Motivation is a key factor in sustaining a healthy and active lifestyle, and technology has afforded us new methods for attaining information concerning exercise and health. This paper aims to examine how social media can motivate individuals to obtain and maintain an active and healthy lifestyle, as well as identify which particular social media channels are preferred for this purpose. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used as data collection in this research. The results of this report show that images and text shared on social media, as well as the communication therein, can function as motivation for individuals to commence and maintain a regular physical activity and health regimen. Additionally, an individual?s sharing of their own training and health routine is enough to motivate the person in question to sustain their training and health procedure.

Introduction: Reducing social inequality in health is a prioritized goal for public health on the global as well as the national and the local levels. Hälsoteket operates through health promotion to reduce inequality in health in the district of Angered in Göteborg, through the improvement of living habits and the wellbeing of the population.Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate Hälsoteket in Angered through its participants? subjective experiences. Subsidiary aims were to explore participants? perceptions and opinions about Hälsoteket in Angered, how they perceive the health impact of their participation and their motivations for participating.Method: A qualitative method was used to fulfill the aim.

The aim of the study was to examine which approach future social workers have regarding specific competence in the meeting with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer clients. Previous research shows that LGBTQ people have a low confidence towards social services, police and courts and say they face discrimination and degrading treatment to a greater extent than the heterosexual population. Research shows that education and better skills of LGBTQ culture among professionals can change the situation.The essay is based on a model of cultural competence in working with sexual minorities and people with a transgender expression. The model defines the meaning of an LGBTQ perspective and is designed to improve social work with LGBTQ clients.The study is quantitative and empirical data consists of 203 survey responses from students with a long experience of the social work education. The analysis of the results is based on the cultural competence three principles; attitudes, knowledge and skills.

The aim with this study has been to examine and to analyze the discourse of Rosengård in Swedish media. With the concept of discourse is meant here specific ways to speak about and to understand the world, or a part of it. In order to reach increased understanding regarding media presentations and constructions of Rosengård, I have done a study about how Rosengård has been presented in the Swedish daily and evening press during the violent acts that took place in Rosengård in the spring and summer of 2008, when youths regarding to media put cars and containers on fire, and also threw stones at fire engines and other emergency service vehicles when these had to turn out to put out the fires. The collected data, containing newspaper articles, has been analyzed on the basis of the critical discourse analysis, CDA, which is a mould of a textanalytical method. This study applies a social constructivist perspective.

SammanfattningSyftet med studien är att få större kännedom och söka svar på vad som främst motiverar och driver grundskoleelever till att välja gymnasieskola och utbildning. Vi disktuterar även svar på hur elever upplever skolgången i gymnasiet med fokus på både skola och program och hur elevers framtidsplaner ser ut vad gäller vidare studer, arbete, boende, ekonomi och familj.Vår studie är genomförd på ett kvalitativt arbetssätt och bygger på fokuserade gruppintervjuer som undersökningsmetod, där två grupper med totalt åtta medverkande utgör vardera fokusgrupp som följer reflexiv intervjuform. Det som framkommer i studien är att skolors marknadsföring i form av gymnasiemässor och studievägledning i grundskolan inte påverkar eleverna nämnvärt i sina gymnasieval. Eleverna själva väljer helst gymnasieskola utefter familj och vänners referenser där föräldrarnas åsikter i både skol- och programval visar sig betyda mest och i vissa fall även är avgörande. Den geografiska närheten till skolan är också av stor betydelse då eleverna vill ha den komforten.

The purpose of this study is to search and analyze different logics that operators use in the work of helping juvenile delinquents to break their criminal behavior. New institutional theory is used in this study to analyze the results. The study was conducted through qualitative interviews of six professionals in two municipalities which work with juvenile delinquency. There are two questions that we want to address in this study. The first one is what methods the social workers are using in two middle large municipalities to help youth to brake there criminal behavior.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka begreppet ?goda levnadsvillkor? i lagen om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade (LSS), och hur begreppet konstrueras i förvaltningsdomstolarnas praxis. Materialet består av domar från högsta instans, Högsta förvaltningdomstolen och Regeringsrätten. Dessa domar har analyserats med hjälp av Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys för att definiera vilka diskurser som kan sägas komma till uttryck i rättens principiella diskussioner om vad goda levnadsvillkor innebär. Jag har använt mig av teorier om sociala konstruktioner och språkets betydelse för vår förståelse av omvärlden samt teorier om hur funktionshinder kan förstås och hur det konstrueras.

The purpose with this work is to describe the language that is built around the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in Sweden. Our questions are: What does the professional field look like; who writes, about what and for which kind of readers? How do they describe the expressions and the upcoming of CFS? For which reasons can CFS be considered as a medical diagnosis/illness? How can CFS be understood from a social perspective? Our theoretical starting point is a social constructive theory and also Karin Johannisson's theory about medicalization and Foucault?s theory about power. We have from a literature-exposition of Swedish articles from 1989 to 2006, done a social constructive discourse analysis with help from Laclau & Mouffe's discourse theory, and Fairclough's model of social practices. In our textual analysis we found three dominating discourses: A medical discourse, a social/cultural discourse and a general/popular discourse.

Denna tvärsnittsstudie syftade till att undersöka samförekomst av smärtrelaterad rädsla och social ångest i ett kliniskt sample med kronisk smärtproblematik. Syftet var också att beskriva och kontrastera samvariation av transdiagnostiska faktorer i eventuella subgrupper. Datan bestod av enkätsvar från 196 deltagare i Social ångest smärta-projektet som leds av Örebro universitet och Akademiska sjukhuset i Uppsala. En klusteranalys fick fram fyra subgrupper bland deltagarna. En subgrupp utmärkte sig för hög komorbiditet.

Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva hur ett företag på ett framgångsrikt sätt kan ha ett fungerande system för kunskapsöverföring genom en stark kontroll från huvudkontoret. Detta är en fallstudie på ett företags kunskapsöverföring mellan huvudkontor och filialer, där den traditionella agencyteorin och den moderna resursbaserade forskningen testas. Fallföretagets styrka i kunskapsöverföringen är social kontroll som leder till en stark sammanhållning och öppenhet i kommunikationen samt låg förekomst av hierarkiska hinder. Studien är begränsad till ett företags kunskapsöverföring mellan huvudkontor och filial och kan därför inte helt generaliseras. I studien framkommer att kombinationen av finansiell- och social kontroll är ett bra verktyg för en framgångsrik kunskapsöverföring mellan huvudkontor och filial..

På dagens konkurrensutsatta marknad finns ett behov för samtliga företag attkommunicera ut företagets mest särpräglande karaktärsdrag samt yttersta styrkor tilldess intressenter. Ett verktyg att finna dessa och därefter kunna hantera företagetsuttryckta budskap på rätt sätt är företagsidentitetskonceptet. Syftet med denna uppsatsär att identifiera och inventera fallföretaget m&m Ekonomi ABs företagsidentitet samtutröna deras företagsimage. Uppsatsen ämnar även utforska vilka likheter samtolikheter som finns mellan dessa två perspektiv. Författarna har utifrån ett teoretisktramverk identifierat de egenskaper vilka varit av betydelse för båda synsätten.

The popularity of video games has been boosted by the rise of user-generated live streaming platforms, and the biggest of them all is Twitch. The popularity depends on Twitch alignment of live streamed video games. The stream is created by a player who broadcast and streams the video game online. The video game can then be watched by a viewer that is interested in the video game. In every stream there is an implemented live chat that allows the viewer to interact with the streamer while the stream is online.

The purpose of this essay is mainly to study the reason behind students' visits to restaurants, and also their restaurant habits. The study also intends to find a possible difference in students dining habits among the different social classes; working class and middle class.  This study contains qualitative methods. The qualitative research method is in the shape of deep interviews with ten students from different social classes who?s registered at Södertörns  högskola. The results of this investigation show that the consumer society along with the respondent?s habitus and access to capital, has influenced and created their opinions and habits around eating out. This has also created the similarities and differences between them. Keywords:Habtitus, consumption, restaurant, social class, consumer society.

The purpose of this study was to examine the controversy surrounding the Swedish methadone assisted rehabilitation program over time. Which course has the Swedish methadone assisted rehabilitation program, and the controversy surrounding it, taken since the start? Which arguments have been for and which have been against a methadone assisted rehabilitation program in Sweden, and what are these arguments based on? We chose to write this thesis as a literature study to get a broad and in depth picture of the development of the program in Sweden. In our analysis we used social constructionism and a medical aspect on substance abuse as theories.It is clear that it has been, and still are, differences in opinions when it comes to the effects of the program. As early as in the 1980's the methadone assisted rehabilitation program was scientifically proved effective and approved by the Swedish Board of Health and Social Affairs.

The purpose of this paper has been to reach a greater understanding in how moral inflicts social workers way of handling everyday situations. In what way, if in any way, moral comes to play a part in the making of decisions. In order to reach this understanding we have interviewed two different groups of social workers which we also later on came to compare . One of the groups contained six interviewees and the other group contained five interviewees. Both of these groups were in the ages between 27 ? 52.To shed some light over this phenomenon did we use two theoretical perspectives, first Kant?s morale theory and second, consequentialistic utilitarism theory.As a result from the interviews we?ve made, we came to an understanding that the meaning of morale and in what way it can be applied in the everyday work differs between these two professional groups.