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This study explores the employment relationship, working conditions, and work-family relations of part-time domestic workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The aim of this study is to generate knowledge regarding part-time domestic workers, and to add to the broader literature available on domestic workers in Bangladesh. This thesis applies a qualitative case study method to gain in-depth knowledge and liv

Friluftsliv är en växande sektor som innefattar vandringsturism. Varje region med självkänsla utvecklar vandringsleder för att locka vandrare från när och fjärran. I sin strävan att utveckla de mest intressanta och mest tillgängliga lederna anpassas lederna efter besökarens fysiska och psykiska förutsättningar. I förbindelse till detta har informationsteknik blivit en naturlig följeslagare längs lOutdoor life is a growing sector which includes the trekking tourism. Each region with self- esteem develops trekking trails in order to attract trekkers from far and wide. In their quest to develop the most interesting and most accessible routes the trails are adapted to the visitor ́s physical and mental conditions. In doing so information systems as information technology has become a natural c

As the Internet and various social media platforms become key mechanisms in people’s lives additional stages for self-construction and self-presentation have become accessible. In a competitive job market with a range of possibilities to be heard and seen, people are advised to stick their necks out to gain employment. Since communication has to a large extent become digital, conditions of working

The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how the levels of equality and trust influenced the development of different Welfare State Regimes in Brazil and Sweden (see Esping-Andersen 1990). In order to show the relationship between inequality and trust, the dissertation utilizes Jordahl’s (2007) mechanisms which posteriorly will be related to the specific historical contexts of both coun

In this Bachelor thesis we examine how social workers within the department of social welfare benefits describe their profession and professional status in order to analize how this may impact the way they work. Eight social workers from five cities were interviewed in a qualitative semi-structured format. The interviews aimed to uncover how social workers define their profession and professional

Abstract Author: Sara Nouri Title: Territorial stigmatization Supervisor: Mats Hilte The aim with this study has been, on the basis of qualitative methods, study and report experiences and effects for individuals living in a segregated and stigmatized neighborhood. The essay is focused on whether the stigma influences the individuals view about their identity, how individuals handle their neighb

Husby faces great challenges for safety and equality in the public space. Women report that they can not move freely at the city center without feeling oppressed and insecure, and a sense of powerlessness is found among the residents. In 2015 the state-owned housing company Svenska bostäder started up a project called Praxagora, with an aim to create a safe and including public space. To achieve t

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vad sociala nätverk, sociala relationer och ideella föreningar har för betydelse för ensamkommande unga från Afghanistan. Utifrån de fem semistrukturerade intervjuerna jag genomfört, kommer uppsatsen undersöka betydelsen av sociala nätverk för informanterna och hur olika sociala nätverk påverkar dennes sociala kapital. Materialet analyseras utifrån Pierre BourThe aim of this thesis is to understand what social networks, social relations and non-profit associations are of importance to unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan. Five unaccompanied minors were interviewed to be able to investigate the importance of social networks. Furthermore, the thesis focuses to answer the question, how social networks affects these individual’s social capital. The materi

Planning for an aging population is a phenomenon that has become increasingly more pertinent for Swedish planning agencies. As the number of people within the oldest age groups is rising, the society as a whole is faced with challenges in order to accommodate the increased number of elderly. One key concept within elderly urban planning is mobility, which describes an individual's ability or c

Kommunikatörer är en yrkesgrupp som både kämpar för sin legitimitet och ett tyd-liggörande av vad rollen innebär. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur kommu-nikatören porträtteras i platsannonser på LinkedIn. Studien utgår från en socialkon-struktivistisk ansats, där rollen antas konstrueras genom hur den beskrivs och talas om. Det empiriska materialet analyseras genom en kvalitativ innehållCommunication professionals are an occupational group who fight for their legiti-macy and a clarification of what their role implies. This study aims to research how the communication professional is portrayed in job advertisements at LinkedIn. The study adopts a social constructivist approach in which the role is assumed to be con-strued through descriptions of it. The empirical material is analy

Emotion regulation and emotional work can have both positive and negative effects. Previous studies have suggested that emotion regulation is taught through early life socialization, and that this socialization may be gendered. If this were the case, we learn to regulate our emotions differently, and for some to, for instance, be socialized into suppressing their emotions may lead to negative cons

Several studies have discussed the possibilities of working with Harry Potter from perspectives of critical literacy and critical theory, in other words, to critically approach the novels while reading and writing. However, most of the previous research has failed to address how one can implement critical literacy in connection with Harry Potter in Swedish schools. This research project had as an

The aim of this study is to examine how social workers in child welfare identify and reflect on stress in order to research to what extent social workers understand and use empathy in their professional role. The aim was also to examine the extent to which these social workers have developed an understanding of secondary traumatic stress, a particular type of stress where empathy is identified as

Digitalisation has had a profound effect on our society. Much of our daily lives revolve around digital errands that, providing we have the appropriate skills, provide us with innumerous conveniences. Unfortunately for those who do not have such competencies, these normal everyday tasks have become unmanageable and as a result of the McDonaldization of society there are very few places to which th

Gender Studies departments have struggled to legitimize their own space in the Swedish academia from 70´s. Even when the institutionalization of Gender Studies can be told as a success story, its departments continue to be quite paradoxical spaces in the academia, where the feminist oppositional tendency seems to collide with academic standards and requirements. Additionally, this clash is aggrava

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the default risk of acquiring companies. The sample consists of 276 transactions carried out between 2010 and 2018 by acquirers from Western European financial sector. We estimate the acquirer’s default risk using Merton Distance-to-Default model and further regress a set of independent variables with the changes in

Sustainable development and sustainable urbanism has been receiving an increasingly influential role in urban development throughout the last decades, and many cities label themselves as ‘green’, ‘smart’, and ‘sustainable’. At the same time municipalities have been experiencing increasing economic pressure due to decentralization processes, which has resulted in them carrying a central role in dev

En kvalitativ studie som syftar till att bidra med en ökad nyansering av mellanchefers roll i organisationsförändringar genom att se till hur de själva uppfattar rollen i fråga och vad den innefattar. Studien behandlar således frågeställningen: ”Hur ser varuhuschefer på sin roll i en organisationsförändring?” För att besvara denna frågeställning har en kvalitativ fallstudie gjorts på sju varuhusA qualitative study about store managers’ role in organizational change. This study aims to further nuance the role of middle managers in organizational change by studying how the middle managers themself perceive this role, as well what it implies. To answer this the following research question was formulated: How do store managers perceive their role in organizational change? In order to addre

Purpose: To explore how different B2B companies within the plastic industry are adapting and managing their brand under siege in regards to the environmental pressure from stakeholders. Methodology: This study takes a qualitative research approach, combining primary and secondary data. To create an understanding of the plastic industry, three B2B companies were interviewed in order to investigate