The purpose of this study was to examine how social work professionals view their professional role and how they think about the concept of social work. I also wanted to investigate what they believe characterize a professional social work. For the purposes of this study, I chose a qualitative approach in which I interviewed five people linked to the social work. The theories which I have assumed in the analysis of the results are power theory, organization theory and professional theory. The results of this study show that the respondents believe that a professional social work is performed by someone who has training and experience in the field.

Forskningen är omfattande angående lekens positiva värde för yngre barns utveckling och för inlärning. Med utgångspunkt i detta har vi undersökt lekens betydelse och funktion i undervisningen för äldre barn, elever i skolår 4-6. Denna studie syftar till att få en inblick i olika undervisningssammanhang som lek kan inrymmas i. Den syftar också till att undersöka vilket värde och utrymme leken ges i skolans undervisning i takt med elevernas stigande ålder. Studien utgår från ett sociokulturellt perspektiv där lärande och utveckling bygger på samspelet mellan individer i en social kontext.

Social sustainability is often regarded as a solution to social problems in general. In this study, on the contrary, social sustainability is conceived as a socially constructed concept and the result of a certain way of looking at the world, the human being and the ideal society. The study centers around Kinda municipality in the southern region of Östergötland and a few of its elder inhabitants. What meaning and substance social sustainability is contained with as well as the effects that are produced by these conceptualizations is explored and analyzed. Also, the study examines the encounter between political policy?s and judgments on the one hand and the experiences and preferences held by the municipality?s elder inhabitants on the other..

Hållbar utveckling är ett begrepp som idag kan hittas i flertalet styrdokument för skolan i Sverige. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur hållbar utveckling tillämpas i undervisningen samt lärares attityder till att tillämpa hållbar utveckling i sin undervisning. Läroplanen är fri att tolka när det gäller hållbar utveckling vilket ger lärarna frihet att tillämpa hållbar utveckling i undervisningen efter egen tolkning. Vi vill i denna studie undersöka lärares attityder till hållbar utveckling i sin undervisning. Studien bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer av fem lärare i grundskolans senare år och forskningsområdet för studien är Malmö.

Syftet med vår studie var att studera hur pedagoger i förskolan förhåller sig till lärande för hållbar utveckling. Studien är genomförd med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med sex förskollärare på olika förskolor i en och samma kommun. I resultatet framkom det att förskollärarna har ett gemensamt förhållningssätt mot lärande för hållbar utveckling, men fokuset kan skilja sig mellan pedagogerna. Lärande för hållbar utveckling är ett komplext begrepp och pedagogerna är överens om att det krävs kunskap och fortbildning för att på ett konstruktivt sätt kunna arbeta för ett lärande för hållbar utveckling..

KönsrollsAbstrakt Den teoretiska förankringen i undersökningen utgick från anknytningsteorin. Denna teori utgår från att individen redan som barn utvecklar någon form av bindning (trygg eller otrygg) till sina föräldrar. Syftet med studien var att undersöka samband mellan vuxna mäns anknytningsstilar och könsrollskonflikter - vilka definieras här som mäns rädsla för att inte kunna uppnå samhällets normer och värderingar vad gäller maskulinitet. Dessutom avsågs att undersöka hur det eventuella sambandet förhåller sig till typ av yrke. Deltagarna var indelade i två grupper, en grupp män inom typiskt kvinnliga yrken (sjuksköterskestuderande, lärarstuderande och arkitektstuderande) och en grupp män inom typiskt manliga yrken (brandmän och studerande inom tekniska ämnen).

The purpose of this research is to examine some historical aspects of Robert Putnam?s thesisabout voluntary associations and social capital. According to a micro perspective theory ofsocial capital the trust and reciprocity required and created by associations is important toexplain the disparity between institutional performance and socioeconomic development ofsocieties. The social patterns governing this therefore set a precedent for the future. Using themutual sickness benefit societies in Sweden as variable for voluntary associations around1884, the essay discusses the possible links between social capital, associations and long termeconomic development.

This study investigates the effects that commercial computer games have on young individuals social comfort and learning progress. As a systematic study of literature, scholarly articles have been analysed in order to illuminate the positive as well as negative effects on social comfort and learning progress that may come with playing computer games. The social effects have mainly been discussed with role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, as starting point, while the learning effects have been coupled with strategy games, such as Civilization IV. The study does not simply declare how these games can be good for these factors, but also in what respect computer games may prevent the development of young individuals socials skills and learning progress. The study showed that in spite of perpetual prejudices against computer games in the technological age, computer games might actually be good to use as a tool in order to authorize the development of young individuals regarding learning and social aspects.

The purpose of this study was to enlighten the views of male social work students on; the social work profession, social work status and their career options. Also, the study aimed at getting these students angles of approach on the fact that they, being men, are a minority group within the profession of social work. Some of the main questions were: Why does not social work as a profession seem to attract men? What about the status of the profession of social work? What were the thoughts of male social work students about this? What advantages or disadvantages did they recognise, being a minority in the profession? The method used in this study was doing separate interviews. All of the interviewed students were convinced that they had a better chance of getting a job.

In Sweden the social assistance from a historical perspective, has been a part of the social legislation, since the 18th century. In that time called poor relief. Through the centuries this has established the social assistance we have today. With focus on the child, we have attempted to illustrate how the social workers consider the child perspective when they are dealing with the social assistance. We wanted to get a view of how the social worker reasons about needs the children have and how they can see that the benefit has been provided for.

The aim of this study was to enlighten social workers experiences of social networks direct influence in Swedish social services, and in which ways those influences are manifested. Some of the issues that are being explored in this study are: The separation of the private sphere and professional duties; boundaries and dual relationships that occurs inside social networks; the use of social networks as a control-instrument in authority exercise towards clients; and social networks arising impact on social work. The empirical material was collected with nine qualitative interviews with social workers stationed at different social service departments in a Swedish municipality. Also one qualitative e-survey was sent out to, and answered by four social workers with a managerial position in the same municipality.The results reveal that several informants have experienced different problematic situations involving clients within the social networks. This study shows that the informants are very restrictive with what information (text and pictures) they publish on their facebook-profiles, because of their position of authority and the awareness of the possibility of always being watched.

Today, social media is used mostly by people in their private life. However, companies are more and more tapping into the area of social media. To this date, mostly B2C companies have been successful in their social media strategies. This qualitative thesis aims to investigate how B2B companies can benefit from using social media as a means to communicate and build relations with their customers. The medtech industry has been chosen as the object of study.Through depth interviews with people in the medtech industry and social media experts, data has been collected in order to answer the questions of (1) how ready customers in the medtech industry are to receive information through social media and (2) how companies can build the best possible social media strategy.

Denna uppsats tar upp ämnet social konflikt i samband med Nordirlandskonflikten. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida social konflikt kan verka främjande för samhället, samt att titta på de orsaker som gör att konflikten på Nordirland vidmakthålls. Detta har utförts genom en litteraturstudie av teorier utvecklade av Coser, Simmel och Merton.Slutsatser jag har dragit utifrån denna studie är bland annat att social konflikt i detta fall, parallellt med de nedbrytande faktorerna, också kan verka för en gynnande samhällsutveckling på vissa områden..

This study describes and analyzes how one teacher perceives her monitoring of the students´individual plans of development as expressed in the Education Act chapter 10, 13§. Today there are nonational guidelines published in the monitoring area for these plans of development, although this is anobligation for all teachers in Sweden. Also, it presents some students´ opinion on this and how themonitoring affects their learning.The progressive perspective on learning with the content spirit of the concepts responsibility,participation and experience, as well as research in this field provides the background for the study.The most important features of the data were presented in relation to these three concepts and thecommon themes found between them.The study reveales that the monitoring of the individual plans of development can never be taken forgranted due to the absence of national guidelines on this matter. Either the intention of this absence isto hand over to a professional profession, such as teachers, to decide themselves how the work shouldbe designed, or they are not capable of doing this based on their education and the other conditionsgiven in their work. The conclusion is therefore that it is up to each school and each teacher to decideon how to work with this matter..

Syftet med undersökningen är att se hur pedagoger på fem kommunala förskolor i en sydsvensk kommun resonerar kring utevistelse, samt om det är skillnad mellan förskolorna utifrån olika områden så som hälsa, lärande, social utveckling och ett par områden till. Vi använde oss av den kvantitativa metoden enkätundersökning för att få svar på våra frågeställningar. Sedan analyserade vi empirin och tidigare litteratur genom de fyra ovan nämnda områden samt övriga argument för eller emot att gå ut. Pedagogerna som medverkat i vår undersökning anser att det är viktigt att var ute, för både barn och vuxna. Undersökningen visar att det spelar mindre roll var man arbetar eller hur länge för verksamhetens utevistelser. Viktigast för barnens fysiska hälsa och lärandeförutsättningar är vilka pedagoger som arbetar med dem, på vilken förskola de går samt personalens personliga inställning till utevistelse.