The aim of this study was to investigate whether the Swedish Institute of public health care uses paternalistic information in their alcohol publications. My intention has also been to examine to what extent the paternalistic information is being used. This is determined simply by how frequently paternalistic information is found in the publications.   I chose to analyse five publications that contain alcohol related information and had a clear motive. My results show that all five publications use paternalistic methods with the intention to change readers, or people in their surroundings, alcoholic behaviour. Though this is quite a small essay, I have suggested extended research of the subject – preferably of all 176 alcoholic publications presented by the Institute of public health care.

The purpose of this Master’s Degree is to identify and understand different techniques of argumentation in written texts originating from the religious movement Jehovah's Witnesses. The purpose is also to contribute with a theoretical and methodological framework for other scholars. The focal point of the thesis is sexuality and how the authors of the texts try to convince the members to follow the movements' doctrines in this regard. I use a modified version of the well-established grounded theory method. The material is analyzed partly with concepts introduced by Mooney in 2005 but overall the analysis is made in an unbiased way without theoretical support. Theoretical models and terms are instead used in the final analysis to understand how the different techniques of argumentation are supposed to work. These theoretical models stems from, among others,  Foucault, Meerloo, Ben-Ze'ev, Mooney, Berger och Luckmann, Granström and Rapp Young. In the Master’s Degree a great number of techniques are identified within the following five categories: Guilt, Doubt, To nurture instead of convincing, Seemingly logical arguments and Groupthinking. Within the category of Guilt the techniques play on the reader's feelings of guilt, and within the category of Doubt the techniques focus on the reader's feelings of doubt. To nurture instead of convincing is a collection of techniques with the purpose of nurturing already established notions and preconceptions among the readers. Seemingly logical arguments deals with techniques concerning semantic manipulation and lastly, techniques focused on groupthinking aims to bind the reader closer to the movement and tries to get them to reject the outside world. The goal here is for the members to achieve a state within group psychology known as groupthinking.

Historia om industrin har fokuserat mycket på den tekniska utvecklingen i stort och detta återspeglas i den allmänna historieskrivningen. På senare tid har intresset för lokal industri och mikrohistoria komma fram. Detta reflekteras i Gamla Halmstads publikationer skrivna i syfte att bevara denna del av Hallands historia. Uppsatsen analyserar hur föreningen Gamla Halmstad beskriver de lokala företagens historia, deras tekniska utveckling och arbetarnas situation i sina publikationer om Hallands industrier. Uppsatsen analyserar även hur lokal historia har skrivits för andra platser samt hur historiker har beskrivit dessa industrier, arbetarnas situation och den tekniska utvecklingen. Noterbart är att böcker skrivna av historiker från samma tidsepok lägger stor vikt på den tekniska utvecklingen men det finns också ett fokus på arbetarnas historia. Gamla Halmstads böcker liknar i mycket de industrihistoriska böcker som analyseras i forskningsläget. Böckerna har dock haft sitt fokus på företagen, främst på vad som har haft direkt påverkan på deras utveckling och ekonomi. Arbetarnas situation beskrivs ofta som en kamp mellan arbetare och arbetsgivare om arbetsförhållanden, arbetstider och löner. Böckerna ger också en viss inblick i arbetarnas liv och sociala villkor. Endast boken Med stål i trä nämner inte arbetarnas situation. Den tekniska utvecklingen framställs både i positiva och negativa termer. För en del av industrierna ledde nya tekniker och teknologier till ökad tillväxt med billigare och effektivare produktion. Samtidigt har många av de nya teknikerna och teknologierna fått företag att gå i konkurs eftersom deras produkter har blivit obsoleta. Framställningen av både arbetarnas situation och den tekniska utvecklingen stöds av bildmaterial i alla publikationer.

The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the information use in teacher education students’ degree projects. The first study is a reference analysis used to categorize the cited sources in 33 degree projects from the teacher education program at one Swedish university. The aim was to find out what types of sources were used, in particular the amount of citations to scholarly publications. The results of the reference analysis showed that the majority of sources used were text books. Scholarly publications amounted to 10% of the citations and scholarly articles were scarcely used. The second study consists of semi-structured interviews with six supervisors to gain understanding of their functions in relation to information use and to find out what judgements supervisors make of the reliability of sources. The supervisors were found to have four functions: suggest literature, refer students to the library, guide selection of sources and instruct on the use of literature. Doctoral theses, scholarly articles and research based literature are source types with a high degree of reliability according to the supervisors, while sources without a foundation in research were considered to have a low degree of reliability. The interview data was analysed using Norman Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis and the cognitive authority of source types was discussed. This thesis identifies a discrepancy between sources used by students and the supervisors’ judgements of reliable sources and the conclusion is that increased knowledge and use of scholarly publications holds a potential for teacher education and the teaching profession.

Studien granskade kvalitativt kristna samfunds textliga samhällskommuniaktion i Sverige. Grundtesen är att religiöst samhällsinflytande upplever en renässans. Om religiösa aktörer önskar samhällsförändring bör deras ambition och motivation granskas. Materialet var tidningar från Svenska kyrkan, Equmeniakyrkan, Pingströrelsen, Evangeliska Frikyrkan och Jehovas vittnen. Studien beskrev deras meningsinnehåll, analyserade deras budskap och diskuterade fynden enligt sammanhang från teorin politisk teologi av Daniel Philpott, Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah samt Joel Halldorfs teoretiska förklaringsmodeller. Tematisk granskning fann att Halldorfs förordade differentieringsmodell lämplig för Equmeniakyrkan, Pingströrelsen och Evangeliska Frikyrkan. Svenska kyrkan följde hans kontinuitetsmodell medan Jehovas vittnen följde reaktionsmodellen. Enligt politisk teologi är svensk frikyrklighet nöjda med sin autonomi från staten, enligt studien påverkar de samhället politiskt men indirekt.