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The concept of status congruence implies that the individual occupies positions in several vertical status hierarchies instead of in a single hierarchy. Given the presence of several status hierarchies, for exmple, education, occupation, and income, the individual may occupy equivalent positions in each or dissimilar positions in all or some of them. [...]

Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur fritidspedagoger ser på statusen i yrket. Frågeställningarna har utformats på ett sådant sätt att de ska besvara båda hur fritidspedagoger ser på sin yrkesstatus samt hur de anser deras yrkesstatus konstrueras. Sex stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts och samtliga informanter upplever att deras yrkesstatus är låg. Det finns olika skäl till varför informanterna anser detta men fyra aspekter återkom: lön, utbildning, yrkestiteln och dåliga kunskaper om yrket. Fritidspedagogerna upplever att den låga yrkesstatusen beror på att de har låga löner i relation till lärarna, de upplever att det finns låg kunskap om fritidsverksamheten och det viktiga pedagogiska arbetet fritidspedagoger utför. Det framhävs även vikten av att ordet pedagog värdesätts sämre än ordet lärare samt att utbildningen för att bli fritidspedagog under flera år har varit och är idag, kortare än den som krävs för att bli lärare.

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A mobile social network (MSN) is defined as a mobile network that uses social relationships to allow its nodes to communicate. Many wireless networks including ad hoc networks do not reflect a real world deployment because of routing implementation difficulties. However, with the enormous use of social network sites (SNSs) including Twitter and Facebook, MSNs are expected to make the implementation of routing easier. Thus, some research activity has been devoted to routing protocols in such networks. This task is very challenging, thus only a few MSN routing protocols have been proposed in the literature. However, these protocols suffer from either a low delivery ratio or high memory requirements. This thesis presents a new routing protocol (Status) for MSNs which has excellent performance in terms of delivery ratio and memory requirements. Status takes advantage of the online status of a node to make forwarding decisions. Status has a low overhead ratio, low average delay and low computational complexity at the node level. All of these features are examined in this thesis. Simulation results are presented which show that Status outperforms other routing protocols such as Epidemic and PRoPHET with a realistic mobility model, namely, the shortest path movement based model (SPMBM). Status does not have high memory requirements since it does not store the online status of other nodes. Instead, an instance check is done when two nodes meet. Since messages are forwarded without probability calculations based on contact history, Status also has low computational complexity. / Graduate

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2003.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 51 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-51).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Revise). / Terni (Umbria). Includes bibliographical references and indexes.