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Deux pères ouvriers et leurs enfants transclasses. Une analyse de La Place d’Annie Ernaux et Qui a tué mon père d’Édouard Louis
(2025-08-04) Eriksson, Simon; University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer
Ce mémoire présente une étude sociologique comparative des romans autobiographiques La Place d’Annie Ernaux et Qui a tué mon père d’Édouard Louis. Plus précisément, nous évoquons dans un premier temps la vie et surtout l’héritage social de deux pères décrits dans les récits avec la théorie de la reproduction ainsi que la notion de capital économique et culturel, identifiées par le sociologue Pierre Bourdieu. L’analyse des récits montre une origine similaire des deux pères et une vie marquée par une grande influence de l’héritage social. Bien que leur capital économique se développe différemment, leur capital culturel reste faible tout au long du récit, ce qui est lié à un manque de scolarité. Dans un deuxième temps, nous nous concentrons sur les auteurs et leurs parcours de « transclasse », un phénomène décrit par la philosophe Chantal Jaquet à travers sa théorie de la non-reproduction. Bien que les auteurs appartiennent au même genre, leur style diffère. Ernaux utilise un style plus neutre par rapport à Louis, dont les textes ont une couleur plus personnelle et plus politique. Par conséquent, la critique du père semble plutôt implicite dans le cas d’Ernaux et plus explicite dans le cas de Louis.
Modellering av nervmönster med spatiala punktprocesser
(2019-06-24) Eriksson, Simon; Källgren, Christian; Lane, Hampus; University of Gothenburg/Department of Mathematical Science; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för matematiska vetenskaper
People with diabetes can sometimes develop diabetic neuropathy, a nerve disease which can infuse numbness and pain. It has been observed that the end points of nerve fibers in the epidermis, which is the outermost living layer of the skin, appear more clustered on patients with diabetic neuropathy [7]. Attempts to model the fiber patterns have been made in the hope that at an early stage distinguish patients with risk of developing diabetic neuropathy. These nerve fibers can be described by spatial point processes.The unknown parameters of such a process can be estimated using the minimum contrast method (MCM) where the main goal of this project is to investigate how the choice of upper integration limit in MCM affects the parameter estimates. The Thomas process was chosen for this project where in addition to the examination of the integration limit in MCM we also examine if this process is a suitable choice to describe nerve fibers from patients associated with two groups. The first acts as a control group whith healthy subjects without symptoms of diabetic neuropathy. The second group consist of subjects with diabetes and mild symtombs of the disease. This is done by means of simulation and the R-package spatstat [1]. It turns out that the choice of integration limit is important and that there are some guidelines of how to make this choice to avoid the variance of the parameter estimations getting to large. Likewise, complications in selecting too large of a integration limit are present although their importance are not as prominent. Lastly we show that we can not reject that the Thomas process describes nerve fibers from the two groups.
Post-byråkrati och work life balance i kunskapsintensiv offentlig verksamhet. En fallstudie vid Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset
(2018-09-20) Eriksson, Simon; University of Gothenburg/Department of Business Administration; Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen
This essay takes its starting point from trends in contemporary working life coming from an HRM-inspired discourse which conveys that employees should take greater responsibility in terms of achieving organizations objectives. The main focus concerns how individualization trends in organizational life may affect work life balance and specifically how questions regarding these matters are perceived amongst members in the executive management at a big hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU). The essay also aims to illuminate the possible effects that organizations based on ideas of autonomy and flexibility might have related to work life balance. The conclusion are that the SU is an post-bureaucratic organization in which the control amongst the members of the executive management and for the whole organization is normative. The conclusions also states that there is an increasing risk in post-bureaucratic arrangements, that responsibility for the individuals problems with work life balance reflects back to themselves and to their own choices and decisions.
The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on Capital Structure and Risk-Taking: Evidence from Swedish Listed Companies
(2025-07-07) Johansson, Erik; Eriksson, Simon; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
Using a panel of 3,468 Swedish listed firm–year observations from 2010–2023, this thesis examines how board gender diversity affects corporate risk-taking and policy decision making. Employing OLS with industry and year fixed effects, this study observes no significant correlation between female board representation and leverage or earnings volatility, however, there exists a robust negative relationship with capital expenditures. This investment-based risk reduction is driven by independent female directors; however, there is no evidence of a critical mass threshold. Robustness and validity checks, including instrumental variables, lagged regressors, and propensity-score matching, confirm the findings of capital expenditures. This study highlights the role of gender diversity in moderating investment risk, forming governance policy, and the broader literature on board composition.