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Syftet med den här studien är att genom kvalitativa intervjuer öka förståelsen för sociala faktorer som föreligger när man lämnar en religiös församling. Vårt främsta fokus har varit att se vad känslan av tillhörighet har för betydelse i en utgångsprocess. Men vi berör även andra sociala faktorer som spelar in när tvivel uppstår hos medlemmen och som sedan resulterat i att hon velat lämna församlingen. Vi har intervjuat personer som har varit medlemmar i Jehovas Vittnen och Livets Ord. I syfte att öka förståelsen för den problematik som en utgångsprocess kan innebära har vi i vår analys använt oss av Vanessa Mays (2013) teori om tillhörighet, Eric Fromms (1994) teori om flykt och Scheffs (1994) begreppspar Skam-stolthet.   Med en deltagande observation och 8 halvstrukturerade intervjuer har vi närmat oss ett känsligt ämne och studerat sociala faktorer som påverkar att man vill lämna en religiös församling.   Resultatet visar bland annat att tillhörighet och organisatoriska faktorer av social karaktär har stor betydelse i en utgångsprocess. Det visar sig att strikta regler och livsvillkor fått medlemmar att börja tvivla på församlingen och dess organisationskultur. Gemenskap och skamkänsla är sociala faktorer som vi sett ingår i församlingarnas organisatoriska utformning och som visat sig påverka vägen ur kyrkorna. / The purpose of this study is that through qualitative interviews increase understanding of social factors that exist when leaving a religious congregation. Our primary focus has been to see what the feeling of belonging is significance of an exit process. But we also affects other social factors that come into play when doubt arises in the member which then led her to leave the congregation. We have interviewed people who have been members of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Word of Life. In order to increase understanding of the problems that an exit-process may contain we have in our analysis used the Vanessa May's (2013) theory of belonging, Eric Fromm's (1994) theory of flight and Scheff's (1994) concept couple Shame/pride. With one participant observation and 8 narrative interviews we have approached an sensitive subject and studied the social factors that influence the desire to leave a religious congregation. The results shows that belonging and organizational factors of a social nature is of great importance in an exit-process. It turns out that strict rules and conditions of life had members begin to doubt the assembly and its organizational culture. Community and shame are social factors that we have seen is included in the parishes organizational design and proven to influence the way out of the churches.

The aim of this essay is to examine the ambivalence that I consider work of solidarity carried out from majority position to be associated with, and whether it makes sense to understand the relationship between majorities and minorities involved in this work by using the concepts of race and whiteness. Through Ruth Frankenbergs work on white women and race I consider whiteness to be a racialized position, and through Sara Ahmeds phenomenology of whiteness, which describes racialization as made through the orientation of bodies, I investigate how this racialized position is shaped and maintained by the solidarity work. The study is based on qualitative interviews with four White women engaged in two organizations that works on integration of female immigrants through creating jobs in a cooperative and through educating in national and familial democracy. The work of solidarity told of by the interviewees seems to produce racialized notions about immigrated people of color, which acts as a counterpart to the whiteness that the interviewees themselves possess. At the same time, the work also challenge this binary division, especially by incorporating the non-white women in what in this essay is called "the white world". / Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka de ambivalenser som jag utgår ifrån att det solidariska arbete som bedrivs från en normativ majoritetsposition är präglat av och huruvida det är meningsfullt att förstå relationen mellan majoriteter och minoriteter involverade i detta arbete med hjälp av begreppen ras och vithet. Genom Ruth Frankenbergs studie av vita kvinnor och ras förstår jag vithet som en rasifierad position, och genom Sara Ahmeds "vithetens fenomenologi", som beskriver rasifiering som kroppars orientering mot varandra, undersöker jag hur denna rasifierade position skapas och upprätthålls genom solidaritetsarbete. Studien baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra vita kvinnor engagerade i två olika organisationer som arbetar med integration av den strukturella kategorin "immigranter som är kvinnor", dels genom att driva ett kooperativ där personer ur denna kategori kan söka arbete och dels genom att utbilda samma kategori människor i nationell och famijär demokrati. Det solidariska arbete som intervjupersonerna berättar om tycks skapa rasifierade föreställningar om icke-vita immigranter, vilka fungerar som motbild till den vithet som intervjupersonerna själva besitter. Samtidigt utmanar arbetet också den binära uppdelningen mellan vit och icke-vit, inte minst genom att inkorporera de icke-vita kvinnorna som deltar i organisationerna i vad som i uppsatsen kallas för "den vita världen".

In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative which tags ‘queer’ as ‘Other’ and which posits the national movement at the top of the hierarchy of struggles; 2) the colonial narrative which is sustained by the Israeli public relations campaigns aiming to portray Israel as a modern, progressive, safe gay haven for queers, in opposition to a Palestine and Arab World which are said to be integrally homophobic, barbaric, regressive, etc. in an attempt to ‘pinkwash’ the occupation; and 3) the neocolonial narrative in which Western and Israeli Jewish queer movements reproduce colonial dynamics in their attempt to ‘save’ Palestinian queers who are deemed to be powerless, voiceless victims in need of saving.

This thesis aims to provide a critical evaluation of the Third Way and its reflections on Turkish politics. The Third Way emerged in the late 1990s with a claim to provide an alternative both to the old social democracy of welfare state period and to neo-liberalism. Based on a specific account of the radically changed world, the Third Way has maintained that the new conditions have rendered the old conceptualizations, as well as the old political positions, invalid. In this sense, this thesis argues that the re-definitions of the state and society relationship, the citizenship and the global order that the Third Way theory pursue have become the hegemonic notions of the current political context. It also claims that the Third Way can be considered as a product of the common attempts maintained by various approaches to complement the competitive market mechanism with social solidarity based on a socially inclusive strategy. The reflections of the Third Way on current Turkish political atmosphere are assessed in the thesis as further proofs of the hegemonic position that the Third Way occupies.

The essay is about pensioners who are working out at a gym. My starting point is the research program "Culture of ageing” and the theory that pensioners in the post- and late modern society conquer new potential areas. I am studying the meeting between pensioners and the gym. How the pensioners conquer the gym, relate to their training and what makes them stay after the first introduction. The essay also touches on how the gym profiles themselves in their marketing and adapt at the equipment and training environment to meet pensioners' needs. The essay also touches on how previous research, social norms and pensioner organizations, have influence on decisions and choices about the gym work out of pensioners. Individual discretion against creation of norms and perceptions of a good old age. Aging actively is a standard but this standard is in an ongoing negotiation of an ever faster-accelerating process.

Also published as author's dissertation--Westfälisches Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 1997. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [226]-237) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D)--University of Washington, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-205).

Thesis (M.A. (Political and International Studies))--Rhodes University, 2005. / A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts.