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Surfing - a resonant life?
No full textThe study initially problematizes the human lifestyle, which today, contributes to major climate changes of which threaten civilizations and nature around the world. A society focused on consumption and growth not only harms the earth, but also creates major challenges for human mental health. The world, therefore, demands a change in lifestyle; one that does not destroy nature and ourselves. There are many different approaches to an alternative lifestyle. This is, however, deepening into the Danish surf culture in how surfers choose to adopt the good life. The geographical focal point for Danish surfing is located on the west coast of Jutland, known as Cold Hawaii.The investigation has a critical theoretical approach to knowledge production and has a theoretical point of origin in Hartmut Rosa's concept of resonance; which forms the basis of Rosa's normative ideal of the good life. Resonance, thus, becomes the basis of the social criticism in this study, which is crucial for a critical theoretical study.The empiricism is gathered through qualitative interviews with surfers residing in Cold Hawaii. These interviews exemplify the knowledge of surfing’s influence in the surfers' search for 'the good life'. This knowledge further forms the basis of the study; showing that surfing is of great importance to the surfers' search for 'the good life'. They achieve a resonant relationship with nature, which is primarily made possible through a flexible working life. Finally, the possibility of creating a more flexible working life for other groups in society is discussed and it is concluded doing so will require changes in the current social structure and the general understanding of work-life
High School or Technical School?
No full textI dette projekt har vi behandlet emnet valg i forbindelse med unge. Vi har undersøgt hvordan to grupper af studerende på et gymnasium og to grupper af studerende på en erhvervsskole, har begrundet deres valg af uddannelsessted. På baggrund af Thomas Ziehes teori om individualitet og fællesskab, har vi opstillet en idealtype om det kulturorienterede valg. Derudover har vi opstillet en anden idealtype om det rationelt orienterede valg på baggrund af rational choice teorien, operationaliseret i relation til uddannelsesvalg med relativ risikoaversion. Ud fra disse idealtyper har vi analyseret på baggrund af vores empiriske data. Først og fremmest har vi analyseret i forhold til gymnasieeleverne og derefter i forhold til erhvervsskoleeleverne. Ud fra disse analyser har vi fundet forskellige overordnet emner. Til sidst har vi koblet de analyser, vi lavede ud fra de to grupper af elever sammen til en diskussion. Vi kan konkludere, at gymnasieeleverne tager valg primært begrundet gennem det sociale liv på uddannelsen og baseret på værdierne prestige og penge, som deres fremtidige jobs kan give. Erhvervsskoleeleverne har begrundet deres valg af uddannelse primært med argumentet om, at lave hvad de har lyst til, og noget som de har interesse for. I forbindelse med udefrakommende faktorer har forældre været en vigtig faktor for gymnasieeleverne, imens det for erhvervsskoleeleverne primært var via vejledere fra deres tidligere skoler.In this thesis we have addressed the subject choice in connection with young people. We have studied how two groups of students in a high school and two groups of students on a technical college have reasoned why they make decisions. Based on Thomas Ziehes theory about individuality and community, we have formulated an ideal type about the culture oriented choice. Furthermore we have formulated another ideal type about the rational oriented choice based on rational choice theory, further investigated through the relative risk aversion hypothesis. From these ideal types we have analysed on our empirical data. First of all we have analysed in connection with the high school students, afterwards the students from the technical college. From these analyses we found various topics. At last we have connected the two groups of students and devised a discussion. We can conclude that high school students makes choices mainly reasoned through having a social life at their education and based on the prestige and money their future jobs can provide. The students at the technical school reasoned their choices of education mainly through the argument of doing what they want to do and doing something that they have interest in. In providing help for the students in choosing, the parents were an important factor for the high school students, while the students at the technical school mainly found help in making choices from education counselors at their former schools
The controversy about the HPV-vaccine: A report on why so many people go against the Danish Health Authority and choose not to get the vaccine against HPV and which controversies that occur between the involved parts
No full textI dette projekt undersøges kontroversen om HPV-vaccinen ud fra problemformuleringen: Hvorfor fravælger mange Sundhedsstyrelsens anbefalinger om at lade sig vaccinere mod HPV i Danmark, og hvilke aktanter og alliancer har været involveret i og påvirket kontroverserne omhandlende vaccinen?HPV-vaccinen blev godkendt af Sundhedsstyrelsen i 2006, og siden har vaccinen været udsat for både stor efterspørgsel og stor kritik, med et stort fald i andelen af piger, der lader sig vaccinere. For at undersøge udviklingen i modtagelsen af HPV-vaccinen, kortlægges, ud fra Aktør-Netværk-Teorien og tilhørende begreber, hvilke aktanter, der danner alliancer i HPV-vaccinens netværk, og hvilke kontroverser vaccinen står overfor. Yderligere undersøges, hvilke strategier, der har været i brug i kontroversen om vaccinen, og den historiske udvikling af forholdet mellem patient og sundhedsvæsen og tilliden dertil.Ud fra disse undersøgelser kan det konkluderes, at valget af strategi til dannelse og stabilisering af netværk er vigtigt i kontroversen om vaccinen. Når antallet af vaccinerede falder drastisk, viser det, at modstanderne af vaccinen har benyttet strategierne bedre end sundhedsvæsenet.This study examines the controversy about the HPV vaccine based on the problem statement: Why do girls deselect the Danish Health Authority’s HPV vaccine recommendation, and which actors and alliances have been involved in and influenced the controversies of the vaccine?The HPV vaccine was approved in Denmark in 2006 and since then it has been both very popular and very criticized and further the number of girls getting vaccinated is decreasing. To examine the development of the acceptance of the vaccine, the Actor-Network Theory is used to analyze which actors that form alliances in the network of the HPV vaccine and which controversies it is confronted with. Furthermore, the strategies used are examined together with the historic development of the relation between the patient and the health authorities and the trust thereof.From these studies, it is concluded that the choice of strategy to create and stabilize the network is vital. When the number of vaccinated girls decrease drastically it shows how the opponents of the vaccine has used the strategies better than the health authorities.<br/
Citizenship & Participatory Parity for Citizens with Disabilities in Denmark 2009-2019
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to examine how two different Danish national newspapers portrayed rights of citizens with disability throughout the years 2009 to 2019. The paper examines this portrayal through the concepts of T. H. Marshall’s theory of citizenship in a welfare state, and Nancy Fraser’s theory of participatory parity as an ideal for social justice. The analysis samples 24 articles from each newspaper in the years 2009, 2014 and 2019, in total 144 articles across the three selected years. These articles have been coded, with the intention of finding general tendencies within the topics and ways of portraying the research subject. The paper reaches the conclusion, that the newspapers portrayal of rights is not consistent with the circumstances of citizens with disability in Denmark. Therefore, Marshall’s idea of a full citizenship is not fulfilled, and Fraser’s theory of social justice remains incomplete
How the youth party during the covid-19 pandemic: a study about being young in 2020
No full textDette projekt undersøger hvordan unges festpraksis i Storkøbenhavn er påvirket af de covid- 19-tiltag, som myndighederne har udstedt i løbet af 2020. Disse anses som problematiske at overholde i den etablerede fest- og drukkultur blandt unge, hvor druk, nærvær og social sam- vær, ses som vigtige elementer i praksissen. Ved brug af praksisteori, stigmabegrebet, samt afvigelsesperspektiver og ‘lovfølgeteori’, undersøger opgaven, i hvilket omfang unge har op- levet, at myndighedernes håndtering af covid-19 har påvirket deres festliv. Der er udført 12 semistrukturerede interviews med unge i alderen 18-24, som har deltaget i privatfester i løbet af 2020. Undersøgelsen viser at praksissen til privatfester ikke har ændret sig markant, og at der kun er sket få justeringer i deres adfærd. I det offentlige rum forsøger de unge, så vidt muligt, at overholde retningslinjerne, da de ikke vil stemples som hensynsløse smittespredere. Det er et gennemgående tema, at de unge har dårlig samvittighed over at bryde retningslinjerne til privatfester, men samtidig opfatter interviewpersonerne det også urealistisk at overholde retningslinjerne til privatfester. Alt dette peger på, at det sociale fællesskab i festerne vægtes højere, end at følge retningslinjerne
The competitive state's organization of primary schools in Denmark
No full textI dette projekt vil vi undersøge velfærdsstatens udvikling til en konkurrencestat i Danmark og dertil undersøge, om denne udvikling kan spores i organiseringen af folkeskolen gennem de sidste 25 år. Dette vil vi gøre ved hjælp af en dokumentanalyse af folkeskolereformen med fokus på ændringer i formålsparagraffen. Endvidere vil vi kigge på den seneste folkeskolereform for at se, om ændringerne i denne kan ses som en tegn på, Danmark er blevet mere konkurrenceorienterede. Hertil vil vi diskutere, om denne udvikling har påvirket eleven i folkeskolen, og hvorfor politikerne har følt et behov for at disse ændringer i folkeskolereformen. Til denne diskussion vil vi bl.a. inddrage Hartmut Rosas teori om højhastighedssamfundet, da vi mener, den er relevant i forhold til diskussionen om individets påvirkning af udvikling i statens organisering af folkeskolen. In this project we will examine the welfare states’ development towards a competitive state in Denmark. We wish to study whether this development can be seen in the organization of the primary schools throughout the last 25 years. This will be done by a document analysis of the primary school reform with a focus on the changes in the object clause. Furthermore we will look at the latest school reform to see if the changes are indicating that Denmark is becoming more competitive. Additionally we will discuss if this development has had an influence on the student in the primary schools, and why the politicians have felt the need to implement these changes to the school reform. For this discussion we will use Hartmut Rosas theory of the high speed society, as we believe it is relevant in this context to discuss whether the individual is influenced by the states’ organization of the primary schools. <br/
Subject positionings in Danmark Indsamling 2016
No full textDette projekt ønsker at analysere, om der eksisterer subjektpositioner i Danmarks Indsamling 2016, og om hvorvidt disse subjektpositioner hænger sammen med den postkolonialistiske forståelse.Første del af projektet består af det redegørende teori, som projektets analyse bygger på. Den postkolonialistiske teori er baseret på Edward Saids Orientalisme, Matthew Hugheys The white savior trope samt Jagten på det eksotiske, der tilsammen danner grundlaget for projektets postkoloniale forståelse. Diskursteorien i projektet bliver bygget på Michel Foucaults og Ernesto Laclaus teori, hvilket også er teorien bag projektets diskursanalyse.Første del af analysen består af en diskursanalyse, hvor fem udvalgte sekvenser fra Danmarks Indsamling vil blive analyseret ud fra fem begreber fra henholdsvis Ernesto Laclau og Michel Foucault. Nodalpunktet hjælp bestemmer, hvilket udgangspunkt de enkelte sekvenser ses ud fra. Sekvenserne bliver hver analyseret ud fra ækvivalensleddene: Gavmildhed, Nytter det?, Medlidenhed, Selvstændighed og Hjælperen, og en række flydende betegnere fra hver sekvens. Disse indgår i en samlet analyse af konstruktionen af subjektpositioner, der indgår i diskursen.I anden del af analysen diskuteres subjektpositionerne ud fra postkolonialistiske temaer. Analysen af subjektpositionerne viser en klar adskillelse mellem positioneringen af giverne og modtagerne som henholdsvis aktive handlende subjekter og passive afhængige objekter, der omtales i diskussionen om dem men aldrig høres.3Positioneringen er udtryk for en stadig Vestlig dominans af de tidligere koloniserede, på trods af at denne dominans i dag viser sig ved velvilje og det Hughey kalder for en accepteret hvid paternalisme. I projektet forsøger vi at afholde os fra en vurdering af det rigtige og forkerte eller gode og dårlige positioneringer. Derimod diskuteres de konsekvenser, der viser sig ved de subjektpositioner der konstrueres i diskursen.This study is an analysis of subject positions in the television program, Danmarks Indsamling 2016, and whether these are related to the postcolonial understanding.The first part of the project is a explanation of the theories used in the analysis. The theories include the postcolonial theories of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Matthew Hughey’s The white savior trope and Jagten på det eksotiske. The discourse analysis of this project is based on Michel Foucault’s og Ernesto Laclau’s theories on discourses.The first part of the analysis, is a discourse analysis of five selected sequences of Danmarks Indsamling 2016. It analyses the construction of subject positions and is based on five concepts from the discourse theories of Laclau and Foucault. The second part of the analysis, is a discussion of the subject positions, in regards to themes and concepts of the postcolonial theories.The study concludes the existence of a clear deffirens between the positioning of the giver as an active and executive subject and the receiver as a passive dependant. We further conclude, that this positioning is an expression of a western dominance of the postcolonial world, and that this dominance is expressed through accepted white paternalism
Citizenship and Ethnic Minority Girls
No full textDenne rapport er udarbejdet på baggrund af den følgende problemformulering: Hvorledes udfordrer det etniske minoritetspigers muligheder for at blive medborgere, hvis de går i en gymnasieklasse med en overrepræsentation af etniske minoritetsunge? Projektets besvarelse af denne problemformulering tager udgangspunkt Grete Brochmanns udlægning af medborgerskabsbegrebet og Helle Hinges forståelse af uddannelsesinstitutionernes rolle i elevernes medborgerskabsdannelse. Ydermere er stigmateori af Erving Goffman og netværksteori af Robert Putnam en del af rapportens teoretiske afsæt. Disse teorier bearbejder den producerede empiri, der er udvundet via henholdsvis et fokusgruppeinterview og et semistruktureret interview. Besvarelsen vil blive struktureret i en todelt analyse, hvortil første analyseafsnit har udgangspunkt netværksteori, og andet analyseafsnit analyserer ud fra medborgerskabsbegrebet. Stigmateorien er gennemgående i begge afsnit. Pointerne i disse to afsnit vil blive diskuteret i henhold til at besvare problemstillingen. Projektet konkluderer, at der forinden pigernes skolestart har været tilknyttet et stigma til etniske minoriteter på gymnasiet, som har påvirket pigernes muligheder for netværksdannelse, hvilket har udmøntet sig i en forskelligartet gruppeidentitet i klassen. Dette har ultimativt hæmmet pigernes medborgerskabsdannelse, og deres medborgerskabsfølelse. Afslutningsvist vil projektet indeholde en perspektivering, i henhold til en ekspertgruppes forslag til, hvordan klasser med en overrepræsentation af etniske minoritetsunge kan forebygges. This project is developed from and will focus on the following: In which way are the possibilties of ethnic girls becoming citizens influenced by attending a class with an overrepresentation of ethnic minorities? The outline of the project, is mostly drawn from Grete Brochmanns interpretation of the citizenship theory, and Helle Hinges interpretation of educational institutions role in the students development of citizenship. Furthermore the project will include stigma theory by Erving Goffman and network theory by Robert Putnam. These theories processes the empirical outcome of to respective interviews; a focus-group interview and semi-structured interview. The paper will have a two-part analysis section, in which the first part will focus on the theoretical term of citizenship, while the second section will focus on the network theory. Stigma theory will be a part of both analysis sections. Furthermore the conclusions in the analysis will be discussed in relation to answering the objective of the project. This paper concludes, that there has been a stigma towards ethnic minorities before the interview persons attended the school, which has affected their social networking, which has thus resulted in a differentiated group identity in the class. This has ultimately inhibited the girls’ feeling and development of citizenship. This paper will end on a note of perspective, in which a proposal from an expert group discusses how to tackle classes that has an overrepresentation of ethnic minorities
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