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Abstract Authors: Belma Dzafic, Lejla Huseinovic Title:”The flowers of Rosengård will bloom – a qualitative study about young people in a segregated residential area and their thoughts about the area, the surrounding and the future” Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall The purpose of this study was to examine how young people in the age of 16 – 17 in Rosengård think about their future, their reside
Föreliggande uppsats behandlar ämnet vågsurfing. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är frågeställningen: Vad motiverar personer till att vågsurfa och vad har aktiviteten för funktion i deras liv? Syftet med uppsatsen är att påvisa ett relevant sociologisk fenomen som tidigare är outforskat i Sverige. Uppsatsen förklarar fyra svenska surfares motivation till att de surfar och förklarar vad surfingen har
The aim of the thesis is to investigate livelihoods of rural households and the role agriculture and nonfarm economy play in them. More specifically, the paper investigates income generation and income diversification strategies employed by rural households in the northern part of Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan was one of the poorest Soviet Republics, which for nearly 20 nears since independence has been
Denna rapport handlar om att få fram ett välgjort förslag till ett studentboende i centrala Lund, där ett hållbart boende med en arkitektonisk gestaltning ska vara slutmålet. I början på rapporten kan man läsa en djupgående analys över området där själva byggnaden ska stå. Jag analyserar själva platsen och studerar grönområdena i närområdet. Sedan har jag gjort en rörelseanalys på plats där jag to
In Japanese, there is a unique type of relative clauses, a so-called ‘gapless relative clause’. The relation between the predicate in the relative clause and its head is not syntactic in the sense that the head noun does not have a co-indexed NP gap internal in the clause. The modification is established on semantic and pragmatic bases, since there is a semantic and/or pragmatic connection between
China’s present economic performance is frequently attributed to market reforms that have opened up the economy to foreign trade and investments. Some people say, "How Far is China from the Information Highway? - Just 150 Meters Ahead.” In this article the cluster approach will be discussed if it suits for analyzing the development of Zhongguancun current success. In the article, it will be d
The use of ICT for education delivery has become a reality both in the developed and the developing world. The purpose of our research work is to find out use and support of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Virtual University of Pakistan to deliver distance education. A research framework was developed with the help of literature review of the different approaches of technology us
Since the 1980s community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches have been adopted by a variety of development projects in developing countries. Notwithstanding in the last few years critics have emerged, either on the lack of local participation or of ecological results. Literature related to CBNRM shows that different authors have different views about the successes and failures of
”It is not normal” A survey about social work students knowledge about different sexualities. The purpose of this study was to examine Swedish social work students thoughts what extent they had knowledge about homosexual and bisexual living conditions. The study also aimed to examine heteronormativity in the University education for Social workers. Earlier research shows that there is little or n
The field of labour history has come to increasingly include the study of gender, a social relation that traditionally has been made invisible. At the same time the past decades of theoretical debate within gender studies and history have meant the marginalisation of class studies, at the benefit of other social relations. I wish to contribute to the field of research on the Swedish labour union m
Today evaluation is a popular phenomenon within the public sector, but is the instrumental use of the results the only purpose it fills? This case study aims to investigate the use of evaluation in practical social work in municipals with focus on supportive contacts without documentation requirements based on a new institutional perspective. What purposes for evaluation can be identified, what in
Syfte: Att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur svenska elitföreningar aktivt arbetar med sitt varumärke i sin profilering gentemot tänkbara intressenter så som supportrar och sponsorer. Metod: Uppsatsen är kvalitativ och deskriptiv i sin utformning och den insamlade empirin kommer från semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Teoretiska perspektiv: Befintliga teorier om föreningars varumärke är ganska få oc
In post-conflict states that are subject to international statebuilding such as in Haiti, the approach is to build a liberal democratic state that institutionalizes stability and peace through the reconstruction of government institutions. Current statebuilding practices focus on the narrow institutional dimensions of strengthening the state ignoring state-society relations. This study will examin
Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av en självbiografisk och litterär essä skriven av den kanadensiska författaren Nancy Huston. Uppsatsen inleds med en textanalys, som delvis stödjer sig på Hellspong & Ledins (1997) analysmodell. Därefter följer några överväganden inför översättningen där jag bl.a. går närmare in på Lita Lundquists begrepp imitativ och funktionell översättn
Sports are seen as a part of today’s society and are founded on the norms and moral codes we live by. Therefore for those practicing it, it can result in a more successful integration because of the socialization taking place when people integrate with each other in the sports arena. In this explorative paper soccer, basketball and boxing are illustrated as possible arenas for integration. Six men
Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur det har gått för nyexaminerade tre år efter examen, om de har fått jobb och vad för slags anställning de har. Under den undersökta perioden tittar jag på två kohorter för en jämförelse (en kohort som följs upp år 2004 och en annan som följs upp år 2008). Lämpliga nationalekonomiska teorimodeller belyser de förväntade effekterna vid förändringar på arbetsmarkna
Domestic food waste is a concept that recently has gained a lot of interest in the waste management industry. While people’s daily practices have converged more cultural and social symbols with food waste and keep re-defining and re-constructing the domestic food waste system, food waste then has emerged as a way to explain the real meaning hidden behind the everyday practices. By studying litera
Ireland is considered to have been one of the worst affected economies during the latest financial crisis. As a result, there is continuing uncertainty as to the potential losses that one could incur on Ireland’s ISEQ 20 stock index. This thesis aims to quantify the expected loss of the index by using Value at Risk and Expected shortfall models, comparing their performance and explain the origin o
This paper discusses the use of microcredit as a poverty alleviation strategy that may simultaneously be used to promote women’s empowerment. The study is based on social anthropological fieldwork conducted in cooperation with microfinance NGOs in marginalized settings in Peru. The data points to the benefits of NGOs management of microcredit programs, in comparison to traditional bank’s microcred
