Sammandrag Syftet med det här arbetet är att utifrån begreppen ?kulturarv? och ?kulturell mångfald? undersöka lärares val av texter som används i undervisningen och hur dessa texter används i undervisningen. Syftet är också att ta reda på vad olika lärare anser att eleverna behöver för ?kulturellt kapital? med sig i livet. För att undersöka detta genomförde jag en undersökning på två skolor i en medelstor sydsvensk stad.

This study means to research the importance and significance of the social and informal learning opportunities offered at a workplace. With Wenger?s theory about social learning and communities of practice as a starting point, this study will create understanding about how teachers at a school comprehend their opportunities for learning within the teacher community. The study is conducted at an independent school in Sweden, and is based on interviews with eight of the teachers employed at the school. The purpose of the study was to research how employees perceive how their social interactions with their colleagues can create learning, and what obstacles they might face along the way.

Swedish and international research indicate that many measures made by social services, concerning children and adolescents who are taken from their homes to an institution, are interrupted prematurely for different reasons. The word "breakdown" is used when a measure granted by the social service is broken before the projected time has passed. Research concerning how social service employees are influenced by measures being interrupted prematurely is very limited. The aim of this qualitative study is to examine how social service employees in Malmö are influenced by the premature interruption, "breakdown", of measures concerning children and adolescents who are taken from their homes to an institution. The theoretic basis for the study is Symbolic interactionism, especially the theory of Stefan Morén concerning conditions for change.The study is based on interviews with social employees, relevant material from research in this field and an examination of the theoretical basis.

This thesis examines young people's thoughts about their presence on social media. With asocial constructive approach the study focused on how young people think and act on socialmedia in relation to constructions of gender and normality. The analysis is based on fourgroup interviews with 13-year old boys and girls. The theoretical approach is based partly onsocial constructionism where discourses and ideas of normality are identified and analyzed.Erving Goffman's theory of social interaction was central to illustrate how young peoplepresents themselves based on the prevailing discourses. It is clear that they adjust theirrepresentations of themselves depending on the context.

This thesis examines the relationship between recognition of prior learning and the aim to increase social and ethnical diversity in higher education. Recognition of prior learning is a result of educational politics aiming to broaden social and ethnical recruitment to higher education. By examining if recognition of prior learning rather can, and shall, be seen as part of what Pierre Bourdieu calls educational social reproduction I try to question whether it fulfils education policy goals or not. My results show that persons responsible for recognition of prior learning rather recognise knowledge from prior educational institutions than knowledge gained outside the educational system. Considering this, recognition of prior learning does not quite live up to the aims.

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att ge en ökad förståelse för Venture capitalbolagen och dess portföljbolag. Tanken är sedan att koppla ihop Venture capitalbranschen med den rådande lågkonjunkturen för att se om branschen påverkats, och i så fall på vilket sätt.Metod: Uppsatsen är byggd på en kvalitativ studie. Den kvalitativa studien har utförts med hjälp av tre intervjuer, två via personliga möten och en via telefon. Litteratur och vetenskapliga artiklar har används för att bygga upp teorin.Resultat & slutsats: Författarna har kommit fram till att möjligheten att få Venture capital har minskat under lågkonjunkturen. En stor faktor är att nedgången på börsen lett till överallokering hos bland annat banker och försäkringsbolag som normalt är stora investerare i fonder med onoterade bolag.

This essay will examine the social organization in the archipelago of Tonga. To accomplish this purpose, archaic societies and structures such as ancient Egypt and Hawaii will be examined to obtain a closer understanding of the building blocks which constitute a chiefdom or kingdom. Since Patrick V. Kirch (2010) recently redefined the Hawaiian archipelago as a kingdom this essay will examine if the same can be done with the chiefdom of Tonga since it have similarities to the Hawaiian social organization.To do this the essay will examine and describe both the geographical organization of the states and the social organization. Social organization in this essay will be defined as an archaic state organization that requires several levels of administration to rule the society..

The purpose of this essay was to investigate and analyze affecting factors concerning social workers in two different municipality social services, Karlskrona and Karlshamn, working with cases of youth drug abuse. We wanted to see what affects social workers in their choices of assessments of youth drug abusers. We wanted to find out whether the organizational aspects or the cliental qualities affect the social workers more than the other in the choices of assessments. Among the cliental qualities we used in this essay, gender was the most important quality and therefore the quality we wanted to pay special attention to. When it came to the organizational aspects we paid special attention to the social workers boundaries of agency.

Denna text analyserar hur positiv utveckling på landsbygden kan skapas genom projektgrupper. Jag ville fördjupa mig i lokalbefolkningens funktion för att nå landsbygdsprogrammets mål att skapa ekonomisk, ekologisk och social utveckling på landsbygden. Texten kartlägger förutsättningar bland invånare på landsbygden för att se vilka styrkor som finns bland de människor som håller vårt landskap levande. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur tre faktorer påverkat projektgruppers utvecklingsarbete på den svenska landsbygden. Syftet ska svara på frågorna: vilken betydelse har platsen under genomförandet av ett projekt, vilken betydelse har tillit i ett projektarbete samt vilken betydelse har jämställdhet haft i projektgrupperna? Teorier kring känsla för platsen, socialt kapital och jämställdhet används till empirin.

The aim of this qualitative deep interview study was to gain deeper understanding of single immigrant mothers´life situation. Grounded Theory was the method of analysis. Repeated interviews with five immigrant women from different parts of the world showed that women were in need of wider and deeper social networks in order to reconstruct their identities. Social support and social networks benefit, not only reconstruction of identity, but also personal well-being. Yet it is difficult for them to create social networks in the new country, because of single motherhood.

SammanfattningI dagens samhälle har kunskap blivit alltmer användbart och viktigt för organisationer. Kunskap anses idag vara en värdefull ekonomisk resurs för att organisationen ska kunna utvecklas och konkurrera med andra. Företag idag möter många utmaningar och därmed ökar behovet av kompetenta och motiverade medarbetare. Allt fler uppgifter utförs av grupper istället för individer och samarbete blir ett viktigt inslag. Kunskapsöverföring är avgörande för kunskapsuppbyggnad, organisationens lärande och resultat.

The objective of this bachelor thesis is to examine how some larger Swedish public libraries reason about the use of social media as part of their activities and outreach. To attain the purpose three research-questions were established; why does the public library use social media? How does the public library utilize social media? What extra value do librarians believe that use of social media can add to the libraries? function? The methodology used in the thesis is qualitative interviews. Six interviews were conducted with librarians in charge of social media at their respective libraries. Five of the interviews were conducted by telephone and one by email.

Denna undersökning utfördes vid Malmö Högskola (MAH). Syftet med undersökningen var att kartlägga hur könsfördelningen ser ut på socionomutbildningen vid MAH, ge en preliminär bild av dess manliga studenter utifrån deras attityder gentemot yrket och att söka svaret på frågan: Vad är det som karaktäriserar den manliga socionomstudenten? Som huvudfrågeställning valde vi: Varför väljer män att läsa till socionom? Och följdfrågorna till huvudfrågeställningen var: Hur påverkar det kulturella kapital man bär med sig detta val? samt Hur påverkar den hegemoniska maskuliniteten detta val? För att svara på detta genomförde vi en enkätundersökning riktad till samtliga manliga socionomstudenter på MAH. Intresset för detta ämne kom till i mötet med arbetslivet, där det samtidigt råder brist på män och en önskan om ett ökat antal män. Dessutom syns den skeva könsfördelningen även tydligt inom skolan där endast ca 15 % av studenterna är män.

The thesis aims to increase our understanding about parents reasoning about the elementary school choice by studying which factors parents perceive as important during the decision making process and also by giving meaning to Pierre Bourdieu?s concept of capital through the parents perspective. The empirical material comes from seven BNIM-interviews made with parents, which has been analyzed according to the thematic field analysis.The results show that the parents are not especially concerned about making an active school choice. Stability, closeness, friends, rumors, development and adaptability to the reality are the factors that are perceived as the most important in the decision making process. The school choice has a limited meaning as an investment in social capital, from Bourdieu?s perspective.

This Bachelors exam is about young adults and their use of Mobile Social Network System.The use of mobile social media has become more common in today?s society, ranging fromteenagers, the dominating internet users, to the elderly. The traditional purpose of use inmobile phones, the voice communication from one place to another, has in Sweden beendominated by text communication instead. Along with the development of Smartphones andthe mobile interface, the births of mobile social media have increased in the market.Reports have shown that of all the devices with the possibility to connect to social networks,the one kept closest to our bodies is the mobile phone. One of the advantages of using thephone for mobile social media is that you can easily and smoothly update whenever andwherever, within one arm?s reach.