<p>The aim of this paper is to examine how young men of foreign background are pictured in the realistic adolescence novels of 2009. In my process of work I have used a classical schedule for literature analysis from which I have worked out a few questions to use on my texts. The questions are related to the main characters and some of the most important minor characters – all are young men with foreign background – and focuses on aspects of for example where they live, who their friends are and what they think about and dream of.</p><p>To put these pictures into a wider perspective I compare my results with the well known stereotype picturing of men with foreign background in media. I then discuss how or if this affects the young men’s picture of themselves and the majority society’s picture of them. Another part of my discussion is how school can provide good role models for their students and how and if we can work with these stereotypes. To relate to young men with foreign background I have used two culture studies.</p><p>The result of my analysis shows that the picturing of young men with foreign background tends to be stiff and static and closely stereotype. My conclusion is therefore that the picturing of young men with foreign background in the realistic adolescence novels of 2009 is familiar to the ones we can see in media. And from looking at the two culture studies I used, I can see that the stereotype pictures tend to affect how these young men picture themselves and also how the majority society pictures them. This can in the long run be dreadful for the self-image of these young men.</p>

There are many good reasons to ponder about what it is that makes life worth living. To observe and reflect on what it is that gives a person a good quality of life is arguably the essential core of social-work. The aim of this research was to investigate how 15-year old youths interpret quality of life. The key areas that we explored in order to meet the research aims were: what did the youths interpret as a good quality of life for a 15-year old and for an adult, how did they view their own quality of life, and did they think that the regional context (i.e. if one lives in a big city or in a small town) affects how one interpret quality of life. The studywas based on interviews with four boys and four girls. Half of the respondents lived in a suburb of Stockholm and the other half lived in a small country town. A qualitative method was used to interview the respondents individually. The results were analysed by using Brülde´s theories on quality of life. The results show that to a large extent the youths in both areas shared each others values – a loving and supportive family was deemed to be the most important factor for a good quality of life, followed by friendships and recreational-time for young people and job satisfaction for adults. However, the two groups differed in two ways. The suburban youths declared that they experienced a lot of school-stress which the small-town youths did not experience. Also, the Stockholm respondents identified several aspects that could make their lives better. In the contrast none of the small town respondents could identify ways to improve their lives. Explanations for these differing responses are explored in the study.

Undersökningens huvudfråga är hur den uråldriga torghandeln kan fortsätta existera i det svenska samhället där logik, ordning och välstånd ofta går på tvärs med torghandelns flyktighet, kortsiktighet och umbäranden. Oordning och informellt är två nyckelord i beskrivningarna av torghandeln historiskt och i den aktuella internationella forskningen. Praktik, utövare, materialitet, föreställningar och plats samverkar över tid i en ständig förändring av handeln. Ett teoretiskt ramverk lånat från forskning om de svenska torpens transformation kompletterar teorierna om globaliseringens, städers konkurrens och migrationens inverkan på omvärlden. Både kvantitativa och kvalitativa metoder har använts. En diskursanalysliknande granskning av tidningsartiklar och offentliga dokument beskriver den maktsfär som producerar en officiell föreställning som mer undergräver än stärker förtroendet för handeln. Observationer och samtal på fem salutorg i Stockholms stad har gett de annars marginaliserade torghandlarna en röst i studien. Det finns för närvarande ingen annan forskning om dagens torghandel i Stockholm.

The purpose of this study was to investigate youth’s experiences of what meaning the nonprofit youth project Husby Marathon had on their social capital and self-identity. In order to answer the purpose a qualitative methodology was used based on interviews with four of the participant youths. Two teories were used, Social capital by Robert D. Putnam and Selfidentity by Anthony Giddens. The result indicates that the project has had a significant impact on the creation of social capital, in particular bridging social capital which was strengthened by an extended social network that the participants were offered. A strong social bond developed within the project, which also helped to strengthen the bonding social capital. Civic awareness was raised among the participants which also established a trust towards strangers and the society. Different parts of the project has given the participants opportunity to reflect on their identity. The participants have gained self-efficacy by learning goaloriented methods which has generated new and evolved self-identity. This has shown to increased the youths ability to make decisions and lifestyle choices. The results generated a development of three new concepts that are important for the integration of youth in suburbs. The two first concepts are "social self-identity" and "commitment-building social capital" and these two led to the final concept "social self-resource capital".

The aim of this paper is to examine how young men of foreign background are pictured in the realistic adolescence novels of 2009. In my process of work I have used a classical schedule for literature analysis from which I have worked out a few questions to use on my texts. The questions are related to the main characters and some of the most important minor characters – all are young men with foreign background – and focuses on aspects of for example where they live, who their friends are and what they think about and dream of. To put these pictures into a wider perspective I compare my results with the well known stereotype picturing of men with foreign background in media. I then discuss how or if this affects the young men’s picture of themselves and the majority society’s picture of them. Another part of my discussion is how school can provide good role models for their students and how and if we can work with these stereotypes. To relate to young men with foreign background I have used two culture studies. The result of my analysis shows that the picturing of young men with foreign background tends to be stiff and static and closely stereotype. My conclusion is therefore that the picturing of young men with foreign background in the realistic adolescence novels of 2009 is familiar to the ones we can see in media. And from looking at the two culture studies I used, I can see that the stereotype pictures tend to affect how these young men picture themselves and also how the majority society pictures them. This can in the long run be dreadful for the self-image of these young men.

There are several typical ideas about the suburb. The suburb is often associated with criminality and other social problems such as segregation. The purpose of this essay is to study the picture of how the suburb is constructed in a media context. The method used to answer the purpose of this study is critical discourse analysis, based on the thoughts of Norman Fairclough. The central theoretical ideas for this study are representation, stereotypes and racialization. They are all in a way linked to power. Within the media suburb discourse I have distinguished two different discourses. The stereotyped discourse and the challenging alternative discourse have been found in both articles and interview. It is the alternative discourse that challenges the stereotyped one. You can say that the alternative discourse is created in an attempt to change the representations of the suburb. The stereotyped discourse is in spite of the changing attempts still the dominant one. The media treatment of the suburb has created several stereotypes and the negative and criminal picture has become a common frame of reference in a social consciousness. In my empirical material I have seen traces of a form of underlying ideology called racialization. Racialization is based on different simplifications and categorisations of gender, class and “race”. This ideology has an influence in every level of society, which means that the editorial office despite their purpose also, reproduce the stereotyped discourse. It shows the difficulties to change an established discourse like the stereotyped one. It is important to challenge these ideas to be able to make a difference in the way we speak, think and stigmatize the suburb.

This study examines how Swedish hip hop lyrics between the years 2019–2020 depict the social life in the suburb. The study is divided into two different parts, the first of which analyzes general themes, categories and concepts in hip hop texts through an overview of 50 different songs. The second study analyzes five popular hip hop texts based on a qualitative text analysis. / Den här studien undersöker hur svenska hiphoptexter mellan åren 2019–2020 skildrar det sociala livet i förorten. Undersökningen är uppdelad i två olika delar, varav den första analyserar generella teman, kategorier och begrepp i hiphoptexter genom en översiktslyssning av 50 olika låtar. Den andra studien analyserar fem populära hiphoptexter utifrån en kvalitativ textanalys. / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Umeå universitet

Runt om i Sverige finns invandrade kvinnor som har organiserat sig genom att ingå i nätverk för att dags- och nattvandra i sitt bostadsområde. I samhället existerar stereotypa föreställningar att “invandrarkvinnor” är lågutbildade hemmafruar med många barn. Det finns även en föreställning att socioekonomiskt utsatta människor är passiva med ett obefintligt föreningsliv. Den svenska medierapporteringen från segregerade förorter handlar återkommande om en ökad kriminalitet, dödsskjutningar och andra oroligheter. Syftet med vår studie är att öka kunskapen kring de bakomliggande orsakerna till invandrade kvinnors organisering i nätverk för nattvandring i förorten. För att uppnå detta syfte har vi genomfört två fokusgruppsintervjuer samt två observationer med nattvandrande kvinnor i Stockholmsområdet. För att få ytterligare perspektiv kompletterade vi med två enskilda intervjuer dels i Stockholm och i Helsingborg vilka båda av dessa respondenter har anknytning till och insyn i nätverken. Materialet analyserades med hjälp av teoribegreppet socialt kapital. Vårt resultat visar att dessa kvinnogrupper är homogena när det kommer till ålder, etnicitet och hemspråk men att det även finns kvinnogrupper som organiserar sig över dessa gränser. Vi fann att den ursprungliga gemenskapen och det gemensamma hemspråket är av stor betydelse för kvinnorna. Dock tenderar detta att medföra att den homogena gruppen blir inåtblickande, isolerad och sluten för “andra”. Resultatet visar även att ur organiseringen skapas det ett “eget rum” där kvinnorna kan få vara sig själva. Organiseringen i nätverken för nattvandring stärker kvinnornas sociala kapital och främjar deras hälsa. Resultatet visar vidare att kvinnorna är en resurs inom det civila samhället vilka på eget bevåg driver ideellt socialt arbete. Vi menar att detta bör tas tillvara, särskilt av socialtjänsten som enligt lag ska främja jämlikhet i livsvillkor, öka deltagande i samhällslivet, frigöra och utveckla enskildas och gruppers egna resurser. / Around Sweden there are immigrant women who have organized themselves by joining networks to organize themselves in night walking in their neighbourhood. In society there exist stereotypies imaginations “the immigrant women” as low-educated housewives with many children.  At the same time they are viewed as socio-economically disadvantaged with a non-existent association life. At the same time Swedish media reports and expresses an increase in crime, death shooting and disturbance in Sweden's segregated / polarized suburbs. We have chosen to meet immigrant women who have organized themselves in networks for night walks in their suburb. The purpose is to increase knowledge about underlying causes behind their organization. To achieve this goal, we conducted two focus group interviews as well as two observations with night-walking women in Stockholm. To gain further perspectives, we complement the observations with two individual interviews with people (both Stockholm and Helsingborg), both of which have connections to and transparency in networks in the suburb. The material was analyzed using the concept of social capital. The results showed that there are women's groups that are homogeneous regarding age, ethnicity and mother tongue. But there also exist women's groups who organize across these boundaries. We found that the original community or affinity that women have within the homogeneous group is of great importance for them. This tends to make the group look inward, separated and isolated from "others". The result shows that organization creates an "A room of one's own" where the women can be themselves. Organizers in the night-walking networks strengthen women's social capital and promote well-being. The results of the study showed that women are a valuable resource within civil society, which, on their own initiative, drives non-profit social work. We see the importance of this being utilized, chosen by the social service, which by law should promote equality in living conditions, be active participation in social life and develop the resources of individuals and groups.

This study examines how Swedish hip hop lyrics from the 1990s and 2010s portrays the social life, first and foremost in the suburb. The study consists of two parts, the first is a more general study of which themes and categories appear in the lyrics through an overview of 90 different hip hop songs. The second part of the study is focusing on analyzing different processes in change from the 1990s to the 2010s hip hop lyrics. The material of this part consists of 5 songs from the 1990s and 5 songs from the 2010s, that through a qualitative text analysis presents different changes in discourses.

An elementary school in the Stockholm suburb Mariehäll, for children aged 6-11 as well as a daycare centre. The school will cater to approximately 700 students and a centre for art and culture, which will be available to the public. The school is located in the new residential area Annedal, adjacent to the local park and Bullerbytorget. This project explores the correlation between architecture and learning, with the purpose of creating an environment that meets the needs of students with difficulties in concentrating. This has influenced the orientation of the building and the classrooms, the organisation of the plan and the materials and colours used in the various rooms. The program is divided into two volumes – one which houses the actual school and daycare centre, and one which consists of administration and the centre for art and culture. These are connected by a souterrain storey which contains the school cafeteria, and entrances from the street and the square. The school grounds are located four meters above street level, which allows the roof of the lower volume to function as a part of the playground. / En grundskola i stadsdelen Mariehäll i Stockholm, för årskurs F-5, samt förskola. Skolan ska inhysa cirka 700 elever samt ett uthyrningsbart kulturcentrum. Skolan är placerad centralt i det nybyggda bostadsområdet Annedal, mellan Annedalsparken, Bullerbytorget och Tappvägen. Detta projekt utforskar samspelet mellan arkitekturen och inlärningsmiljön, och syftar till att skapa en skola som möter de behov som finns hos elever med koncentrationssvårigheter. Detta har påverkat orienteringen av byggnaden och lärosalarna, organisationen av planen, samt färgsättning och materialval i de olika rummen. Programmet är uppdelat i två volymer – en som inhyser själva skolan och förskolan, och en som utgörs av administration samt kulturcentrum. Dessa kopplas samman av ett suterrängplan, som innehåller skolrestaurang, samt entréer från torg och gata. Skolgården ligger fyra meter över gatunivån, och den låga volymens tak blir således en del av skolgården.