A social intranet is an information and communication channel that is relatively new. There is still a small amount of research done around social intranet and what it is, and also on what organizations and their members may benefit from using such an intranet. Therefore, this paper was written with the purpose to em-phasize the reasons, possibilities and difficulties of implementing and using a so-cial intranet. With interview as method we took part of the experiences and views on social intranet from a number of organizations that are using or is about to establish a social intranet, and also from companies who deliver the service. Through the use of previous research in organizational communication, we then analysed the responses we received from our respondents.

The objective of this thesis was to study how parents of adult drug addicts experience their contact with the social welfare office, what elements affected the parents degree of satisfaction with the contact with the social welfare office, and whether the contact meant any help for them. Six parents of adult drug addicts were interviewed..

The aim of this study is to better understand the Swedish concept of ?förebyggande socialt arbete?, preventive social work. I have conducted eleven qualitative interviews with different key persons and skaters, together with participant observation. During the process of analyzing the material I have used Randall Collins´ concepts of interaction ritual chains together with Jean Laves and Etienne Wengers concept of situated learning. The answers could be split up in three areas, first those who regard prevention work as building good things for the future.

Att leva som anhörig till missbruk antar vi inte är lätt, då den anhörige ses som en ?grupp? människor, som vi tror ?glöms? bort på ett eller annat sätt när man talar om missbruk/missbrukare. Vi vet att anhöriga är en stor grupp, som lever kring varje missbrukare, det kan röra sig om fem stycken anhöriga kring en missbrukare. Genom dessa siffror kan vi förstå att anhörig gruppen är större än missbrukar gruppen. Vi tycker det är konstigt att inte det lyfts fram mer vad den anhöriga har att berätta, vilken erfarenhet och kunskap de har inom ämnet om den missbrukande.

Att leva som anhörig till missbruk antar vi inte är lätt, då den anhörige ses som en ?grupp? människor, som vi tror ?glöms? bort på ett eller annat sätt när man talar om missbruk/missbrukare. Vi vet att anhöriga är en stor grupp, som lever kring varje missbrukare, det kan röra sig om fem stycken anhöriga kring en missbrukare. Genom dessa siffror kan vi förstå att anhörig gruppen är större än missbrukar gruppen. Vi tycker det är konstigt att inte det lyfts fram mer vad den anhöriga har att berätta, vilken erfarenhet och kunskap de har inom ämnet om den missbrukande.

Medberoende har blivit ett relativt vedertaget begrepp sedan 1980-talet. Termens syfte var att beskriva det beteende som en person åsamkades av att leva tillsammans med en alkoholmissbrukare samt hur denna person även möjliggjorde för missbrukaren att fortsätta i sitt mönster. Forskning har visat att fler kvinnor än män tenderat att bli medberoende och att män oftare lämnat en missbrukande partner. Kritiker har därför menat att begreppet endast identifierat ett kvinnligt fenomen och att termen fungerat kränkande mot kvinnor samt bortsett från det faktum att kvinnan tillhör en underlägsen grupp i samhället. Inom socialt arbete i Sverige har det hittills varit sparsamt med forskning utifrån könsteoretiska utgångspunkter.

Titel; Vilka faktorer i service branschens arbetsmiljö har betydelse för social trötthet? Hur ser sambanden ut mellan utbrändhet och social trötthet? Författare; Jennie Andersson Nyckelord; Utbrändhet, Social trötthet, arbetsmiljö Syftet med undersökningen har varit att få fram vilka faktorer i service branschens arbetsmiljö som har betydelse för social trötthet samt undersöka eventuella samband mellan utbrändhet och social trötthet. Undersökningen är riktat mot vårdanställda och reseledare då tidigare undersökning påvisat samband mellan social trötthet och reseledare. Undersökningen är av en kvantitativ metod i form av en enkät. Denna enkät skickades ut till sammanlagt 110 personer i service branschen (vårdanställda och reseledare).

Today, we can see that social navigation is embedded in different kinds of websites, but there is still little support for social navigation in the web browser. Our main concern has been how we construct a tool that fills this hole in the web browser. By letting the theory, the prototype and the focus group serve as input/output to each other we could create a better overview of how the different pieces were intertwined. This has been a crucial mental model for us to obtain since it has helped us to understand how we could realize the theory through our prototype and thereby come to the conclusion of what aspects of the theory that we should put forward to further development. After constructing the prototype we thought that it would support social navigation, but realized after analyzing the discussion of the focus group that we are not there yet.

What Places Adolescents and Adults, Respectively, in Need of Social Assistance? A Qualitative Study of How Social Workers Whom Administrate Financial Assistance for Adolescents and Adults, Respectively, Describe Reasons Behind the Need of Social Assistance Amongst Their ClientsThe purpose of this essay was to study and compare how social workers whom administrate social assistance for adolescents and adults, respectively, describe reasons behind the need of social assistance amongst their clients. This was done due to the use of qualitative interviews with a total of six social workers. Of these six, three administrated social assistance for adolescents while the other three did the same for adults. Prior research of poverty attribution greatly inspired this essay.

The purpose of this essay was to examine and compare what attitudes Swedish and Belgian social workers may have towards residential care and foster care for children and young people. To answer the purpose eight qualitative interviews with four Swedish and four Belgian social workers were made. The results were analyzed by theory of organization and professional acting space. The results of the study show that the social workers in both countries preferred foster care, especially for small children, and that the Swedish social workers had a more negative attitude towards residential care than the Belgian social workers. Even though the Belgian social workers preferred foster care, they found themselves forced to choose residential care due to lack of available foster care facilities, something that did not seem to affect the Swedish social workers.

The Swedish welfare organisation is built on the fact that the legislation gives the municipalities and social workers guidance and direction how to assess cases. Through out this the clients have right to be assessed both equally and individually. How is this done? The purpose of this paper was to examine the effect of the organisation referred to the social workers ability to discretion and the evaluation of the assessment in first time applications of social assistant cases. The purpose was also to look for variations in decisions and if these could be explained out of organisational and assessment effects.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att lyfta upp olika problem som barn som växer upp i en miljö med missbruk står inför i livet. Barnen får ofta problem med självkänsla och tillit till andra människor och detta tar individerna med sig upp i vuxen ålder. Förnekelsen och tystnaden är stark på grund av att individerna skäms för att föräldern är missbrukare. Uppsatsen är också kopplad till skolan och vad personalen där kan göra för att upptäcka om ett barn far illa i ett hem med missbruk. För att få en bild av problematiken har fyra individer som växt upp med en eller två missbrukande intervjuats, och i frågan om skolans roll har två kuratorer intervjuats.

The aim of our study is to explore social workers view on the importance of clothing. We want to know how and if social worker reflects on the importance of their clothing and how it may affect their clients. Dresses social workers differently due to different work situations? Play client`s clothes any role in the social welfare officers? Can client`s clothing affect the assessment of their problem?The study is based on a qualitative method. The data consists of two focus group interviews with four social workers in each group, containing three women and one man in each focusgroup, with a total of eight informants.The results of our study indicate that the clothes are important in meeting with clients and especially as to help create a relationship with the client.

The purpose of this study was to examine how modern information and communication technology influence collective action within the framework of social movements. By studying the protests in the Arab World 2011, and focusing on the social movements in Suleimanya in northern Iraq, by observation taken on place, the essay discusses that collective action is closely related to the use of technology, for example cell phones and Internet.Result shows that modern communication technology has enabled immeasurable access andconnection between individuals throughout the world, which seems to be different from previouscollective action. The new communication channels in the form of social media, has been used for the dissemination of information and news, documentation, organization and membership recruitment in the social movements in the Arab World and Suleimanya. The new social movements have the tendency to be decentralized and flattened organized, they are now self-organizing and that they only do a whole as global patterns, as evidenced by the social movements in the Arab World andSuleimanya..

 The main purpose is to investigate the main fea-tures of the discourse in the social medias about the legal view on cimes and criminals.                                                The special questions that are investigated are:1)    What specific features characterize the discourse in the social medias?2)    What are the legal restrictions for the freedom of speech on the Internet?3)    What attitudes can you find among lawyers towards the discourse in the social medias?4)    Are there grounds for presuming that the discourse in the social medias can effect the judgement in a special case?         .