Syfte: Att intervjua ungdomar som under åren 2001-2006 någon gång varit placerade iinstitutionsvård för att se om insatsen lett till en positiv förändring i den unges livssituation. Vi villäven undersöka hur ungdomarna upplevde tiden på institution.Frågeställningar: Hur såg den unges livssituation ut innan placeringen? Hur upplevde den ungevården på institutionen? Hur ser den unges livssituation ut idag?Metod: Arbetet är en kvalitativ studie som bygger på halv-strukturerade intervjuer med sex stycken ungdomar.Teori: Vi har valt symbolisk interaktionism och stämplingsteori som teoretisk utgångspunkt.Symbolisk interaktionism förklarar hur en människa formas genom interaktion (samspel) och kommunikation med andra. Stämplingsteorin är en av de viktigaste idéerna inom symboliskinteraktionism. Den är ett sätt att tillämpa det symboliskt interaktionistiska tänkandet på ?avvikandebeteende?.Huvudresultat: Vårt material har visat att de flesta av våra informanter uppger att de är nöjda med sin tid på institution och att den har lett till en positiv förändring i deras livssituation.Uppseendeväckande är att de flesta av våra informanter inte är nöjda med hur socialtjänsten har agerat i samband med placeringen.

This thesis examines how techniques from place marketing, developed to market places, can be used in the process of designing a visual identity for an institution. The thesis is a case study of the development of a new visual identity for the public art institution Malmö konsthall. The essay presents Malmö Konsthall, defines the term visual identity and describes the main principles in place branding. I then define target audiences and key values, discuss the application of place marketing principle and go through the design process of the new visual identity. The process showed that theories about flagship buildings, signature design and signature districts have the biggest influence on the design.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how social procurement can be a further development of public-private partnership. This is done with interviews and a case study of the social procurement Mitt Gröna Kvarter and its labor effort Boendebyggarna. The theoretical framework used in the thesis consists of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility. It tries to answer the following questions:What does this social procurement mean by the concept of public-private partnership?What does this social procurement mean for the participants involved?How can social procurement be seen as a further development of public-private partnership?The thesis uses the theory development around the concepts of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility and shows that social procurement does indeed have similarities to public-private partnership and could very well be a further development of it..

  ABSTRACTThere is a limited possibility for many of the concert-goers to go behind the stage and follow the work process with putting together a program for the concert season in a concert institution. The purpose of this study is to describe a concert institution's work with developing a concert program for each season. This is done through a presentation of the factors affecting the work. This is a descriptive essay and a case study of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Interviews have been made with people directly involved in the work or affected by the outcome of the work process.

The aim of this study is to illuminate social worker?s perception of social class within the Swedish social service system. This study therefor examine if social class contributes to the production and reproduction of the client and what impact social class has on the interaction between client and social workers. The study was conducted with qualitative semi-structured interviews with social workers from three different departments of social service. The theoretical approach is Yeheskel Hasenfeld?s theory about moral practices in welfare organisations, Michael Lipsky and Roine Johansson?s theories about client construction and Pierre Bourdieu?s class theory.

The purpose of this study is to use a qualitative method to investigate the Swedish curriculums of 1919, 1962 and 2011 in search of attitudes and different usages of the popular culture of the time. To reach these conclusions Antonio Gramsci?s theories about cultural hegemony have been applied to prove how the superior classes, in this study these classes are represented by the Swedish school as an institution, use popular culture to maintain sovereignty of the lower classes. Ergo the problem highlighted in this study is whether the cultural class society exists in a fixed state since the 1919?s with the school as the institution to implement the tradition of cultural hegemony.

Purpose: To compare the expectations of coming profession in social work with experienced social work. We wanted to compare the pictures between the students in school of social work studies with social workers. We also wanted to increase social workers as well as other readers? awareness of social work as a profession.Questions: What characterizes the school of social studies? How do students in school of social work view the coming role as a professional? How do students in school of social work view upon social workers as professionals? How do social workers view upon their own profession? How do social workers view upon the own role as a professional? How do social workers view upon the relation between the idea of the profession and the daily practice? How do the students in school of social work studies and social workers view upon professional social work?Method: Qualitative study with qualitative interviews.Conclusion: Social work is a low status profession. How to increase the status of social work is not easy.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att med utgångspunkt i problematiken i Amazonas regnskog förklara varför de åtgärder som satts in inte fungerat enligt avsikterna, samt att diskutera möjliga lösningar på de problem som finns utifrån Elinor Ostroms teori. Slutsatsen är att regnskogsavverkning, industrier, boskapsskötsel och svedjebruken är de faktorer som har störst negativ miljömässig inverkan på Amazonas. Trots kan jag dra en stark slutsats av detta, och det handlar om att dessa problem skulle vara betydligt mindre om länderna det rör sig om hade haft bättre ekonomi. Ekonomin är en starkt avgörande faktor till varför Amazonas exploateras. Att Ostroms principer för att en institution för common-pool resurser ska lyckas inte i huvudtaget uppfylls av Amazonas regnskog kan jag konstatera.

The aim of this paper was to describe the phenomenon of threats and violence within a Swedish penal institution. The study was thematized according to the three main research questions. These were as follows; The threats and violence prison staff have experienced in their workplace (I) how these experiences affected them in their work performances (II) and in their private life (III). By a qualitative design, in-depth interviews were carried out with four persons who are, or formerly have been, gainfully employed at a penal institution. Concepts from the theory of symbolic interactionism and a theory of human action have been used in the analysing process of this paper.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa mötet mellan de arbetssökande och arbetsförmedlingen som institution sett ur bådas perspektiv. Vi vill få en djupare förståelse både för de arbetssökande och för arbetsförmedlarna samt deras personliga upplevelser av mötet. Uppsatsens sociologiska perspektiv är symbolisk interaktionism. Eftersom det är upplevelsen av mötet och därmed den interaktion och samspel som uppstår är detta perspektiv relevant för studien. För att få en djupare förståelse för upplevelsen av mötet mellan de arbetssökande och arbetsförmedlarna har en kvalitativ metod använts.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to explore the image of the librarian from three groups: librarians, researchers and directors of staff from industrial companies. The purpose was also to study the image of the future librarian as the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University College of Borås introduces it. As my theoretical framework I used communication theories and marketing theories. I searched answers to the following questions: - Is there any resemblance at all between the common stereotypes of the librarian and the images given by the participants of the survey? - How do the librarians view themselves? - What is the image of the librarian among the researchers who use the services of the library? - What is the image of the librarian among the directors of staff from the industrial companies? - What is the image of the librarian given by an educational institution during the basic education? I contacted the participants and asked them to draw a picture of a librarian and write a short text about the picture.

This qualitative study aims to highlight if there are any gender difference in social workers reasoning about a particular case. To achieve a deeper understanding we had to explain and understand our respondent?s answers, primarily from a gender perspective, but also from a power perspective. Our questions were: how does social worker reasoning about a particular case? How can we understand the social workers answer from a gender- and power perspective? The method consisted of a construct case and of semi-structured interviews.

My big interest in sports was what shaped my choice of subject for the essay. The purpose of this study has been to explore the social meaning of team sports for functionally impaired persons. In order to fulfil the purpose of the essay I formed following questions: How do the actives experience their participation in team sports? And how important is the social intercourse in team sports to the individual welfare? The methods I?ve used have been qualitative with an ethnographic approach. I have used participant observations and field interviews to gather my empirical material.

The aim of the study has been to explore what participation and hope means for persons with disabilities living in an institution called Horizon House, in Stellenbosch South Africa. The aim has also been to discover the South African approach to disability and how Horizon House fits into this approach. Horizon House is an institution and a protective workplace in Stellenbosch for adults whose main impairment is of an intellectual nature but there are also physical and emotional disabilities. Another aim has been to explore the perspectives of the residents. The research questions of the study are: ? What does participation imply for the residents of Horizon House?? What does Hope represent for the residents of Horizon House?? What importance can hope have for people with disabilities, in their approach towards increased participation? We travelled to South Africa during a two week period in March 2009, where we participated at the protective workplace of Horizon House.

This study analyses social age as a phenomenon and if unaccompanied refugee children has a social age that, according to the Swedish culture, do not correspond with their biological age and if so is, the reason for that. Furthermore, our study has discussed the potential consequences of the effects for the unaccompanied refugee children and the social age when interacting with Swedish society. According to our study, the social age is effected by other factors besides cultural norms, values and role expectations that a society has on a specific biological age. The results in this study shows that social age is a vital component to someone?s identity.