Detta är en kvalitativ studie som ämnar studera hur unga män kan uppfatta manliga ideal samt förhålla sig till dessa. Studien genomfördes genom fokusgruppsintervju med bilder som hjälpmedel och har därefter analyserats utifrån en tematisk innehållsanalys. Materialet har genom Connells teorier om den hegemoniska manligheten analyserats och delats in i fem olika teman som behandlar kropp, sexualitet, självförtroende, familj och ambivalens. Genom dessa teman identifierades hur fokusgrupperna tydligt beskriver bilden av idealmannen som en ung, stark, vacker, sexuellt aktiv, muskulös man med ett gott självförtroende. Deltagarna i fokusgrupperna identifierar sig med denna idealbild och upprätthåller därigenom de hierarkier som finns män emellan. Trots denna identifikation visar de ett tydligt avståndstagande från idealbilden. Fokusgrupperna identifierar idealet som ett hinder för en ung mans identitetsskapande och önskar att det i framtiden ska komma att förändras.

This thesis tries trough qualitative analyzes to illuminate advertising and its didactic aspects, how menstruation and menstruating women are portrayed over time. The method underlying the survey is didactic, diachronic comparative and hermeneutic. There will also be a feminist point of view on the material. The issue is about how the advertisement presents sanitary products and menstruation and how a menstruating woman is portrayed.The conclusion is that the image of a menstruating woman changes slightly while consolidating the ethos that menstruation should not be visible. The menstruating woman is in constant motion, always fresh and fragrant.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-78). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-210).

Early Chinese city planners and builders succeeded in creating a imperial ideal city - Beijing. The spatial order of Beijing expresses the elaborate system of imperial hierarchy (meaning). Since the founding of People's Republic in 1949 as all the physical elements which defined the old spatial order have changed, the Chinese State attempted to reconstruct a new ideal city -a people's capital of socialist era. Some of these changes ignored the historical and aesthetic values of the traditional elements for utilitarian functions. This thesis examines the transformation process of this ideal city in terms of the physical elements and sociological perspectives, identifies the unique order and meaning of urban space in the ideal city - Beijing, and articulates some design principals that could be used to reconstruct a new ideal city - Beijing, express the new ideology of the people in the socialist era and preserve the historical and aesthetic values of traditional elements. / Master of Landscape Architecture

This dissertation will seek to explore if the properties of some of the key results on semigroups and their compacti cations under the operation of addition also apply under the operation of multiplication. Consider- able emphasis will be placed on the semigroup N of the set of natural numbers and its compacti cation N. Furthermore, the dissertation will discuss the smallest ideal of a semi- group and highlight some of its fundamental properties. / Mathematics / M. Sc. (Mathematics)

Denna uppsats tar med läsaren in i en bransch som under flera år har intresserat oss, men där vi uppfattar att kunskapen inte når fram till allmänheten. Trots att området berör samhället och de platser vi verkar i är det inte många som har en förståelse för dessa omfattande processer. Branschen vi pratar om är turismbranschen och området är evenemangsvärvning. Syftet med evenemangsvärvning är dels att det ska generera i pengar till staden, dels att städer ska ses som attraktiva och uppfattas så av turister, evenemangsarrangörer och kanske framför allt av de som lever och verkar i dem.För att på något vis bidra i en kunskapsspridning har vi i uppsatsen beskrivit en talangtävling som ämnar utse den mest talangfulle evenemangsvärvaren. Den ärofyllda titeln står mellan fyra individer som på ett eller annat sätt verkar inom området evenemangsvärvning. Domarna, och tillika vi författare, är ensamma om att utse talangen, men till vår hjälp har vi fyra experter inom nutidsrelevanta områden som kan guida oss fram till en vinnare. Dessutom bygger tanken om talangtävlingen på en historisk tidsepok, renässansen. Epoken har bidragit till att sätta begreppet attraktion i ett nytt (eller gammalt) ljus där städer får möjlighet att vara speciella och attraktiva. Ordet renässans betyder pånyttfödelse och uppsatsen ämnar till just detta, att pånyttföda tankar från dåtid för att i sin tur pånyttföda stadens attraktion.Genom en spännande tävling, vilken beskrivs i en narrativ form, får läsaren följa de fyra tävlingsdeltagarna, experternas vägvisande utlåtanden samt domarnas tuffa utmaning att utse en vinnare. Talangtävlingen lyfter förhoppningsvis insikter inom ett område som behöver en renässans.

People hold images of themselves, of their ideal partner, and of the ideal relationship (Simpson, Fletcher, & Campbell, 2001). The present study examined Perceived Meta-Ideals (PMI): people’s conceptions of who they think their partners want them to be, whereas Perceived Meta-Ideal Similarity (PMIS) is how close individuals feel they are to their PMI. 143 dyads in a romantic relationship were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: primed similar/dissimilar to the PMI, and no prime control. Individuals higher in self-esteem (HSEs) reported higher PMIS than individuals lower in self-esteem (LSEs). Higher PMIS lead to an overestimation of the amount of positive qualities that the partner is looking for. HSEs were more satisfied in their relationship and reported a greater self-other overlap, and higher PMIS predicted relationship satisfaction. Finally, self-other overlap mediated the relationship between PMIS and the desire to become the PMI.

People hold images of themselves, of their ideal partner, and of the ideal relationship (Simpson, Fletcher, & Campbell, 2001). The present study examined Perceived Meta-Ideals (PMI): people’s conceptions of who they think their partners want them to be, whereas Perceived Meta-Ideal Similarity (PMIS) is how close individuals feel they are to their PMI. 143 dyads in a romantic relationship were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: primed similar/dissimilar to the PMI, and no prime control. Individuals higher in self-esteem (HSEs) reported higher PMIS than individuals lower in self-esteem (LSEs). Higher PMIS lead to an overestimation of the amount of positive qualities that the partner is looking for. HSEs were more satisfied in their relationship and reported a greater self-other overlap, and higher PMIS predicted relationship satisfaction. Finally, self-other overlap mediated the relationship between PMIS and the desire to become the PMI.

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