Trots att begreppet historiemedvetande uttryckligen har funnits med i läroplanen sen år 2000 så finns det fortfarande inte en enhetlig definition av begreppet i svensk skola. Syftet med den här studien är att belysa den problematik som uppstår på grund av inkluderingen av detta begrepp och det fria tolkningsutrymme som blir resultatet. I detta arbete presenteras en översikt av det aktuella forskningsläget kring begreppet historiemedvetande med särskilt fokus på den svenska skolan och den kritik som riktats mot begreppet. Studien har genomförts genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fem olika högstadie- och gymnasielärare som fått berätta om hur de tolkat och operationaliserat begreppet. Resultaten visar att de olika tolkningarna resulterat i olika fokuseringar och upplägg av undervisningen. Detta leder i sin tur till att undervisningens likvärdighet kan ifrågasättas. / Despite the fact that the term historical consciousness has been explicitly included in the curriculum since the year 2000, there is still not a homogeneous definition of the term in Swedish school. The aim of this study is to illustrate the problems that occur because of the inclusion of this term and the freedom of interpretation as a result. Presented in this paper is an outline of the current field of research regarding the term historical consciousness with particular focus on the Swedish school and the criticism against the term. The study has been conducted by qualitatively interviewing five high school and upper secondary school teachers who has given their accounts on how they have interpreted and operationalized the term. The results show that the different interpretations has resulted in different focusing and approaches to teaching. This in turn leads to the fact that the equality of education may be questioned.

Jonas Karlssons novell Fakturan (2011) har visat sig ha flera beröringspunkter med Franz Kafkas Processen (1924). Uppsatsen visar hur dessa verk behandlar individens skuld i det moderna samhället. Karlssons novell som är skriven ca hundra år efter det att Kafka skrev Processen skildrar likväl en problematik som kanske varit gällande ända sedan marknadsekonomin först började att breda ut sig. Uppsatsen analyserar Kafkas och Karlssons verk ur ett sociologiskt perspektiv, där jag använt mig av Marx och Nietzsche som teoretiker. Bermans Allt som är fast förflyktigas har utgjort stommen ur vilken jag lutat mina påståenden om modernitetens inverkan på människan genom tiderna. Uppsatsen visar att skuldproblematiken riktad mot individen i det moderna samhället är likartad men framställs annorlunda i verken. En slutsats båda huvudkaraktärerna möjligtvis drar i berättelsernas slut, är att mänsklig kontakt och samverkan är att föredra, framför den ensamma och egoistiska vägen genom livet.

The absurd is a widespread term to describe literature today and in this essay I am interested in what parts of a literary text that can be defined as absurd. With help from the French-Algerian writer Albert Camus definition of the absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and the absurd parts in his novel The Stranger (1942) I will examine the absurd in two of the Swedish writer Jonas Karlsson’s short stories. It is a phenomenological study of the short stories "Fakturan" and "Högläsning 2" that can be found in Spelreglerna (2011). The phenomenological reading consists people’s experiences and what is happening in their consciousness before, during and after experiencing it. Camus description of the absurd is the foundation for my analysis of Karlsson. Karlsson’s short stories have interesting similarities with Camus description of the absurd, which is fascinating because of their different backgrounds. My aim with the essay is to analyze the absurd in Karlsson’s short stories, both through parallels to Camus and without.

Detta är en skriftlig reflektion inom konstnärligt självständigt arbete på kandidatnivå som behandlar ämnet nervositet. Studien påvisar att nervositet är kroppens naturliga reaktion på en hotfull situation och hur man som musiker och cellist mentalt kan arbeta med att förbereda sig inför nervösa situationer. Genom Antonín Dvořáks cellokonsert i b-moll Op. 104, sats 1 utforskas tekniska svårigheter med stycket med anknytning till nervositet och provspelningssituationer. Genom att prova ett antal metoder och tankesätt för att motverka prestationsångest samt intervjua en sakkunnig jurymedlem har frågan kring vad man kan göra för sig själv och vad som förväntas i en provspelningssituation utretts. Detta resulterade i insikten kring att mental styrka är något som går att bygga upp och påverka själv om man uppövar ett konstruktivt tänkande. Utöver detta upptäcktes också vilka parametrar som var viktigast i en provspelningssituation där tonkvalité, rytm och intonation stod i centrum. Några viktiga passager i Dvořáks cellokonsert diskuterades vidare och tekniska aspekter för att underlätta dessa framlades. Studien kan komma till nytta för unga musiker, främst cellister, i deras förberedelse inför nervösa situationer, så som provspelningssituationer, där Dvořáks cellokonsert i b-moll Op. 104 är mycket vanligt förekommande. / <p>Inspelning av Antonín Dvořáks cellokonsert i b-moll, Op. 104, sats 1. takt. 82-267 (exposition och genomföring som är standard i provspelningssammanhang). Pianist: Georg Öquist. Lokal:Sveasalen (4301), Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Valhallavägen 105, 115 91 Stockholm.</p>

<p>Företag har ett flertal olika marknadsföringsverktyg att tillgå för att kommunicera ett varumärkes budskap till marknaden. Sponsring kan vara ett effektivt sådant verktyg för att exponera varumärket. Sponsring är ett relativt nytt fenomen som har vuxit avsevärt under de senaste decennierna. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka sponsringsverksamheten hos företag med starka varumärken samt hur dessa företag kan utnyttja sponsring för att förstärka sina varumärken.Vi har valt att genomföra denna studie ur ett företagsperspektiv. Dessutom fokuserar vi endast på företagsvarumärken. Den empiriska undersökningen har genomförts på tre företag med starka varumärken. Dessutom har befintlig litteratur rörande varumärken och sponsring studerats. Resultatet av denna studie är att förstärkning av varumärket framstår som den viktigaste målsättningen med sponsring. Sponsring utnyttjas mest effektivt om företagen i förväg har väl genomtänkta mål med sin satsning, väljer sponsringsprojekt med omsorg samt gör noggranna uppföljningar och utvärderingar av sponsringsprojektet.</p>

<p>Background: Internet is a new phenomenon; small companies have only used Internet a couple of years. Internet created a lot of new possibilities for the companies. Internet is a new marketing and communication channel for the company. </p><p>Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how small companies can use Internet as a strategic tool. Another purpose of this thesis is to generate a better understanding of the application of Internet in small companies. </p><p>Delimitations: This thesis is limited to small manufactoring business to business companies. </p><p>Methodology: This thesis is based on interviews from five different companies. The purpose of the interviews was to collect information about how the companies use Internet today, but also to ask them what fields of application they see for the Internet in the future. </p><p>Result: Smallcompanies can use Internet as a strategic tool in many ways. Our study also shows that business to consumer theories can be used to explain phenomenon in the company and in its environment.</p>

<p>Background: As a consequence of the increasing globalization, more trade co-operation etc., swedish companies get to an ever increasing extent internationalized. Whereas some time ago it was mainly the big, established companies going abroad, today just as many small and medium sized swedish companies sell and produce goods abroad. During the past few years, there has been a tendency for research in the field of international business to focus manly on high-technology, so called knowledge-intensive companies. However, an important proportion of international companies in Sweden are part of the traditional manufacturing business. Research in the field concerning differences between different companies from different businesses is limited. Are there any differences in the way companies internationalize between the two categories? What are the differences? </p><p>Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate if there are any differencies in the way swedish small and mediumsize companies internationalize, how these differencies look like, and the factors that influence the companies choice of entry modes. Problem In what way do swedish companies internationalize? Which entry modes do they choose? What factors affects the choice of entry modes? Are there any differencies in the answers of the questions above between traditional manufacturing companies and high-technology companies. </p><p>Practical procedure: The paper is based upon an approach similar to a casestudy, using interviews with the CEO or head of the export departement as datacollection-method. The method of selection we used is based upon our own criteria regarding number of employees, turnover and other firm-specific data. We then selected four swedish international companies located in Linköping and Mjölby, of which two were high-technology companies and two were traditional manufacturing companies. </p><p>Result: The study shows that companies in their early stages of the internationalization process drop a step-by-step approach to geographical and cultural close markets in order to internationalize. The two high-technology companies had a higher speed in their internationalization process compared with the two traditional manufacturing companies. Market potential was the main explanatory factor for all companies regarding choice of entry mode. Compared with the traditional manufacturing companies, the two high-technology companies were more organized in their international business affairs, anlayzing to a greater extent different alternative approaches. These companies also to a greater extend give priority to the participation in different internatioanl networks, marketpresence and the development of specific competencies. The two high-technology companies used more resource-demanding entry modes, whereas the two traditional manufacturing companies still to a greater extend rely on easy and cheap entry modes.</p>

Företag har ett flertal olika marknadsföringsverktyg att tillgå för att kommunicera ett varumärkes budskap till marknaden. Sponsring kan vara ett effektivt sådant verktyg för att exponera varumärket. Sponsring är ett relativt nytt fenomen som har vuxit avsevärt under de senaste decennierna. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka sponsringsverksamheten hos företag med starka varumärken samt hur dessa företag kan utnyttja sponsring för att förstärka sina varumärken.Vi har valt att genomföra denna studie ur ett företagsperspektiv. Dessutom fokuserar vi endast på företagsvarumärken. Den empiriska undersökningen har genomförts på tre företag med starka varumärken. Dessutom har befintlig litteratur rörande varumärken och sponsring studerats. Resultatet av denna studie är att förstärkning av varumärket framstår som den viktigaste målsättningen med sponsring. Sponsring utnyttjas mest effektivt om företagen i förväg har väl genomtänkta mål med sin satsning, väljer sponsringsprojekt med omsorg samt gör noggranna uppföljningar och utvärderingar av sponsringsprojektet.

Background: Internet is a new phenomenon; small companies have only used Internet a couple of years. Internet created a lot of new possibilities for the companies. Internet is a new marketing and communication channel for the company. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how small companies can use Internet as a strategic tool. Another purpose of this thesis is to generate a better understanding of the application of Internet in small companies. Delimitations: This thesis is limited to small manufactoring business to business companies. Methodology: This thesis is based on interviews from five different companies. The purpose of the interviews was to collect information about how the companies use Internet today, but also to ask them what fields of application they see for the Internet in the future. Result: Smallcompanies can use Internet as a strategic tool in many ways. Our study also shows that business to consumer theories can be used to explain phenomenon in the company and in its environment.

Background: As a consequence of the increasing globalization, more trade co-operation etc., swedish companies get to an ever increasing extent internationalized. Whereas some time ago it was mainly the big, established companies going abroad, today just as many small and medium sized swedish companies sell and produce goods abroad. During the past few years, there has been a tendency for research in the field of international business to focus manly on high-technology, so called knowledge-intensive companies. However, an important proportion of international companies in Sweden are part of the traditional manufacturing business. Research in the field concerning differences between different companies from different businesses is limited. Are there any differences in the way companies internationalize between the two categories? What are the differences? Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate if there are any differencies in the way swedish small and mediumsize companies internationalize, how these differencies look like, and the factors that influence the companies choice of entry modes. Problem In what way do swedish companies internationalize? Which entry modes do they choose? What factors affects the choice of entry modes? Are there any differencies in the answers of the questions above between traditional manufacturing companies and high-technology companies. Practical procedure: The paper is based upon an approach similar to a casestudy, using interviews with the CEO or head of the export departement as datacollection-method. The method of selection we used is based upon our own criteria regarding number of employees, turnover and other firm-specific data. We then selected four swedish international companies located in Linköping and Mjölby, of which two were high-technology companies and two were traditional manufacturing companies. Result: The study shows that companies in their early stages of the internationalization process drop a step-by-step approach to geographical and cultural close markets in order to internationalize. The two high-technology companies had a higher speed in their internationalization process compared with the two traditional manufacturing companies. Market potential was the main explanatory factor for all companies regarding choice of entry mode. Compared with the traditional manufacturing companies, the two high-technology companies were more organized in their international business affairs, anlayzing to a greater extent different alternative approaches. These companies also to a greater extend give priority to the participation in different internatioanl networks, marketpresence and the development of specific competencies. The two high-technology companies used more resource-demanding entry modes, whereas the two traditional manufacturing companies still to a greater extend rely on easy and cheap entry modes.