In this paper we examine the view of mental illness is in a male dominated organization and what strategies are used to handle mental illness by the organization and the individual. We conduct semi structured qualitative interviews with persons who have in some way been in contact with mental illness within the organisation, we then encode our material from a themed analysis. We analyze the material and illustrate our problem area on the basis of Erving Goffmans theories of interaction and on R.W. Connells theory of hegemonic masculinity. We also show how previous studies of how men seek help for mental illness can help to enlighten our research area.

The essay deals with questions concerning the reasons, difficulties and subjects for rejoicing which various people experience when visiting "voluntarily" old, lonely people in the congregation of Trollhättan. What knowledge is developed and which values are formed? How is aging and solitude experienced? The visits are co-ordinated by two lay workers employed by the Swedish Church. The study is built on oral interviews in April and May 2003 from a questionaire using open questions. The research group consists of six women between 65-80 of age with 1-30 years´ experience.Inner reasons, contact with other people in similar situations, positive responses to visits, and meetings in the visiting service group seem to be the principal driving forces.

The purpose is to illustrate the phenomenon of self-harm from a social psychological and sociological perspective. The purpose is furthermore to examine the role social relationships play in the individuals´ self- imagine and what role does identification play for anyone who harm themselves? We want to examine in what way social relationships are important and how they function for individuals who harm themselves, both once they have started to harm themselves, and if the relationships in any part caused the cutting to begin with.Questions:How do individuals shape their identity based on self- harm? Which self-image do individuals have who self-harm? Is there anything in the person's previous social relationships that have caused them to begin to hurt themselves?Method:In this paper we have analyzed five autobiographies. We have used open coding from grounded theory as analytical method and subject positions based on discourse analysis.Theory:We have used the Cooley concepts looking glass self, Foucault's theory of power, Giddens' concept of ontological security and existential anxiety.Results and Analysis:We found six different categories that we thought were central. These were negative self-image, guilt, lack of family support, negative experiences of others' views, the protective identity as self- harmer and insecure social relationships in school.Conclusion:The self-harming is a very complex behavior.

The goal with this master thesis has been to evaluate and to examine the stationary resistance bridge. The resistance bridge uses a 4-point measuring to determinate the resistance, which is used in the manufacturing of the conductor. It is then used when the resistance is to be decided for coarser aluminium conductors. A conductor has to fulfil certain demands to be able to move forward in the process. One of these demands is the resistance in ohm/km, which has demands that the measure values of the resistance bridge are as true and precise as possible. The stationary resistance bridge had been examined through various kinds of measurements to be able to see how stable the system is and how to obtain a measure value as optimized as possible.

The focus of this research is to investigate how the client's emotions can affect the social worker and how the social worker manages these feelings in order to make the right decisions. We have used a qualitative approach in our investigation. We have interviewed six social workers at social welfare bureaux in southern Sweden. Our theories are ?Nai?ve Theory? and ?Affect Theory?.

AbstractInformation and information seeking have always been important parts of society. How behavioural patterns of information seeking manifest themselves are partly due to individual prerequisites and partly due to the practice where the seeking of information is conducted.The aim of this study is to investigate a group of newly examined physicians? experiences of information seeking behaviour in their educational practice and in their professional practice. The two practices are related to each other but still very different. This makes it interesting to study whether individuals? information seeking behaviour changes when they move from the educational practice to the professional.The theoretical framework for the current study is a socio-cultural one.

Intimate partner violence against women has gone from a concealed family affair to a public issue. The health care services are often those who first come in contact with abused women, despite this many women are not identified as victims of domestic violence. The purpose of this study was to describe nursing care of abused women and factors influencing the care. The study was conducted as a literature review where 18 articles were analyzed. The result showed the importance of the nurses? role in screening for abused women.

The education curriculum states that one of the tasks for schools and preschools are to promote gender equality by discouraging traditional gender roles. Gender equality is therefore a part of the fundamental values of the education system. In order to be able to work with the issue of gender equality, the employees need help and further education. Therefore some schools and preeschools contact a teacher specialized in gender equality work.In this essay I have chosen to do a field study of such a teacher at work during different workshops with nurses and teachers. The aim is to examine how she discusses gender ideas and what discussions arises from the meetings with the attendents.

This paper is a degree project on the C-level, 15 points at University West, Department of Business and IT dept. Informatics. This study is about agile methodology and its impact on IT projects. Requirements management is a process within an IT project, where customer has certain requirements that must be met by an IT system. The difference between the traditional and agile development is in the requirements management process and it can cause problems in a project.

I Sverige amputeras cirka 2500 personer varje år, 80 procent av dessa beror på cirkulationsrubbningar, andra orsaker kan vara trauma eller olycka. Vi lever genom våra kroppar och när kroppen förändras kommer även livsvärlden att förändras. När en person genomgår en plötslig amputation påverkas personens välbefinnande och det blir också en omtumlande upplevelse att tvingas in i en ny livssituation, då arbetsliv, sociala livet och personliga livet påverkas av skadan. Då sjuksköterskans uppgift är att främja patientens hälsa och minska dennes lidande, är det viktigt att han/hon vet hur det är att ha drabbats av en plötslig amputation och hur patientens livsvärld har förändrats. Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva hur patienter upplever att livsvärlden förändrats efter en plötslig amputation.

Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie vars syfte är att skapa en djupare förståelse i hur det är att leva med en ätstörning och vad det betyder för den drabbade. Vårt material har vi samlat in genom intervjuer med sju kvinnor som har levt med eller lever med en ätstörning. Vi kom i kontakt med kvinnorna genom den ideella föreningen, Ab-kontakt, där fyra av de intervjuade kvinnorna arbetade som stödjare för personer med ätstörningar. De hjälpte i oss i sin tur att få kontakt med de resterande tre kvinnorna. I vår uppsats har vi valt att koppla vårt resultat till Webers målrationella handlingsteori, Giddens reflexivitetsteori, Durkheims teori om anomi samt Parsons teori om sjukdomsrollen och dess påverkan på individen.

Holy war against the aberration and the newspaper terrorismHeligt krig mot förvillelsen och tidningsterrorismen This paper explores Bernhard von Beskow?s (1796-1868) conservative critique of the, for the early 19th century, new dominating voice in public matters namely the liberal press. There are competing narratives about the emerging liberal press and its critics. On the one hand the conservative critics were seen as hopeless reactionaries which acted against freedom of the press, themselves stripped of positive ideals and/or handled with little interest as footnotes in the great story of the liberal victory over its opponents. On the other hand this story has been questioned and an alternative has been presented of how to understand the conservatives and their critique of the press.

Syftet med studien är att utifrån en diskursanalys undersöka hur socionomstudenter resonerar kring huruvida en tidigare dömd person är lämplig att utbilda sig till och arbeta som socionom. Studiens frågeställningar berör frågor kring hur olika bilder av en tidigare dömd person konstrueras, vilka diskurser som därmed framträder och vad dessa diskurser säger om personens yrkeslämplighet. Vidare undersöker studien hur de olika diskurserna förhåller sig till varandra och vilka konsekvenser det får.Detta är en kvalitativ studie utifrån ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv, med en integrerad form av diskursanalys som teoretiskt perspektiv och metodologiskt tillvägagångssätt. Informanterna bestod av studenter på socionomprogrammet vid Göteborgs Universitet som i en fokusgruppsintervju fick diskutera tidigare dömda personers lämplighet att arbeta inom socialt arbete.Studien visar att socionomstudenterna i sitt samtal kring tidigare dömda personers lämplighet förhåller sig till framförallt tre olika diskurser, vilka i uppsatsen är döpta till ?den latenta förövaren?, ?förövaren i oss alla? och ?den betalande förövaren?.

Bakgrund: Det har blivit vanligare att personer som befinner sig i livets slutskede vårdas med palliativ hemsjukvård, vilket medför att närstående blir involverade i vården. Den kommande förlusten av en familjemedlem kan leda till en stor utmaning och familjen måste hitta en balans mellan förändring och stabilitet för att klara vardagen. Syfte: Syftet med litteraturstudien var att belysa närståendes upplevelser när en person vårdas i livets slutskede i hemmet. Metod: I litteraturstudien har 13 kvalitativa empiriska studier sammanställts och analyserats med hjälp av Forsberg och Wengströms analysmetod. Artikelsökningen utfördes i databaserna PubMed och Cinahl.

The personal brand derives from the marketing brand, and argues that a person can take control over other people?s perceptions about him or her. The personal brand can benefit the person but it can also give advantages to his or her company. The interest in, and the purpose of the personal brand, has increased the last ten years. Leaders of large companies in Sweden consider it to be of utmost importance to have an influence on their co-workers.