Working within a social constructionist paradigm, the focus of this study is on the way in which the social problem of campus sexual assault is constructed and the way in which these constructions determine the proposed solutions. To address the issue, the study focuses on a high-profile case of a violent sexual assault that occurred at Carleton University in the fall of 2007. Drawing upon the work of Joel Best and Donileen Loseke, I approach this issue by focusing on the claims-making activities that emerged in response to this event. Using a mixed methods analysis of newspaper coverage of the event consisting of a quantitative content analysis combined with a more detailed thematic analysis focusing on the specific claims made and the more general themes they reflect, this study analyzes the dominant claims-makers identified by the media, the claims they put forth, and the proposed solutions that follow from their particular constructions of the problem. Results of this analysis illustrate the contested nature of the construction of campus sexual assault as well as the way in which competing discourses reflect features of a broader social discourse relating to crime, individualization, and the responsibilization of women to protect themselves from sexual violence.

In 2011, it was written in the School law that pre-school teachers has the responsibility to educate in pre-schools. The purpose of this study has been to make the pre-school teachers speech about the way of educate visible. Following, we have made this speech visible by a discourse analysis. The method used in this study proceeds from a social constructionist perspective and was performed trough qualitive interviews of six pre-school teachers. These interviews were analysed and the tool that we used to elucidate different discourses when it comes to the concept of educating was a discourse analysis. We have, in this study, noticed two local discourses; a school discourse and a status discourse. Within these two discourses there are a few aspects which describes how teaching is driven at each pre-school the interviewee is working on.The results of this study also shows that the speech within the two discourses challenges each other. The variations in these different ways of speaking indicate a collision between the two discourses.

The words and messages in apps are part of a conversation between people and their technology that we take part in every day. As technology becomes increasingly embedded into our daily lives, we form relationships with our devices and our apps. While we might think of these relationships as different, our behaviors and interactions with technology are still shaped by the social world, and these messages found in apps are based on existing patterns in face-to-face conversation. UX writing is the process of creating these messages in user experiences, which facilitate people's social interactions between apps and other digital products. Interacting with apps and other digital products is inherently social, and by using conversational language as a driving component of UX writing and Human-Computer Interaction, we can also cast User Experience (UX) as a type of communicative exchange between a person and an app, and therefore User Experience (UX) as conversation. Through qualitative interviews and usability testing with native and non-native English speakers, this research explores what type of language style works best for a global audience in these conversations with our apps and how we can strategically apply conversational patterns to improve the experience of users. Abstrakt Slova a zprávy v...

This diploma thesis examines how the first, spring wave of the coronavirus pandemic and its associated aspects were presented by Czech media, specifically by the opinion sections of reputable mainstream online media in three three-days intervals in different phases of this period. Its main premise is that the way media refer to a social reality can significantly influence this reality, its theoretical part is therefore focused on the reciprocal relationship between media and society, mainly the social construction of reality and discourse, besides also describing the pandemic itself and the trends in the usage of media during the analysed period. The research itself was made using the discourse analysis method. The central chapter of the thesis presents key findings in ten subchapters focused on the main discursive tendencies, common language elements and social phenomena being referred to. The interference of the COVID-19 discourse with the ones about the government restrictions, economic development and the assumed Chinese origin of the virus was salient, the parallels with other diseases or historic events or eras were also common. Metaphors, neologisms, fallacies or metadiscourse reflections appeared in the analysed texts as well. The dynamics of the discourse that was varying depending on the...

Syftet med denna studie är att belysa och analysera sex invandrade kvinnors berättelser om hur de upplevt att möta det nya landet i allmänhet och den svenska förskolan i synnerhet utan att kunna svenska, eller ha begränsad tillgång till språkliga uttryck. Detta i relation till förskollärares uppdrag att samverka med hemmen samt ge föräldrar möjlighet till delaktighet i förskolans verksamhet. Livsberättelser utgör empirin. Narrativ teori och socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv används för analys av resultatet. Inom detta perspektiv utgår man från att det inte finns några givna sanningar utan en mängd varianter av uppfattningar om sanningar. Dessa bildas och ombildas i olika kontexter och som narrativ forskare ser man sig som delaktig i skapandet av de berättelser som konstrueras.  Burr´s fyra kategorier för att definiera social konstruktion har använts i analysarbetet. Resultatet visar att mötet och bemötandet är det som är viktigast för mammorna i studien och barnens trygghet och välbefinnande är det som dominerar narrativen. Att inte kunna språket kan vara ett problem men viljan från förskolans personal att förstå och förstås betonas av mammorna, framför svårigheterna med språkliga hinder. Önskan om ytterligare delaktighet nämns inte och detta bör diskuteras och problematiseras i arbetslagen. / Aim of this study is to examine how immigrant parents experience their first meeting with the new country in general and the Swedish preschool, l in particular, with no or little access to the Swedish language. Previous research in the field is poor and the focus is on how teachers´ and preschool teachers´ opinions about cooperation with parents (Crozier 1999), (Joshi, Eberly & Konzal 2005), (Phoon, Abdullah & Abdullah 2013) (Fakir 2010) (Persson & Tallberg Broman 2002). From parents’ perspective the wellbeing and comfort of their children seem to be of most importance (Vuorinen 2018). The difficulty of not understanding each other due to language barriers is also of interest and was discussed by Massing, Kirova and Hennig (2013). The study was based in Social construction with help from Burr´s (2015) definitions as tools, used in the analysis. Since social construction and narrative research argue that the researcher is part of creating the stories, I have striven to consider that during the process. The study has a qualitative approach and data consists life stories told by six mothers that didn´t know any Swedish, or had limited access to the language, when they first met the Swedish preschool. The life stories were transcribed and interpreted in order to find dominating patterns. Prevailing ethical principles have been considered as they are put in Swedish research council guidelines (Gustavsson, Hermerén & Pettersson, 2011). The respondents were guaranteed confidentiality and possibility to stop participating at any time. Results showed that the dominant finding is the wellbeing and comfort of the children. To be met with interest and curiosity seem to be more important than to be able to speak the same language from the beginning, even if the linguistic barriers can be problematic. The curriculum for Swedish preschools emphasizes the importance of giving parents possibility to be involved in the preschool. But this was not anything that was mentioned in the study. It can be of great interest in discussions among preschool teachers to be better prepared to meet parents.

The thesis "Social Housing Policy in the Czech Republic and it's target group" is focused at a contemporary situation of the social housing system and it's relationship towards the people of housing distress. It is based upon the fact, that there has been no such legislative document approved, which would be comprehensively dedicated to the issue of Social Housing Policy, although various attempts have been reappearing for the last ten years, and current government defined the approval of such a document as one of it's key political agenda. The thesis itself is based upon theoretically-methodological approach of targeted population's social construction, while using identification narrative to explain contemporary status, which occurs among policy makers. These narratives are defined as social reality overviews of researched reality and are distinguished by it's own issue definition and mutual approaches to this topic. They also defend public interests, while also creating notions about targeted population. The thesis is also dedicated to define the impact of political decisions on targeted population, distribution of burdens and benefits. Three narratives were identified, while social construction of targeted population differs. Two of the even differs by narrative itself, which highlighted the...

This study was the first to examine the impact of immigrant-focused public policy on the educational outcomes of Latinx students in professional nursing. Between 2001-2020, 34 states adopted policies that either provided or prohibited in-state resident tuition (ISRT) and/or state financial aid (SFA) to undocumented students. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) passed in 2012 gave a new group of largely Latinx, college-age immigrants unprecedented access to public higher education and employment. A rapid increase in the proportion of nursing degrees earned by all Latinx students, not just those who were undocumented, occurred concurrently with these federal and state-level policy changes. This study utilized fixed-effects panel analysis to estimate the relationship between DACA, ISRT, and SFA policies for undocumented students on the percent of nursing degrees earned by Latinx students between 2005-2020. None of the policies analyzed in this study were significant predictors of Latinx nursing degree completions. Broad cohesion among all models instead pointed toward the importance of gains in overall degree production among all Latinx college students, underscoring the important role of higher education in the creation of environments that support the success of students from this target population.

The aim of this study has been to explore the different descriptions of children with school-absenteeism that has been presented in four well distributed newspapers in Sweden between 2010 and 2020. A social constructionist perspective and theories about medicalization and labeling has been used to show how written language in media has effects on how we view and work with this type of problem. For this study, 41 debate articles have been analyzed through a qualitative text analysis with focus on the linguistic, literary and substantive meaning. The result showed that the perception regarding which children that can be considered as having school absenteeism problems is changeable, since the idea of school absenteeism largely depends on whose opinion is being expressed and which perspective that dominates at the moment. A clear consequence of the psychiatric perspective dominating the (public) debate is that the holistic perspective needed to address this complex of problems is at risk of being lost. / Syftet men den här studien har varit att redogöra för de orsaker till problematisk skolfrånvaro som framkommit i Sveriges fyra största dagstidningar mellan åren 2010 och 2020. Utifrån ett socialkonstruktionistiskt perspektiv och teorier om medikalisering och stämpling har jag belyst hur sätten det talas om ett problem påverkar hur vi ser på och arbetar med det. Empirin har bestått av 41 debattartiklar och har bearbetats utifrån en kvalitativ textanalys med fokus på den språkliga, litterära och innehållsmässiga innebörden. Resultatet har visat att uppfattningarna kring vem/vilka som har skolfrånvaroproblematik förändras och beror mycket på vem det är som uttalar sig och vilka perspektiv som dominerar. En konsekvens av att det psykiatriska perspektivet dominerar i debatten innebär att vi riskerar att det helhetsperspektiv som behövs för att förstå denna komplexa problematik hamnar i skymundan.

The goal of this diploma thesis is to conduct a thorough research of the Czech public debate on anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-capitalists through media communication, to analyze the media representation of anarcho-capitalism using quantitative content analysis and to provide a momentary capture of speakers, actors, topics and contexts. The study first focuses on the theoretical basis of anarcho-capitalism, its practice in the Czech Republic and the theory of portraying reality in the media from a social constructivist point of view. Then it focuses on research of media reports on anarcho-capitalism or anarcho-capitalists published in the Czech print and online media from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2020. The results show how the representation of anarcho-capitalism in the media has changed over time and present the main topics and contexts with which anarcho-capitalism was mentioned in the Czech media.

The thesis examines the governmental construction of national identity through its citizenship education policy in England, the country with heightened tensions in diversity and identity re-construction aligning with its mandatory citizenship classes since 2002. Theoretically framing the study on the Foucauldian post-structuralism, the thesis utilises Foucauldian-influenced ‘What is the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) method by Bacchi that presents the government as a problem-producer. Conducting qualitative research methods, the study analyses the current National Curriculum in England with the explanatory and foundational state documents of Crick and Ajegbo Reports. The thesis identifies that the government primarily aims to re-construct the inclusive and integrative national identity based on the acknowledgement of multiple identities and a plurality of nations in the citizenship education curriculum in England. The study, however, also reveals that the English citizenship education policy implicitly presents a few assimilationist elements in the national identity discourse through exclusion andunrepresentativeness of the ethnic and racial identities, hierarchical establishment between native English and minorities, and the division of ‘whites’ and ‘non-whites’. Comparatively examining the documents, the thesis, therefore, concludes that the government has a powerful position in socially and politically re- constructing the discourses, concepts, and meanings over time.