In the research field of the cultivation theory focus has shifted from TV in general to studying specific genres instead. It is proposed that there are similarities in otherwise different shows and that these shows give it´s voyeurs a solution to their problems.  The purpose however of this study is to investigate how the myth about the good life is posed in Tv3´s supply.  The theories used in this study are closely linked by their meaning. Narrative talks about the fact that texts, video in this case, contain stories. Ideology is the set of visions and beliefs one person has on the world and myth makes social, historic and cultural decided power orders in to facts. All of these are used with a qualitative semiotic analysis which studies signs in texts, pictures and more. It searches for a deeper meaning in the content and with this method can we see what Tv3 says to its voyeurs.   Through our material Tv3 states that success is in terms of either achieving our dreams or to have so much money that you don’t have to look at the price tag. It´s however the individual's responsibility for both their success and their failure and upon failure the individual should do whatever it takes to fix it, often with help by experts in the field. When it comes to love and the search for the right person, this is part of the good life but it is not the most important part. Although a good life is based on individual responsibility, the individual is so also given directives on how this should be done by the society. An important part of this is society's various power structures and the authorities that constitute them. These authorities, often in the judiciary, represent the good life and the individual’s goal. To get to the top of the hierarchy, the individual must play a game in which tactical moves and strategies are of importance, the game of life.   Our findings propose that all responsibility lies on the individual, even if society is influencing an individual's decision. Success is seen in terms of achieved dreams, money and love. How to reach this is not relevant since all means are permitted, life is a game after all. Society stands for the moral bit and its power structures. But with the help of it, the individual may find its target. It is society that provides the map to the individual, the compass to finding the good life.

Denna uppsats förser läsaren med en diskursanalys av böcker inom, vad som i arbetet kommer benämnas som, ”framgångslitteratur”. Med detta menas litteratur av rådgivande karaktär som riktar sig till människor som vill gå från att må bra till att må bättre, till att bli mer framgångsrika, mer nöjda, mer effektiva, lyckligare osv. Det finns idag flertalet diskursanalyser av självhjälpslitteratur; dvs. den typ av litteratur som vänder sig till personer som vill gå från att må dåligt till att må bra eller bättre. Jag har dock funnit diskursanalyser kring just framgångslitteratur vara näst intill obefintligt. Därav har förhoppningen varit att denna studie ska fylla ett viktigt tomrum i det analytiska fältet kring det moderna samhället och dess fokus på framgång och utveckling. Genom en selektion av tre böcker synliggörs och analyseras denna ”framgångsdiskurs”. I studien undersöks huvudsakligen vilka konstruktioner som är framstående inom den valda framgångslitteraturen och vilka uppmaningar läsaren får däri. Arbetet knyts an till teorier och tidigare forskning inom områden som bl.a. det moderna samhället, identitet, lycka och otillfredsställelse. Av studien framgår det att framgångslitteraturen fokuserar på individens eget ansvar över sitt liv och en synnerligen framstående konstruktion är att läsaren har mängder av möjligheter, möjligheter som proklameras bli tillgängliga genom individens vilja, fokusering samt att kontinuerligt och medvetet välja det ”rätta” sättet att tänka, sätta upp mål och agera. Vidare har individens framgång och ständiga utveckling en central plats i diskursen, och individens varande sammankopplas med vad denne gör vilket öppnat upp för att titta på hur identitet konstrueras. Genom diskursen, samt genom författarnas auktoritärt framställda position i relation till läsaren, konstrueras och rekonstrueras kort sagt föreställningarna att ”man är vad man gör” och att ”man kan om man vill”. Något som kan relateras till de värdegrunder som vårt moderna samhälle tycks generera.

Ett nytt ”gränslöst arbetsliv” med fokus på och bedömning av prestation har idag växt fram. Individen har större eget ansvar över sitt arbete och förväntas leva upp till höga krav. Syftet med denna studie är att i det prestationsinriktade arbetslivet undersöka upplevelser av högprestation och arbetstillfredsställelse inom ett företag som använder ett högpresterande system, områden som berörs är motivation och ledarskap. Undersökningens frågeställning som besvaras är: Hur upplever chefer och medarbetare högpresterande system och arbetstillfredsställelse? Undersökningen tar utgångspunkt i kvalitativ metod. Sammanlagt 8 intervjuer har genomförts, med 4 chefer och 4 högpresterande medarbetare. Det framkommer i resultatet att chefer ställer höga krav på medarbetare som i sin tur ställer höga krav på sig själva. Vissa egenskaper så som driv, energi, engagemang och viljan att utvecklas ses som speciellt värdefulla bland de intervjuade. Resultatet påvisar upplevelser kring att högpresterande system kan bidra med såväl positiva- som negativa konsekvenser.

The present essay concerns the Levinasian understanding of responsibility in relation to the two spheres that Levinas introduces in his second major work Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, namely the Saying and the Said. The essay investigates some of the different meanings that the concept responsibility takes on in regard to these two spheres, and thus also in regard to the separation between the ethical and the political that is apparent in the book. Is it possible to find a politically uttered responsibility in Levinas Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence? The essay wants to emphasize the continuous transition between the ethical or the Saying and the political or the Said, and vice versa, with the purpose of showing how the two spheres may be conceived simultaneously. By posing the relationship between the two as a reciprocal rather than a oppositional one, the essay aims to suggest that an understanding of responsibility at once must be ethical and political. In order to show this, the essay analyses responsibility as communication, sensibility and exposure. Thereafter, it turns to Judith Butler's Giving an Account of Oneself to offer an ethical/political reading of responsibility as the subjectivity of the subject. Levinas' concepts of the Trace, the Third Party and the question of Justice is discussed, using Jacques Derrida's Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, Bettina Bergo's Levinas Between the Ethical and the Political, and Howard Caygill's Levinas and the Political. The essay poses the question of how we are to discuss responsibility if its original, ethical meaning is undone at the very moment that we try to grasp it.  Therefore what Levinas calls the philosophical reduction of the Said is taken in consideration.

<p>Sweden is traditionally one of the European countries with the highest number of asylum seekers. The Migration Board is the authority responsible for investigation of asylum cases. Moreover it is responsible for taking care of refugees while they await their decision. The refugees come in contact also with other actors within the Swedish society. Considering the refugees’ difficult situation, it is important that they are received in a dignified manner and met with kind treatment. Is our society good at doing so? This is the object of investigation in this study. It answers the following questions:</p><p>i) What do refugees need in order to cope with all the difficulties related to being a refugee? ii) In the refugees’ own opinion, what kind of help and support does the Swedish society offer them?</p><p>iii) In the refugees’ opinion, what effect do the society’s actions have?</p><p>The study makes use of a theory about the refugee crisis with its development through losses in different categories. In order to answer the research questions eight asylum seekers, living in a camp in Sweden, were interviewed.</p><p>The result of analyses showed that the participants’ opinions about the Swedish society were generally positive despite having mostly bad experiences with the clerks at the Migration Board. The Swedes acted, in the refugees’ opinion, as kind people, willing to help. They seemed to sympathize with refugees and understand their situation. The result of the study agrees with former research and theories about the refugee crisis. Swedish lessons were the most effective aid from the society. The residence permit was the most desired help which the refugees wanted to have from the Swedish society.</p>

The purpose of this thesis has been to compare the grades regarding conduct, diligence, history and Christianity in Swedish schools in the early 20th century. The purpose has also been to investigate the differences in grades between a regular school and a school for maladjusted boys. The materials I have used are grade ledgers from the archives in Kalmar and Vadstena. I have assumed two different perspectives; Michel Foucault’s ”The normalized sanction” and Donald Broady’s ”The hidden curriculum”. These perspectives have highlighted the use of grades as punishments and rewards, and the schools expectations on the pupils. The method and approach I have been using is comparative method as an aim to compare the schools and grades. My analysis has come to the conclusion that the grades in conduct and diligence had no effect on the grades in history and Christianity. The pupils at the regular school showed signs to have lower grades compared to the pupils at the school for maladjusted boys. I could not see any change over time, however, it was more common for the pupils in sixth grade to have better grades in the subjects compared to the pupils in the lower grades.

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För personer med diagnosen Parkinson, en progredierande sjukdom där både motoriska och icke-motoriska symtom påverkar vardagen, är det viktigt att stödja den enskilde individen att få uppleva hälsa. Dagrehabiliteringen på berörd klinik, har varit ett inarbetat multidisciplinärt arbetssätt, och erbjudit deltagarna träning vid två tillfällen i veckan under en fem veckorsperiod. En kvantitativ studie genomfördes utifrån enkäten, SF-12, som samlats in på kliniken för att få underlag för utvärdering av det kliniska arbetet. Syftet med examensarbetet var att beskriva självskattad hälsa och vardagliga aktiviteter hos personer med Parkinson, före och efter multidisciplinär dagrehabilitering. Resultatet visade att deltagande i dagrehabiliteringen innebar att deltagarna i lägre omfattning begränsades i att utföra aktiviteter till följd av känslomässiga problem.  Deltagarna upplevde även mindre problem i utförandet av arbetsuppgifter eller aktiviteter, relaterat till sitt kroppsliga tillstånd, efter genomförd dagrehabilitering. Diskussion I nationella riktlinjer för Parkinson lyfts vikten av det multidisciplinära teamet fram som en framgångsfaktor för att personer med Parkinson. Nyare studier visar vikten av att Parkinsonpatienten behöver intensiv rehabilitering med en individuell behandlingsplan, integrerat i ett multiprofessionellt team. I studien tydliggörs arbetsterapeutens behov av validerade bedömningsinstrument, exempelvis COPM, för att kunna utvärdera de arbetsterapeutiska insatserna som ges och för att möjliggöra ett personcentrerat arbetssätt.

AbstractTitel: The rules of belonging to family - a study about the process of reconstruction of class through working class womenAuthor: Helena OttossonThe study begins with describing that Swedish society is facing major challenges, which depends on the demographic changes involving large groups of elderly and children that needs a great deal of labour, which the community cannot provide. In these occupations you find that the most common employees are part time working women. To find out why these women, with uniting factors which brings them together as one class, choose part time work is the intention of this study. 10 interviews with women from this class were therefor made to learn about their situation in life and relations in their close surrounding. Research suggest that dilemmas that women are struggling with while choose how much time they plan to spend away from home could be connected to class. The theoretic framework of this study is therefore Pierre Bourdieu’s philosophy of the construction of the social room, where class has a central role in the making and reconstruction. The theory explains the relation between social positions, habitus and peoples subjective choices and makes a model for the explanation of the phenomenon and an answer to the purpose of the study. The purpose of this study is to understand the choice to work part time through women in child- and eldercares stories about their lives. Findings in the study is that class can have influence over peoples choices in life and that construction of the social environment is an active choice which is connected to values, interests and goals.

Undersökningen är en fallstudie av de uttalade motiven för reformeringen av den svenska Försvarsmakten under åren 1999-2009, med nedslag i tre försvarspropositioner.Syftet med denna undersökning har varit att analysera de svenska regeringarnas argumentation för den försvarsreform som successivt genomförts under 2000-talet.Detta har studerats med fokus på en förändrad hotbild och förändrad inställning till multilateralt försvarssamarbete genom två olika teorier, det vidgade säkerhetsbegreppet och Pooling and Sharing.Resultatet visar att influenserna av teorierna har ökat, vilket kan förklara delar av reformeringen av försvarspolitiken.