This is a qualitative study based on two focus group interviews with a total of six social workers who work with assessing financial aid in two municipalities. The study aims to examine how the social workers experience and handle their ambiguous professional role, on the basis that they are expected to support and control the client. The theoretical framework is the theory about discretion and role theory. The results show that social workers find it difficult to combine these different approaches. Two different groups of strategies that social workers use to manage their professional role have been distinguished, the first is used to combine the different approaches (combination strategies), which are: empathy, to be distinct and to "blame" the organization.

Att ständigt förbättra sig och utveckla sina processer är ett måste för många organisationer för att hålla sig konkurrenskraftig i dagens globala samhälle. Utan att arbeta med ständiga förbättringar och kostnadsreduktioner hamnar organisationer snabbt efter i utvecklingen och förlorar sin fördel i konkurrenskraft. Dessa två faktorer inom kvalitetsutveckling har gjort att organisationer arbetar med avvikelsehantering för att finna förbättringsmöjligheter samt kostnadsreduktioner som kan tillämpas inom organisationer.Detta kandidatarbete är utfört vid Luleå tekniska universitet samt hos Glasfiber & Plastprodukter AB som arbetar med försäljning av olika typer av plastprodukter. Bakgrunden till arbetet är att företaget ansåg att det skulle vara fördelaktigt med en analys av avvikelsehanteringen. Svårigheten med avvikelsehantering är inte att mäta och rapportera de avvikelser som uppstår inom en verksamhet.

Mirakelkursen är ett verk som definierar orsaken till projektion som skulden över tron att man har separerat sig från Gud eller Ettheten. Det ingår i Etthetens karaktär att detta är omöjligt att göra. Helandet av denna skuld tar bort orsaken till projektionerna och den verkliga världen uppenbarar sig. Projektionen är till sin karaktär en psykologisk lögn och är enligt Jung orsaken till emotionella affekter. Frågeställningarna är följande: Hur beskrivs psykets projektionsmekanism i Mirakelkursen? Är Mirakelkursens beskrivning av projektion förenlig med Jungs beskrivning av den? Är den en avvikelse från Jungs definition eller en naturlig följd av den? Vad är implikationerna av förståelsen av projektion, för vårt sätt att betrakta världen?.

Mirakelkursen är ett verk som definierar orsaken till projektion som skulden över tron att man har separerat sig från Gud eller Ettheten. Det ingår i Etthetens karaktär att detta är omöjligt att göra. Helandet av denna skuld tar bort orsaken till projektionerna och den verkliga världen uppenbarar sig. Projektionen är till sin karaktär en psykologisk lögn och är enligt Jung orsaken till emotionella affekter. Frågeställningarna är följande: Hur beskrivs psykets projektionsmekanism i Mirakelkursen? Är Mirakelkursens beskrivning av projektion förenlig med Jungs beskrivning av den? Är den en avvikelse från Jungs definition eller en naturlig följd av den? Vad är implikationerna av förståelsen av projektion, för vårt sätt att betrakta världen?.

The aim of this study is to through six interviews, with six experienced, social workers?, in three cities, understand how the child?s position in the Swedish child protective services? enquiries has change, and the factors behind it. The aim is also to compare if the social workers? view of the child?s position in the enquire has change accordingly to Socialstyrelsens intentions of BBIC. The theoretical approaches that was used is the new institutionalism, the Shier?s pathways to participation and the term discretion.

Deliberative democracy theory holds that democracy is about active partaking on formal and informal arenas in the public sphere where fairly equal citizens can obtain knowledge, discuss, evaluate and affect the political agenda before decisions are made.In line with the deliberative vision of online deliberation social media such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Twingly offer such formal and informal arenas where people can obtain knowledge and interact with other people, and politicians.The Swedish EU-Presidency was the first EU-presidency to make use of social media and it was the first time the Swedish Government Offices used other social media than email and chat features.This thesis will examine the Swedish EU-Presidency?s ambitions of using social media as well as the actual use of social media on the Swedish EU-Presidency website in the light of deliberative democracy theory.The aim of this thesis is, through a case study, to analyze the Swedish EU-Presidency?s use of social media in the light of deliberative democracy theory..

AbstractMy study is based on that I think there is a problem at the Handicraft program for hairdressers where I currently work as a hairdresser teacher. I believe that there are clear objectives and a wide range of courses focusing in craft knowledge, but the social competence goals are unclear and there are no courses on the subject. Since I have 13 years hairdressing experience and know roughly what it requires, I wonder where and how the teaching of social skills is performed at the Handicraft program for hairdressersThe purpose of this study is therefore to find out how some of my colleagues perceive the teaching of social skills. The issues I have focused on are what these teachers believe that social skills are, how they perceive their teaching of it and when they believe that teaching really should be. There is not much literature on this subject because it is a relatively unexplored area. I have therefore concentrated on literature dealing with social skills in general, and theses and essays dealing with the quality of hairdressing education. I have chosen to make a qualitative interview study. The objectives related to social skills can be incorporated in the teaching of many subjects; I chose to interview two core-subject teachers and four vocational teachers. The interviews have been based on respondents' own interpretations of social skills. They have been individual interviews of about 30 minutes. My results show that most teachers believe that social competence is about a good meeting between people and to coping with different situations in a good way.

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.

Photography has long been of importance for humans in aspects of community, sharing and documenting. It has previously only existed in analogue format and with larger cameras. We have presently reached a new generation of cameras and photography. The new smaller compact cameras that are provided with most cellular phones take digital images of varying quality and accounts for a large part of photography. With the emergence of social media, photography and social interaction combined came photo applications with different features.

AbstractWorking with child and youth welfare is one of the most difficult challenges a social worker might face in the field of social work. Those who work with child and youth welfare are more exposed to stress and burnout than other comparable human service occupations. Research links the prevalence of stress and burnout to several key variables, such as demographics, working conditions and personality factors. In contrast, even though social workers in this field face many negative work-related problems they report a high job satisfaction. The aim of this study is to examine how uplifting and straining experiences affect social workers, who work with child and youth welfare, through the use of The Critical Incident Technique and interviews.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka om arbetstillfredsställelse påverkas av hygien- respektive motivationsfaktorer samt att ta reda på hur introvert-extrovert personlighet påverkar dessa samband. Studien utgår från Herzbergs arbetsmotivations teori och Furnhams studier av personlighet och arbetstillfredsställelse. En enkätstudie genomfördes på en grupp (N=48) arbetstagare, huvudsakligen kollektivanställda. Resultatet visade att både en hög närvaro av motivationsfaktorer och en hög närvaro av hygienfaktorer gav upphov till hög arbetstillfredsställelse. Detta resultat ger stöd åt Herzbergs teori.

The purpose of this paper was to study the various organisations that work with drug abusing homeless people in Lund. We have tried to compare the possibilities they have to change the way the homeless people look at themselves. The organisations that we have studied are Aluma, Diakonicentralen, the shelter Piletorp and the social welfare office.The methods used to collect data were interviews with professionals and homeless people as well as reading literature. We have used Ted Goldberg's (docent in social work at the university in Stockholm) theory. He writes that you have to be a significant other to persons with deviant behaviour to be able to help them become a part of the society and to change the way they look at themselves.

The aim of this study is to through six interviews, with six experienced, social workers?, in three cities, understand how the child?s position in the Swedish child protective services? enquiries has change, and the factors behind it. The aim is also to compare if the social workers? view of the child?s position in the enquire has change accordingly to Socialstyrelsens intentions of BBIC. The theoretical approaches that was used is the new institutionalism, the Shier?s pathways to participation and the term discretion.

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The purpose with this essay is to describe how the principal, social worker and the teacher work to prevent bullying at school. The following questions have been discussed:Does the school have an action plan for bullying, and if so, what does it say? Who has the practical responsibility for making sure that the plan is followed, and how does that responsibility work? How is the responsibility divided between the different professions? Are the children in any way active in the planning of the work against bullying? What does the children think about who has the main responsibility for stopping bullying?The method I have used in the essay is individual interviews with principals, welfare officers and teachers from two schools.My results show that the schools have different ways of handling bullying, and different forms of cooperation within the staff. One school have active students in the work against bullying in the form of classmate support (kamratstödjare). The social worker is used in different ways in the work against bullying.