Brister i social kognition antas ligga bakom de sociala svårigheter som kännetecknar autismspektrumtillstånd. Klassiska tester av social kognition har ofta misslyckats med att fånga de små brister som kan ses hos exempelvis personer med högfungerande autismspektrumtillstånd. Syftet med denna studie var att validera den svenska versionen av MASC, ett videobaserat, naturalistiskt instrument utvecklat för att mäta subtila brister i social kognition. En grupp vuxna med högfungerande autismspektrumtillstånd (n = 18) och vuxna kontroller (n = 19) testades med MASC, Reading the Mind in the Eyes och Strange Stories. MASC var det enda test som identifierade en skillnad i social kognition mellan grupperna och en ROC-analys visade att MASC hade en bättre diagnostisk validitet än de andra två testerna.

The focus of this thesis is on social workers? knowledge in assessing and making decisions in child welfare cases. The primary aim is to identify what skills or knowledge social workers find most useful within child welfare agencies in Swedish municipalities. Six different types of knowledge, social policy and the approach of child welfare cases are perspectives considered in the analysis. The interviews with social workers were held in three agencies in southern Sweden, in 2014.

The aim of the study was to examine how social workers investigate and assess addiction cases whether gender matters or not. The following questions were asked in the study; ? Does the gender of the client influence whether a case is opened after the first meeting at the Addiction Unit? ? Do social workers consider there is a difference in handling an addiction treatment investigation when the client is a man or a woman? ? Do divergences exist in the assessment and the final decision process when the case concerns a man or a woman? The study is based on the qualitative method. The material is gathered from semi-structured interviews with social workers. Their job tasks include assessment and evaluation of addiction cases.

This study is about conception in the evaluation of financial assistance within the social services. The aim of this study is to describe and understand how social workers reason about variation, conception and local norms and its significance in the evaluation process. To reach this purpose we have conducted semi-structured interviews with eight social workers in which different themes were discussed and reasoned about. In order to understand and analyze our results we have studied/used the knowledge about tacit knowledge and street-level bureaucracy. Our results showed, as previous research states, that social workers do have conceptions about clients.

The purpose of this study was to understand school counselors´ and teachers´ perspectives on the prevention of bullying in relation to social capital. The study was based on a qualitative process with semi-structured interviews from three teachers and three school counselors from three different schools. The main question was to find out teachers and school counselors perspectives of bullying in relation to social capital. The analysis was based on a theory that focuses on social capital, where trust and confidence as well as universal and selective interventions are important. Today, bullying is considered a serious and significant problem in school.

Studiens syfte a?r att underso?ka huruvida det finns skriftspra?kliga skillnader mellan texter skrivna inom ramen fo?r det nationella provet och texter fo?rfattade under annan skoltid. Fra?gesta?llningarna har varit: Vilka spra?kliga skillnader ga?r att se i ja?mfo?relse av elevers texter fra?n nationella provet och lektionstexter pa? tre spra?kliga niva?er (o?vergripande niva?, menings- och ordniva?). Materialet besta?r av 38 elevtexter varav 20 uppsatser a?r fra?n nationella provet ht-11 i svenska 1 och 18 debattartiklar som 18 av dessa 20 elever skrivit i samma kurs.

Building on the concept of constructive iconoclasm as a creational force of iconicity, this thesis examines how the contemporary iconoclastic discourse is related to artistic process. Studies have shown that the performative act of destroying art that is an historical phenomenon is highly present within the contemporary art discourse today. Due to the many dimensions of contemporary art, the ways in which iconoclastic deeds appear may differ from the historical narrative. While iconoclasm and iconicity are being reciprocal processes that can only exist in relation to each other and their context, there are signs that the destructive act itself is being recontextualized by contemporary artists. Guided by the framework of Norman Fairclough?s critical discourse analysis, the thesis examines the processes of conceptual and constructive art destruction by analyzing the discourses of two case studies situated in the contemporary art market.

In August 2007 we went to New Zealand for a placement at Child Youth and Family Services. There our interest in Family Group Conferences (FGC) took off. FGC is not near as common in Sweden as in New Zealand. Therefore the purpose of this study was to examine how the Social Services in Helsingborg and Höör in Sweden and Belfast in Northern Ireland work with FGC. We had the privilege to go to Belfast in Northern Ireland as part of the project Insight Europe.

Arbetets syfte har varit att klargo?ra hur Nybro Energi ABs miljo?dator utfo?r sina bera?kningar och om bera?kningssa?ttet den anva?nder a?r korrekt.Genom att ha kritiskt analyserat hur miljo?datorns bera?kningar a?r strukturerade genomfo?rde vi kontrollbera?kningar och kunde med hja?lp av DU-teknik skapa en laborationsmall fo?r ja?mfo?relsebera?kningar och o?vriga tester.I resultatet finns en ja?mfo?relse mellan laborationsmallens och miljo?datorns utra?knade pannverkningsgrad vid olika tidpunkter. Ha?r framga?r a?ven miljo?datorns formelstruktur och hur vardera formel ha?nger samman.Ur resultatet kan slutsatsen faststa?llas att miljo?datorn utfo?r korrekta bera?kningar eftersom pannverkningsgraderna sta?mde o?verens. Eventuella felka?llor sa? som ma?tfel gjorde dock att ett sa?krare resultat hade uppna?tts om en mer grundlig och genomga?ende underso?kning gjorts, da?r alla givare och enheter som fo?rser miljo?datorn med information kontrollerats.Avslutningsvis ges na?gra fo?rba?ttringsfo?rslag som Nybro Energi AB kan go?ra fo?r att sa?kersta?lla att miljo?datorn utfo?r noggrannare och mer verklighetstrogna bera?kningar. .

The aim with this study was to analyze and understand how begging is constructed as a social problem in Sweden between September of 2010 and the end of February in 2014 in debate articles in Dagens Nyheter. To do this I have chosen to use a social problems theory and critical discourse analysis to highlight some aspects in the process of defining the social problem. The study's main finding is that the construction of beggars and begging appears to be in a relatively extensive redefinition in the current situation. It is shown by, for example, a shift in focus in the discourse. For this reason, it is relevant for social work to examine how the construction progresses..

The purpose of the essay is to examine Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual person?s experiences of the Social Services treatment. Our question is: How do Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual person?s experience the treatment in a relief seeking situation at Social Services? We have a social constructive point of view. Our theoretical foundation is heteronormativity, heterosexism, homophobia, coming out/disclosure, intersectionality, master suppression techniques and we discuss Social Services as a system.

The purpose of this essay was to examine municipal guidelines regarding the administration of the social assistance, collected from 18 municipalities in the Stockholm-area to achieve a greater understanding on how they were constructed in respect to the legislation and how the language mediated their contents. The legal aspects of the social assistance was studied through a jurisprudential method in which the legislative history, texts of laws and case laws were examined. The empirical aspect of this essay was studied through a hermeneutical method and analyzed through theories of social constructionism and legal pluralism. The results from the jurisprudential study were also used to understand how the municipal guidelines were constructed in relation to the law. The results of this essay corresponded well with previous studies in this field where considerable divergences in the approval of social assistance have been established.

Studiens syfte a?r att underso?ka la?rares syn pa? begreppet kreativitet och vad det har fo?r plats i skolan. Fo?r att na? fram till det syftet valde vi intervju som metod, da?r vi har intervjuat fyra olika ho?gstadiela?rare varav tva? av dem har musik som inriktning medan de andra tva? undervisar i bild.I syftet inga?r ocksa? att ja?mfo?ra bild- och musikla?rarnas uppfattningar av begreppet, fo?r att se om det finns skillnader mellan a?mnena. Fo?r att genomfo?ra en ja?mfo?relse valdes att utforma intervjuns fra?gesta?llningar pa? sa? sa?tt att la?rarna hade mo?jlighet att ge fria svar.

Sedan Covid-19 utbrottet har distansarbetsm?jligheter f?tt en ?kad popularitet. Denna f?r?ndring har skapat ett ?kat behov av forskning inom detta omr?de. D?rf?r syftar denna studie till att genom semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer ge insikter om IT-anst?lldas preferenser av arbetsmilj?, s?rskilt i j?mf?relse mellan kontorsarbete och distansarbete.

AbstractThe political parties in Sweden are losing members. This is seen as a problem because the political parties are the base and the recruiting ground for members to decision-making bodies. Social movements are seen as a place where people with a modest background could express their opinions and also learn the political process. These movements have also lost members during the last decades and this could seriously affect the representation of lower social groups among the decision-makers. This essay emanates from Robert D.