Unemployment and long term unemployment is a reality for a large number of people in Sweden. This may be the result of structural changes in the labor market, but involves a wide range of issues. Along with other actors, the social services are obliged to support the long term unemployed to find a job. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the work done by social workers towards the long term unemployed, 25-49 years old, in two municipalities. We performed altogether six qualitative interviews.

The purpose of my study is to contribute with knowledge about three teachers? view on the possibilities and difficulties to support students with intellectual disabilities insocial interaction.to get answers to my research questions in the analysis I have in my qualitative study used the theory of Fleck's model about thinking styles rooted in a socio-cultural perspective. In the study, I have used semi-structured interviews. My study shows that teacher?s way of thinking affect students' opportunities to practice social interaction. An important finding in the study was that the school management?s attitude, is of great importance for educator?s opportunities to support the students with intellectual disability in social interactions.

The purpose with this essay is to take part of the process when a family is placed on the family-institution, Trollbacken. We want to know what makes the social welfare secretaries place a family in institutional care. Has Trollbacken lived up to the social welfare secretary expectations and are the social welfare secretaries following Trollbackens recommendation regarding the follow up treatment. We also want to know to what value the social welfare secretary assigns Trollbackens investigation and are they able to see changes in the family due to the placing on Trollbacken. The method is qualitative and is based on interviews from six social welfare secretaries that work around and in West Sweden.

The purpose with our essay was to increase our knowledge about what social workers, with experience from working with drug addicts, perceive as the explanations to a person stopping the abuse and succeed in staying drug free. Our framing of the question was:- How do social workers define the term drug free?- How big a roll do the social worker believes she/he has in the process in which a person stops abusing drugs?- How do the social worker work with a person towards getting that person drug free?- What do the social worker believe to be the reason why a person stops abusing drugs?- What do the social worker perceive as helpful for a person to stay drug free?We did qualitative interviews with six social workers. Our main conclusion was that it is difficult to define the term drug free. The reason for stropping the drug abuse can vary, it can be the family situation, "hitting rock bottom", finding love or tiring.

This paper examines how recruiters use social media during their recruitment process. The paper focuses on the staffing industry and will further examine how recruiters are handling jobseekers personal privacy when they are using social media in a recruitment process. The paper are trying to understand the meaning of what personal integrity means and how or if recruiters show consideration to this in a recruitment process when they are using social media as a recruitment tool. Our result demonstrates that, today recruiters use social media daily to conduct background checks on job applicants. There are no clear instructions and rules on how recruiters should handle background checks through social media. Recruiters believe that job seekers are responsible for the information contained on the their social media.

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Bakgrund: Cancer ?r en av de vanligaste sjukdomarna och en av de vanligaste d?dsorsakerna globalt. Cancer uppst?r n?r celler v?xer okontrollerat och sprids i kroppen. Personer med cancersjukdom upplever ofta sm?rta och psykiskt lidande, vilket kan lindras genom trygghet och god v?rdrelation.

Enligt socialkonstruktivister är samhället konstruerat av människor i inter­aktion med varandra. Med hjälp av ett teoretiskt ramverk med socialkonstruktivistiska teorier söker vi i denna uppsats förstå och analysera hur manliga sistaårselever talar om kvinnor och kvinnlighet i interaktion med varandra. Ett exempel på en social konstruktion är den form som bestämmer samtal mellan människor; ordval, uttryck och idéer bakom det som sägs, men också den konstruerande egenskap samtalet har, vars innehåll formar, omformar, skapar och förkastar föreställningar och idéer i det sociala rummet. Därför anser socialkonstruktivister att könsskillnader är sociala konstruktioner. Samtalet och dess innehåll är därför viktigt i konstruerandet av skillnader mellan kvinnligt och manligt beteende.

Samtida diskursiva skeenden som en ekonomisering av det kulturella fältet och en estetisering av det ekonomiska fältet kan förklara att nya samarbetsformer mellan kultur och näringsliv möjliggjorts. Samarbetena har dock ännu inte konceptualiserats. Genom att vända blicken bort från sponsringsbegreppet och istället förstå samarbetenas dynamik skapad i samarbetet per se, möjliggörs ett perspektiv, där förståelsen samarbetenas dynamik tillåts införliva social interaktion och utveckling av attityder, värderingar, trosföreställningar och målsättningar. Utbytesrelationen kan då förknippas med andra former av utbyten än ekonomiska transaktioner, däribland kunskapsutbyte och lärande.Denna studie som syftar till att förstå samarbeten mellan kultur och näringsliv har utvecklats runt två empiriska undersökningar av samarbeten som uppfattades gå bortom sponsringsbegreppet. Fallstudierna utgjordes av samarbetet mellan S-Lab, en forskningsgrupp inom Telia och realtidskonstnärerna i Splintermind samt projektet ?Hör upp Stockholmare!?, i vilket konst- och designhögskolan Konstfack samarbetade med Gallerian, ett köpcentrum i centrala Stockholm.Tillsammans med tidigare teori och utvidgad förståelse, har tolkningen av de studerade fallen inneburit en studie i syfte att förstå samarbetenas dynamik.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilken betydelse den sociala miljön på olika platser i skolan har för elevers erfarenheter av dessa. Den sociala miljön är en miljö som i denna uppsats består av den fysiska miljön på en plats, människors interaktion med denna fysiska miljö, men också människors interaktion med varandra. I undersökningen har vi vänt oss till högstadieelever i årskurs sju och nio på en F-9 (från förskola till årskurs nio) skola i en mellanstor kommun i södra Sverige.I detta examensarbete har vi valt att använda en visuell metod, kallad fotoelicitering där eleverna fått fotografera med hjälp av sina mobilkameror platser i skolan de har positiva eller negativa erfarenheter av. Dessa foton har sedan utgjort grunden för ett samtal med eleverna, enskilt.Resultatet av denna studie visar att eleverna anser att den sociala miljön på en plats har betydelse för deras positiva eller negativa erfarenheter av denna plats. Resultatet pekar på att erfarenheterna av en plats beror på situation och vilka människor som vistas på platsen samtidigt.

Sammanfattning Föreliggande studie syftar till att ur ett pedagogiskt undervisningsdidaktiskt perspektiv skapa en utökad förståelse för två studiegruppers dynamik och individens lärpotential inom IT-stödd distansundervisning via en elektronisk lärplattform. Grundläggande faktorer som belyses i studien avser interaktion, gruppdynamik och individens lärpotential, med tonvikt på dialog och kommunikation. Respons och återkoppling från sändare och mottagare är det som utgör den aktiverande principen då den ligger till grund för förståelse i dialogen. Metoden som är en fallstudie, inspirerad av en etnografisk ansats, har baserats på en textanalys av arkiverat dokument, ur en realistiskt IT-miljö med direktinsyn i den aktuella lärplattformen där kursen har bedrivits. Dialog och kommunikation studeras tillsammans med den pedagogiska idén; det problembaserade lärandet (PBL).

This essay deals with the same task that utilitarians have tried to solve for a long time, what is happiness? In the eighteenth-century utilitarians suggested that happiness should be the base for social political decisions. But the lack of definition disposed so that GDP became the measurement of happiness, which proved to be wrong when the unhappiness continued to increase. More than two hundred years later scientists came up with a new definition of happiness and new ways to measure it. And during the last decade economists have taken the discussion to a higher level.So once again we?re dealing with the same old issue, if happiness ought to be the base of social political decisions.

The purpose with our essay was to examine which clients/patients get treatment for alcohol problems from either health care units or social service units. We also wanted to find out how staff in these units considers the importance of social background in the assessment of treatment. The questions we have focused are: How do the clients/patients get in contact with the units? How does staff in these units consider the importance of social background in the assessment of treatment? How is the social background like for the present clients/patients? To fulfil the purpose with our investigation and to get answers to our questions, we performed an explorative examination and applied a qualitative method in the form of a semi-structured interview with six persons. The investigation showed that clients/patients get in contact with the units by looking for treatment by themselves or by relatives and other organisations.

People recieving social assistance is today very common in Swedish society. Of those receiving social assistance single mothers is one ofthe largest groups. The purpose of this study is to examine how single mothers with social assistance experience themselves to be treated by social services, how this treatment affects their confidence in the social services and how they experience it is to live with social assistance. To answer the question, we use qualitative interviews with three clients. Previous research has shown that single mothers receiving social assistance experience vulnerability, and how they perceive it is affected by how they are treated by their social secretaries.

The main purpose of this study was to examine, and illustrate, highschool social workers experiences of pupils with self-injurious behaviour. Self-injurious behaviour in this study refer to individuals who harm them-selves, with physical injury as consequence, without purpose to commit suicide. A qualitativ method was used and five highschool social workers, in the south of Sweden, were interviewed.The main questions were:- What kind of experiences have highschool welfare officers of pupils with self-injurious behaviour?- What view, and personal opinion have the welfare officers at the problem, and how do this affect them in their work with these pupils.The school social workers experiences of pupils with self- injurious behaviour, were for instance that the pupils often feel ashemed over their behaviour and that they often have lowe self-esteem. The social workers seemed to imagine the behaviour as a copingstrategy.It turned out that the social workers personality and their personal opinion regarding self-injurious behaviour, were of great importance in their work with these pupils..