Riksteatern is a Swedish Movement which was formed during the 1930s. The Movement now consists of 230 local societies and had 545 000 visitors last year. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how a Movement, mainly financed by the Swedish government, is run. To be able to understand this, the theories of Pierre Bourdieu are used together with organizational theories. The empirics are collected mainly by semi-structured interviews made with employees at Riksteatern.

Is there a specific tradition of songs within the swedish environmental Movement? What kinds of music has been performed in different situations and what does it mean to the Movement and its inner life? The essay deals with a town meeting and action against plans of establishing passenger flights at a former military airport in Uppsala, looking at the action as a performance and as a ritual. The second part of the essay is built on interviews of three veterans of the Movement's organisations one of which is as a singer-songwriter originally active in the peace Movement of the 60's. The paper is about the songs and the situations in which they were sung, concluding that there is, the limited material considered, little evidence of considerable transfer of songs within the Movement, though some coherence exists. The connection to between environmental Movement and the swedish radical music Movement of the 70's is also slightly mentioned.

This study´s focus was a group of participants of a social Movement called The Zeitgeist Movement. The purpose of this study was to understand and convey what causes participants of this Movement to engage despite that the prevailing culture teaches them otherwise.With qualitative methodology of participatory observation and semi-structured interviews with ten participants, our objective has been to answer the following questions: What are the driving forces that make these people act, which approach do they have to ?reality? and how do they relate to it, and what are the potential consequences with this approach?The study has shown that their critical and questioning attitude towards their perception of reality and their social constructivist view of it lead to conflicts between them and their fellowmen. The data was then analyzed with Alfred Schütz phenomenological theories in synthesis with Zygmunt Baumans critical societal analysis and theories.The study's focus was on the Gothenburg chapter of the Swedish Zeitgeist Movement. We did not make any comparisons with other national or international chapters of the Movement..

This report is a qualitative interview study which central content enlightens how Movement and sports effects children?s performance in school. With the help of five different teachers in three different schools questions like; how does Movement effect the performance of children in school? Have been answered.Lots of research and litterateur shows that children is doing better physical and mental, the concentration level is improved and the performance in school is better when exposed to more Movement, also there are less conflicts and the students gets better motor skills.Comparison with the ?Bunkefloproject? has been done, which was a project in the south of Sweden where they let the children have physical education every day and then they examined how this effected their performance in school. With this basis this report will examine the teachers view on the subject.The result shows that the teachers think that there should be more Movement in the daily schedule for the children because they seam to be more happy and concentrates better after Movement.

Mainstream contemporary phenomenology understands the phenomenology of Movement and dance through ?the lived body? of Merleau-Ponty. This paper rather suggests a phenomenology of Movement and dance based on an understanding through ?the danced body? with ability to meta-feeling. It is here argued that we need to use a phenomenology of dance to understand the phenomenon of Movement whatsoever.

Mainstream contemporary phenomenology understands the phenomenology of Movement and dance through ?the lived body? of Merleau-Ponty. This paper rather suggests a phenomenology of Movement and dance based on an understanding through ?the danced body? with ability to meta-feeling. It is here argued that we need to use a phenomenology of dance to understand the phenomenon of Movement whatsoever.

The purpose of this study was to try to develop a better understanding of the process that being a member in a new religious Movement might imply, and to find out how the identity of a defector changes from the time upon entering the Movement, while they are within the Movement and after leaving the Movement. We also wanted to examine what kind of help and support would be needed around a defection. The study focuses on identity and our questions were: How does the defector describe him/herself and his/her identity before joining the new religious Movement until the period after defecting? What demand for support and help may there be when defecting from new religious Movement? The theoretical starting point was The Identity Theory, Structural Role Theory and KASAM. A qualitative method was used and four defectors from new religious Movements were interviewed.

The study explores collective action in Sweden between 1980 to 1995 using time-series data from the European Protest and Coercion Database. In spite of severe hardship during the crisis of the early 1990s, Swedish strike-rates declined. However, contention merely shifted from workplaces into the streets; there was indeed a protest Movement against austerity, as shown by a series of large demonstrations, and some riots, between 1989 and 1993. Further analysis indicates this Movement faded as it was increasingly chanelled into the electoral campaign of the labor pary; having won the 1994 election, the organised labor Movement no longer had an interest in sustaining the protest Movement against austerity..

The study explores collective action in Sweden between 1980 to 1995 using time-series data from the European Protest and Coercion Database. In spite of severe hardship during the crisis of the early 1990s, Swedish strike-rates declined. However, contention merely shifted from workplaces into the streets; there was indeed a protest Movement against austerity, as shown by a series of large demonstrations, and some riots, between 1989 and 1993. Further analysis indicates this Movement faded as it was increasingly chanelled into the electoral campaign of the labor pary; having won the 1994 election, the organised labor Movement no longer had an interest in sustaining the protest Movement against austerity..

Sammanfattning Mitt syfte med uppsatsen är att utforska om eftergymnasiala danselever upplever att Benesh Movement Notation kan var ett hjälpmedel i den praktiska dansundervisningen. Studiens syfte är även att förtydliga vikten av att koppla teori till det praktiska ut-övandet av danskunskap. Min metod i denna undersökning har varit att intervjua 12 eftergymnasiala danselever om deras upplevelser, det vill säga, fördelar och nackdelar med Benesh Movement Notation i praktisk dansträning, möjligheten att skriva egna anteckningar och i repertoararbete. Resultatet visar att genom att kombinera praktik och studier i Benesh Movement Notation utvecklar eleverna sin analysförmåga i rörelse och självständigt tänkande i den praktiska dansträningen. Eleverna utvecklar vidare sin förmåga att uttrycka sig och formulera sig verbalt i dansträningen, och får en djupare kunskap i förmågan att tolka interpretationen..

The purpose of my study is to explore which possibilities there are for Movement activities and how to use those possibilities. From this study, I will help the pedagogues recognize how to work more or different with Movement activities.I have used participant observations and interviews as methods for my study. I did this at one preschool, because it is a development-study. The observations lasted for two weeks and the interviews were made with the majority of the pedagogues at the preschool.  The results of my study showed that the preschool teachers think that Movement activities are an important part of children?s lives.

The study explores collective action in Sweden between 1980 to 1995 using time-series data from the European Protest and Coercion Database. In spite of severe hardship during the crisis of the early 1990s, Swedish strike-rates declined. However, contention merely shifted from workplaces into the streets; there was indeed a protest Movement against austerity, as shown by a series of large demonstrations, and some riots, between 1989 and 1993. Further analysis indicates this Movement faded as it was increasingly chanelled into the electoral campaign of the labor pary; having won the 1994 election, the organised labor Movement no longer had an interest in sustaining the protest Movement against austerity..

Is it possible to convey spirituality through art and material culture? Is it possible to renew art within the traditional church so that it appeals and is understandable for the modern man? These are the fundamental questions of my master´s work, which has it´s starting point in a public commission for an artistic contribution to the new Pentecostal church in Kalmar. The work also addresses the question whether there is a need for symbolism, art and sacred objects also within the Pentecostal Movement, a traditionally strong image hosting environment. If so, how is it possible to bring this in to the church without completely breaking with the tradition and ideology of the Movement? I want to communicate the Christian message in a renewed way, and in this particular project also highlight the importance of using images also within the Pentecostal Movement.

The purpose of this work, has been to examine how different actors in the Swedish eco Movement and the Swedish forest industry looks at Sweden?s forest policy statement, which claims that environmental goals and production goals should be equal in Swedish forestry. By assembling focusgroups with participants from the Swedish eco Movement and the Swedish forest industry, we look at if these participants consider the Swedish forest policy goals equal or not. Conflicts do occur between the two forest policy goals, but also between those and others of Sweden?s environmental goals.

This is an interview based qualitative case study on two Women's Migrant Associations in Malmoe, which I interpret as being part of a women's Movement, with characteristics of a new social Movement. The aim of this study is to get a deeper understanding on how the collective identity is being constructed, in this women's Movement where the membership is not based on an exclusive ethnic identity.I make a two dimensional analysis that departs from a social constructivist underpinning, including the theories Transversial Politics, Postcolonial feminism and New Social Movement Theory.First I analyze the construction of collective identity from the external social and cultural context, and get confirmed that the collective identity of the Movement is based on a common experience of social exclusion and a plurality of actions that aims to fight the structural injustices based on gender and ethnic discrimination. Secondly I analyze how the collective identity is being constructed and maintained from the interactions between the members of the Movement, from an understanding of Transversial Politics. My findings show that the members of the Movement interact in a participatory democratic way which generally corresponds to Transversial Politics. According to Transversial Politics this can lead to a construction of an empowered inclusive collective identity for the members and as my empirical study confirms it also means possibilities for deconstruction of boundaries between social groups..