Introducing a new type of IT-structure means a change that employees within an organization must adapt to. Today, many companies have implemented information technology in the form of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems and find themselves in th so-called Second Wave stage where an after work is ongoing with continual improvement that involves changes that employees need to understand and act upon. To learn how to work with these recurrent misadventures is of importance because it is seen as a critical factor in order to take advantage of the ERP system and its benefits. To study this a study was conducted through personal interviews at Apoteksgruppen AB which a few years ago introduced a new ERP system. There the authors saw that employees learned in different ways depending on the position, and that the more responsibility this person had the greater freedom this person had to resolve their problems and therefore learned more effectively. The internal support team also proved to play a more important role in addition to this learning.

This paper analyses the Fogelstad Citizen School for Women in relation to first andsecond-wave feminism in Sweden. The school was established not long after women in Sweden were given the right to vote in 1921, with the purpose of educating women in civic education, in order for them to be able to make use of their newly gained rights.The school and its founders had thus a close connection to the ideas of Swedish first-wave feminism. On the other hand, the school shut down in 1954, about a decade before second-wave feminism is considered to have started in Sweden in the late 1960’/70’s. Hence, the school was active between two so-called “waves”. By analysing specific ideas on women expressed through course notes from the school’s later years, 1939–1945, this paper explores ideas about women that women’s specific qualities were emphasised in order to argue for women’s increased participation in society, while contextualising with other contemporary tendencies and events in Swedish society. A closer examination shows that specifically the school’s founders and its teacher in citizenship, Ebba Holgersson, were promoting gender essentialism, emphasising women’s nurturing characteristics and using it as an argument for women to participate more in societal and political matters. The results further imply that while this period cannot be attributed a specific feminist “wave” with regards to how a social movement’s wave it was defined, it was nonetheless a period where feminist ideas flourished and thus worked as bridge between first and second-wave feminism.

This thesis explores elderly women´s subjective experiences of being women of age in our  capitalistic Swedish society of today. The aim of the research is to illuminate the importance of age-analysis in our contemporary society and within academia, by highlighting age as a social position which intersects with other identity categories such as gender and class. The data collection consists of seven qualitative semi-structured interviews with women within the age of 73-86, who were active feminists during the second wave of feminism. The analysis is primarily based on a theoretical framework consisting of Simone de Beauvoir´s “the Other”, Pierre Bourdieus´s different forms of capitals and “heteronormative lifescript”. The result shows in several different ways how old women are reduced to “the Other”. The findings further show that a narrow framework of norms about elderly women limits the space within which they can cultivate autonomous subjectivities. The result also indicates that the long-lasting experience of feminist awareness and activism have a great impact on the experience of aging. Drawing on Bourdieu, the concept of “feminist habitus” is introduced. The analysis clearly shows how access to social, cultural and symbolic capital is essential to the experience of aging. One of the main conclusions is that capitalist forces form the terms of elderly women´s life space.

Med hjälp av data från Välfärdsstatsundersökningen och ISSP mellan åren 1986 och 2018 studeras svenskars förändrade attityder till vem som är bäst lämpad att handha barnomsorgen. Det primära alternativet till stat och kommun ansågs 1986 vara familjen, år 2018 utgör familjen knappt ett alternativ över huvudtaget. Samtidigt har stödet till en offentligt organiserad barnomsorg tilltagit markant. Syftet med föreliggande uppsats är att undersöka huruvida attitydskillnader mellan generationer, kön, utbildningsnivåer och partipolitiska sympatisörer har förändrats över tid och således gett upphov till en förändrad syn på familjen, å ena sidan, och stat och kommun, å andra sidan, som bäst lämpad att bedriva barnomsorg. Med hjälp av medelvärdes- och multipel regressionsanalys visas att samtliga sociala grupper över tid blivit alltmer positiva till att någon annan än familjen handhar barnomsorgen. Förändringar i gruppskillnader över tid tycks dock inte förklara detta skifte i attityder till familjens roll. Resultatet visar att stödet till stat och kommun som bäst lämpad att bedriva barnomsorg ökat markant. Den förändrade synen till en barnomsorg i offentlig regi förklaras i stor utsträckning av att sympatisörer med Moderaterna genomgått en framträdande attitydförändring. Resultatet och dess följder diskuteras mot bakgrund av institutionell förändring och vilka implikationer detta ger.