Summary: The purpose of this study was to look at autobiographies through qualitative methods. The autobiographies have been written by women who have been victims of domestic violence. The main purpose has been to highlight how the women describe themselves (as victims or survivors), the psychosocial consequences of the violence they have experienced and their turning points: the way out of the r

Detta examensarbete syftar till att få en klarare bild på vad som är med och skapar hierarkier på Musikhögskolan i Malmö och vad som är med och påverkar eventuella hierarkier mellan de olika utbildningarna. Studien är grundad på de intervjuer jag gjort med fem olika informanter och jag har gjort intervjufrågor med fokus på status och hierarkier. Hur resonerar lärare och före detta studenter gällanThis thesis intends to shed light on the creation of student’s social status in school focusing on what forms and effects social hierarchies between different programs in Malmö Academy of music. The study is based on the interviews I have conducted with five different participants while the interview questions are based on social status and hierarchies. How does the teachers and former students re

Idag finns det ingen generell konsensus kring Palestinas statskaraktär. Somliga menar att Palestina är en stat, andra inte. Därför anser vi det relevant att försöka finna ett ställningstagande i denna fråga. Huruvida Palestina bör betraktas som en stat grundas i vad man avser med begreppet stat och dess användning. Därför har vi tänkt att göra en normativ analys genom att försöka reda ut begreppet

Honor related violence is a phenomenon that has been noticed to occur in Sweden for the last 15 years. Previous researches indicate a lack of knowledge from social welfare secretaries in these cases and a sense of insecurity how to deal with the problem. It also displays a criticism of the social services family oriented work and their inability to shift focus from the family to the youngster. Wit

This thesis focuses on the presence and significance of silence in the poetic work The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation (1964), by the Nicaraguan liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal, in which the biblical psaltery constitutes the base for a contextual interpretation. This study aims to prove the hypothesis that the white spaces in the psalms, created by the application of free verse, are possi

Amningsfrekvensen i Sverige är sjunkande och den sjunker i takt med barnets ålder. Rekommendationerna från WHO är att helamma sitt barn i sex månader. Syftet med studien var att få en djupare förståelse för hur mammor upplever att inte helamma sitt barn i sex månader. En kvalitativ intervjustudie har genomförts med 12 mammor. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys tillämpades för att analysera materialet.

Implicit Bias is the automatic and unconscious tendency to associate certain traits with members of particular groups, which affect judgements and/or interactions with members from the denoted group. In philosophy the concept of Implicit Bias has often been treated as a thick normative (negative) concept, which I refute in my paper. My suggestion is that Implicit Bias, when it is wrong, is wrong b

Collaboration between municipal and state administrators about young adults who receive financial assistance- a qualitative study The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate how social workers and employment advisors on the administrator level collaborate in their work with young adults who receive financial assistance. This study is based on two different forms of collaboration between

Studiens syfte var att undersöka sambandet mellan mentaliserings¬kapacitet och upplevd stress, samt studera om och hur socialt respektive innovativt arbetsklimat medierar eller modererar detta samband i en urvalsgrupp av grundskolelärare (n=113) i Sverige. Data samlades in med ett självskattningsformulär vilket innehöll sociodemografiska frågor samt tre instrument som mäter upplevd stress, mentaliThe purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between mentalizing capacity, stress, social and innovative workplace environment for primary school teachers in Sweden. In addition, the moderating and mediating effect of social and innovative workplace environment on the relationship between mentalizing capacity and perceived stress was also explored. Sample group (n=113) data was collec

The ecological footprint of Denmark has been rising since (and likely even before) 1961, which signifies an unsustainable living by the Danish population. Global footprint reports show Denmark as one of many countries on earth which has exceeded its biocapacity (BC), which means natural resource consumption in Denmark is faster than the land’s regenerative capacity. The residents of Denmark are co

This master’s thesis centers on the meetings on one organization, the Fredsbaskrarna or Peace Berets. Its purpose it to reveal and analyze the interactions, conversations and narratives at these meetings. Fredsbaskrarna is an interest organisation started by military veterans, where local meetings and face-to-face interactions are of central importance. The concrete research questions are: Which e

This study parts from comparing two different kinds of readings of two short stories publicized under the literary gender fantastic feminism, and written by one of the most well-known authors in this genre, the Puerto-Rican Rosario Ferré. The stories analyzed are “El hombre dormido” (1976) (Man asleep, mi traducción) and “El sueño y su eco” (1976) (Sleep and its echo, mi traducción) given the simi

This bachelor essay examines whether a prospective payment system such as the Diagnose Related Group (DRG) reimbursement system create moral hazard behavior like supplier induced demand in the Swedish healthcare market using data from 2012. Supply induced demand in the Swedish healthcare sector is suggested by some descriptive evidence, but is not supported by a controlled regression analysis of a

In Sweden the groundwater cycle is by nature at steady state. When using groundwater as a freshwater resource it is common to artificially recharge the aquifer with approximately the same volume as is pumped up by the wells. The recharge to and the outtake from the aquifer effect the landscape of the saturated surface by generating higher peaks and lower valleys. In this thesis the Groundwater flo

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA] is a multi-resistant bacterium that causes suffering for patients, challenges in the treatment for the health-care workers, and increased costs for society. The rates of MRSA have been increasing dramatically in recent years. The Competency Standard for registred nurses [RNs] states that the RN has an obligation to provide equal care to all patien

The proposed adverse impact of income inequality on health has long been an important topic in health economics. A negative correlation between inequality and health has been found in several empirical studies but the issues regarding causality and causes are yet to be resolved. The widespread theory that the effects on health goes via disinvestment in social capital and trust is heavily researche

The aim of this study was to depict and analyse how social workers in Swedish methadone maintenance and outpatient care construct clients and their problems in order to legitimize specific help interventions. The study was conducted in eight different clinics, and the empirical material comprises interviews with eight social workers. From a linguistic, etnomethodological and semiotic philosophy a

Bakgrund: Gravida tonåringar behövde information samt fysiskt, emotionellt och socialt stöd. Sjuksköterskans kompetens innefattade att ge tonåringen stöd. Syfte: Att undersöka aspekter av stöd vid tonårsgraviditeter ur sjuksköterskans perspektiv. Metod: En litteraturstudie utfördes med kvalitativ ansats. Nio vetenskapliga artiklar granskades och analyserades. Resultat: Vid bristande stöd från den

In Matt 5:17 Jesus is declaring the purpose of his mission to this world, announcing that he is the fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets. How should these words be understood? In what way is Jesus the fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets? Taking its starting-point in the works of John P. Meier (Law and History in Matthew´s Gospel – A Redactional Study of Mt. 5:17-48) and Roland Deines (Die Ger