H��rda nypor f��r ett mjukt samh��lle? : Om medialisering och rasifiering i utspelspolitikens Sverige

Toughness for a soft society? On medialisation, racialisation and the politics of spin in Sweden In recent years, issues concerning the future of ���multicultural Sweden��� have become a salient feature in Swedish politics. One important actor in recent years��� debates about the problems confronting ���multicultural Sweden��� is the Swedish Liberal Party. Since the general election of 2002, the party has gained both publicity and electoral support by focusing the question of ���integration of immigrants��� in terms of assimilation and intensified demands aimed at the ���immigrant Others���. In this article, the party���s recent developments in the area of integration policy is analysed within the framework of two general processes in contemporary politics, the politics of racialisation and the medialisation of politics. The party���s successful interventions in the area of integration policy are built on an intimate as well as complex interplay between racialisation and medialisation. The agenda articulated by the party, further, has several similarities with the agenda of ���authoritarian populist��� movements throughout Europe.

Underkuvade kunskaper och genealogins m��jligheter

Subjugated knowledges and the possibilities of genealogy The article explores the possibilities of ���voicing��� marginalized subjects by analyzing letters written by female mental patients in the beginning of the twentieth century. Following Michel Foucault, genealogy is here used as a means to explore and reclaim subjugated knowledges, i.e. knowledges that have been dismissed, distorted, disqualified and put aside by more powerful and ultimately victorious knowledge claims, in this case the psychiatric discourse. Historically oriented research on madness has often explored medical and cultural discourses and representations, as these correspond to sources that can be easily found in archives. This also means that mental patients��� own narratives and texts have been more difficult to trace, partly due to the paucity of available documentation. Herein lies a challenge: how can we represent these subjects, whose stories are inevitably always already captured and filtered by authorities, without portraying them either as passive victims or reducing them to effects of power networks? The article thus ponders research ethics, the question of Otherness and the power of representations. The difficulties in representing female patients��� ���own���voices are discussed, yet the article points to the necessity of taking voices that are simultaneously in the margins and in the centre of more powerful discourses, seriously as objects of knowledge. The article argues that ���the insurrection of subjugated knowledges���, i.e. bringing back such knowledges as represented here by mental patients��� narratives, opens us otherpossibilities of knowledge. Hence, mental patients��� letters are seen as important ���fractures��� in the official and legitimized knowledge of madness, offering alternative understandings of both committed individuals and the psychiatric discourse itself.

Fr��n generell bild till individuellt ansikte : att hantera of��rst��else och stereotypt bem��tande i fyra l��gstatusyrken

From general images to individual features: managing lack of understanding and stereotypes in four low-status occupations Individuals shape an image of themselves and their surroundings in relation to how they assume that others regard them. In these situations occupation is essential. Categorizations, valuations and rewards associated with occupations are among the most fundamental instruments used for domination in the social world. Hence it is interesting to study how groups and individuals who experience low occupational status manage their social positions. This article, based upon interviews with workers in food industry, waitresses/waiters, storesmen and dustmen, analyzes how the interviewees handle low respect, here expressed as lack of understanding and stereotyping. Three different positions are distinguished, arguing that one of them implies a stronger identification with the occupation than do the other two, which to a greater extent agree with stereotyped images. In the first position, the workers disagree with stereotypes of low-status jobs as apathetic, heavy or simple, and assert that their occupation has specific values such as self-development, qualifications or advantage to society. In the second position, low recognition is avoided through little identification with the occupation. The interviewees separate themselves and who they are from their jobs, and find it ridiculous to speak about it in terms of self-development or qualifications when so many are able to do the job. In the third position, the interviewees emphasize that their own place of work is less heavy than the job in general. Through the third strategy their particular tasks are seen as exceptional and their identification with the occupation is local rather than embedded in a wider occupational identity.

Konsten att v��lja r��tt sp��rvagn : en studie av segregation, skolval och unga m��nniskors studieplaner

The art of choosing the right tram ��� A study of urban segregation, choice of school and young people���s life plans When discussing barriers to integration and young people���s choice of school, research often focuses on language skills, cultural capital, supportive environments and other more obvious, distinct and material aspects that have an impact on educational achievement. In the present study, we have instead chosen to look at how young immigrants construct their inner career landscapes and life-plans, and how this relates to their perception of ethnicity, neighbourhood and identity. The sample used here consists of altogether twenty individuals. The interviews were used to explore certain designated dimensions and processes. All interviews were conducted in the school environment, in classrooms and other locations. The students attended two different inner-city schools. A narrative-sociological approach is used in the analysis. The young people���s perceptions and narratives are analysed in relation to concepts such as: territorial stigmatization, identity, self-perception and modifications of life plans. The findings show that the feelings of otherness which originates in housing conditions, experiences of exclusion and the everyday life of many immigrants, are transposed into the school area and transformed into strategies and life plans.

Den kroppsliga differentieringens praktik : ��vervikt och n��tdejting p�� intimitetens marknad

The practice of bodily differentiation: Overweight and internet dating on the market of intimacy With the emergence of Internet dating, the procedure for choosing a partner has been radically changed. Given the initial invisibility of the body when Internet dating, one might presume that looks become less important when searching for partners online. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Based on twelve interviews with Internet daters of which six define themselves as overweight, the reproduction of bodily distinction in both mediated and direct communication is here being studied. A recurrent theme among the interviewees is the disappointment of the first date face to face. Ironically the importance of looks (or bodily capital) appears to be even more vital when dating on Internet than when building relationships ���in real life���. Besides the disappointment of the first date in real life, the obese women in this study could also gather information of their value on the market of intimacy through being met by serious harassments and in exclusively being treated as sexual objects. Despite its strong association with the physical body, bodily capital can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from other forms of capital. From this point of view, the possibility of less repressive forms of intimacy is discussed.

"Dare to share!" : Bikt, moderskap och motst��nd i Den stora mammabikten

���Dare to share!���: Confession, motherhood and resistance in The great mother confession This article explore the meaning of confession in a commercial, secular event ��� The great mother confession (TGM). The event is understood as imbedded in a therapeutic culture where emotional disclosure, in the form of confessions, is a highly valued practice. In a web-based confession-blog that constitutes part of the TGM-concept, confessions serve to free mothers from supressing norms. The blog becomes an arena for a volatile community where burdening and ���forbidden��� thoughts and emotions becomes generalised and disarmed, releasing mothers from guilt. When this function of the blog is questioned from a competing sub-discourse of the therapeutic, emphasising the disclosure of happiness, a struggle emerges over the authority to define the meanings of confession. TGM can be understood as having potential for serving as an arena for challenging norms, but even as norms are implicitly addressed the practice makes a halt at that point. Norms that are seemingly dissolved in responses to confessions are not questioned, only recognised, normalised and de-politicised.

Partnerl��s och Barnfri : Friheten och ensamheten med singelskap

Med denna uppsats har vi velat ta reda p�� hur singlar ��ver 30 ��r upplever sitt singelskap samt hur de f��rh��ller sig till att inleda partnerskap och att skaffa barn. Singel ��r ett begrepp som inrymmer m��nga olika aspekter och perspektiv. Genom individuella intervjuer har vi tagit del av 4 kvinnliga singlar och 4 manliga singlars egna upplevelser, alla ��r ��ver 30 ��r och bosatta i mellan Sverige. Vi har analyserat det empiriska materialet vi f��tt fram med hj��lp av v��r teoretiska utg��ngspunkt som ber��r modernitetens samh��lle d��r individen skapar sin sj��lvidentitet och livsstil utifr��n sin kontext. Singlarna har givit oss en bild av deras liv och deras inst��llning till den norm om parrelationer och att skaffa barn som finns i v��rt samh��lle. Det empiriska materialet vi f��tt tillg��ng till har tolkats och analyserats med hj��lp av Grounded theory. V��rt resultat visar p�� individens str��van efter k��nslan av frihet och oberoende. Singlarna ��r n��jda ��ver sin livsstil men uppger att det kan finnas en saknad av n��gon ibland. En ambivalens uppst��r mellan deras k��nsla av frihet till den ensamhet de kan uppleva. Upplevelsen av singelskapet och synen p�� partnerskap och barn mellan m��n och kvinnor visar sig inte vara s�� olik.

Attraktivt arbete i offentlig sektor bland enhetschefer inom v��rd och omsorg

HR-funktionens uppgift i en organisation ��r att tillvarata den m��nskliga resursen och se till att goda arbetsf��rh��llanden uppn��s. Detta f��r att kunna attrahera, rekrytera, beh��lla och utveckla kompetens (Kira 2003). P�� senare ��r har arbetsf��rh��llanden och arbetsvillkor uppm��rksammats p�� kommuner i Sverige f��r bland annat enhetschefer i ��ldreomsorgen. Arbetsf��rh��llandena, arbetsvillkoren och framf��r allt den h��ga personaloms��ttningen bland dessa, har lett till en problematik som var en av valets viktigaste fr��gor 2014. Syftet med denna studie ��r att beskriva arbetsf��rh��llanden f��r enhetschefer inom mindre kommuner i Sverige, inom den sociala sektorn och belysa hur dessa skulle kunna f��rb��ttras. Som studieobjekt har Orsa kommun anv��nts. Resultatet av unders��kningen visade att arbetssituationen f��r enhetschefer ��r ��verm��ktig, d�� det ��r h��g arbetsbelastning samt d��lig struktur i arbetet. Enhetscheferna sj��lva skulle gynnas av en assistent samt en arbetsbeskrivning f��r att minska arbetsbelastningen och f�� struktur i arbetet. V��r slutsats ��r att kommuner i Sverige borde arbeta med att skapa b��ttre arbetsf��rh��llanden f��r enhetschefer samt arbeta f��r att underl��tta arbetsb��rdan. V��rt f��rslag till Orsa kommun ��r att ta hj��lp av v��r handlingsplan och d��rmed anst��lla assistenter till enhetscheferna samt skapa arbetsbeskrivningar. Vidare forskning i ��mnet skulle kunna belysa mentorskapets betydelse i den offentliga sektorn inom kommuner i Sverige samt organisationsstrukturens bem��rkelse f��r arbetets attraktivitet.

Arbetsintegration- Nyckeln till frihet? : En kvalitativ studie av flyktingars visioner samt upplevelser och erfarenheterav den svenska integrations- och etableringsprocessen.

Samtidigt som integrations- och flyktingfr��gor i Sverige ��r h��gst angel��get, s�� anser vi attperspektiv fr��n flyktingarna sj��lva inte har inkluderats tillr��ckligt inom forskningen. Syftetmed den h��r sociologiska studien ��r d��rf��r att genom ett inifr��nperspektiv unders��ka ochbelysa flyktingarnas egna visioner samt upplevelser och erfarenheter av sin integrations- ochetableringsprocess, f��r att f�� f��rdjupad f��rst��else f��r en situation som kan betraktas somkomplex. Vi har utg��tt fr��n en kvalitativ metod d��r v��rt empiriska material ��r baserat p�� tiosemistrukturerade intervjuer med flyktingar som ��r deltagare i de samh��llsinsatser som f��ljerutav etableringsreformen. I analysprocessen har vi inspirerats av ett hermeneutiskt perspektivf��r att tolka materialet. Som analysverktyg har vi tagit utg��ngspunkt i en teoretisk modell avintegrationsdimensioner samt begreppet KASAM (K��nsla av sammanhang) och vi har vidarekopplat resultaten till tidigare forskning.Studiens resultat antyder om att flyktingens integrations- och etableringsprocess innefattaroch ��r beroende av m��nga olika omr��den, d��r vi kan se hur strukturella, sociala samtsubjektiva integrationsomr��den h��nger samman. Ett centralt resultat av denna studie ��r att detfinns upplevelser av att sociala dimensioner av integration b��r inkluderas i de strukturellainsatserna. V��rt material visar tydligt att spr��ket uppfattas som den viktigaste nyckeln f��rb��de strukturell och social integration, och i detta sammanhang ��nskar de flesta en meromfattande kontakt med svenskar eftersom detta lyfts fram som en mer effektiv k��lla tillspr��kutveckling ��n de strukturella insatserna ensamma kan ge.

K-pop : Diskurs och konsumtion i koreansk popul��rmusik 1996 ��� 2015

Denna uppsats unders��ker koreansk popul��rmusiks explosiva framfart fr��n slutet av 1990-talet och fram��t. Den f��rs��ker svara p�� vad K-pop och dess idoler mer specifikt har representerat och erbjudit fans att konsumera och koppla detta till dess v��xande popularitet i ett historiskt perspektiv. Vidare f��rs��ker uppsatsen svara p�� varf��r K-pop gradvis har vuxit markant fr��n slutet av 2000-talet i perifera regioner som Sverige. Uppsatsen analyserar ett urval av idolers representation i olika medier och k��llor som behandlar hur svenska fans f��rh��ller sig till K-pop. Resultaten visar att idoler historiskt och med tid mer frekvent medverkat i m��nga olika medieformat d��r de byggt upp en performativ image i relation till den r��dande diskursen som en form av sk��despeleri. Samtidigt har de idoler som f��ljt kopierat originalkonceptet till det yttersta, vilket d�� ocks�� inbegriper plastkirurgi. Detta har resulterat i en ��kning av ofta oskiljbara men visuellt vackra idoler. F��r m��nga fans s�� ligger h��r en stor del av attraktionen; m��jligheten att konstruera sin egen avgr��nsade konception av idoler f��r att fylla olika behov. F��r svenska fans s�� verkar det som att detta likas�� ��r en del av anledning till dess v��xande popularitet n��r gr��nsen mellan det verkliga och fiktiva suddas ut. Det ��r ocks�� en m��jlighet att anamma ett annat figurativt universum d��r exotiska idoler i sin allomfattande roll fritt kan konsumeras inom K-pop diskursen.

Strategier f��r presentationav arbetsprover inom grafiskdesign : hur en arbetss��kande grafiskdesigner b��st ���s��ljer sig sj��lv��� tillanst��llning

F��r att f�� dr��mjobbet inom en konkurrenskraftig bransch som grafiskdesign kr��vs det lilla extra. Syftet med denna unders��kning ��r att ta redap�� vad detta extra ��r och d��rigenom underl��tta f��r arbetss��kandegrafiska designers p�� v��gen till dr��mjobbet.Genom tre djupg��ende intervjuer med anst��llda p�� medelstora byr��er iMellansverige unders��ktes vad arbetsgivare uppskattar och f��rv��ntar sigav en arbetss��kande grafisk designer. Fr��gest��llningen behandladeportfolions framtid med branschens digitalisering som bakgrund, samthur en arbetss��kande f��ngar arbetsgivarens intresse.Resultatet visar att ��ven om portfolion utg��r en stor del av underlaget f��rrekrytering av personal, ��r personen bakom portfolion och vad den haratt ber��tta om inneh��llet det som ��r viktigast. En portfolio som intebeskriver sammanhang duger inte som marknadsf��ringsmaterial. Attv��rda det personliga varum��rket framst��r som viktigt f��r framg��ng. Dendigitala portfolion dominerar marknaden, men fysiska arbetsproverupplevs som ett m��jligt s��tt att st�� ut fr��n m��ngden. Digitala n��tverkmottas positivt av branschen, men webbplatser anses ha mer substans.

Nuets f��rn��jsamhet : en grundad teori om livsval och ��verlevnadsstrategier

Contentment in the moment ���Contentment in the moment��� is a classic grounded theory exploring safety and contentment within a small community in northern Norway. The purpose of the study was to explore the village���s everyday life from a participant���s perspective and to develop an understanding of their living conditions. We found different survival strategies, which have their roots in the village���s history of poverty, isolation and harsh climate. Today these strategies have changed from a matter of life and death to a modern psychosocial foundation of contentment. The study is based on four and a half years of observations, in-depth interviews and informal but focused conversations with people living in Polarfjorden. The data was analysed using the constant comparative method of classic grounded theory. In this article we further relate our work to more general sociological theory, more specifically to Charles Tilly���s work on reason and routines.

Ett litet ord betyder s�� mycket : Alliansregeringen, Handlingsplanen och betydelsef��rskjutningarav begreppet m��ns v��ld mot kvinnor

A little word may mean so much: Changed meanings of the concept men���s violence against women This article concerns the process of policymaking in the Swedish political system with a focus on the concept of men���s violence against women. The material analyzed is based on interviews with key civil servants and the Minister of Equality responsible for the ���Action Plan for Combating Men���s Violence Against Women��� launched by the right wing government in 2007. The article shows how a shift in the concept of men���s violence against women is achieved through complex negotiations involving the administration staff as well as the political representatives.The outcome is a change from an understanding of the issue as a structural gender power relation problem, to explaining it as related to individual deviations. This change has been made by re-wording and editing out earlier understandings of men���s violence against women as a structural gender power concern in policies and guidelines, so that the concept is framed as something pertaining to groups of vulnerable women with specific individual obstacles. The political goals are then expressed along the lines of providing support for each group���s designated problems, but the connection to gendered power structures is made invisible.

Upplysning och gr��nsdragning : en filosofisociologisk studie av den f��rsta generationen analytiska filosofer i Sverige

Enlightenment and boundary work: a study of the first-generation Swedish analytical philosophers from a sociology-of-philosophy perspective The history of Swedish analytical philosophy begins with the writings of Ingemar Hedenius, Anders Wedberg, and Konrad Marc-Wogau, who introduced the country to a new style of thinking that was to become the dominant mode of academic philosophizing in it from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s. The article presents a sociological analysis of how that hegemonic position was claimed and established for it in Swedish philosophy departments. In particular, the critique that Hedenius, Wedberg, and Marc-Wogau levelled in their popular writings against continental philosophy is looked upon in detail. Drawing upon Thomas Gieryn���s theory of boundary work, it is shown how the three strove for epistemic authority by demarcating their own ���scientific��� enterprise from the ���unscientific��� philosophy of their competitors. This quest for authority, however, was pursued not solely for its own sake: Hedenius, Wedberg, and Marc-Wogau were also all firmly committed to the ideals of enlightenment and cultural radicalism shaping the Swedish society of their time.

Kr��nika : Max Weber ��� myt och verklighet. Religion, k��rlek, pengar och politik

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