This sociological study discusses the topics perceptions, organizations and social relations and has its base in the context of female managers within elderly care. The study is written in the field of human resources and the purpose is to contribute to the understanding of how social and organizational relations shape female managers’ perceptions of their situation.         When collecting data, a qualitative method containing semi-structured interviews was used and documents were gathered. The result was analyzed with Skegg’s theory about social class which includes concepts like respectability and disidentification. Skegg’s takes inspiration from Bourdieu and the capital theory, whereon we also find concepts like social- and cultural capital, valid for this study.         The study shows that the structure of the organization together with the social relations within it, affect managers to distance themselves from the employees with whom they used to be in the same social class. There are several examples that originate and make the distance clear, mainly the fact that there are large difficulties with communication between the managers and their employees, but also the fact that the managers agree on that you shouldn’t be friends privately with your employees.         The distance which is negotiated between the manager and her staff serves to bolster and protect the respect and respectability that comes with her relocation in social space.

Offentliga diskurser har historiskt framställt feminitet och feminism som oförenliga med varandra. Feminitet framställs vanligen med en kvinna som besitter normativt feminina egenskaper, medan framställningen av feministen skildrat en radikal och manhaftig kvinna. Tidigare forskning visar att ordet feminist, för många individer, har en negativ laddning samt en otydlighet i innebörden av ordet. Detta speglar hur väl individen identifierar sig med feminism. Denna uppsats handlar om hur bloggaren UnderbaraClara, som aktör i den feministiska diskursen, på sin blogg positionerar sig till feminism och feminitet. Metodologiskt och teoretiskt ramverk i uppsatsen är en kritisk diskursanalys samt identifikations-och disidentifikationsbegreppen. Arton blogginlägg har analyserats för att urskilja subjektspositioner, mästersignifikanter och ekvivalenskedjor. Analysen visar att UnderbaraClara identifierar sig med delar av den normativa feminiteten. Främst identifierar sig UnderbaraClara med feminismer som söker förena feminina ideal med feministiska. Vidare identifierar hon sig med feminismer som vill uppvärdera historiskt kvinnliga arbeten. Det framkommer även att hon identifierar sig med feminismer som ifrågasätter hur normativa föreställningar om kvinnan skapar sociala förväntningar på kvinnan samt problematiserar hur kvinnan skapas socialt. Slutligen framkommer att UnderbaraClara disidentifierar sig med en kvinnosyn där kvinnan nedvärderas i relation till mannen.

The aim of this thesis is to examine female migrants’ experiences of separatist activation policies for a more inclusive labor market, and to contribute to a more nuanced and heterogeneous view on "immigrant women" in Sweden. I interviewed five women who have participated in these types of programs. The empiric material was analyzed from a social constructionist perspective and using postcolonial feminist theory. The result of this thesis is that the separatist room worked as a form of consciousness-raising. It also shows how the interviewees both identify themselves with, and disidentify themselves from a stereotypical image of “immigrant women”.