The aim of this study was to describe and analyse the constructions andinterplay of gender, ethnicity and sexuality between female and male careworkersand residents in a nursing home. To explore this from a qualitativeeveryday life?s approach, material was collected through participating observations,interviews, and informal conversation with careworkers and residents.The result points out that historical patterns of gender and caring relatedto this context still matter and affect both careworkers and residents. Forexample, female careworkers talked about the concept of caring as a genuinefemale experience, while male careworkers, who were in a minority, insteadtalked about caring in more gender-neutral words. The result also indicatesthat a larger number of male careworkers not necessarily leads to a highergrade of gender equality.

Syftet är att pröva genomförbarheten av postmoderna ideèr som medarbetarskapstankarna i en maskinbyråkrati utifrån medarbetarskapsteorier. Jag syftar även bedöma möjligheterna att införa medarbetarskap med hänsyn till kontexten och ställa denna bedömning mot att istället införa ett traditionellt belöningssystem enligt teorier för empowerment vilket förväntas vara tillrättalagt i maskinbyråkratin.Undersökningen utgår från medarbetarskapsteorier som ett normativt begrepp om vad ett önskvärt och gott medarbetarskap är samt från begreppet empowerment. Tidigare forskning berör förutsättningar för medarbetarskap i postmoderna organisationer, utifrån medarbetarskapsteori.En kvalitativ forskningsansats har använts i form av semi-strukturerade intervjuer med nio medarbetare och tre chefer. Resultatet har sedan analysertas med hjälp av analytiska verktyg hämtade från medarbetarskapsteori, samt utifrån teorier som berör empowerment och belöningssystem.Empirin påvisade fyra utmärkande särdrag för maskinbyråkratin som bromsar upp medarbetarskap i den studerade kontexten. Dessa är uttalad avhållsamhet att delge medarbetarna ekonomisk information, vältrimmad arbetsspecialisering, styrda arbetsuppgifter och kontroll av hur det operativa arbetet utförs.

 ABSTRACTBackground: There are many studies of stretching and its effects on the body. Research shows that stretching can have both positive and negative effects on the body. Meantime there are no qualitative studies on stretching and how the opinion of stretching is among soccer players. Female soccer players are a group that is rapidly growing and that is injured to a great extent.Purpose: To describe stretching exercising female soccer players? opinion of stretching.Method: Ten stretching exercising female soccer players over fifteen years of age from two teams were interviewed in a semi-structured interview.

I dag förväntas individen ha empowerment, ?egenmakt?, att själv göra hälsosamma beslut kring kost som är bra för den egna hälsan. Till hjälp finns många kostbudskap vars kvalitet kan vara svår att kontrollera. Hälsoinspiratörer är en kategori individer som aktivt söker och mottar kostbudskap. Kostbudskapen kommuniceras av flera olika sändare, exempelvis media, men även från andra individer i omgivningen.

I den här uppsatsen studeras vilken betydelse och funktion ett specifikt boendestöd har åt psykiskt funktionshindrade personer, specifikt åt personer med funktionshindret Aspergers syndrom. Uppsatsen tar också upp boendestödjarnas perspektiv på verksamheten och deras arbete. Detta gjordes för att få en breddare förståelse kring vilken betydelse den här verksamheten har. Brukare fick delta i en enkätundersökning och kvalitativa intervjuer genomfördes med personalen och en brukare. Genom det insamlade materialet fick jag ta del en mängd intressanta tankar och åsikter kring boendestödet, det visade sig också att diagnosen roll var en central problematik för så väl brukare som personal.

Our purpose has been to review and analyse the representation of rape, as well as discussions concerning rehabilitation, present in texts targeted at professionals and/or female victims of rape. We wish to investigate whether female victims of rape themselves are given the opportunity of individual positioning with regard to the crimes they have been exposed to. We consider it to be of relevance that female victims of rape themselves are given the opportunity to act, react and feel individually in the context in which they find themselves, without judgement or certain expectations on how to act being dealt to them from their surroundings. Our research questions have been as follows; what views of the phenomenon that is rape are presented in the texts? Do the texts apply any specific theoretical analysis aimed at the possible explanations of the phenomenon that is rape? In what ways do the texts present the significance of rape for the female rape victim? How are the victims feelings of disgrace, guilt and disgust with regard to rape explained, are these reactions linked to the understanding of female sexuality? How are methods of the rehabilitation of female rape victims presented in the texts? Do the texts render possible any other/varying subject positions as a female rape victim? To answer these research questions we have applied a critical discourse analysis on our selection of texts and thereafter made a connection to relevant theory.

The purpose of this media scientific study is to contribute to a better understanding about how blind people?s empowerment and participation may affect their role in the digital society.Earlier international studies in this area have shown that blind people not only need more knowledge then the seeing population about the computer, but also about the technology behind their tools for using Internet. The results from these studies have also shown that Internet increases the blind people?s independents and that those who use Internet feel more involved in the society.A qualitative method was chosen to study the three most common categories from the earlier studies: knowledge of technology, empowerment and participation. Are there differences in the results compared to our study in Sweden 2014?Interviews with eight blind, experienced computer users have shown that knowledge of technology is essential for their use of Internet and that the Internet increases their empowerment and their participation.

The purpose of the study is to investigate the significance of organizing social- cooperative in relation to individual empowerment; and how this empowerment can be used to better the situation of others. Young surfers is a social- cooperativ that is run by cooperators with experience of substance abuse and criminality. The social- cooperativ is built on the premise that the cooperators are to set up and run a screen-printing shop where they will print t-shirts and sweatshirts. The purpose of this business is that the cooperators are given the opportunity to work and that youths with social problems such as substance abuse and criminality are given the opportunity to work-train. My study is comprised of a series of interviews and observations that I have conducted in relation to the cooperators of Young Surfers.

The aim of our study was to investigate how much self-determination persons with intellectual disabilities living in group-homes have when it comes to recreational activities. We studied what the recreational activities looked like, if there was any self-determination concerning recreational activities and which factors influenced self-determination for persons with intellectual disabilities. We used qualitative interviews with persons with intellectual disabilities, next of kin and personnel at group-homes. The result has been analyzed from earlier research, central concepts as self-determination and recreational activities and the theory of empowerment. The most important results that emerged in our study were; that recreational activities for persons with intellectual disabilities varied substantially, that there is a large number of to recreational activities available and no one seemed directly displeased with their recreational activities.

The purpose of this study was to examine how school counselors in a specific municipalityviewed their work situation, if they experienced stress and how they would handle that stress.Five school counselors out of eight in the specific municipality participated in qualitativeinterviews where they could describe their feelings and thoughts. Their experiences wasexamined and analyzed with the theories of coping and empowerment. The results showedthat there were unhealthy levels of stress in the profession amongst the five counselors. It alsoshowed that the uttermost reason for the experienced unhealthy stress was the feeling of notbeing able to give as much time and help to the pupils as they want and need. The reason forthis was that an increasing number of pupils were, and are, experiencing unhappiness and arein need of seeing the school counselor.

Titel: Psykologiskt Empowerment: En kognitiv resa genom relationer och arbetskontextFörfattare: Niklas Hansson och Niklas JohanssonHandledare: Pia Ulvenblad och Ingemar WictorNyckelord: Psykologiskt Empowerment, PE, Arbetskontext, RelationerSyfte: Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen kring psykologiskt empowerment (PE), genom att studera kopplingen till relationer och arbetskontext.Problemformulering: Hur kan uppfattad nivå av PE kopplas till arbetskontext och relationer?Metod: En kvalitativ metod har använts och fyra fallstudier har gjorts på organisationer med varierande branschtillhörighet, vilket gjorts för att maximera skillnaderna mellan fallen. Primärdata kommer från individuella intervjuer, vilka kompletterats med tillhörande frågeformulär och som gjort upplevda nivåer av PE kvantifierbara.Teoretisk referensram: Den teoretiska referensramen utgörs av klassiska PE-teorier tillsammans med beståndsdelarna av konceptet, för att forma basen. Detta kombineras med nyare PE-teorier kopplade till både arbetskontext och relationer, men även kortfattat vilka beteendemässiga utfall som kopplas till PE. Författarna har valt att fokusera mindre på eventuella utfall kopplat till PE, då dessa funnits i tidigare forskning, men inte kan negligeras helt, då det kan tyckas absolut väsentligt att på något sätt ta upp vad som är positivt och negativt kopplat till konceptetSlutsats: Både arbetskontext och relationer tycks kunna kopplas till uppfattad nivå av PE.

Sma?rta a?r det vanligaste symtomet fo?r vilket ma?nniskor so?ker va?rd. Trots o?kad kunskap inom sma?rthantering fortsa?tter underbehandlad sma?rta vara ett problem. Att utsta? sma?rta a?r en obehaglig upplevelse och sjuksko?terskor har en betydande roll i sma?rtbehandlingen och ska lindra patienters lidande.

Reptiles are animals than have been neglected in the research for all times. Some people have the opinion that these animals have fewer needs and demand less from their caretakers. The Aldabra Giant Tortoise lives on the Aldabra atoll outside the coast of Tanzania. The Aldabra tortoise population has varied throughout the years, but today the population is around 100.000 animals. The purpose of this study was to analyze the enclosure utilization of two Aldabra tortoises, a male and a female, at Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna, Sweden.

This thesis is an attempt to understand how the traditional female gender identity is constructed and what kind of structures that are maintaining it. I also study how this identity is reflected in young women's conception of themselves and in their views upon whether they should sign in to the military service or not.The theoretical framework that I use mainly consists of theories about gender construction, male dominance and the woman's role in the nation-state.The purpose of using this theoretical approach is to illustrate that the traditional female gender identity consists of characteristics that are in opposition to the male ones. The woman should be weaker, less aggressive and more caretaking than men- in sum she is defined as the Other. The structures that constructs this identity is the male dominance, also known as the gender system and the patriarchy.This traditional female gender identity and citizenship role that historically has been allotted to women in the nation-state is still today very vivant in Sweden and is reflected in the fact that the military service is optional for women. Certain parts of this identity is also reflected in the young women that I interview, in their sense of probably not fitting in to the military service, because of their sex and the characteristics discussed above, that are associated with it..

De senaste decennierna har begreppen empowerment och välbefinnande fått allt större utrymme i samhällsvetenskapen. I massmedia och inom den ekonomiska professionen har intresse gällande individers hälsa och organisationsförändringar i form av effektivisering av organisationsstrukturen dramatiskt ökat. Ett resultat av detta är individens ökade medvetenhet gällande deras välbefinnande. Även organisationer beaktar vikten av individers välbefinnande genom att ta hänsyn till förbättringar gällande arbetsrelaterade faktorer. Konsekvensen av detta påverkar individerna ytterliggare en nivå i deras benägenhet att avsluta sin anställning.