This work focuses on a different categorisation of conservatism. A historical timeline-based categorisation which divides Conservatism into three different parts. The first part is called “Classical Conservatism”, this ideology was primarily used as a reaction to liberal radicalism from 1789-1880 and beyond. It is also the base and root of conservatism as an ideology. The second part is called Modern Conservatism and stretches from about 1880 to about 1990, this Conservatism is still in use and are competing and cooperating with the third part. The third part of Conservatism is called Post-modern Conservatism, this conservatism began partially in the 1980s but didn’t start to make a name for itself before the 2000s. While the first and second part focuses much on the preservation of culture, nation-state and old privileges of the higher classes the third part focuses on preserving the welfare-state and the protection of native peoples and their culture against globalism. The purpose of this work is to see how well does this theory of three different Conservatisms apply, then compare these three parts and summarize how Conservatism has changed over the centuries and what it means for the conservative ideology when categorising in this way.

Studiens syfte är att belysa begreppet barn i behov av särskilt stöd. Detta har vi granskat genom att undersöka förskolepersonalens uppfattningar om vilka barn som kan tänkas vara i behov av särskilt stöd och hur arbetet med dessa barn i förskolan ser ut, samt vilket stöd dessa barn kan få. Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod och använt oss utav semi-strukturerade intervjuer och de respondenterna som deltog representerades av verksamma pedagoger i förskolan. Vi har sedan analyserat intervjustudien och studiens resultat tyder på att begreppet barn i behov av särskilt stöd är svårdefinierat och otydlig. Resultatet visade även att en diagnos i många fall kan underlätta arbetet för pedagogerna och de barn som är i behov av särskilt stöd, eftersom de lättare kan få tillgång till det stöd som behövs, exempelvis en resurs. Vår studie visade även på att pedagogernas bemötande, kunskap och kompetens om de barn som är i behov av särskilt stöd är viktigt för att kunna stötta barnen. Slutsatsen av vår intervjustudie blir att barn i behov av särskilt stöd är ett komplext område att förhålla sig till samt att, det krävs fördjupade kunskaper inom de olika områden som finns gällande barn i behov av särskilt stöd. Exempelvis fördjupade kunskaper om diagnoser, funktionsnedsättningar, språksvårigheter samt verktygens användningsområden. Slutsatsen blir även att tillgången till resurser är begränsad hos de förskolor som vi har besökt och det krävs oftast en diagnos eller uttalad funktionsnedsättning, för att pedagogerna i förskolans verksamhet ska få in resurser till ett barn som är i behov av särskilt stöd.

<p>Jerlinder, Kajsa (2005): Rättvis idrottsundervisning för elever med rörelsehinder –dilemma kring omfördelning och erkännande. (Justice in Physical Education forPhysically Disabled Pupils – A Dilemma of Distribution and Recognition.) Studiesfrom The Swedish Institute for Disability Research No. 12, pp. 112. LicentiateDissertation, written in Swedish with an English abstract.The educational goal of “a school for all” creates many challenges. Issues of socialjustice and equity are central tenets of the concept of inclusive education. Despitethe goal of comprehensive education for all children, for many pupils with physicaldisabilities in an inclusive school system PE (Physical Education) teaching canresult in experiences of injustice. In the struggle to achieve social equity and createeducational experiences where disability does not matter, it seams to matter verymuch.The aim of this study is to illustrate a dilemma and its potential outcomeswhere demands for justice for pupils with physical disabilities are raised in inclusivephysical education. In the study, based on theories of redistribution andrecognition, two empirical examples are presented.The first example, in the context of the decentralisation of Swedish compulsoryschools, illustrates degrees of awareness about numbers of pupils with physicaldisabilities attending compulsory schools located in a case municipality. Foursources, with varying responsibilities for disabled children, all reported differentnumbers of pupils. Thus, with no congruent data at municipality level, distribu-tion and redistribution of necessary resources becomes difficult.In the second example of a ten year old boy with a physical disability,experiences of participation in inclusive physical education are described, fromthe perspective of five different actors (the boy himself, his PE teachers (2), hisparents, classmates, and his personal assistant).Data for this case study was gathered through interviews and systematic ob-servation. In this particular case, the outcome of inclusive PE was judged to besuccessful. The example illustrates the importance of recognition needing to befulfilled at several distributive levels. The positive outcome is discussed in terms ofthe combination of identification of particular special needs, sensitive adaptation,and general respect for the child with physical disability.Dilemmas of justice for disabled pupils in physical education are best studiedwithin a multi-level context. Recognition and redistribution demands need to besimultaneously addressed in order to fulfil the goal of equitable education forpupils with physical disabilities attending PE within the compulsory school sys-tem. An attempt to combine these different ideological approaches is discussedfrom the perspective of social status.The outcome of the two empirical examples presented in this study illustrategeneral dilemmas reaching beyond the educational challenges facing pupils withphysical disabilities and the responses of the compulsory school system to them.</p><p><img src="file:///tmp/moz-screenshot.jpg" /></p>

Syftet med avhandlingen är att ge en ”inifrån-beskrivning” av hur skolan organiserar verksamheten för elever i en särskild undervisningsgrupp. Vidare undersöker jag hur elever, pedagoger, föräldrar och elevernas tidigare klasslärare beskriver vad som utgör elevernas skolsvårigheter, i forskningsintervjuer. Slutligen belyser jag hur pedagogerna utvärderar elevernas skolproblem i en schemalagd utvärderingsaktivitet. Studien är baserad på ett fältarbete under ett år, i kombination med inspelningar av vardagliga aktiviteter och intervjuer med fem elever (7-12 år), pedagoger, föräldrar och f.d. klasslärare. I analyserna används en etnometodologisk ansats. Resultaten visar att den särskilda undervisningsgruppen osynliggörs och marginaliseras både centralt inom kommunen och lokalt i skolans verksamhet. Genomgående har eleverna lågt aktörskap i vardagliga skolaktiviteter. Ett annat resultat är att pedagogerna ständigt beskriver elevernas skolsvårigheter. Pedagogerna använder ett flertal vetenskapliga diskurser som uppgraderar och befäster problemidentiteter. Detta kan förklaras i ljuset av att det finns en osäkerhet om vilka elevernas problem är. Eleverna å sin sida positionerar sig som aktiva aktörer, och gör motstånd mot problemdefinitionerna. Eleverna undviker att formulera problem, nedgraderar tillskrivna problem och tar inte upp pedagogernas råd. Eleverna tar även alla chanser att tillskriva andra elever problem, på så vis positionera de sig som duktiga elever, vilket tolkas som ett sätt att upprätthålla självrespekt. Min avhandling understryker vikten av att i detalj studera elever i särskilda undervisningsgrupper och deras sociala kompetenser och aktörskap i vardagliga skolaktiviteter. Analysen pekar på att beskrivningar inte är neutrala, utan är sociala aktiviteter där identiteter, normer, social ordning, moraliska versioner och relationer, samt institutioner, etableras och görs motstånd mot. / The aim of the present doctoral thesis is to give an ”inside” description of how schools organize activities for students who do not fit into regular public education. Further, I explore how students, pedagogues, parents and former teachers account for the students’ school problems in research interviews. Finally, I investigate teachers’ assessments of students’ school problems in a scheduled daily evaluation activity. Data are drawn from a one-year ethnographic study, combined with recordings of everyday activities and interviews with five students (7-12 years), parents, pedagogues and former teachers. The analysis demonstrates that the special teaching group is made invisible and marginalized on different levels, both centrally in the municipality and in the context of local school activities. Students consistently show low participation and agency in their everyday activities. Another finding shows that pedagogues are constantly assessing students’ school problems, making this a central everyday activity. In so doing, the pedagogues also upgrade the students’ school problems, drawing on various scientific discourses. This can be explained in light of the insecurity that exists regarding what the students’ problems actually are. On the other hand, the students position themselves as active agents and resist problem definitions. The students avoid the pedagogues’ definitions, downgrading ascribed problems and reformulating them. Further, the students take all chances to attribute problems to other students. In this way, they position themselves as able students, which can be interpreted as a way of maintaining self-respect. Overall, the present findings underscore the need for detailed analysis of children’s social competence and agency in their everyday life in special teaching groups. My analysis demonstrates that descriptions are not neutral, but instead social activities in which identities, norms, social orders, moral versions, relationships and even institutions are established and resisted.

The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse lived experience of social categorisations such as intellectual disability, gender and age. The following overarching questions will direct the focus of the thesis, on how 13 middle-aged (aged 38-60 years) women and men who receive disability services according to the Act (1993:387) concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), describe their everyday life practices: - In what way(s) are the social categorisations disability, gender, and age expressed in the interviews? How do the participants relate their lived experience of the social categorisation in relation to arenas such as work, family, and leisure time? How can this lived experience be understood in relation to the structures and conditions that form the institutions within the disability services? With a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, the thesis is based on repeated audio- and video-recorded qualitative semi-structured interviews and field visits. The altogether 16 participants were divided into two groups: the main group consisted of 13 adults and a reference group, which consisted of 3 younger informants (aged 25-29 years). Despite political ambitions that state that people with disabilities should have opportunity to live like others, this thesis shows that their everyday life is, in fact, conditioned by institutional structures. The structures that conditions the disability services together with the social construction of disability, but also of age and gender, frames leisure time, social networks, family life, practicing partnership, mobility (especially for women), and working life – in short, these conditions their abilities to fulfil the expectations that are imbedded throughout the social construction of adulthood. The relationship with the labour force can be seen as an illustrative example: The ability to be part of a regular working force was central for the interviewees. However, the analysis showed that the work that was available for the participants, is a welfare state effort, that is situated in an intersection where a logic of care meets a logic derived from the open labour market, thereby creating a situation filled with contradictions. On the one hand, the informants felt an obligation to fulfil an almost Protestant work ethic. One the other hand, their work efforts are not acknowledged by society as work. On the one hand, daily activity is a voluntary right, on the other hand; the informants have little opportunity to relinquish this right, depending on the particular organisation of the disability services. The participants also expressed concerns about losing this work, a worry that can be seen as paradoxical in respect of their legislative right to daily activity.  The analysis has highlighted how the participants, in many situations, suffer a disadvantageous position with regard to hermeneutical resources to make sense of their experience. They also face structural obstacles to fully live an adult life. This could be described as experiencing societal norms of what one is expected to live up to, but at the same time be deprived of real opportunities to fulfil these requests – thereby, to live a contradiction. Lived experience of intellectual disability, gender and age, can therefore be considered as being a lived experience of a conditional adulthood.

<p>Syftet med avhandlingen är att ge en ”inifrån-beskrivning” av hur skolan organiserar verksamheten för elever i en särskild undervisningsgrupp. Vidare undersöker jag hur elever, pedagoger, föräldrar och elevernas tidigare klasslärare beskriver vad som utgör elevernas skolsvårigheter, i forskningsintervjuer. Slutligen belyser jag hur pedagogerna utvärderar elevernas skolproblem i en schemalagd utvärderingsaktivitet. Studien är baserad på ett fältarbete under ett år, i kombination med inspelningar av vardagliga aktiviteter och intervjuer med fem elever (7-12 år), pedagoger, föräldrar och f.d. klasslärare. I analyserna används en etnometodologisk ansats.</p><p>Resultaten visar att den särskilda undervisningsgruppen osynliggörs och marginaliseras både centralt inom kommunen och lokalt i skolans verksamhet. Genomgående har eleverna lågt aktörskap i vardagliga skolaktiviteter. Ett annat resultat är att pedagogerna ständigt beskriver elevernas skolsvårigheter. Pedagogerna använder ett flertal vetenskapliga diskurser som uppgraderar och befäster problemidentiteter. Detta kan förklaras i ljuset av att det finns en osäkerhet om vilka elevernas problem är. Eleverna å sin sida positionerar sig som aktiva aktörer, och gör motstånd mot problemdefinitionerna. Eleverna undviker att formulera problem, nedgraderar tillskrivna problem och tar inte upp pedagogernas råd. Eleverna tar även alla chanser att tillskriva andra elever problem, på så vis positionera de sig som duktiga elever, vilket tolkas som ett sätt att upprätthålla självrespekt.</p><p>Min avhandling understryker vikten av att i detalj studera elever i särskilda undervisningsgrupper och deras sociala kompetenser och aktörskap i vardagliga skolaktiviteter. Analysen pekar på att beskrivningar inte är neutrala, utan är sociala aktiviteter där identiteter, normer, social ordning, moraliska versioner och relationer, samt institutioner, etableras och görs motstånd mot.</p> / <p>The aim of the present doctoral thesis is to give an ”inside” description of how schools organize activities for students who do not fit into regular public education. Further, I explore how students, pedagogues, parents and former teachers account for the students’ school problems in research interviews. Finally, I investigate teachers’ assessments of students’ school problems in a scheduled daily evaluation activity. Data are drawn from a one-year ethnographic study, combined with recordings of everyday activities and interviews with five students (7-12 years), parents, pedagogues and former teachers.</p><p>The analysis demonstrates that the special teaching group is made invisible and marginalized on different levels, both centrally in the municipality and in the context of local school activities. Students consistently show low participation and agency in their everyday activities. Another finding shows that pedagogues are constantly assessing students’ school problems, making this a central everyday activity. In so doing, the pedagogues also upgrade the students’ school problems, drawing on various scientific discourses. This can be explained in light of the insecurity that exists regarding what the students’ problems actually are. On the other hand, the students position themselves as active agents and resist problem definitions. The students avoid the pedagogues’ definitions, downgrading ascribed problems and reformulating them. Further, the students take all chances to attribute problems to other students. In this way, they position themselves as able students, which can be interpreted as a way of maintaining self-respect.</p><p>Overall, the present findings underscore the need for detailed analysis of children’s social competence and agency in their everyday life in special teaching groups. My analysis demonstrates that descriptions are not neutral, but instead social activities in which identities, norms, social orders, moral versions, relationships and even institutions are established and resisted.</p>

This thesis set out to study the debate on circumcision of boys in Sweden. The study concerns itself with how categories and positions become rhetorical resources in the debate and how categories andpositions thus are made relevant. In order to get at what is made possible through the use of theserhetorical recourses this study has analyzed debate articles, official Swedish governmental documentsand the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Three interpretativerepertoires surfaced as distinct in this material and they are; Religious identity and belonging,medicine and the UNCRC. The analysis will therefore be structured and guided by these repertoires.As the debate is centred around the Human Rights Paradigm there is an ingrained ideological dilemmain the debate that can be explained as the tension between a Universal and a Cultural relativisticinterpretation of Human Rights. This tension will be discussed throughout the study. Severalconclusions can be drawn from the analysis: The various and contradictory positions allowed for bythe use of the UNCRC makes it an elusive tool in both theory and practice. The ideological dilemmatends to coerce the participants into opposing positions and even question the rhetorical tools utilizedin the debate. The child surfaces in various categories and at the end of this thesis the question remain;Is it a religious child or is it a child of religious parents?

Licentiate dissertation, written in Swedish with an English abstract. The educational goal of “a school for all” creates many challenges. Issues of socialjustice and equity are central tenets of the concept of inclusive education. Despitethe goal of comprehensive education for all children, for many pupils with physicaldisabilities in an inclusive school system PE (Physical Education) teaching canresult in experiences of injustice. In the struggle to achieve social equity and createeducational experiences where disability does not matter, it seams to matter verymuch.The aim of this study is to illustrate a dilemma and its potential outcomeswhere demands for justice for pupils with physical disabilities are raised in inclusivephysical education. In the study, based on theories of redistribution andrecognition, two empirical examples are presented.The first example, in the context of the decentralisation of Swedish compulsoryschools, illustrates degrees of awareness about numbers of pupils with physicaldisabilities attending compulsory schools located in a case municipality. Foursources, with varying responsibilities for disabled children, all reported differentnumbers of pupils. Thus, with no congruent data at municipality level, distribu-tion and redistribution of necessary resources becomes difficult.In the second example of a ten year old boy with a physical disability,experiences of participation in inclusive physical education are described, fromthe perspective of five different actors (the boy himself, his PE teachers (2), hisparents, classmates, and his personal assistant).Data for this case study was gathered through interviews and systematic ob-servation. In this particular case, the outcome of inclusive PE was judged to besuccessful. The example illustrates the importance of recognition needing to befulfilled at several distributive levels. The positive outcome is discussed in terms ofthe combination of identification of particular special needs, sensitive adaptation,and general respect for the child with physical disability.Dilemmas of justice for disabled pupils in physical education are best studiedwithin a multi-level context. Recognition and redistribution demands need to besimultaneously addressed in order to fulfil the goal of equitable education forpupils with physical disabilities attending PE within the compulsory school sys-tem. An attempt to combine these different ideological approaches is discussedfrom the perspective of social status.The outcome of the two empirical examples presented in this study illustrategeneral dilemmas reaching beyond the educational challenges facing pupils withphysical disabilities and the responses of the compulsory school system to them.

I projektet kartläggs elanvändningen i Uppsala kommun baserat på data från kommunens egna fastigheter. Syftet var att öka kunskapen och informationen kring hur kommunens elanvändning ser ut; dels totalt sett och dels på mer detaljerad nivå. För att få tillgång till en mer detaljerad bild över elanvändningen och se olika konsumtionsmönster kategoriserades datan utifrån verksamhet och geografi. Vidare har även projekt haft som avsikt att resulterande eldata ska kunna ligga som grund för klimat- och energisimuleringar, samt vidare forskning och arbeten inom området. Fastigheterna vars elanvändning har kartlagts ägs av olika kommunala bolag, vilka har Vattenfall AB och Eon som elleverantörer. Från elleverantörerna har eldata, i den mån den funnits tillgänglig, hämtats ut från respektive elabonnemang. Den resulterande kartläggning består av 799 olika elabonnemang, från 13 kommunala bolag av totalt sett cirka 3000 aktiva elabonnemang som existerar. Att endast 799 kunde ingå i denna kartläggning beror på sekretess- och tillgänglighetsproblematik med leverantörer. I och med detta har även en projektstruktur utvecklats med intention att underlätta för framtida, vidare, kartläggning. Projektstrukturen består av instruktioner och styrdokument för guidning. Utifrån sammanställd eldata skapades flertalet lastprofiler som exemplifierar kommunens elanvändning, både totalt sett och för olika verksamhetsindelningar. Slutligen konstateras att, trots det låga antalet tillgängliga elabonnemang, kan trender och konsumtionsmönster identifieras. Men för att få en helhetsbild och fullständig kartläggning över elanvändningen behövs register över kommunens verksamheter samt ett bättre samarbete med elleverantörer.

This essay examines how trans people experience Swedish public libraries, as well as how the library can be an integral part of their trans identity work. The data sample was collected through semi-structured phenomenological interviews with five trans and non-binary library users. The analysis of the interview data was done using the method of thematic analysis (TA), following an inductive approach. The theoretical framework focuses on five different, but connecting, concepts. Mainly, theories about intersectionality; whiteness; the heterosexual matrix; orientation; and categorization. The results of this study show that trans people use and experience the library in a myriad of different ways. It is clear, however, that all the informants look to libraries to provide them with material that they can see themselves represented in, to get a sense of validation for their gender identity. Even though the library provides this in some ways, other aspects connected to libraries function to hinder trans people in their identity work. There are several ways that libraries can improve on their services toward trans patrons, and one of these are to better facilitate meetings between different trans people through more activities catering towards this group. In short, libraries need to be mindful about this specific group both when it comes to the services they offer, as well as the physical layout of the library space. These are all aspects which affect and influence trans people and their ability to construct and express their gender identity. / Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur transpersoner upplever Svenska folkbibliotek, och dessutom hur biblioteken kan fungera som en viktig faktor i deras identitetsarbete. Dataansatsen samlades in via semi-strukturerade fenomenologiska intervjuer med fem trans- och icke-binära biblioteksanvändare. Analysen denna intervjudata gjordes med hjälp av metoden tematisk analys (TA), utifrån en induktiv ansats. Det teoretiska ramverket fokuserar på fem olika, men integrerade, koncept. Detta baserat på teorier kring intersektionalitet; vithet; den heterosexuella matrisen; orientering; och kategorisering.  Resultatet av denna studie visar att transpersoner använder och upplever bibliotek på en rad olika sätt. Det framgår dock tydligt att informanterna alla ser till biblioteken för att erhålla material de kan se sig själva representerade i för att få en känsla av erkännande av deras genusidentitet. Även om biblioteken lyckas erbjuda detta i vissa fall lyckas andra apsekter av biblioteken fungera för att hindra dem i deras identitetsarbete som transpersoner. Det finns flera sätt som biblioteken kan förbättra deras tjänster gentemot sina användare som är trans, ett av sätten vilket relaterar till att arbeta mer mot att skapa mötesrum för transpersoner genom att erbjuda mer aktiviteter som riktar sig mot denna grupp. I korthet kan man säga att bibliotek måste vara medvetna kring hur de vänder sig mot den här användargruppen, både när det kommer till vilka tjänster de erbjuder samt hur biblioteket som fysisk plats utformas. Dessa är alla aspekter som påverkar och har en inverkan på transpersoners möjlighet att konstruera och uttrycka sin genusidentitet.