I Sverige finns drygt en miljon hundar, vilket ger siffran en hund i vart femte hushåll. Främsta syftet med föreliggande studie är att se vad som är den positivt verksamma kärnan i umgänget mellan människa och hund, utifrån vad hundägare subjektivt berättar. Enligt Grounded Theory analyserades sex djupintervjuer. Resultaten visar framförallt en Personlig vinst för den enskilde hundägaren i umgänget med sin hund. Den Personliga vinsten består av de sex delvinsterna Säkerhet, Kamratskap, Kunskap, Aktivitet, Socialt och Hälsa.

Tidigare forskning om skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete berör ofta bara en form av skapande, riktad till en specifik målgrupp som exempelvis konst eller trädgårdsodling för gruppen psykisk ohälsa eller teater för gruppen funktionshindrade. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur skapande verksamhet, oavsett form fungerar som metod i socialt arbete.Skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete, är en kvalitativ studie som bygger på deltagares upplevelser av att använda sig av skapande metoder, inom det sociala arbetets verksamhetsfält.Studiens teori utgår ifrån analysmetoden grounded theory och bygger på intervjumaterial ifrån fyra fokusgrupper som representerar olika sociala verksamheter i Sverige.Bättre självförtroende, identitetsskapande och lättare integration i samhället är några av slutsatserna som presenteras..

The purpose of my study was to examine how teachers in physical education experience different frame factors impact on their outdoor education and their choice of didactic approach. My study is based on Lundgren´s frame factor theory and Peitersen´s didactic learning model. I have used a qualitative research method to answer my questions. I have been using semi-structured interviews to interview six PE teachers who all teach at high school level.Based on my results we see that the teachers experience teaching hours and class sizes as the frame factors that mainly affect the outdoor education. Teachers often choose to split up the outdoor activities into sequences in order to achieve better learning.

Purpose: The purpose is to examine more closely why the achievement of the environmental goals is so low. To within the thesis work to make this as interesting and with as good quality as possible, especially the environmental quality goal Reduced climate impact, but also Natural acidification and Protective ozone layer, has been chosen to be studied further. Method: A qualitative method and text analysis has been applied. Intervention theory, as Vedung 2009 describes, is used as an intellectual backbone and as a help to structure the essay. The three environmental quality goals correspond cases, or units of analysis. Analysis: The fulfillment of the respective environmental quality goals is analyzed according to its goal, policy instruments, implementation and its effects. To this some of the problems are analyzed that exist on the path to achieve the goals.

The aim of this study is to explain and try to get an understanding for how women who are partners to substance missusers handle their lifesituation. To fulfill the aim of the study a qualitive method is used with a focus group as a data collection method. The theoretical framework is coping theory and system theory. The results show that women who are partners to substance missusers describe that they have a lifesituation filled with stress and worry. Because of their situation the women create and adjust their behaviors.

Anonymous job applications as a method to further diversity on the labour market is widely discussed. The method aims to promote an equal selection procedure, where the employer can only judge on merits and experience. We are with this study on the other hand interested in seeing how this specific method of employment has been implemented. We have chosen to perform a small qualitative case study, of a limited attempt of this method in the government administration of Kortedala, a district in Gothenburg.Our intrests are to see whether we can, while studying a specific implementation procedure, show that any implementation problems have occurred. Furthermore explaining it by applying our implementation theory, that consists of Lennart Lundquists three criterias for explaining implementation problems experienced from the appliers' standpoint.

Tidigare forskning om skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete berör ofta bara en form av skapande, riktad till en specifik målgrupp som exempelvis konst eller trädgårdsodling för gruppen psykisk ohälsa eller teater för gruppen funktionshindrade. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur skapande verksamhet, oavsett form fungerar som metod i socialt arbete.Skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete, är en kvalitativ studie som bygger på deltagares upplevelser av att använda sig av skapande metoder, inom det sociala arbetets verksamhetsfält.Studiens teori utgår ifrån analysmetoden grounded theory och bygger på intervjumaterial ifrån fyra fokusgrupper som representerar olika sociala verksamheter i Sverige.Bättre självförtroende, identitetsskapande och lättare integration i samhället är några av slutsatserna som presenteras..

The aim of this study is to investigate wether the participatory democracy is a threat or a complement to the representative democracy. To achieve my purpose I will focus on two different lokal councils, the civil council in Hovsjö and the youth council in Västra Skogås, which have been objects of the urban policy in 1998. The theoretical framework on which this study is based consists of the participation democratic theory, representative democratic theory and implementation theory. By problemizing these theoretical frameworks in comparison with eachother I will mapp how these two lokal councils were implemented. The research question is: In what way was the civil council and the youth council a complement or threat to the representative democracy? In which way was it difficult to implement them?The method used for this purpose is a qualitative comparative case study.

The aim of this essay is to explore the lived citizenship and its ideal. First, the form and expression of citizenship practice and ideal is explored through a qualitative interwiev study of ten citizens in the southern suburbs of Stockholm. The perception and expectations of the nature of citizenship, presented by the informants, is then compared to their citizen ideal, as well as to the ideal presented and promoted by the Swedish government. The point of departure is theory of democracy. The essay calls attention to an observed lack of empirical studies in the field of deliberative theory of democracy as well as studies that more broadly bring the theory down to empirical earth.

Usability is a way to study how good a website is which is what our research builds upon. On a mission from Liseberg our purpose is to find out if their website liseberg.se is good from a user?s perspective. Our way of carrying this out where grounded upon a qualitative study through observations and following interviews with a number of participants. By compositing tools of method we have started with the theories descriptions of usability tests and we have also used the theories to be able to reflect around and to understand the results from the tests.

Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the possible motives behind the actions of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in relation to the conflict in Syria. The background of this aim is the Arab Spring and the protests and violence that have followed the uprising. While, in Libya, the UN Security Council adopted resolutions that allowed sanctions against the Libyan government, no such resolutions have been adopted yet in Syria.Theory: The principal theory of the analysis is Stephen D. Krasner´s theory on sovereignty.Method: I have researched various resolutions and statements done in the Security Council, together with official statements from the actors, through Hadenius´ motive analysis methodology and Gilje & Grimen and Ödmans theories on hermeneutics.Conclusion: The conclusion of the analysis is that there, in the case of Syria and Libya, are two different parties in the Security Council. One that stands for sovereignty and one that stands for intervention.

Tidigare forskning om skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete berör ofta bara en form av skapande, riktad till en specifik målgrupp som exempelvis konst eller trädgårdsodling för gruppen psykisk ohälsa eller teater för gruppen funktionshindrade. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur skapande verksamhet, oavsett form fungerar som metod i socialt arbete.Skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete, är en kvalitativ studie som bygger på deltagares upplevelser av att använda sig av skapande metoder, inom det sociala arbetets verksamhetsfält.Studiens teori utgår ifrån analysmetoden grounded theory och bygger på intervjumaterial ifrån fyra fokusgrupper som representerar olika sociala verksamheter i Sverige.Bättre självförtroende, identitetsskapande och lättare integration i samhället är några av slutsatserna som presenteras..

Tidigare forskning om skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete berör ofta bara en form av skapande, riktad till en specifik målgrupp som exempelvis konst eller trädgårdsodling för gruppen psykisk ohälsa eller teater för gruppen funktionshindrade. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur skapande verksamhet, oavsett form fungerar som metod i socialt arbete.Skapande verksamhet i socialt arbete, är en kvalitativ studie som bygger på deltagares upplevelser av att använda sig av skapande metoder, inom det sociala arbetets verksamhetsfält.Studiens teori utgår ifrån analysmetoden grounded theory och bygger på intervjumaterial ifrån fyra fokusgrupper som representerar olika sociala verksamheter i Sverige.Bättre självförtroende, identitetsskapande och lättare integration i samhället är några av slutsatserna som presenteras..

For centuries Islam and Muslims have been subject to islamophobic attitudes in the west. The purpose with this study was to see into the making of open and closed attitudes against Islam and Muslims from a conflict in southern Thailand, and also to so see if Muslims are portrayed as more violent than the Buddhist groups in the conflict. The aim of the study is also to see if Muslims fall into a violent stereotype. This was studied by looking at five Swedish newspapers coverage of the conflict, during a given time. To be able to look into this, two theories will be used, the first one is the Runnymede Trust theory, which is about open and closed attitudes against Islam and Muslims.

Issue of study: The development of technology and society is closely linked. Mutual dependency and complex interrelationships make straightforward analysis of issues regarding the future of technology and society hard to perform. Therefore, the study addresses the question of how organizations should describe and analyze the interactions of technology and society in order to gain a better understanding of what the future may bring. Purpose: ? To develop a method for analysis of the future course of issues regarding technology and society in interaction.? To apply and test the developed method through a case study, where it is used to analyze the future of the Russian fuel market.