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41	The creamy crack : An anthropological on the natural hair community in Sweden Vierimaa, Maija January 2017 (has links) The thesis explores the impact that dominating Swedish aesthetic norms and beauty standards have on the subjective experiences of Afro-Swedes and their hair. Also, it examines why Afro-Swedes who previously have been straightening their hair have chosen a natural hair style. Moreover, the thesis also discusses which influence Youtube has in encouraging women to 'go natural'. The research is based on semi-structured interviews of seven women. The study is located at the theoretical meeting-point between hair, ethnicity, and the social and agentic body, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, digital anthropology. It explores the social dimension of hair and how hair, as a part of the body, has the capacity to participate in the creation of social meaning and also, enables agency in the social world. It shows that hair practices and styling strategies can be symbolic, social and agentic and that hair can manifest social and cultural order. Also, it opens up for further questions regarding Afro-Swedes and their hair in relation to beauty standards, normativity and representation, on the societal level as well as the individual. Norms body aesthetics beauty standards hair afro Afro-Swedes social media YouTube digital anthropology natural hair community representation social constructions Normer skönhet afrohår hår kroppen representation sociala medier Youtube afro-svenskar sociala konstruktioner digital antropologi Social Anthropology Socialantropologi
42	Motgångarna är min drivkraft : Unga svensk-somaliska högskolestudenters beskrivning av identitetsskapande och meningsfullhet / The challenges are my motivation : The narration of identity formation and meaningfulness of young Somali-Swedish university students Ahmed Mohamed, Jafar January 2023 (has links) I media under de senaste åren har en mörk bild av unga svensk-somalier vuxit fram bland annat kopplat till gängkriminalitet. Det påverkar även de unga svensk-somalier som inte hamnat snett. Som en kontrast till dem som hamnat i kriminalitet, arbetslöshet och utanförskap lyfts svensk-somaliska högskolestudenter fram i denna studie. Syftet var att skapa förståelse för deras identitetsskapande och upplevelse av meningsfullhet samt hur det påverkar deras välbefinnande. Studien utgick ifrån ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv och analyserades med hjälp av teorierna KASAM och social identitetsteori samt begreppen etnicitet, mellanförskap och dubbel kulturell tillhörighet. Metoden var kvalitativ och kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med 10 respondenter. Respondenterna var högskolestuderande med svensk-somalisk ursprung i åldern 21-24 år. Resultatet visade att etnicitet, religionstillhörighet, familj, vänner och föreningsliv varit viktigt i identitetsskapandet. Religion, familj och målmedvetenhet beskrevs som viktiga delar för att skapa meningsfullhet. Dessutom var det vanligt att motgångar och negativt bemötande vändes till en motivationskälla. De framgångsfaktorer för välbefinnande som framkom var gemenskap, socialt stöd, tro, målmedvetenhet och att vända motgångar till motivation. / In the media in the recent years, a negative picture of young Somali-Swedes has emerged, among other things linked to gang crime. It also affects the young Somali-Swedes who have not gone astray. As a contrast to those who ended up in crime, unemployment and exclusion, Somali-Swedish university students are highlighted in this study. The aim was to create an understanding of their identity formation and experience of meaningfulness and how it affects their well-being. The study was based on a social psychological perspective and has been analyzed with the help of the theories Sense of Coherence (SOC) and Social Identity Theory (SIT) as well as the concepts of ethnicity, in-betweenness and dual cultural belonging. The method was qualitative and qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten respondents. The respondents were university students of Somali-Swedish origin aged 21-24. The results showed that ethnicity, religious affiliation, family, friends and participation in civic society were important in the formation of identity. Religion, family and sense of purpose were described as important elements in creating meaning. In addition, it was common that adversity and negative treatment were turned into a source of motivation. The factors of success for well-being that were found were community, social support, faith, purposefulness and turning adversity into motivation. Sense of Coherence (SOC) Social Identity Theory (SIT) dual cultural belonging well-being motivation purposefulness young Somali-Swedes Känsla av sammanhang KASAM social identitetsteori dubbel kulturell tillhörighet välbefinnande motivation meningsfullhet unga svensk-somalier Social Psychology Socialpsykologi
43	"Jag är så gammal att jag känner om det är något skumt" : En kvalitativt intervjustudie om äldres kunskap och källkritik i sociala medier Larsson-Auna, Fanny, Nordberg, Zanna January 2022 (has links) Vårt samhälle blir alltmer digitaliserat och för generationer födda innan internets intågande i hemmen har inte användandet av internet och sociala medier alltid varit en självklarhet. Därför undersöker denna studie hur sociala och personliga aspekter hos svenska personer över 70 år påverkar motivation och attityd i användandet av sociala medier, hur de upplever sin digitala kunskap, hur de upplever att de förhåller sig källkritiskt till information på sociala medier och om de sprider informationen vidare. Studien använde sig av teorier om digitala klyftor, mediekompetens, falsk information och källkritik och genomfördes genom kvalitativa intervjuer. Resultatet visade att sociala aspekter har stor betydelse för deltagarnas motivation och attityd i användandet av sociala medier och att deltagarna upplever brister i sin digitala kunskap, men att få ville vidareutveckla den. De flesta upplever att de tänker källkritiskt kring information som de anser är av viktigt och om den inte bedöms vara viktig kontrolleras den inte. Deltagarna i denna studie anser sig inte sprida information från sociala medier i någon större utsträckning. / Our society is becoming increasingly digital and for generations born before the Internet became an integrated part of peoples home the use of the internet and social media has not always been an obvious part of daily life. Therefore, this study examines how social and personal aspects affect motivation and attitude in the use of social media in Swedish people over the age of 70, how they experience their digital literacy, how source critical they experience themselves to be towards information on social media and whether they are spreading the information to others. The study used theories of digital divide, media literacy, misinformation and source criticism and was conducted through qualitative interviews. The results showed that social aspects are of great importance for the participants' motivation and attitude in the use of social media and that the participants experienced shortcomings in their digital literacy, but few wanted to further develop it. Most of them experience that they think critically about information that they consider to be important and if it is not deemed to be important, it is not checked. The participants in this study do not consider themselves disseminating information from social media to any great extent. source criticism social media elderly swedes media digital literacy media literacy misinformation fake news digital divide qualitative research källkritik sociala medier äldre svenskar media digital kunskap mediakompetens falsk information fake news digitala klyftor kvalitativ undersökning Media and Communications Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
44	Covid-19 & Swedish exceptionalism : A critical qualitative content analysis on the international print media discourses of Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy / Covid-19 & Svensk exceptionalism : En kritisk kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den internationella tryckmedia diskursen om Sveriges Covid-19-strategi Kippersluis, Rianne January 2022 (has links) In 2020, the year the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the Swedish Covid-19 response differed radically from the general policy of total lockdown and strict enforcement of Covid-measures and regulations recommended by the WHO. Instead, Sweden strove early on to achieve herd immunity, with no mandatory measures to limit numbers in shopping malls, buses, and other public events, nor mask requirements. Hence, during the height of the pandemic, Swedish Covid-19 policy was a highly debated issue in the international media, within academia and the World Health Organization. The aim of this study is to examine the international media discourse on the Swedish Covid-19 strategy in the international print media. The focus has been on newspapers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The research has been done by investigating how Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy is discursively constructed, through major themes and sub-themes that have emerged. Additionally, the differences in discourse between Dutch, English and American media have been explored. As well as the use of language, ideologies, and linguistic devices within the international discourse have been investigated. A total of 178 articles, published between the period of 1 January 2020 until 6 February 2022, have been collected and analyzed. This study uses Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) as main method and has been inspired by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). A coding frame has inductively been created, by having used a sample of 20 newspaper articles in a pilot study. The software of NVivo has been used for the coding process. The major themes that emerged from my analyses of media discourses are: Anders Tegnell, Strategy, Trust and Image of Sweden and Swedes. My study found that media discourses on the Swedish Covid-19 policy are not positive. Rather these tend to be negative or at best neutral. Images of Sweden tend to vary in tandem with increase or decreases of Covid-19 infections and/or deaths. As the Swedish strategy became more or less aligned with the ‘norm’ of the WHO, the coverage of Sweden in media declined and lost its newsworthiness. Swedish Covid-19 strategy international print media discourse Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) international image of Sweden Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) news values Swedish exceptionalism media landscapes media coverage of pandemics Covid-19 in media language in the media linguistic devices stereotyping and bias Anders Tegnell trust strategy image of Sweden and Swedes ideologies Dutch media English media American media Sweden Media Studies Medievetenskap
45	En färgblind och föredömlig människorättsstat? : En studie om betydelsen av att motarbeta rasism i syfte att säkerställa Barnkonventionens efterlevnad Benedictsson, Elin January 2023 (has links) In this thesis, I have studied the United Nations concluding observations on Sweden in relation to international human rights obligations. Specifically, in regards to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Committee on the Rights of the Child have, in their Concluding Observations from 2023, expressed a deep concern about continued racism and discrimination of many children in Sweden. Meanwhile, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recommended Sweden to take immediate measures for the purpose of eliminating all forms of racial discrimination. In terms of critical analysis, the aim of this thesis has been to study how the Swedish state's international human rights obligations for the purpose of eliminating racial discrimination relates to the implementation of children's rights according to the principle of non-discrimination. According to my study, it is necessary for the Swedish state to promote and respect the human dignity inherent in every child, to be able to guarantee every child within the jurisdiction the rights under the CRC. A central example is the child's right to education in alignment with general human rights principles. Therefore, it is required for the state to prevent the normalization of racism in Sweden, in accordance with the international human rights obligations under the ICERD. This includes, for example, the prohibition of racist organizations in national law, for the purpose of eliminating racist hate speech, and the elimination of racial profiling by national law enforcement. Many children's living conditions and access to the rights under the CRC are affected by racism in several ways, through structural and everyday racism, when they themselves are exposed to racism and when people in their close surroundings experience racism. This has led me to the conclusion that active and immediate measures by the Swedish state, for the purpose of eliminating racial discrimination, are necessary for the possibility of guaranteeing the children who are victims of racism their rights in alignment with the CRC. children's rights racism racial discrimination human dignity racialization segregation racial inequality hate speech racial profiling right to education international human rights elimination of racial discrimination islamophobia afro-swedes non-discrimination barns rättigheter Barnkonventionen rasism rasdiskriminering Rasdiskrimineringskonventionen FN rätt till utbildning ojämlikhet rasprofilering rasistisk hatpropaganda mänskliga rättigheter Law and Society Juridik och samhälle Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
46	Swedish Belief and Swedish Tradition : The Role of Religion in Sweden Democrat Nationalism Stenbäck, Tomas January 2020 (has links) In the context of Western, European, Nordic, and Swedish radical nationalism, this study is an analysis of the various ways the political party the Sweden Democrats talks about religion; primarily about Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran Christianity and the Church of Sweden. The study investigates the party expressions on religion and nationalism, using theoretical models of interpretation, constructed for this specific purpose, out of hermeneutic methodology. The purpose has been to analyse the different functions of the various ways the Sweden Democrats talk about religion, and to investigate how the references to religion legitimize the ideology of nationalism, with the aim to answer the following questions: How do the Sweden Democrats’ talk on religion function as an identity marker? In what way is it possible to distinguish an aspiration for cultural purity in the Sweden Democrats’ talk on religion? Is it possible to distinguish neo-racism in the Sweden Democrats’ talk on religion? In which ways can the Sweden Democrats’ talk on religion be regarded as political strategy? The results demonstrate in which ways the Sweden Democrats apply religion to promote the party perceptions of nationalism, as well as to legitimize the party conceptions of the Swedish nation and the Swedish people: Swedish Christianity and the Church of Sweden are used to identify Swedish culture and to identify contrasting foreign culture. Swedish Christianity is used as the determining factor between the good Swedish people and the bad other people. Swedish Christianity is used as the determining factor between the right Swedish values and the wrong values of the other. Swedish Christian values are used as dividing criteria between the culturally pure Swedish people and the culturally impure other people. The degeneration of the Church of Sweden mirrors the degeneration of the Swedish society. Swedish Christian homogeneity will guarantee security for the Swedish people and the Swedish nation within the Swedish nation-state. Elements of religion and culture sort different peoples into different categories in the hierarchical view of humanity. Swedish Christianity and Swedish culture identify and define the Swedish people as innocent to the current precarious situation of the Swedish nation, and Swedish Christianity and Swedish culture identify and define the people of the other, which is to blame for this situation. The Swedish people is superior, to the non-Swedish people, because of superior Swedish religion and superior Swedish culture. Swedish Christianity is used to promote anti-democratic political positions. Swedish Christianity is used to legitimize coercion and force in the enforcement of Swedishness. Nation Nationalism Radical nationalism Populism Populist radical right PRR Right-wing populism Politics Legitimization Legitimation Belief Tradition Culture Religion Christianity Church Evangelical-Lutheranism Lutheranism Lutheran The Church of Sweden People The people Peoples Folk The folk Swedes Swedish Swedishness Sweden Identity Identification Purity Cultural purity Neo-racism New racism Culture racism Cultural racism Political strategy The Sweden Democrats Nation Nationalism Radikalnationalism Radikal nationalism Populism Högerpopulism Politik Legitimering Tro Tradition Kultur Religion Kristendom Kyrkan Evangelisk- Luthersk Luthersk Lutherdom Svenska kyrkan Folk Folket Svenskar Svensk Svenskhet Sverige Identitet Identifikation Renhet Kulturell renhet Nyrasism Ny rasism Kulturrasism Kulturell rasism Politisk strategi Sverigedemokraterna Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria History of Religions Religionshistoria Ethnology Etnologi Cultural Studies Kulturstudier Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Övrig annan humaniora

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