This is an interview based qualitative case study on two Women's Migrant Associations in Malmoe, which I interpret as being part of a women's movement, with characteristics of a new social movement. The aim of this study is to get a deeper understanding on how the collective identity is being constructed, in this women's movement where the membership is not based on an exclusive ethnic identity.I make a two dimensional analysis that departs from a social constructivist underpinning, including the theories Transversial Politics, Postcolonial feminism and New Social Movement Theory.First I analyze the construction of collective identity from the external social and cultural context, and get confirmed that the collective identity of the movement is based on a common experience of social exclusion and a plurality of actions that aims to fight the structural injustices based on gender and ethnic discrimination. Secondly I analyze how the collective identity is being constructed and maintained from the interactions between the members of the movement, from an understanding of Transversial Politics. My findings show that the members of the movement interact in a participatory democratic way which generally corresponds to Transversial Politics. According to Transversial Politics this can lead to a construction of an empowered inclusive collective identity for the members and as my empirical study confirms it also means possibilities for deconstruction of boundaries between social groups..

The purpose of this study is to analyse and describe social work students? view on a person with self-injurious behaviour and the following issues. The aim and focus is on the general depiction. The theoretical perspectives have been intersectionality and its focus on social constructivism, and gender perspectives. The method was semi-structured interviews with eight social work students at Linnaeus University Kalmar.

The North-American sociologist Michael Lipsky has characterized social workers as street-level bureaucrats with a substantial discretion in the relationship between the welfare state and its citizens. Within Lipsky´s theoretical framework social workers appear as a powerful group that socializes the citizens to uphold certain expectations towards the welfare state and its (re)distributional programs. From this point of view, it is important to learn more about social workers and the attitudes they express towards the welfare state. The aim of this study is to analyze how the welfare-political attitudes of future social workers are affected by their social background (e.g. class background and ancestral homeland).

Syftet med studien var dels att undersöka vad som motiverar elever med svenska och bosniska som förstaspråk att välja tyska som språkval i grundskolan, dels att ta reda på om dessa elever har olika lätt att lära sig grundläggande strukturer i tysk grammatik beroende på deras språkbakgrund. Insamlingen av det empiriska materialet har gjorts med både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder, närmare bestämt intervjuer, enkäter och två test. Urvalet av elever byggde på enkäter. I studien ingick 12 elever, 8 med bosniska som förstaspråk och 4 med svenska som förstaspråk. Eleverna delades in i tre olika grupper om fyra elever: en grupp med svenska elever, en grupp med bosniska elever som valt att inte delta i modersmålsundervisning samt en grupp med bosniska elever som deltar i modersmålsundervisning.

The purpose of this study is to examine immigrants' experiences of social services' treatmentand their expectations of social services. In this study we have used the following questions:how immigrants have experienced the treatment of the social service, the way in whichimmigrants would like to be treated by social services as well as what kind of beliefs andexpectations immigrants have concerning the social services' duties and powers. We haveused a qualitative method in the study that consists of ten semi-structured interviews. Thetheoretical concepts we have used are culture, ethnicity, cultural competence, professionalismand social psychology. The survey reveals a majority of negative experiences, such as afeeling of being ?tossed around?, suspicion and discrimination by the caseworkers due to theethnicity of the respondents.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how social workers, working in a management position in the health care system, perceive the encounter of the medical and social perspective. With seven qualitative interviews, the study tries to conclude whether or not social workers are accepted at managerial positions within the health care sector. The social worker is, as a manager in health care, a leader but at the same time in a professional alienation from the medical caregivers. Organizations in the health care sector are often multi professional and have their own long standing tradition, history and culture. The results show that the conditions for social workers, working in a management position in health care appear to be agreeable.

2004, the SSR, Akademikerförbundet, made a study on the threats and violence as a social secretary in the municipal social services are exposed in their occupation of the "social secretary of threats and violence at work" (T-110192), conducted by Temo ab. We have chosen to use the study on a smaller scale and then made contact with five municipalities in the middle of Sweden to investigate social secretaries experiences of threats and violence. Using the cross-sectional design and a convenience sample, we have gained access to data from 56 people. From a sociological perspective, we have chosen to use Norbert Elias theory of universal configuration and interdependence, and Michel Foucault?s theories concerning power search explanation for the existence of threats and violent situations in the contact between social workers and their clients..

The main objective of this paper has been to construct a way to measure the level of social capital in a society. Based on a theory which describes the ideal society have I herein tried to find out to what extent the Swedish and Danish communities correspond to this model. The theoretical foundation consist of several different levels of analysis, and I have indeed found there to be consideral differences between the two nations on these different levels. The paper however conclude that these differences even out to add up to a Social Capital Index that is remarkably similar. A result which is to be interpreted as one nation being about as close to the ideal situation from a social capital point-of-view as the other..

The aim of this study was to examine how clients who have or have previously had a drug- and/or alcohol addiction experienced interchanges with social workers. In this study, eight semi-structured interviews were made with respondents from an out-patient clinic in a small town in Sweden. Questions were asked regarding clients? experience of the social workers' attitudes during the initial meeting as well as all continuing meetings. Other possible variables that affected the interchanges, either positively or negatively, including how the clients wanted to be treated, were also explored.

The aim of this M.A.-thesis in social work is to problematize the assimilatoric concept of integration and its discourses in a postcolonial perspective in relation to social work in Denmark.As a support theory I use symbolic interactionism. By using these theories I show how the concept of integration and its discourses, when its aim is assimilatoric, can be understood and problematized with concepts as binary oppositions and hegemony.It is shown that the construction of the discoursive other is a useful term as an instrument of interpretation of power in general. The relevance to social work in relation to the social workers double powered positions, professional and cultural power to define 'the other', in social work with ethnic minorities is shown in relation to the post colonial perspective with support of symbolic interactionism. The white western world hegemony and the social workers power positions in relation to the clients fits to the theoretic frame chosen in the thesis.A second aim in this thesis is to point to new ways for social work and to the necessity to reflect over a globalized world characterized by international migration, ethnic relations and diversity..

På senare år har samhället ökat uppmärksamheten på barn som bevittnar våld i hemmet. Vetenskapliga studier tyder på att denna grupp barn far väldigt illa utav våldet som sker mellan föräldrarna inom hemmets fyra väggar, vilket kan ses som en faktor till den ökade uppmärksamheten. Det har visat sig att denna grupp barn hamnat i skymundan, då störst fokus lagts på mamman som utsatts för våld. Det har även konstaterats att mörkertalet är stort i samhället, vilket innebär att endast en bråkdel av de barn som bevittnar våld kommer till myndigheters kännedom. Barn som bevittnar våld i hemmet är att betrakta som ett stort folkhälsoproblem, och bör därmed ses som en stor samhällsuppgift att arbeta vidare med.

The purpose with this examination essay was to find out if participation of children in social welfare investigations had increased since the social services had started to work with BBIC. I compared the participation of the child before BBIC, then when social service had started to work with BBIC and I tried to see if there were increased participation in the investigations. My theoretic starting-point was the symbolic interactionism and I used the qualitative method of investigation. In my investigation I found that there is not yet any increase in participation of the child in the investigations when social service work with BBIC. What I found was that the reason to start an investigation often was that the parents made the problem for the child and that conditions at home for the child influenced the possibility of the child to communi- cate with an adult that the child did not know.

Syftet med denna studie var att ta reda på hur elever i skolår tre resonerade kring likhetstecknet när de löste pre- algebraiska uppgifter. För att kunna besvara vår frågeställning valde vi att göra en observationsstudie där eleverna fick sitta i grupp och lösa de olika uppgifter vi givit dem. Sju grupper observerades med tre elever i varje grupp och resultatet från vår studie visade att det fanns tre dominerande sätt att se på likhetstecknet. Det fanns de elever som såg likhetstecknet som ett resultattecken, de som kopplade ihop likhetstecknet med ett räknesätt och de som menade att likhetstecknet stod för ekvivalens. Vidare visade det sig att de elever som uppfattade likhetstecknet som ett resultattecken eller ett tecken som var kopplat till ett räknesätt hade svårt att lösa flertalet av de uppgifter vi givit dem..

We chose to study the groups for divorced children in Vellinge municipal because there was no evaluation made of these kinds of groups with the involved methods.Vellinge municipal has had groups for children to divorced parents since 2000. During this period of time the total numbers of children in these groups have expanded. As of now, there are two groups.Our goal with this study was to see which way the CAP, Children Are People, manual has been implemented in the every-day work in the group. Several studies have been made about CAP but not in the context of groups for divorced children. We have also examined results in other municipals that have implemented groups for divorced children into their social services.We have interviewed ten children and four social workers.

Utbildning är något som de flesta människor behöver och är intresserade av att skaffa sig. Samhället utvecklas genom att individer utbildar sig och att resurser och begåvningar på så sätt tas till vara. Dessutom är utbildning en av de få metoder som individer kan använda för att flytta sig uppåt i social ställning. Det finns många teorier och mycket forskning som visar hur social klass påverkar individens beslut angående utbildningsval. Dessa studier visar även att individers etnicitet kan resultera i ett negativt utfall på arbetsmarknaden.Det verkar dock finnas begränsat med studier som undersöker utbildningsval vad gäller inrikes respektive utrikes födda på högre nivå (eftergymnasial utbildning).