The purpose of the study was to examine what possibilities and obstacles, according to the personnel and patients in a methadone treatment, exist in the patient's social rehabilitation. How does the methadone treatment encourage the patient's social rehabilitation, what possibilities/obstacles are there according to personnel and patients? What does the patient see as important aspects of his/her social rehabilitation and what importance does the methadone have on the treatment? The results show that there are difficulties for patients to rebuild their life, find employment, start new social networks and get by with everyday tasks. The support from friends and family will simplify the patient's social rehabilitation, otherwise they get isolated and alone. Patients feel that they are fighting for a successful treatment so that they can have a relationship with friends and families again.

Our purpose was to investigate if Swedish University educated social workers, living as active Christians, in any way might be influenced by Christian values. The main questions; Can Christian values be a factor in the choice of career to become a social worker? How does a personal belief in Christ impact the relationship towards the clients? Is Christian belief a support in the work? In this paper we used a qualitative method and interviewed eight persons, with a background as above, four of them employed by a church organisation and the other four working in the social sector. The result we present is that the eight Christian social workers Christian belief influenced their work very individually. How much this supported them was a choice about how official and open they wanted Christian values to be.

Dimensionerna av hållbar utveckling (ekologisk, ekonomisk och social) är inbördes beroende av varandra och arbetet kring dessa bör ske på alla nivåer i samhället. Då oklarhet kring begreppet social hållbarhet råder inom byggsektorn samtidigt som begreppet är en viktig del i strävandet mot ett hållbart byggande, syftar detta examensarbete till att utreda sambanden mellan social hållbarhet och byggnadsarkitektur åt Skellefteå kommun och projektet Trästad 2012. Examensarbetet öppnar även upp för en fortsatt diskussion kring vad social hållbarhet på en byggnadsnivå kan innebära och konkretiserar den sociala dimensionens inverkan på byggnadsarkitektur genom utformning av en planerad förskolebyggnad i Skellefteå. Arbetet bygger med litteraturstudier upp en teoretisk grund kring begreppen, vilken sedan är utgångspunkten för konkretiserandet. Kopplingen mellan social hållbarhet och byggnadsarkitektur härleds från begreppens förenande i att tillfredställa mänskliga behov.

Our main aim with this study is to shed a light over the social workers opinions about what they believe will be the consequences of introducing Housing First in the city of Stockholm. We wanted to examine the social workers perceptions about how Housing First could change their client?s autonomy and justice. Therefor we accomplished five qualitative interviews with social workers. We analyzed our empirical material with the theoretical terms; justice, autonomy and intern role-conflict.

This paper describes how files and information can be shared in organisations and workplaces. We studied and compared the traditional file sharing in Microsoft Active Directory and the Social file sharing that comes with Microsoft SharePoint Sites. We used qualitative studies based on interviews with system administrators, management and by our own observations to acquire the necessary data. Using independent research, we were able to analyze the data and show the general difference between the traditional and the social file sharing systems. Social file sharing enables the user to easily store and share files in a flexible online environment.

    The purpose of this essay is to examine trust, or lack of trust, in the social services. Previous research considering this topic is limited, which, in our point of view, implies the need of further studies. A quantative method was used, consisting of an online questionnaire containing statements about the social services. The statements were designed using a five level Likert-scale which required the respondent to rate their level of agreement. The questionnaire was published on five webcommunities directed to parents.

SammanfattningSyfte och frågeställningarSyftet var att undersöka om frukosten har någon inverkan på den fysiska prestationen i ämnet idrott och hälsa. Frågeställningarna var:? Finns det något samband mellan fysisk prestation och frukost hos elever som äter respektive inte äter frukost?? Är det någon skillnad i den fysiska prestationen mellan könen, bland de elever som äter respektive inte äter frukost?? Finns det något samband mellan fysisk prestation, tidpunkt för frukostintag och idrott och hälsa bland elever som äter respektive inte äter frukost?MetodUndersökningen är kvantitativ och har genomförts bland 89 elever i skolår 7 och 8. Det externa bortfallet var 28,8 procent. Studien genomfördes i idrott och hälsa där eleverna deltog och sedan svarade på en enkät.

The purpose of this paper was to examine social workers' experiences of integration of unaccompanied children. We aimed to study which factors in the individual and the community social workers experience affect the integration and how they, based on their understanding, work to promote integration. The essay has a phenomenological approach and focuses on the social workers' own experiences of the phenomenon. The empirical data was obtained from qualitative interviews conducted with five social workers, all administrators in cases involving unaccompanied children. The result shows that the social workers feel that the desire to integrate is the most important presumption that must be present in the unaccompanied children.

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.

This study focuses on work related factors which have an effect on the balance between peoples work and private/social life. Commonly discussed in the daily debate is the so called ?livspusslet?, the time puzzle. The question is: How do you balance the demands from work, family and society? A lot of peoples health and family relations suffers from a stressful situation at work.It?s not hard to figure out that the possible factors which could have an effect on the balance between peoples work and private/social life are many.

Vårt syfte med studien är att belysa relationen mellan miljön i förskolan och könsintegrerad lek. Vidare vill vi undersöka hur barnen positioneras och positionerar sig i förskolans miljöer samt den könsintegrerade leken. En kvalitativ studie med observationer och intervjuer har genomförts på två förskolor i två kommuner. Intervjuerna genomfördes med sammanlagt 5 förskollärare och observationerna skedde genom att vi iakttog barnens lek på de utvalda förskolorna.Resultatet av studien visar att förskollärarna anser att förskolornas miljöer inte präglas av den könsintegrerade leken men att den förekommer i mer eller mindre utsträckning. Samtliga förskollärare förespråkar dock en könsintegrerad lek som en viktig del i verksamheten.

The purpose with this essay was to study how the social work is shaped in the methadone programme and how the staffs treat and work with the social integration for the patients.We have studied the experience of a medical assisted treatment from two different treatment clinics and focused on their treatment programme. We have chosen to focus on the social aspect but we have also been taking part of the medical treatment - the methadone. In order to get a bigger picture of our problem area we also studied how Sweden's narcotic politic is constructed and how a narcotic life could look like before the entrance in the program. We describe this with the help of the theory about the narcotic carrer and the society's view on a normal living..

This thesis is a study of social movements and their possibilities to effect politics by infuencing values in society through framing. I've looked upon social movements from a functionalistic-structuralistic perspective, as if they were carriers of values from people that otherwise won't be represented in the political life. The values that the social movements are struggling for can affect both the opinion and the decision-makers since the social movements in an active way are trying ti influence the society. The thesis examines the political opportunities that social movements hav to mobilise and grow. I have looked at different factors that either improve or make the political opportunities worse.

SammanfattningDenna uppsats har skrivits för att skapa en bild av människors upplevelser av musik på deras arbetsplats. Vad upplever de arbetande människorna att musiken bidrar med och vilken betydelse har musiken för det arbete som de utför? Inledningsvis har en teoridel utformats i uppsatsen för att ge läsaren en fördjupad förståelse för musik och dess koppling till arbetet. För att samla in data om människors upplevelse av musik på arbetsplatsen så har kvalitativa intervjuer utförts med fem respondenter. Ett strategiskt urval har varit grunden med den gemensamma faktorn att alla måste ha musiken närvarande under sin arbetstid.

The purpose of this paper was to discuss stigma and stigmatisation in relation to social policy and social work. By discussing welfare systems in social policy I wanted to see if there could be any connection between social policy and stigma. I used case studies of hearing impaired adults to give examples of how the stigma processes work. By connecting the stigma and the social policy theories with the case studies I wanted to see how the social policy could affect the stigma processes or vice versa.In the paper the concept of stigma has been described and discussed, foremost using the theories of Erving Goffman. I have also discussed the welfare system and the connection between residual systems and stigma.