Integration in municipal cultural activities – A study on organization and institutional theory. The purpose of the study is to provide knowledge on how local municipal cultural activities and civil servants understand and work with integration. The study is characterized as a case study. It is based on two selected local municipal cultural activities. Officials from each municipal cultural activities were interviewed for the paper. Documents from the cultural units and from municipal cultural units represent empirical material. The paper shows certain aspects that are important among the officials when they discuss integration in relation to cultural activities. Officials reconnect to the outside world’s importance to translate integration in relation to culture. The current social climate incorporated when cultural activities molded and planning cultural activities. It emerges from informants that new events or storytelling has been used to address the need to indorse the integration of newcomers.

This study is meant to analyse the purpose of reorganizing cultural activities within the municipal political and management organization, how such a procedure progresses, and to which extend the organizational location reflects the role of cultural activities in the municipal. To depict the procedure of reorganizing cultural activities in the municipal organization I used qualitative content analysis. When I analyse the role of culture and why the reorganization was made I used idea analysis with ideal types as a tool to contrast different reasons for the reorganization. The ideal types I used was Thomson and Svenssons institutional logics and Dorte-skot Hansens cultural-political rationalities. I came to the conclusion that the sources I have used, documents of public decisions, does not include cultural-political motivations for the reorganization, though it includes motivations about organizational location. On the other hand I received an overview of the procedures progression in Forshaga municipal.