Author Sandra Karlsson E-mail: s.e.karlsson@gmail.com, skaiv02@student.vxu.se Institutional affiliation Växjö University School of Social Sciences Academic adviser: Associate professor Per Dannefjord Level: Bachelor’s thesis in sociology Title Alcohol Abuse Reproduced by Structural Inequalities: A Case Study in rural Mexico Description The purpose of this case study is to reveal the social structure determining the state of alcoholism in a particular society. The Case Study area is a marginalized rural and indigenous village, highly interconnected with the modern world through non-indigenous presence and because of its geographic location, situated close to a highway. The research is a result of a perceived local acceptance and naturalness of a highly destructive alcohol intake, which penetrates the whole society. The theoretical focus is drawn from the theories Durable Inequality developed by Charles Tilly and Stigmatization of Outsiders developed by Norbert Elias. The study is empirical and presented in a narrative structure introducing the reader to both the particularities of the Case Study area as well as the focal problem. The method used is Participant Observation. The crucial finding of the study is that an adaptive structure has evolved around the alcohol abuse, normalizing its existence and hazardous side effects, hindering any form of active resistance, and therefore reproducing or even strengthening the abuse.

<p>Author</p><p>Sandra Karlsson</p><p>E-mail: s.e.karlsson@gmail.com, skaiv02@student.vxu.se</p><p>Institutional affiliation</p><p>Växjö University</p><p>School of Social Sciences</p><p>Academic adviser: Associate professor Per Dannefjord</p><p>Level: Bachelor’s thesis in sociology</p><p>Title</p><p>Alcohol Abuse Reproduced by Structural Inequalities: A Case Study in rural Mexico</p><p>Description</p><p>The purpose of this case study is to reveal the social structure determining the state of alcoholism in a particular society. The Case Study area is a marginalized rural and indigenous village, highly interconnected with the modern world through non-indigenous presence and because of its geographic location, situated close to a highway.</p><p>The research is a result of a perceived local acceptance and naturalness of a highly destructive alcohol intake, which penetrates the whole society.</p><p>The theoretical focus is drawn from the theories Durable Inequality developed by Charles Tilly and Stigmatization of Outsiders developed by Norbert Elias.</p><p>The study is empirical and presented in a narrative structure introducing the reader to both the particularities of the Case Study area as well as the focal problem. The method used is Participant Observation.</p><p>The crucial finding of the study is that an adaptive structure has evolved around the alcohol abuse, normalizing its existence and hazardous side effects, hindering any form of active resistance, and therefore reproducing or even strengthening the abuse.</p>

Yes / Introduction Despite the interconnectedness of the European Union, there are significant variations in pregnant women’s legal status as migrants and therefore their ability to access maternity care. Limited access to maternity care can lead to higher morbidity and mortality rates in migrant women and their babies. This study aimed to investigate and compare maternal health access policies and the context in which they operate across European countries for women who have migrated and are not considered citizens of the host country. Methods The study adopted a mixed-methods research design exploring policies on migrant women’s access to maternity care across the migration regimes. Data were extracted from legal documents and research reports to construct a new typology to identify the inclusiveness of policies determining access to maternity care for migrant women. Results This study found inconsistency in the categorisation of migrants across countries and significant disparities in access to maternity care for migrant women within and between European countries. A lack of connection between access policies and migration regimes, along with a lack of fit between policies and public support for migration suggests a low level of path dependency and leaves space for policy innovation. Discussion Inequities and inconsistencies in policies across European countries affect non-citizen migrant women’s access to maternity care. These policies act to reproduce structural inequalities which compromise the health of vulnerable women and newborns in reception countries. There is an urgent need to address this inequity, which discriminates against these already marginalised women. / This article is based upon work from COST Action IS1405 BIRTH: “Building Intrapartum Research Through Health—An interdisciplinary whole system approach to understanding and contextualising physiological labour and birth” (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1405), supported by EU COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). The work of Alena Pařízková was supported by project Migration and maternal health: pregnancy, birth and early parenting (The Czech Science Foundation, grant 16-10953S). Open access publishing supported by the National Technical Library in Prague.

The purpose of this paper was to explore customer racial profiling in retail stores in Sweden. To accomplish the exploration, unstructured interviews were used in the paper to contain knowledge of customers' experiences in the retail store................................................................................................ likely to experience customer racial profiling in stores as compared to female customers. / <p>This bachelor thesis was conducted during the spring semester of 2022 at Linnaeus University in Växjö by marketing students Adila Aadila, MuhammadTalha Qadri, and Shashank Shukla. While conducting this research the authors had the opportunity to implement some of the knowledge gained throughout the three years of studying the marketing program. This thesis would not have been accomplished without the help of our informative and competent professors. We would like to show our gratitude to MichaelaSandell- our supervisor who has always been easy to reach when we needed help and provided us with valuable feedback during the process. We would also like to thank Åsa Devine- our examiner for her constructive feedback during the seminars. Last but not least we would like to thank Dan Halvarsson for helping us with the method chapter and all the opponent groups for their input and feedback during the seminars. </p>

Vi har utgått från de strukturella ojämlikheterna som finns i det Bolivianska samhället, och insett att dessa måste reduceras för att skapa ett mera fungerande samhälle. Vi har valt att göra en undersökning kring hur dessa strukturella ojämlikheter kan förminskas. För att göra detta har vi utfört en fältstudie i Bolivia där vi genom intervjuer och observationer studerat en social organisation belägen i El Alto, kallad FEJUVE. Vi har fokuserat på hur denna genom sitt arbete och organisation påverkar det Bolivianska samhället, såväl positivt som mindre positivt. Vi har valt ut fem olika aspekter av organisationen som vi har undersökt i särskilt djup detalj, då vi anser att dessa har en speciell relevans i kampen mot utraderandet av strukturella ojämlikheter. Dessa aspekter behandlar frågor om demokrati, machismokultur,tvång, kritisk medvetenhet, organisationens relation till det styrande politiska partiet, samtdess relation till samhällsomstörtande konflikt. Teorier kring demokrati; strukturella ojämlikheter; marginaliserade gruppers relation till konflikt, samt sociala rörelser diskuteras och utvärderas i denna uppsats. Vår slutsats visar att FEJUVE har goda så väl som mindre goda egenskaper, och således studie bidrar vår studie till att visa på civilsamhällets komplexitet, och omöjligheten i att se detta endast som en positiv eller negativ kraft. / We have taken as our point of departure the structural inequalities in Bolivian society, and recognised that these need to be reduced in order to create a better functioning society. We have chosen to conduct an investigation on how these structural inequalities can be reduced. In order to do this we have conducted a field study in Bolivia, where we through interviewsand observations investigated a social organisation situated in El Alto, called FEJUVE. We have focused on how this through it’s work and organisation influence Bolivian society, in positive as well as less positive manners. We have chosen five different aspects of theorganisation which we have studied in closer detail, since we hold that these have a special relevance in the struggle for a structurally more equal society. These aspects deal with questions concerning: democracy; machismo culture; coercion; critical awareness; theFEJUVE’s relation to the ruling political party and it’s current relation to conflict that “shuts down” society. Theories about democracy; structural inequality; marginalised groups’ relation to conflict and social movements are discussed and assessed throughout this thesis. Our conclusion erads that the FEJUVE has good as well as less good qualities, our investigation thus contributes to exhibiting the complexity of civil society, and the impossibility to view this as either simply a positive or a negative force.