The aim with this study is to examine and analyze how the employees at two residential care homes for unaccompanied refugee children work with the children during their pending decision for asylum in Sweden. The purpose is to gain insight into the employees? daily work with the target audience and how they handle decisions with the children. The method to collect data is to carry 6 interviews with the employees at the residential care home. The interviews were semi-structured with purpose of letting the interviewee lead the content of the interview.

A main aim with the essay ?Constructive and destructive forms of language communication in modern work organizations? is to try to develop methods which can be used to measure and classify different forms of language communication. Methods that hopefully also can be used for analysis of in which ways dominating language communication forms affects employees health in modern work organizations.Quantitative methods have chiefly been used in the essay. A questionnaire study based on sociological research and psychoterapeutic research and practice has been used to collect data around communication in two work organizations (community health centers). Then communication has been classified in two main forms: constructive and destructive language communication.Results in the essay indicate that there are tendencies to links between high illness-absence and destructive communication in a work organization.

A main aim with the essay ?Constructive and destructive forms of language communication in modern work organizations? is to try to develop methods which can be used to measure and classify different forms of language communication. Methods that hopefully also can be used for analysis of in which ways dominating language communication forms affects employees health in modern work organizations. Quantitative methods have chiefly been used in the essay. A questionnaire study based on sociological research and psychoterapeutic research and practice has been used to collect data around communication in two work organizations (community health centers). Then communication has been classified in two main forms: constructive and destructive language communication. Results in the essay indicate that there are tendencies to links between high illness-absence and destructive communication in a work organization.

Äldres hälsa har förbättrats de senare åren samt har de blivit mer fysiskt aktiva. Syftet med studien var att beskriva äldres syn på förutsättningar för att bibehålla välbefinnandet efter pensioneringen. Studien genomfördes med kvalitativ metod genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio informanter i åldrarna 63-84 år. Det framkom i resultatet att minst en nära vän var en viktig del för att främja välbefinnandet. Interaktion med vänner och familj var också en viktig aspekt för att må bra.

Detta arbete handlar om att undersöka hur vi kan använda oss av det visuella i ett spel för att motivera till samarbete och locka till gemenskap. Vårt intresse låg i att undersöka kring tanken med att inte tänka sig ett spel som enbart en passiv flykt från verkligheten, utan som ett verktyg som kan användas till att motivera till samarbete. Det spel som vi valt att utveckla var bestämt att vara anpassat för barn runt 10-års ålder. Vi valde att använda oss av en metod som heter Layered Elaboration för att lära känna vår målgrupp tydligare, samt få idéer och inspiration till hur vi kan anpassa ett spel för denna målgrupp. Efter att vi haft en workshop tillsammans med barnen på en skola, där vi lät barnen rita vad de kom att tänka på kring olika teman de fått, utvecklade vi en spelbar prototyp som vi sedan lät barnen på samma skola testa för att få en utvärdering.

I denna studie undersöks hur gemenskap och sammanhållning i en ungdomsblåsorkester ser ut och hanteras både utifrån orkesterledarens och de deltagande ungdomarnas synvinkel. Även betydelsen av gemenskap och sammanhållning och hur den tar sin form är frågor som besvaras i uppsatsen. Datamaterialet består av intervjuer med olika grupper av ungdomar ur den studerade ungdomsorkestern samt en intervju med orkesterns ledare. Den studerade orkestern kommer från en stad i mellersta Sverige. I resultatet visas att det är viktigt med en orkestergemenskap och att gemenskapen fås och visar sig i både sociala och musikaliska aktiviteter som bland annat resor, läger, fikastunder, repetitioner och konserter.

This study aims to examine how heritage archives in Sweden create oral history by the conduction of interviews. Though previous research have shown that this is a task suitable for archives, there have been a lack of knowledge of how this is actually beeing done. Also, oral history have not earlier been studied in relation to the archives larger objectives. The heritage institutions that have been examined are Sjöhistoriska museet, Visarkivet and Dialekt- och folkminnesarkivet I Uppsala. They are all part of public authoritys and use oral history to create more pluralistic and diverse archive collections.

I den här kvalitativa studien har vi valt att undersöka bemanningsanställdas syn på gemenskap.  Tidigare studier visar att individer med lågstatusyrken, som bemanningsarbeten ofta uppfattas som, söker betydelse och motivation i annat än själva arbetet. Det framgår även att gemenskap är en viktig del när det kommer till framgång samt att ju längre tid det går desto mer tillit bygger vi upp till varandra på arbetsplatsen. Vi frågar oss därför hur bemanningsanställda som inte har någon fast punkt skapar denna tillit och gemenskap.Vi har genom åtta intervjuer sökt förståelse för varje enskild individs syn på värdet av gemenskap på arbetsplatsen. Genom en hermeneutisk ansats har vi tagit fram vårt empiriska material som vi sedan valt att analysera till hjälp av fyra utvalda teoretiker. Vi har använt oss av Scheff, Collins, Weiss och Asplund för att få en bred syn på relationer och gemenskap.Resultatet visar att alla anser att gemenskap på arbetsplatsen bidrar till ökad trivsel men att det skiljer sig i betydelsen för de olika respondenterna.

Through millennia, humans have shaped the European landscapes. Agriculture, hunting andforestry have influenced virtually every ecosystem on the continent and formed what we todaythink of as the cultural landscape; a mosaic pattern of cropland, fields, pasture and forests. Thepast two centuries, globalization, industrialization and urbanization have come to pose a threatto the existence of these landscapes. European farmlands are now being abandoned at analarming rate, and the associated loss of landscape preservation, biodiversity and ecosystemservices is a concern to the scientific community and public alike.This thesis studies if the implementation of the relatively new conservation strategy rewilding(recreating self-sustaining ecosystems and reintroducing keystone species) can be a part of thesolution to preserve cultural landscapes and biodiversity in Sweden. Through interviewssupplemented with studies of published works, expertise from different fields has beencompiled to provide an overall picture of the capacity of rewildings as conservation method.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine reviewswritten by users in library online catalogs, online bookstoresand on the web community LibraryThing, in order todetermine whether there are any differences in the way usersreview books, and whether these differences might explainwhy libraries experience difficulties in getting their users toreview books. At the core of web 2.0 and library 2.0concepts lies the thought of user participation, and largerlibraries have sought to implement systems for reviewingand tagging items in the catalog in ways similar to onlinebookstores and other websites.By analyzing the contents of user reviews, however, thisthesis shows that users express themselves differentlydepending on what kinds of literature they review, and inwhat context. Most notably, user reviews of ?the Classics? orcanonized literature recognizes the high status of suchliterature, while users reviewing popular fiction expressthemselves in a way that admits that the reviewed titles areconsidered less valuable. There are also signs that booksreviewed at online bookstores are seen as products ormerchandise, while the reviews at the library to a greaterdegree treat the books as works of literature.The conclusion reached in this thesis suggests that there maybe a relation between the image of the library as a defenderof high culture and the perceived status of literary works,causing users to become hesitant to review books, feelingthat they do not have the knowledge to describe or reviewthem ?correctly?..

The purpose of this study is to examine what motivates people to help others at risk to themselves. The focus is on international aid workers, which in their work put themselves in situations of risk. Earlier research shows that international aid work involves risks such as infectious diseases, violence, death threats, assaults, constant insecurity and risk to be traumatized etc. There is not much research done on what motivates to help others in spite of risks, hence we find this an interesting area. We have interviewed six respondents about the content and character of their motivation and factors that are important for the maintenance and development of this motivation.

Following study is about the anorexic behavior and the pro-ana movement, which is a web-based subculture where the followers of this, stands for anorexia as an identity position and lifestyle, rather than a disease. The purpose of this study was that, from a sociological perspective give possible interpretations of the anorexic behavior, and interpret why some anorexics choose to be a part of and identify oneself with the pro-ana movement. The reason has been to conduce more knowledge and understanding of the topics, but also to contribute with a deeper perspective and sociological approach to the former research that is already available.To conduct the study, qualitative research has been used, and the chosen methodology was document analysis/text analysis. The collected empirical data consisted material from two pro-ana forums, four blogs and six twitter accounts, where all the users of those claimed to be supporters of the pro-ana. The empirical data has been interpreted by Howard S.

The Internet has become a communication system that includes a direct and personal communication as well as traditional mass communication. For example, the Internet has become a channel for self-publishing. It provides opportunities for discussion and blogs can be woven together into a dialogue between network users. The conversation is both personalised and addressed to the wider community. Our study is based on how fashion bloggers perceive their role as a fashion blogger, and how young women, 18 to 30 years old, in Sundsvall, perceive fashion blogs.We chose to conduct qualitative research and held qualitative interviews and focus groups. Since fashion blogs are a relatively new phenomenon, we chose to do interviews with the active fashion bloggers, Nina Johansson and Karolina Skande, to use them as informants.

Syfte: Efter att ha bedrivit föräldrautbildning enligt COPE-modellen (The Community Parent Education Program) under cirka fem år på en BUP-mottagning ställdes frågan av verksamhetens chef om man bör fortsätta med COPE-föräldrautbildning på BUP?mottagningen eller om man skall gå över till annan typ av föräldrautbildning. En utvärdering gjordes därför av den COPE-föräldrautbildning man bedrivit på BUP-mottagningen. Frågeställning var: ger COPE -föräldrautbildning enligt föräldrarna själva ökade färdigheter för att de ska kunna agera på ett mer funktionellt sätt mot sina barn?Metod: Man valde att intervjua föräldrar som gått någon av de två senaste föräldrautbildningarna eftersom man tänkte att de hade utbildningen mer aktuell och därför lättare skulle kunna besvara frågor om utbildningen.

This paper studies how the ?Swedish model? has influenced the Swedish community during the first half of the twentieth century and how living with this model was like in the 1960s. During the ?60s the laws and reforms created by the ruling socialistic party, SAP, dominated the Swedish society. Their goal was to build Per Albin Hansson?s vision of a welfare state.