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Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka möjliga påverkansfaktorer till varför en mindre friskola ärunderrepresenterad av elever med utländsk bakgrund. För att uppnå syftet ställs tvåfrågeställningar; (1) Vilka förklaringar ger elever med utländsk bakgrund som inte studerar påskolan till varför de inte valt att studera vid skolan? (2) Vilka förklaringar ger elever med utländskbakgrund som studerar på skolan till varför de har valt att studera vid skolan?För att svara på dessa frågor genomförs dels en litteraturstudie, dels en mindre kvantitativenkätundersökning samt en mindre kvalitativ intervjuundersökning. I litteraturstudien går jagigenom olika påverkansfaktorer till den idag påfallande ökande etniska skolsegregationen samtden teori som ligger till grund för analysen av mina två mindre studier.Resultatet visar att det inte finns något entydigt sätt att förklara friskolans brisande mångkultur.Utifrån litteraturstudien samt uppsatsens två mindre studier konstaterar jag att det åtminstonefinns tre påverkansfaktorer till skolans bristande mångkultur. (I) Staden har en påfallande etniskboendesegregation, som påverkar skolornas elevsammansättning, (II) Kompisrelationer är viktigaför skolungdomar vid deras skolval och (III) Skolans information är bristfällig, både om självaskolvalet och om skolans arbetssätt. Resultatanalysen visar också fler faktorer som i mindre gradän de tre nämnda sannolikt påverkar friskolans elevsammansättning.

In the two years 1994 and 2013 the focus of the Swedish media in the school debate has been on segregation, freedom of choice, and support for weak students. In 2013 while the media was still united on the above issues the overall emphasis is on profitability. In 1994 the focus was more on weak students who in 2013 are considered unprofitable. The purpose of this essay is to study the Swedish media and their debate on Swedish schools and witch concepts related to "one school that fits all" in the year 1994 and also in 2013. We have analysed related articles and their concepts, norms, and values to see if there are any differences between their focus on the said issues in the two years. We have also studied the ideas and concepts that came under scrutiny and discussion in these two years, and shall investigate if there are differences in the debates conducted in 1994 and those conducted in 2013.

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Abstract At a time when the discussion of feminism is hot in the media, in the schools and in the cottages so I have been interested in how feminist worlds order might look like and what are the roads there. There are plenty of barriers in the community, some of them you easily could influence. This essay problematize and define the problems behind the difficulties of reaching a feminist world order, but also the factors that are important to achieve this world order. How colonization that began several hundred years ago spread and secured the patriarchal society and its influence all the way to the society of today. But even more immediate factors, on how we ourselves are involved in shaping our society in terms of where we live, how we educate ourselves, and what jobs we choose. Status symbols in society as economics, profession and political influence are all to be reckoned with when it comes to influencing society. Women are limited in some of these areas in various ways; this means segregation in society and loss of freedom and knowledge. I am using a literature study to investigate what today's prominent geography researchers and other scientists have to say about a feminist society. Many books and studies have been plowed through to highlight the problems of all people in the same society does not have the same opportunities. Many of these scientists are positive and indicate that minor changes in society could give feminism a boost. For many developing countries it is important to educate women and create a gender family planning. An education will give new perspectives and will show that there is more to life than being a mother. For many developed countries it is important to let the woman participate in male-dominated industries and vice versa. Equal responsibility for the children will give more chance to improve gender equality in the economy, and the doors will open even into the political realm.

Uppsatsen behandlar ”gated community” ett känt fenomen i många delar av världen och börjar även växa fram i Sverige. Syftet med uppsatsen är att förstå begreppet ”gated community”. Mer specifikt undersöka och jämföra förhållandet mellan tre olika företags marknadsförings innehåll med definitionen av gated community och teorierna som tas upp i arbetet. Metoden utgörs av en grund givande intervju samt en text- och bildanalys av företagens respektive marknadsföringsmaterial. Den empiriska text- och bildanalysen är den huvudsakliga metoden som kommer att utgöra resultat i denna studie. Resultatet visar på att gated communities är en växande boendeform, även i Sverige är det fastslaget att företaget Victoria Park kommer att expanderas. Vad gäller företagens marknadsföring sker det en försköning då en fantasivärld målas upp på hemsidorna i kontrast med verkligheten. Fenomenet är en demonstration mot samhällets utveckling då medborgarna inte är nöjda med den urbana stadens hantering av trygghetsfaktorn. Detta leder till att en del av befolkningen tar saken i egna händer genom att flytta in i gated communities. Med andra ord leder detta till boendesegregering.

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The Education Reform Act of 1988 introduced a policy of open enrolment into English secondary education that was designed to enhance the scope for parental choice of schools. In the resulting 'quasi market' for education, state school admissions authorities can no longer deny most expressed parental preferences, and the majority of state educational funding follows pupils to the secondary schools that they attend. Accompanying these policy reforms has been a longstanding concern that the new school attendance patterns resulting from the enhanced choice present within an open enrolment system would further polarize the social compositions of secondary schools in England. This thesis employs recently developed individual-level databases such as the Pupil Level Annual Schools' Census (PLASC), along with GIS mapping software, to investigate the role that choice of non-local schools played in the degree of social segregation in English secondary schools in 2002. A detailed analysis of the data reveals high rates of non-local school attendance across many areas of England in 2002 as large numbers of pupils from all backgrounds bypassed their local schools in favour of non-local alternatives. Although non-local school choice was exercised by both disadvantaged and more advantaged segments of the schooling population, pupils eligible for free school meals were less likely to attend higher performing non-local schools than their more advantaged counterparts. The disproportionate gains made from non-local school attendance by more advantaged secondary pupils within the marketplace helped to reinforce local school hierarchies already strongly associated with performance and social composition. As the individual level pupil data in PLASC illustrates, the exercise of non-local school choice in 2002 produced school compositions that were more segregated by socio-economic status than they otherwise would be under a system of local school catchments. Thus, rather than helping to diminish the social segregation of secondary pupils resulting from pronounced residential segregation levels, the availability of parental choice instead further stratified most English secondary schools by socio-economic status in 2002.

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