Denna studie har undersökt hur religiösa genusidentiteter konstrueras på Instagram bland unga kvinnor inom Hillsong Sverige. Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka vilka strategier som unga kvinnor använder i sin identitetskonstruktion på det sociala mediet Instagram samt vilken religiös genusidentitet som konstrueras. Studiens teoretiska ramverk har utgått från socialkonstruktivism och en förståelse av identitet som något konstruerat i en social praktik där både strukturer och aktörskap gör sig gällande. Teorierna kring identitet och religiös identitetskonstruktion har främst förankrats i Nancy T Ammermans teori om identitet som något ständigt föränderligt och som konstrueras genom ett identitetsnarrativ. Studien har utifrån den förståelsen av identitet använt narrativ som begrepp för att diskutera vilken berättelse som unga kvinnor inom Hillsong berättar om sina roller som troende kvinnor. För att besvara studiens syfte- och frågeställningar har en kombinerad metoddesign använts där kvalitativa djupintervjuer varit främsta metod. Intervjumaterialet har kombinerats med en analys av studiedeltagarnas Instagraminlägg som också utgjort ett material i djupintervjuerna. Materialet bygger på intervjuer och Instagraminlägg från tre informanter. Studiens resultat visar att Instagram utgör ett redskap för att aktivt konstruera religiösa genusiden- titeter online. De strategier som framkommer är bland annat motstånd och avstånd, kvinnorna motsätter sig en exponering av sig själva enligt rådande normer på Instagram. Den huvudsakliga strategin som framträder är istället alternativ där Instagram använts för att utmana rådande genus- identiteter och normer. På så sätt uttrycker de en längtan efter att konstruera en ny form av religiös genusidentitet. En sista strategi som framkommer i studien är hashtags för att skapa en kollektiv religiös genusidentitet och därmed utmana betydelsen av tid och plats. Kvinnorollen som framträ- der är bestående av flera olika identitetspositioner och ses som ett aktivt arbete. Kvinnan konstrue- ras både omsorgsfull som en mor, utvald som en prinsessa och aktiv som en ledare och krigare. På så vis framkommer två delvis motstridiga narrativ, ett traditionellt narrativ där kvinnans roll främst konstrueras utifrån traditionellt kvinnliga områden samtidigt som den sociala praktiken inom Hillsong Sisterhood främjar kvinnors synlighet i traditionellt manliga områden som ledare, predi- kanter, musikproducenter och artister.

The purpose of this essay is to examine and compare the cultural heritage work within the four municipalities in northern Värmland, and to see what motivates the preservation of sites classified as cultural heritage. The scientific method used in this essay is a qualitative descriptive idea analysis. The result of this essay has concluded that the northern municipalities in Värmland follow a set of rules and laws set by the Swedish governments appointed authority in the cultural district. But besides thet there is no cooperation or similar strategies between the municipality´s. The motives behind cultural heritage work are to strengthen the municipality´s growth both culturally and economically. This is done through heavy marketing of the different cultural heritage sites in the respective municipality to increase tourism, which leads to greater economic gains and puts the municipality´s on the map.

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Detta sker med en kombination av analytiska verktyg från narrativ metod, kategoriseringsanalys och diskursiv psykologi vilka appliceras på data i form av företagande kvinnors blogginlägg. Resultatet visar att respondenterna tenderar att berätta om sig själva genom tre generella berättelser: <em>berättelsen om företagsamheten, berättelsen om familjen</em> och <em>självbekännelseberättelsen</em> och där gör de framför allt tre kategorier relevanta för den egna identiteten: <em>den framgångsrika företagerskan, den goda modern</em> och <em>den moderna kvinnan</em>. Berättelser och kategorier kan mötas och understödja varandra men framför allt kan de också konkurrera med varandra. Den spänning som skapas när berättelserna krockar och när de diskursiva stereotyper som styr kategorierna inte samstämmer kräver en retorisk finkänslighet och ett skickligt balanserande. 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Young people’s recreational activities are based on, contain or are framed by music, where by choosing music and applying knowledge about styles they construct their identities and lifestyle projects. This study explores the relationship between music activities at school and in leisure time, how young people use and perceive music in these two environments and in what way they interact. Theories and research on late and post modernity, social construction, media, youth culture and music education are utilized in this study. Concepts such as authenticity, individualization, reflexives, aestheticization and makeability are concerns in the processing of the empirical data. The study is based on a survey, observations and interviews where three musical environments in two different upper secondary schools were investigated. 83 third-year pupils completed the survey, out of whom I interviewed 29 pupils. Music is pictured as an activity and a positioning of the individual in a social context, or as a construction of identity, as I prefer to put it. Emotions are essential in music, and according to the pupils emotions are created by the musician, mediated in music and interpreted by the listener. It is important to be authentic and to have a unique identity, which is possible to achieve in music. In the study pupils equal music to emotions and emotions to the self, which I define as Music = feelings = I. Music symbolizes cultural affiliation, lifestyle choices and ethical standpoints described in stereotypes which young people gather from various attributes and combine personally depending on the time and cause. It seems important to be open-minded and creative, which can be promoted by music activities according to the pupils. Music as a characteriser of identity seems to be at stake both in leisure time and at school. Based on the notion that young people’s behaviours are seismic readings of tendencies in society, this study implies that upper secondary school music activities are cultural investments in identity and in the students’ life projects.

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Detta sker med en kombination av analytiska verktyg från narrativ metod, kategoriseringsanalys och diskursiv psykologi vilka appliceras på data i form av företagande kvinnors blogginlägg. Resultatet visar att respondenterna tenderar att berätta om sig själva genom tre generella berättelser: berättelsen om företagsamheten, berättelsen om familjen och självbekännelseberättelsen och där gör de framför allt tre kategorier relevanta för den egna identiteten: den framgångsrika företagerskan, den goda modern och den moderna kvinnan. Berättelser och kategorier kan mötas och understödja varandra men framför allt kan de också konkurrera med varandra. Den spänning som skapas när berättelserna krockar och när de diskursiva stereotyper som styr kategorierna inte samstämmer kräver en retorisk finkänslighet och ett skickligt balanserande. 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This essay seeks to investigate identity formation and the role of the oriental other, the Calormene, in C.S. Lewis popular children’s books, The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as the threat levelled at Narnia and what it constitutes. The oriental other as a threatening corruption is a common image in European colonial discourse, therefore a brief summary on post-colonial theory and critique thereupon and a background on the occidental attitude towards the discursive Orient based mainly on Orientalism by Edward W. Said, as well as a short account of Emile Durkheims theory on social divisions of labour and identity formation in groups is provided in the first theoretical section, Images of the Other. In the second section the Narnian identity and what it is composed of is examined. Here I argue that the Narnian identity is connected to an ideal and primordial English identity. This is shown primarily through the linking of Narnian nature and food with the English countryside and its “plain food”. Consequently, food in the Narnian space possesses a great power. The food of the Other corrupts while the hearty Narnian or English food holds the power to redeem those corrupted. The third section is dedicated to the threat against Narnia. This is composed mainly of Calormenes and Witches, both of which are described to be ancient and whose evil, I argue, nonetheless is an eventual consequence of rational thinking and modernity. In the fourth section the Calormene, the Other in Narnia, is examined. The Calormene society is inextricably linked to slavery, which is portrayed as the utmost consequence of rationality, and characterized by its spiritual poverty. This section also discusses how the Narnian can be corrupted and turned “Other”.

Bilden individen har om sin identitet har förändrats och gått från att ha varit en stadig tanke om jaget till en rörlig, modern identitet (Jenkins, 2004) som anpassas beroende på situation. Syftet med denna uppsats är att visa hur identitetskonstruktion sker i en blogg; den undersöker hur bloggskribenten påverkas av läsarnas kommentarer i bloggen Kissies.se. Detta har undersökts med en hermeneutisk Närläsningsmetod med fokus på bloggkaraktären Kissie och hennes bloggläsare. Utgångspunkten för tolkningen av materialet är teorin om Intrycksstyrning av Erving Goffman (2000), som är del i hans Dramaturgiska perspektiv och behandlar maskerna vi bär och människors skådespel i sociala sammanhang. Intrycksstyrning appliceras på den digitala kommunikationsprocessen i bloggsfären, och går ut på att författaren försöker styra uppfattningen läsaren får genom det hon skriver. Undersökningen fokuserar på läsarnas respons och hur denna påverkar inläggen i bloggen. Resultaten visar att det är möjligt att presentera multipla identiteter via bloggen Kissies.se, men inte utan att de spelar in i varandra. Kissie och bloggskaparen Alexandra smälter ibland ihop till en persona i blogginläggen. Detta skapar förvirring och visar sig i kommentarfältet. När den tuffa masken är lagd åt sidan, är det troligt att det är bloggarens känsliga sida som kommer fram i det hon publicerar. Detta försvårar läsarens möjlighet att identifiera bloggidentiteten Kissie, som de är vana att läsa om. Vidare kan för denna studie konstateras, att det är läsarnas respons och ett kommunikativt samspel mellan skribent och läsare som avgör om möjligheten till identitetskonstruktion och såmed bloggkommunikationens kvalitet. Hänger inte läsarna med i bytet mellan Kissie och Alexandra, faller kommunikationsprocessen och hela identitetskonstruktionen med den. / Aim and purpose of this thesis is to show how a young Swedish blogging professional, engages in displaying multiple identities online, how these constructed identities are perceived by the readers in the commentary field under the blog entries and affects the ongoing writing process. The chosen focus is on a blogger called Kissie. A hermeneutical Close reading method is used. The theoretical framework is based on Erving Goffmans (2000) thoughts on Impression management within his Dramaturgical perspective theory, about the figurative masks we wear in social contexts. Impression management is applied on the digital communication process in the blogsphere, where the blogger Kissie directs the perceiption of the readers on her page Kissies.se, by writing in a certain way. The study centers on the reactions of the blog readers and how they influence the blog entries on Kissies.se. Conclusions show, it is possible for the blogger to handle multiple personas, but they interfere with each other and their occurrence confuses the readers. Results show that the persona Kissie and the creator Alexandra at some points partly morph into each other and both show in the blog entries. A lack of understanding on how to separate the different texts in the blog entries splits up the readers’ and their responses, because of their unsureness of who to associate the text with. The blog posts might be published by the blog identity Kissie, but the feedback goes straight to Alexandra, the creator of the blog and she is the one who gets the criticism. When her tough mask is put aside, it is likely her sensitive self is exposed in the delicate posts which she publishes. This challenges the reader’s ability to identify the personality of the blog identity Kissie with whom they are familiar with and the whole identity construction process. The crucial part in this case, is the blog readers’ feedback; without their interaction, the identity construction and whole blog communication process is destroyed.

Sedan resultatet av PISA-undersökningen 2012 publicerades handlar en övervägande del av skoldebatten om att finna åtgärder för att förbättra resultaten inom gymnasieskolan. Fenomenet rörande pojkars underpresterande har fått namnet “pojkkris”. Författarna till föreliggande studie avser att utmana bilden av ”den typiska killen” som underpresterar i kontexten för en rådande ”antipluggkultur”. Utifrån ett studie-och yrkesvägledarperspektiv är det aktuellt att undersöka vilka potentiella faktorer i en ”antipluggkultur” unga män upplever konstruerar identitet i förhållande till sin karriäridentitet. Syftet med föreliggande studie är således att undersöka hur en grupp högpresterande unga män ser på vad det är att vara en ”idealelev” vid det Naturvetenskapliga programmet. Vidare avser studien att undersöka vilka distinktioner de unga männen gör i relation till andra elevgrupper. För att tolka elevernas uppfattningar används sociologiska teorier. Begreppen fält och förmak avser förklara de unga männens syn på den omgivning de befinner sig i. De olika kapitalformerna, habitus, hegemonisk maskulinitet och begreppet distinktion används för att förklara informanternas identitetskonstruktion. För att besvara frågeställningarna används fokusgruppsintervjuer. De slutsatser som sammanfattningsvis görs är att unga mäns maskulinitetsideal i förhållande till hur en idealelev ska vara är komplex. Informanterna konstruerar bilden av en idealelev i termer av en man som får höga betyg i samtliga ämnen utan att behöva studera. Således kan det tolkas att de unga männen beskriver att en lyckad idealelev skall vara naturligt begåvade. / Since the results of the PISA-study 2012 were published, the majority of the current school policy has focused on measures to improve results in secondary schools. The phenomenon to boys underachievement has been named the "boy crisis". The thesis aims to challenge the image of the "typical guy" who underachieve in the context of an "anti-school culture”. Based on a guidance counsellor perspective it is necessary to observe the potential factors in an "anti-school culture" that young men experience constructing their identity in relation to their career identity. The author’s purpose is therefore to investigate a group of high-performing young men´s view of what it means to achieve the idealised image of a student. Sociological theories is used to interpret the students' perceptions. The concepts of fields and antichamber intends to explain the young men's views of their surroundings. The different capital forms, habitus, hegemonic masculinity and the concept of distinction is used to explain the informants' identity construction. Focus group interviews is being used in order to answer the research issues. The conclusive inference is that young men´s masculinity ideals, in relation to how an ideal student should be, is complex. The respondents construct the image of an ideal student in terms of a man who gets great results in all subjects without making an effort. In conclusion, it can be interpreted that the young men describe that a successful student should ideally be naturally talented.

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