability.

The purpose of this study was to examine and increase the knowledge about the way young, newly graduated social workers view their professional role considering their age and professional experience, how they experience the relation to their clients and colleagues and how these experiences all together affect the way the young social workers handle their professional role. Seven social workers in the ages between 23 and 25, who graduated from Socialhögskolan, Stockholm University, in January 2007, where interviewed. They also answered a questionnaire covering the similar questions as the interview. Little research had previously been made in this particular area, why the triangulation of methods was helpful in analyzing the results, with ata coming from two different resources. To analyze the data a multidimensional theory was used, containing coping theory, an experiential perspective, Antonovskys theory a sense of coherence, cognitive theory and role theory.

Title: Music and adult identity: A study of how students at Malmö Academy of Music look upon their identity from a musical point of view. This study is about adults and how they look upon their identity from a music perspective. I have interviewed four students between 26 to 29 years old at the Malmö Academy of Music. The purpose with my study is to examine how music has affected the identity of the students as adults and to see if their identity still is affected by music. The interviews have then been analyzed and compared with existing research in this matter.