Introduction: The health for individuals with intellectual disabilities is asubject that is prioritized by the Swedish Institute for Public Health. Socialsupport has been proven to be important for health and quality of life. Despitethis fact there is no research available regarding the influence social support hason health and quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities in Sweden.Aim: To describe social support and the consequence of social support forhealth and quality of life for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Method:A litterature review of research in a defined area with a descriptive design.Systematic searches for articles were done in several databases and ultimately16 articles were chosen. Themes and categories were created with respect to theaim of this study during the analysis of the articles.

Introduction: The health for individuals with intellectual disabilities is asubject that is prioritized by the Swedish Institute for Public Health. Socialsupport has been proven to be important for health and quality of life. Despitethis fact there is no research available regarding the influence social support hason health and quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities in Sweden.Aim: To describe social support and the consequence of social support forhealth and quality of life for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Method:A litterature review of research in a defined area with a descriptive design.Systematic searches for articles were done in several databases and ultimately16 articles were chosen. Themes and categories were created with respect to theaim of this study during the analysis of the articles.

Tillhörighet och att fÄ vara en del av ett socialt sammanhang Àr nödvÀndigt för oss mÀnniskor. Social exkludering utgör ett hot mot individens vÀlbefinnande och har visats pÄverka individens beteende och Äsikter. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om mÀnniskor Àr mer intoleranta mot personer de inte kÀnner tillhörighet med, om social exkludering leder till en Ànnu mer intolerant hÄllning samt om individens behov av tillhörighet pÄverkar hur de mÄr vid social exkludering. I studien deltog 26 studenter varav hÀlften blev exkluderade under ett datorspel. Deltagarna svarade pÄ enkÀter om hur de mÄdde, ÄsiktsfrÄgor och deras behov av tillhörighet.

AbstractThe struggle for land has been an issue ever since Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese Crown. The deep social inequalities that the country faces were raised then. More than 45% of the agricultural land is controlled by only 1% of the landowners. There have been many movements since then, who has fought for agrarian reforms.MST, the largest social movement in Brazil, was born in the 1980s. They managed to mobilize the peasants and the poor people.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate which factors are important with foster home placing, to achieve a positive result for the child. The questions that we have focused on is the importance of the child's earlier experiences and relations, the foster homes attitude and approach, the social service organization and the cooperation between these concerned parties. We have also looked at the importance that the relation between the biological family, the child and the foster home can have. This study has been carried out using qualitative interviews with several foster homes, social welfare secretaries and a researcher in the area. We have also chosen to separate the foster homes on the basis of two foster homes only accepting teenagers while other accepting younger children.The theoretical concepts we have chosen to use are connected to attachment theory and the ecology of human development point of view.

AbstractSocial welfare workers employed in the same county base their assessments on the same laws, routines and guidelines, yet it seems that they sometimes come to different decisions. It's the discretion that enables the social workers to make individualized decisions adapted to each clients unique situation.The purpose of this paper is to examine social welfare workers reflections on discretion and what influences their discretion in the professional role.Six qualitative interviews were conducted with social welfare workers in three communitys i the middle of Sweden.The main result shows that it is primarily four factors that affect the social welfare workers discretion in the professional role :External factors such as other organizations change of regulations and cooperation with other organizations.Organizational factors such as routines, rules and guidelines .Professional factors such as the opportunity to use experience and professionalknowledge to determine which measure works in different situations.Individual factors like the workers ability for initiative and the clients individualcircumstances. Social welfare workers feel that they have a relatively wide discretion in their profession. They believe they have the ability to make individual evaluations of each client, however they also believe that their discretion often is limited by lack of time.Key words: social welfare workers, clients, discretion, assessments. .

This paper examines the consequences of membership and participation in immigrant associations on individual immigrants? political integration and indirect political participation with reference to Swedish society. The theoretical underpinnings consist of a social structural outlook on social capital, combined with the Civic Voluntarism Model, both of which focus on the potential role of social networks for moving people into political action. After a presentation of parallel qualitative data over the experiences of individual members in a Finnish and Bosnian-Hercegovinian organisation, it is suggested that immigrant associations support the political integration of their members into the host society. Firstly, the case studies indicate that members of immigrant associations gain the opportunity to augment their civic skills, which is a significant prerequisite for political participation.

Barnet tillĂ€gnar sig sprĂ„ket genom vardaglig social interaktion med sin nĂ€ra omgivning, dĂ€rför Ă€r den kommunikativa miljön runt barnet och förĂ€ldrarnas bidrag till den viktig. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att studera ett antal svenska förĂ€ldrars produktion av gester i samspel med sina barn och om förĂ€ldrarnas sĂ€tt att anvĂ€nda gester förĂ€ndrades nĂ€r barnens tal blev mer komplext. Åtta förĂ€ldra- barnpar observerades i olika samspelssituationer i hemmiljö, nĂ€r barnen var 16 och 20 mĂ„nader gamla, vilket innefattar tiden för övergĂ„ngen frĂ„n ett- till tvĂ„ordssatser. Förekomst av förĂ€lderns gester och ackompanjerande tal registrerades, resultaten behandlades kvantitativt och deskriptivt. Vissa jĂ€mförelser med barnens gestanvĂ€ndning genomfördes, samt en tvĂ€r-kulturell jĂ€mförelse med en studie av italienska mödra- barnpar.

The aim of this study was to examine how newly qualified social workers from Linnaeus University in Kalmar feel that the school has prepared them with the professional skills to meet the demands that exist within social work. Social work education is a generalist training that will result in a professional qualification. With a qualitative approach eight newly qualified social workers were interviewed.We used the sociology of knowledge as an overall theoretical approach. We also used experience- based knowledge as a theoretical approach. One of the study's conclusion was that the graduates had difficulty linking theory to practice.

Hallgren, Emma & Ottosson, Ann (2008). Interaktion - En komparativ studie mellan I Ur och Skur och traditionell förskoleverksamhet rörande samspelet mellan barn och pedagog. (Interaction - A comparative study between ?I Ur och Skur? and traditional pre-schools, concerning the interaction between child and pedagogue.) Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Specialpedagogik, LÀrarutbildningen, Malmö högskola. I vÄr studie har vi undersökt eventuella skillnader i mötet mellan pedagoger och barn i traditionell respektive utomhuspedagogisk förskoleverksamhet, I Ur och Skur. Vi ville lyfta fram de eventuella skillnader som finns för att förstÄ om och hur verksamhetens form pÄverkar mötet mellan pedagoger och barn och i vilken mÄn barnens behov och intressen tas till vara i verksamheten. Genom vÄr studie vill vi Àven lyfta fram den eventuella betydelsen av olika verksamhetsformer för tanken om en verksamhet för alla.

Title: The role of social media on today?s markets ? Companies? desire to understand theircustomersAuthors: Kristoffer Avci-NĂ„mark & Patrik WidlundBackground: The markets of today are characterized by dynamic conditions because of thecontinuous change in consumer preference. Due to this, the interaction between the company and its consumers is gaining importance as companies find the need to increase their knowledge about the market. Out of this need social media has emerged as a tool forcompanies to improve their communication with customers. The popularity of social media isincreasing at a rapid rate and sites such as Facebook now has around 500 million usersworldwide.

With this research we aim to examine foster parents and social workers perceptions about the relationship between foster parents and the foster child?s biological parents and their perceptions about the support to the foster parents in the contact with the child?s biological parents. The research will provide a deeper understanding of the actors? perceptions and explain possible differences in their opinions. This study has a qualitative approach and contains eight semi-structured interviews with foster parents and social workers in a smaller town in the south of Sweden.

I den hÀr studien har man genom en i första hand kvantitativ metod undersökt vem som flyttar till nyproducerade hyreslÀgenheter i Malmö och av vilka anledningar. Genom att manuellt dela ut en förfrÄgan om att delta i en webbenkÀt har 1009 hushÄll i hus byggda fr.o.m. Är 2010 getts möjlighet att berÀtta varför de valt, eller inte valt, att bosÀtta sig dÀr de gjort. Utöver enkÀtundersökningen valdes fem frivilliga representanter ut frÄn de olika omrÄdena och med dessa genomfördes kvalitativa intervjuer för fÄ en mer djupgÄende bild. Det studierna visade Àr att över hÀlften av de svarande i enkÀtundersökningen tidigare varit bosatta i hyresrÀtter inom Malmö.

Denna studie har som syfte att skildra och förklara hur reproduktionen av kön relaterar till skapandet av rockmusik hos ett band dÀr tre av musikerna Àr kvinnor och en musiker Àr man. Detta för att fÄ en ökad förstÄelse för hur förestÀllningen om kön pÄverkar musikskapandet inom rockgenren. Det empiriska kÀllmaterialet samlades in genom en fÀltstudie dÀr bandet följdes pÄ repetitioner och konserter. Materialet analyseras genom West och Zimmermans teorier kring reproduktionen av genus. Studiens resultat jÀmförs ocksÄ med tidigare forskning inom musikvetenskap och etnologi för att sÀtta in dem i en större kontext.

Uppsatsens övergripande syfte var att undersöka profiler av samsjuklighet mellan depressiva symtom och olika undergrupper av social Ängest hos unga vuxna (20-24 Är) samt dess samband med livstillfredsstÀllelse och upplevd social funktionsnedsÀttning inom yrkesliv/studier respektive sociala aktiviteter. Data har inhÀmtats via sjÀlvskattningsformulÀr. Resultaten analyserades genom en klusteranalys. TvÄ profiler med samsjuklighet mellan undergrupper av social Ängest och depressiva symtom framkom. Denna samsjuklighet verkar vara relaterad till bÄde en lÀgre grad av upplevd livstillfredsstÀllelse samt till funktionsnedsÀttning inom tvÄ domÀner, yrkesliv/studier och sociala aktiviteter..