Integration in municipal cultural activities : A study on organization and institutional theory

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