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Climate change is one of the most important global issues of our time. It does not only have implications on the present population but also on future generations for a long time to come. With this in mind, it is essential to understand how people act in an intergenerational setting. This thesis focuses on three aspects; risk, fairness, and indirect reciprocity together with the formation of socia
ERP systems have originally been developed for large enterprises (LEs). However, market saturation, integration of supply chains and improvements in technology have led to more and more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopting ERP systems. Though there is a focus shift from LEs to SMEs in the ERP market, most academic literature on ERP systems is based on findings from LEs. In addition,
The key aim of the current paper is to analyse the plausibility of a pricing model for temperature weather derivatives. The historical data are studied in order to propose a stochastic process that describes temperature dynamics in three Swedish cities. The prices of the contracts in an incomplete market of weather derivatives are obtained using a constant positive market price of risk of a benchm
Organiseringen av välfärdstjänster i specialiserade och byråkratiska myndigheter är ett arv från den svenska modellen som byggdes upp i Sverige efter andra världskriget. I takt med att samhället har förändrats anses denna organisering inte ha den helhetssyn som krävs för att lösa komplexa samhällsproblem. Som ett svar på förändrade samhällskrav initieras därför ofta samverkan mellan myndigheter. U
De senaste åren har funktionaliteten för mobiltelefoner förändrats avsevärt. En ny kategori av enheter, så kallade smarta mobiltelefoner, har flyttat mobiltelefonens användningsområde allt närmre persondatorer. Detta inte minst genom att erbjuda möjligheter för tredje part att utveckla egna applikationer, appar, för plattformen. Tidigare har designprinciper använts för att vägleda utvecklare av an
The aim of this essay was to examine women who had their first child in the ages of 18-19 years old and their experiences of being a young mother in the Helsingborg municipality and to examine if there is any support for these women in the Helsingborg municipality. The method was based on a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews with three mothers and two professional social workers. Th
The main purpose of this study was to examine how femininity is constructed in Swedish women’s magazines. The purpose was also to study whether there was a hegemonic discourse in the magazine. This presumes that femininity is a social construction, which is why the study was based on a social constructionist perspective and it´s method was discourse analysis. More specifically the essay investigat
This essay presents a perspective in which knowledge is to be understood as abilities of the nervous system. Classic epistemology has not been able to shed sufficient light on a large number of conundrums that arise from its analyses on human belief, which motivates a different approach. An introductory discussion herein argues for a new naturalistic principle concerning what I have termed ‘congru
I och med teknisk utveckling har nya forskningsfält uppkommit som sociologer måste undersöka för att förstå samhället och nutida kultur. Genom internet kan individer interagera med varandra i realtid oavsett var de befinner sig. Det tidsfördriv som denna uppsats ämnar att undersöka är datorspelandet. Det sätt som spelarna använder sig av för att visa sitt missnöje är via text, vilket denna uppsats
The aim of this study is to examine norms about gender and sexuality, expressed and reproduced in relation between young people based on sex education in the danish primary school. By norm-critical approach the aim is to show how visability can challenge the binary idea of gender together with heteronormativity and open up to alternative views of gender and sexuality. The main empirical material c
Begging - A study about how begging is constructed as a social problem. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyze how ‘begging’ is constructed as a social problem in the Swedish society. According to the social constructivism perspective, our understanding of a social problem is constructed through a collective process. Therefore I chose to analyze the claims-making activity in the con
Denna uppsats redogör för straffvärdebedömningen vid grova narkotikabrott. Fram till 1923 hade narkotika ingen juridisk innebörd i Sverige, men allteftersom det introducerades i samhället och ett missbruk började spridas, började också lagstiftningen utvecklas kring det. När det uppdagades vilka rusframkallande och beroendeframkallande effekter narkotika förde med sig, och att dessa preparat hamnaThis essay describes the assessment of penal value concerning grave narcotic offenses. Up until 1923 narcotics did not have a legal meaning in Sweden, but as it was introduced in society and an addiction started spreading, the legislation also started to evolve around it. When it began to be known what intoxicative and addictive effects narcotics brought with it, and that these preparations starte
Abstract Title ‘The passion of the consumer’ Seminar date 30/5- 2012 Course BUSN29 Master thesis Author Forat Al Haider Advisor Ulf Elg Keywords Community, Culture capital, Identity, Social links, CCT Thesis purpose The main aim with this research is to contribute to influential and decisive theory within the lines of Consumer behaviour and identity by applying various Consumer Culture theories
The aim of this qualitative study is to define and compare the professional role of school and medical counselors in Sweden. It also addresses the question whether the counselor is a unified profession and if it is established among other professions in the organizations. The analysis is based on interviews with three medical counselors and three school counselors. Theories used in the analysis ar
Metaphor is the most commonly discussed form of figurative language, and can most simply be presented as statements describing one thing as another. This paper is concerned with the issue of in what sense a metaphor can be said to be true. It outlines the main features of two different theories of metaphor: Donald Davidson’s account of metaphor as presented in the article ”What metaphors mean” (19
Author: Frida Olander Title: Life as a rollercoaster- regarding relatives of people with bipolar disorder (translated title) Supervisor: Hanna Wittrock The aim of this study was to examine relatives’ possibility to dialogue and participate in the inpatient psychiatric care. The relatives should be involved in the care, but to what extent can they be? What controls relatives’ contact with the inpa
In this paper, we analyze the role which human capital played in Swedish economic growth over the late nineteenth-twentieth centuries. It has been shown that Swedish development over the considered period may be divided into three sub-periods, which have particular features when it comes to interrelations between human capital and economic growth. In the first sub-period (1888-1933), the Lucasian
