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Music has a role to play in every country and every culture. Sweden today is a country whith many different cultures, religions and music genres. The purpose of this investigation is to study how immigrants youths profit from music education on the basis of music teachers' perspectives. Questions at issue are: are there immigrant children/ youths who can not take part in music education? Have
Abstract: In this Master's thesis, the Bush administration's ?war on terrorism? is examined. Taking a discursive approach, the study seeks to explicate how the ?war on terror? has been linked to the concept of identity and ultimately to cast light on the problematic implications of the discourse. A fundamental aim in this regard has been to address a recent US intelligence report whose fi
Från misstro till möten. Hinder och möjligheter i kommunikationen mellan Lunds universitet och rikstäckande dagspress.Lunds universitet är Sveriges största universitet med ca 6 000 anställda och 40 000 studenter och bedriver utbildning på flera olika orter. Man kommunicerar med en rad olika målgrupper, varav en av de viktigaste externa målgrupperna är journalister inom radio, tv och dagspress. Sam
Hur påverkar en författare sin berättelse, hur viktig är berättarens människosyn? Vad är människans natur, vad är oföränderligt, vad är inlärt, och hur påverkar det berättaren och det som berättas? Dessa var några av de frågor som vi ställdes inför när vi åtog oss kommunikationsuppdraget att uppmärksamma Kvidinges 700-årsjubileum. Vi bestämde oss för att skapa ett häfte och en film. Frågan var: Hu
Groups that are often referred to as being dismissed in society in general is by some aspects also considered being so in political arenas. A recent compilation of existing research over structurally based objections of gaining power and positions within Swedish parliamentary politics highlight a lack of research considering whether sexual orientation could be such a discriminatory basis. Using a
This essay deals with the same task that utilitarians have tried to solve for a long time, what is happiness? In the eighteenth-century utilitarians suggested that happiness should be the base for social political decisions. But the lack of definition disposed so that GDP became the measurement of happiness, which proved to be wrong when the unhappiness continued to increase. More than two hundred
By combining narrative analysis and instrumentalist this theis sets out to uundertsand the growth of thje oromo nationalism and its role today. Pecific fouces if given to the role of the elites
The aim of this thesis has been to analyze and interpret several different discourses in Japan and from the findings see how the Ainu people and their existence in Japan have been defined in today's Japan and in who's interest it is to keep it this way. My findings was that the Japanese nation in all channels of society are reinforcing and perpetuating the belief that it constitutes an eth
This paper discuss the possibilities to transfer the Danish labour market policy, called flexicurity, to Sweden. There are two main purposes of this essay. The first purpose is to discuss the reasons why the Danish labour market policy could be interesting for Sweden. The second purpose is to investigate which obstacles that might occur during the transfer. For guidance I have used two startingpoi
This thesis aims to describe and characterise the impact of the Kurdish question for Turkey's decision-making process and foreign relations from the 1980's until today. The Kurdish question as perceived by Ankara, is separatist, and poses a security threat to the entire country but has also international dimensions, which are responded with foreign policy actions by Turkey. Initially, a sy
The household sector is responsible for around one third of German power consumption. This leads to significant environmental impacts, of which CO2 emissions are in a special focus. Modernization of existing houses, especially of rented Multi Flat Dwellings, which have a large share of the German housing stock, is a possibility to reduce these emissions. A purely technical approach limits the chan
The aim of this thesis is to investigate and develop a three step path for considering an optimal strategy for companies wanting to trade on the projected GHG emission market in Lithuania. An optimal strategy here is defined by two factors: financial gains by the trading company and real GHG emission reductions. The investigation included a review of the literature on the theoretical prerequisites
Following rapid economic growth and industrialization in China, environmental problems from waste batteries are rising as a consequence. There is an urgent environmental demand to establish a waste battery management system in China. With the purpose to contribute to the development of waste battery policy in China, this study presents the environmental problems from waste batteries in China and e
Although Sweden has democracy implemented in its Constitution, because of being a monarchy, it has a non-elected Head of State. The purpose of this thesis is on the one hand to show if it is possible to normatively legitimate the Swedish monarchy and on the other hand to display if and how the three biggest Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Expressen justify monarchy by making a c
Through a series of problem debates and methodological discussions, a model is presented for combining economic methodology with political science approaches to trade analysis. The developed differentiated model is constructed through contemporary theory and statistical methods as well as newly presented theory to the field of IPE. Through the numerical analysis of the DTA model, the export distor
The purpose of this essay was to examine how professional social workers work with follow up foster home placements. The study was based on qualitative interviews with ten professional social workers from different municipalities in Skåne in an attempt to answer the following questions: * What routines exist for the follow-up work with foster care? * What factors have an impact on how the follow
In this bachelor thesis my main purpose is to examine the ethical legitimacy of economic sanctions, by assessing the humanitarian consequences this type of actions create. I will do this by a closer examination of the two historic cases of South Africa and Haiti. The humanitarian consequences will then be measured against my chosen theories, to help answer my main questions. The theories I have be
This essay criticizes common theories within the three traditional perspectives, conflict management, conflict resolution and conflict transformation, for not being able to explain and/or generate solutions to the problems of fundamentalism and religious terrorism in a satisfying manner. This essay is trying to synthesize an alternative analytical framework that better can explaining these phenome
In this thesis I have criticized traditional nationalism theories formulated by Eric Hobsbawm, Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson and Anthony D. Smith. The critique has been based on my belief that nationalism theories do not explain nations whose foundation is built on forward-looking, dynamic aspects such as economy, human and civil rights, and democracy. Traditional nationalism theories have bee
Local politicians are key actors in the democratic system and their ideas concerning democracy plays a central role in local democratic politics. The study's point of departure is the notion that local politicians are dependent of coherence between practice and theory concerning democracy and in the study of their ideas we acquire knowledge about the democratic practice. This study examines t
